School of Psychology
The School of Psychology has a strong emphasis on scientific research and discovery. It houses five program areas: Cognition and Brain Science, Cognitive Aging, Engineering Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. Basic research is dedicated to studying fundamental psychological processes, such as memory, attention, language comprehension, motivation, decision making, and many other topics. Applied research topics include aspects of human interaction with technology, instructional design, psychological factors in occupational settings, and other topics.
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WSC Podcast Episode 8: Motivation in the Modern Workforce
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-11)Host, Keaton Fletcher, speaks with Ruth Kanfer, Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Work Science Center. Ruth and Keaton discuss all things motivation, ... -
Rethinking Memory Systems for Statistical Learning
(2019-02-27)Dogma states that memory can be divided into distinct types, based on whether conscious or not, one-shot or incremental, autobiographical or factual, sensory or motor, etc. These distinctions have been supported by ... -
WSC Podcast Episode 7: New Work Arrangements
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-02-11)Host, Elizabeth Moraff, speaks with Dr. Gretchen Spreitzer, a professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dr. Spreitzer has focused her work on empowering employees and on ... -
Theories, Methods, and Data: A Dance and a Conversation
(2019-01-30)Three dimensions of Cattell's persons by variables by time data box are discussed in the context of three types of researchers each wanting to answer their own categorically different question. The example of the well-known ... -
WSC Podcast Episode 6: Trends in Modern I-O Psychology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-01-23)Host, Keaton Fletcher, talks with Richard Landers, John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and the brain behind NeoAcademic, a blog covering a range ... -
Cognitive Aging and Self-Management: Opportunities for Technology
(2019-01-16)Self-management of chronic conditions increases among older adults at the same time capacity for self-management may diminish. Addressing limitations in prospective memory through strategies developed to improve medication ... -
An accessibility framework for cue-based inferences
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-07)Many studies throughout the area of decision-making have shown that people are able to adapt to different decision environments. A number of frameworks have been proposed that seek to explain adaptive decision making in ... -
The influence of valid and invalid context memory cues at encoding
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-24)Previous episodic memory studies have found that neural activity preceding a to-be-encoded event can reflect subsequent memory performance. This neural activity is thought to reflect the preparatory engagement of cognitive ... -
Age-related differences in selective attention to emotional material: does task-relevance matter?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-24)According to the inhibitory deficit hypothesis, older adults have difficulties in preventing task-irrelevant materials from gaining access to working memory (Lustig, Hasher, & Zacks, 2007). Some neuroscientific evidence, ... -
Applying item response theory to measure drivers' perceived complexity of roadway environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-17)Roadway environments constitute visually complex systems within which users make split-second critical decisions on a daily basis. As such, understanding transportation system user perceptions and performance across varied ... -
Cognition on the Go: The Opportunities and Challenges for Mobile Cognitive Health Research
(2018-12-05)The use of mobile technology affords novel opportunities to mitigate temporal, geographic, and personnel constraints imposed by in-person cognitive testing procedures, and to improve temporal precision by increasing the ... -
Task, Team and Technology Integration in High Technology Surgery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-10)“I’ve spent the last 15 years studying safety and human performance in acute clinical care in general and surgery in particular. Using examples from cardiac, orthopaedic, neurological, spinal, trauma and urological ... -
Implications of Moral Organizational Behavior for Employee Beliefs, Motivation, and Well-Being
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-26)Workers are often assumed to construe their organizations as entities and develop a reciprocal social exchange relationship resembling that with other humans. To the extent that this assumption holds true, workers hold ... -
Work, Family, and Physiological Health
(2018-09-19)Work and family are two core sources of personal identity, facilitating joy, accomplishment, and belonging. At the same time, work and family roles may conflict with one another, resulting in feelings of stress, strained ... -
WSC Podcast Episode 5: Employing People with Disabilities in the Modern Workforce
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-09)Host, Keaton Fletcher talks with Devin O'Connor, Founder of the Grow Group, about ways to better incorporate individuals with disabilities in the modern workforce and how the science and practice of management can better ... -
Dimensionality assessment of proximity-based data in unfolding model applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-09)Dimensionality assessment of measurement instruments in psychology is no easy task. Within the field of IRT, much attention has been given to the issue of dimensionality assessment for item responses that are consistent ... -
Routes to organizational influence: the facets of political skill and social network centrality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-02-24)Political skill describes an individual’s ability to successfully navigate the political arena of organizations (Ferris et al., 2007). The present study tested whether political skill and its four dimensions (i.e., social ... -
WSC Podcast Episode 4: Designing Coworking Spaces for Women
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-25)Host Keaton Fletcher talks with Ali Greenberg, founder of The Broad, a coworking and community space for women and gender minorities in Richmond, Virginia. They discuss what it means to design a space with women in mind ... -
Engineering visual displays to influence choice in automated decision support systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-11)The task of choosing between decision alternatives presented on a visual display is ubiquitous. Automated decision support systems (DSS) provide a powerful means of improving human decision-making outcomes, but they can ... -
What is the nature of creativity: Understanding the role of executive and associative processes in creative thinking
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-30)What is the Nature of Creativity: Understanding the Role of Executive and Associative Processes in Creative Thinking
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