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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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 -
Understanding the training and transfer effects in N-back training
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-22)Current research looking at the effect of working memory training on constructs such as fluid intelligence has generated mixed findings. Some researchers have found that training participants on working memory tasks leads ... -
Understanding automation handoff impacts on workload and trust when mitigated by reliability displays
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-10)Current commercial vehicles are beginning to include automated features such as adaptive cruise control and automated lane keeping. This is a first step towards full vehicle automation which is predicted to be possible ... -
The social uses of self-defining memories at work
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-01)A fundamental part of human experience is self-continuity, or the sense of me extended across time, yet these processes that give rise to this temporal extension have remained largely understudied in the work psychology ... -
An examination of emotional display rules using situational strength
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-11)Although emotions are an integral part of our work experience, we cannot always show our genuine feelings while on the job. Many workplaces have either implicit or explicit requirements for emotional expression (known as ... -
Stochastic Approximation of the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-09)The multidimensional generalized graded unfolding model (MGGUM; Roberts & Shim, 2010) is a distance-based, unfolding multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) model for measuring person and item characteristics from ... -
Optimizing Everyday Function in Older Adults: Translating the Evidence
(2018-05-02)Older adults are more likely to fear losing their cognitive abilities than their physical abilities. Fortunately, a growing body of research suggests that cognitive decline isn’t inevitable for most people as they age and ... -
The effects of an enhanced goal setting strategy on goal progress and well-being
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-30)Although the benefits of difficult, specific goal setting on performance are well-documented (e.g., Locke & Latham, 1990), it remains unclear how anticipatory action planning may enhance these effects. The current study ... -
Everyday memory strategy use in older adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)Existing everyday memory questionnaires and interview studies lack the depth of knowledge necessary to understand the ways in which older adults use their memories during their everyday lives. These assessments do not ... -
Separating contributions of prefrontal cortex subregions to age-related associative memory impairments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-28)The anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC) is believed to play a critical role in integrating the outputs of lower-order processes, such as evaluations of item or inter-item properties. The high-order integration functions ... -
An investigation of pedagogical interventions within the productive failure methodology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-12)The assistance dilemma asks how learning environments should “balance information or assistance giving and withholding” (Koedinger & Aleven, 2007, p. 239). Minimal guidance (MG) methods posit that students learn best when ... -
Modifying distracting headphone audio to increase situation awareness
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-03)Listener situation awareness (SA) was assessed in a dynamic auditory-only simulated roadway environment created with a multi-speaker setup. The ability of the listener to accurately report the presence, current location, ...
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