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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Demanding and Supportive Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Follower Sleep Outcomes: A Multilevel Moderated Serial Mediation Model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-23)Transformational leadership behaviors in the workplace are commonly studied as a form of support and are associated with positive follower health outcomes. However, when parsed apart into its facets, transformational ... -
Daily Influences on Everyday Memory, Well-Being, and Affect Among Dyadic Caregivers and Care Recipients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-08)Multifaceted approaches to understanding daily fluctuations that affect memory and well-being among spousal dyads, where one member has diagnosed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the other serves as a care partner, is ... -
The nature and measurement of sustaining attention over time: The influence of cognitive ability, internal distraction, arousal, and motivation on sustained attention
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-07)It is evident that it takes a great deal of effort to sustain our attention on any one thing over a period of minutes or even seconds. This ability to sustain attention is critical for many everyday tasks and is often seen ... -
Examinee Variance in Strategy Shifts During Testing: An Explanatory IRT Approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-06)Considerable work (both within the psychometric and cognitive literature) has explored the tendency for response strategies to shift within the course of a single assessment. The current project proposes a novel, flexible ... -
Model Blindness: Investigating a model-based route-recommender system’s impact on decision making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-14)Model-Based Decision Support Systems (MDSS) are prominent in many professional domains of high consequence, such as aeronautics, emergency management, military command and control, healthcare, nuclear operations, intelligence ... -
Dysphoria, Depressive Rumination, and Working Memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-09-16)Current research on depression and rumination has produced mixed and sometimes incongruent results. Some researchers have found evidence of general cognitive deficits, while others have found evidence of only mood-congruent ... -
EXPLAINING FEATURES OF SIMPLE HUMAN DECISIONS USING BAYESIAN NEURAL NETWORKS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Feedforward neural networks exhibit excellent object recognition performance and currently provide the best models of biological vision. However, despite their remarkable performance in recognizing unseen images, their ... -
Communication Pattern Analysis in Human-Autonomy Teaming
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Communication is critical to team coordination and interaction because it provides information flows allowing a team to build team cognition, which contributes to overall team performance. In recent years, autonomous (AI) ... -
Developing Objective Communication-based Measures of Trust for Human-Autonomy Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-19)As artificial intelligence capabilities have improved, humans have begun teaming with autonomous agents that have the capability to communicate and make intelligent decisions that are adaptable to task situations. Trust ... -
Ecological Momentary Assement During a Remote Mindfulness Intervention Assessing Changes in Lifestyle Factors and Psychological Outcomes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Stress and related issues of anxiety disorder and depression pose huge mental and public health risks in the population in general, and on college campuses in particular. Prior research shows that mindfulness interventions ... -
How do humans give confidence? Comparing popular process models of confidence generation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-20)Humans have the metacognitive ability to assess the likelihood of their decisions being correct via estimates of confidence. Several theories have attempted to model the computational mechanisms that generate confidence. ... -
Relating Neural Mechanisms for Learning to Instructional Techniques in Online Learning Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)The virtual learning experience is fundamentally different from the traditional classroom because of the challenges of maintaining learners’ attention amid distractions in their environment. This study aims to study how ... -
The Effect of GABAergic Neuron Ablation on Seizure Frequency and Sleep Cycle Disruption in Mice
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05)Epilepsy is a common neurological condition, prevalent in about 3.8% of people in the U.S. and increasing exponentially, making it a key area of research (England et al, 2012). The primary goal of this research study is ... -
Clinical Indicators that Predict Motor Recovery Post-Stroke
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05)One of the leading causes of long-term disability in adults is stroke. Stroke occurs due to disruptions in the blood supply in the brain resulting from a blockage or bleed. These disruptions can lead to impaired upper ... -
Effects of Natural Interaction on Burnout and Well-being in Working Students
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05)Burnout research supports a negative impact on working people’s psychological and physiological health, and it typically manifests from prolonged work strain. There is growing research supporting interacting with natural ... -
Examining Social Influence's Effect on Decision-Making and Bayesian Truth Serum
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-28)Decision-making—whether individual or in groups—can be subject to revision based on social influence, often pulling one’s opinions towards the apparent consensus (Mason, Conrey, & Smith, 2007). Social influence has been ... -
CHARACTERISTIC LAG & THE INTERMANUAL SPEED ADVANTAGE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-24)Previous research has found evidence for the intermanual speed advantage, wherein novice actors perform a visually-guided, two-handed task faster with one hand from each member of a dyad (i.e., intermanually) compared to ... -
Individual Differences in Deepfake Detection: Mindblindness and Political Orientation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-14)The proliferation of the capability for producing and distributing deepfake videos threatens the integrity of systems of justice, democratic processes, and the general ability to critically assess evidence. This study ... -
Vertical Equating with Longitudinal Data: Unidimensional and Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-20)Vertical equating is one context in which item response theory (IRT) model fit is important to evaluate and the measurement of change in students’ performance between test occasions is a central topic in educational research ... -
40 Hz Gamma Sensory Stimulation Effects on Memory Performance in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04)Recent studies have demonstrated that a gamma sensory stimulation, light and sound flickering at 40 Hz, decreased Alzheimer’s symptoms and pathology in mice. Subsequent human trials showed similar results. Here we focus ...
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