Research Opportunities
There are many undergraduate research opportunities available with different faculty in our department. The best way to get involved is to check out each faculty member's individual website, review their research interests, and contact faculty about your interest in their research. Research can be conducted as either work study or directed study (Psychology 499).
Specific Opportunities
Dr. Traci Craig
Dr. Craig will be seeking undergraduate
research assistants to do directed studies to work on an interesting
series of group decision making studies as well as some work on
sexual harassment, stereotyping, and relationship cognition. These studies would
essentially examine how groups make decisions via computer mediated
communication (instant messaging, email, videoconferencing).
Undergraduates involved in this work would be able to gain
experience in materials generation, Medialab programming, conducting
experiments, coding computer mediated communication, and data entry
and analysis.
Undergraduates seeking research experience are strongly encouraged to see Dr. Craig during her office hours or email her to discuss these opportunities further.
Dr. Brian Dyre
- Perception of the speed of self-motion (egospeed)
- Texture density (temporal frequency) effects on egospeed
- Biasing effects of motion parallax on egospeed
- Egospeed control
- Misperception of egospeed due to changing altitude
- Virtual Displays for Aviation
- Virtual airspeed indicators and speed control performance
- Perception of the direction of self-motion (heading perception)
- Open- vs. closed-loop perception of heading
- Retinal field and heading performance
- Heading biases resulting from asymmetrical flow fields
- Attentional demands of heading perception (with Dr. Lisa Fournier Washington State University)
- Heading perception with transparent flow fields
- Psychophysical Judgments (with Dr. Justin Hollands, Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Canada)
- Relation of bias in magnitude estimation to bias in proportion judgments
- Biases in proportion production
- Misestimations of perceptual sums
- Effects of reference marks on proportion errors and biases
- Modeling of Perceptual Systems
- Flow statistics and perception of heading
- Models of fixation duration distributions during reading (with Dr. George McConkie. University of Illinois)
- Models of bias in proportion judgments (with Dr. Justin Hollands)
Dr. Kenneth Locke
Dr. Locke conducts research on various topics in the areas personality, social, and clinical psychology, and is particularly interested in the intersection of these areas (i.e., how personality variables moderate social psychological phenomena that have clinical implications). Dr. Locke is not seeking any research assistants at this time.
Dr. Annette Folwell
Dr. Folwell's research program involves research on family communication with an emphasis on grandparent/grandchild and sibling relationships. She welcomes undergraduate participation in this research as research assistants.