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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Strategy switching in the pediatric intensive care unit
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-12-22)The study was aimed at determining how operators select strategies and switch among these strategies as they acquire new pieces of information or cues from the environment. I first determined the cues that experienced ... -
Team task management: The impact of social and technological factors on task management behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-16)In modern-day workplaces, knowledge workers are given more freedom than ever to choose which tasks to work on as well as how those tasks will be carried out. These choices include not only characteristics of the tasks ... -
Pupillary responses to simple difficulty cues
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-15)Increases in emotional arousal and attention control simultaneously enhance activity in the sympathetic nervous system and cause pupils to dilate. Additionally, the pupil has been shown to be sensitive to changes in task ... -
Investigating the sub-regional organization of the prefrontal cortex
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-15)The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in many cognitive processes important for complex, flexible human behavior (e.g., Duncan & Owen, 2000). Recent research has posited at least two axes of functional organization in ... -
Gender differences in social information processing at work
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-09)Recently, women have made great strides in the workforce, yet, they remain largely underrepresented in top leadership positions. Gender differences in behavior are one of the explanations for this women’s leadership gap. ... -
A Hybrid External Multidimensional Unfolding Approach for the Analysis of Self-Similarity Emotion Judgments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)A hybrid model approach to Carroll’s hierarchy of preference models (1972) is presented to 1) provide a more parsimonious fit for preference judgments, 2) minimize the number of anti-ideal points that typically arise from ... -
The Mwangaza Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Nationwide Baseline Survey of Technology Skills for Learners with Vision Impairment in Kenya
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-12)This document presents the results of a major portion of the PEER-funded collaborative research project called the Mwangaza Project. The project is a shared effort between: the Sonification Lab at the Georgia Institute ... -
How multi-teaming affects individuals and teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-29)This dissertation explores the phenomenon of multi-teaming, defined as an individual’s membership in multiple work teams. Participation in multiple teams gives individuals the opportunity to gain access to the knowledge ... -
How people interpret and react to everyday automation issues
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-19)Automation is frequently used in everyday life. However, automation can err and thereby complicate human-automation interactions. Current human-automation literature has investigated cues (e.g., frequency) people use to ... -
Ruminating about Depression and Selective Attention
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-10-02)Depression is a debilitating mood disorder that has been linked to ruminative thinking. Clinical research has found connections between rumination, depression, and deficits in selective attention, especially for negative ... -
Applying Spindex Auditory Cues While Driving and Performing A Secondary Search Task
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-08)This thesis investigated the impact of applying “spindex” text to speech (TTS) auditory cues in a long-list searching task on a cell phone while driving as compared to a visuals-only interface. Previous research has found ... -
Can younger and older adults judge the quality of their text summaries?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)Metacomprehension and aging is an understudied area of research, despite its relevance to education, social information exchange, and important work and life decisions. Results are mixed on whether older adult text ... -
Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Leadership Emergence in Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)This paper explores the relationship between motivation (intrinsic & extrinsic) and leadership emergence in order to mitigate extreme (too much or too little) leadership claiming and granting. The study examines DeRue and ... -
The relationship between basal cortisol levels and cognitive functioning across the adult lifespan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-03)Age-related declines in cognitive functioning have been well documented, however, there are vast individual differences in the age of onset and magnitude of these changes. This observation has spurred the investigation of ... -
Investigating proximal predictors of intraindividual affect variability in older adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-04)The aging process is often coupled with major life changes such as retirement, death of friends and family members, and declines in physical and psychological functioning. Intuitively, any one or a conjunction of these ... -
The compass of control: Congruency sequence effects, boundaries, and task sets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-18)The congruency sequence effect literature is inconsistent when it comes to the issue of the boundaries of this phenomenon. Some have argued that control is implemented at the level of a stimulus dimension while other have ... -
Using subgoal learning and self-explanation to improve programming education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)The present study combined subgoal learning and self-explanation frameworks to improve problem solving performance. Subgoal learning has been used to promote retention and transfer in procedural domains, such as programming. ... -
Understanding social connectedness of older adults who live alone
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)Ample evidence underscores the deleterious effects of loneliness on health and mortality. Therefore, it is important that loneliness risks are identified across all ages and appropriate measures are devised to address those ... -
Analysis of a quantitative behavioral assessment program to identify and treat abnormal behaviors in captive primates
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-30)Facilities housing non-human primates are required to make provisions for their psychological wellbeing, which may include monitoring animals for signs of decreased wellbeing such as the presence of abnormal behaviors or ... -
Antecedents of turnover intent: The role of social relationships in job embeddedness
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-01)Voluntary turnover is an important organizational issue with costs beyond monetary losses (Morrow & McElroy, 2007). Subsequently, the detrimental effects have engendered extensive research that has led to multiple turnover ...
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