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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WSC Podcast Episode 10: Job Crafting with Dorien Kooij
(2019-06-19)Host, Sibley Lyndgaard, speaks with Dr. Dorien Kooij, Professor at Tilburg University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences about the benefits of job crafting and proactivity in the workforce as well as the potential ... -
What's the Weather: Making Weather Data Accessible for Visually Impaired Students
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)We determined during a collaboration project in Kenya that students with visual impairments were interested in learning about weather data as part of their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. ... -
Effects of Various Cognitive Processes on Quasi-Periodic Patterns
Quasi Periodic Patterns are a way of finding reoccurring patterns in brain imaging data. In this experiment, researchers were interested in examining how similar QPPs were in various cognitive processes. In order to execute ... -
Visual vs Auditory Coupling in Dyads under Different Task Difficulty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-15)Due to lack of visual or auditory perceptual information, many tasks require interpersonal coordination and teaming. Dyadic verbal and/or auditory communication typically results in the two people becoming informationally ... -
Investigating Age-Related Differences in Spatial Presence Formation and Maintenance in Virtual Reality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-04-02)Virtual reality has numerous applications with the potential to support physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional well-being across a range of users. The effectiveness of these applications in achieving desirable outcomes ... -
Cognitive Adjustments & Network Interactions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-03-26)Our understanding of the neural substrates of cognitive adjustments is fairly limited. Given the growing body of work showing that brain connectivity network interactions are behaviorally relevant, more attention should ... -
Using Technologies to Support Memory Loss and Promote Functional Independence
(2019-05-01)The world’s population is aging, with the estimated number of older individuals living with memory impairment expected to rise significantly. To help individuals remain functionally independent with high quality of life, ... -
WSC Podcast Episode 9: Informal Learning with Christopher Cerasoli
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-17)Host, Corey Tatel, speaks with Dr. Chris Cerasoli about informal learning at work and its importance in the modern day work context. Dr. Cerasoli is currently a Senior Talent Analytics Consultant at UnitedHealth Group and ... -
The Impact of Technology on Workforce Skill Learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019)In this piece, Dr. Beier outlines a range of modern technologies and their role in workplace skill learning. Ranging from web-based instruction and Massive Open Online Courses, to augmented reality and chatbots, Dr. Beier ... -
Aging and Memory: Attentional Resources and Cognitive Control
(2019-03-25)In this talk I will examine the proposition that age-related memory problems are largely attributable to declines in attentional resources and executive control, and will illustrate the arguments with experimental results ... -
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 ...
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