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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Recent Submissions
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Measuring the influence of automation on situation awareness in highly automated vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-28)Higher levels of automation, such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and automated lane keeping (ALK), are becoming more and more common in vehicles. With the inclusion of these automated features, the role of the driver is ... -
The multilevel interplay of team health culture, department health culture, and employee health motivation to predict health behaviors and job satisfaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-09)To combat rising healthcare costs (WHO, 2018), organizations are focusing on strategies to improve employee health, such as creating a culture of health throughout the entire organization. Despite theories about organizations ... -
Impact of action-object congruency on the integration of auditory and visual stimuli in extended reality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-24)Extended Reality (XR) systems are currently of interest to both academic and commercial communities. XR systems may involve interacting with many objects in three-dimensional space. The usability of such systems could be ... -
Effects of probabilistic flight-route risk estimates for enhanced decisions (FRREED) on aeronautical weather-hazard decision-making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-31)A tool commonly used to aid the navigational decisions of pilots to avoid weather hazards is Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD), which provides information about geographically referenced precipitation. However, this tool is ... -
Hypothesis-guided testing behavior: The role of generation, meta-cognition, and search
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-03-13)Hypothesis testing is the act of acquiring information to challenge or promote a decision-maker’s beliefs (i.e., hypotheses) in diagnostic tasks. To date, theorists have conceptualized this behavior as a consequence of ... -
THE EXPERIENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AT WORK: AN EXPERIENTIAL MODEL OF AUTOMATION AND AGENCY IN THE WORKPLACE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-21)There has been much attention paid to the macroeconomic implications of increased automation in the workforce, yet the psychological impact to affected workers has been largely ignored. To address this research gap, the ... -
Abductive Reasoning and Limitations of the Knower
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-23)Previous research has shown that a person’s epistemic beliefs, cognitive style, and religiosity affect the level at which they are able to reason about a variety of topics. These studies have primarily focused on ill-structured, ... -
A study of a fit index for explanatory item response theory models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-12-05)Likelihood ratio chi square tests for nested models are typically used to determine model significance. Multiple correlations of item difficulties estimated with the explanatory predictors are often used to provide further ... -
Age-related changes in resolving proactive interference in associative memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-27)Previous research has found that older adults are more susceptible to proactive interference. This is likely due to age-related deficits in the PFC-mediated cognitive control processes recruited to resolve interference. ... -
Sign Learning and Its Relationship to Word Learning in Hearing Adults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-17)In this study, structural equation modeling was used to 1) extend individual differences research on second language word learning to sign learning in hearing non-signers and 2) to model the relationship between word and ... -
Measuring the effects of display design and individual differences on the utilization of multi-stream sonifications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-30)Previous work in the auditory display community has discussed the impact of both display design and individual listener differences on how successfully listeners can use a sonification. This dissertation extends past ... -
Understanding the perceptual segmentation of situations via event segmentation theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-30)The goal of the present studies was to understand how the cognitive mechanisms of Event Segmentation Theory (EST) might account the hierarchical structure of our representations of situations. According to EST, people ... -
Multimodal investigation of mind wandering and attention lapses
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-24)The neuroscience of mind wandering has advanced appreciably over the past decade. By applying convergent methods that span self-reports, behavioral indexes, and neuroimaging, researchers have been able to gain an understanding ... -
Evaluating the predictive ability of early autism risk screeners: A longitudinal follow up study of developmental progress and diagnostic outcomes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-18)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is now considered one of the most common developmental disabilities (Newschaffer et al., 2007). Over the past 20+ years, researchers have worked towards identifying early behavioral or ... -
Optimizing military planners course of action decision making
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-23)Military planners are faced with ever-increasing constraints, obstacles, and priority readjustments during the course of action (COA) development. This upward trajectory places a more demanding cognitive workload on decision ... -
Establishing the construct of subtle identity performances directed at the outgroup and providing an answer to successful intergroup leadership
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-23)Leaders responsible for overseeing multiple groups increase the likelihood of accomplishing organizational goals if they can successfully garner support and trust from all the groups they lead. However, when a leader emerges ... -
Understanding the misunderstanding: Why confidence intervals are poorly understood and evaluating proposed solutions across sensory modalities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-23)The error bar representation of a confidence interval is the most ubiquitous display of uncertainty in statistical analysis. However, despite this, error bars are poorly understood even by seasoned scientists and researchers ... -
Using communication to modulate neural synchronization in teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-10)Trainers often assess team processes in conjunction with team performance outcomes to identify which behaviors contributed to the success or failure of the team during training. A current topic in team research is developing ... -
Individual differences in prospective memory performance: A micro and macro-analytic investigation of intention execution and ongoing task cost
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-31)Laboratory studies of prospective memory have expanded our understanding about circumstances under which individuals maintain and execute a given prospective memory intention. However, it is only recently that efforts have ... -
The impact of two spatial strategies on entorhinal and hippocampal involvement in visual path integration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-07)In lieu of pre-existing inconsistent neuroimaging and neuropsychological findings concerning the involvement of the hippocampal formation in path integration, the current study investigated the extent to which the hippocampus ...
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