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Faculty
| Ackerman, Phillip |
Engle, Randy |
Roberts, James S. |
| Blanchard-Fields, Fredda |
Feldman, Jack |
Rogers, Wendy A. |
| Catrambone, Richard |
Fisk, Arthur D. |
Rollins Jr., Howard A |
| Corballis, Paul |
Griffin, Zenzi M. |
Schumacher, Eric |
| Corso, Gregory M. |
Hertzog, Christopher |
Smith, Anderson D. |
| Davis, Elizabeth T. |
James, Lawrence |
Spieler, Daniel |
| Duarte, Audrey |
Kanfer, Ruth |
VerHaeghen, Paul |
| Embretson, Susan |
Maple, Terry L. |
Walker, Bruce |
Instructors
Emeriti
Faculty
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Phillip Ackerman |
(404) 894-5611 |
| Experimental, Engineering, and Industrial/Organizational |
| My research spans several related research areas of differential, educational, cognitive, applied experimental, and industrial and organizational psychology. ... [more/webpage] |
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Fredda Blanchard-Fields |
(404) 894-8903 |
| Experimental: Cognitive Aging |
| My current fields of interest involve two major
research domains: social cognition in adulthood and aging and everyday
problem solving from adolescence through older adulthood. The National
Institute on Aging funds both ...[more/webpage] |
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Richard Catrambone |
(404) 894-2682 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
| My research interests include problem solving, educational technology, and human-computer interaction. I explore how to create teaching and training materials--including software and multi-media environments... [more/webpage] |
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Paul Corballis |
(404) 894-2681 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
| Broadly speaking, my primary research
interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of human visual perception and
attention. That is to say, I am interested in how we select and perceive
visual information from the ... [more/webpage] |
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Gregory M. Corso |
(404) 894-6772 |
| Engineering |
| Research being conducted in the Human
Engineering Lab includes the following topics: noise, annoyance and information
processing; coding for visual ... [more/webpage] |
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Elizabeth T. Davis |
(404) 894-7558 |
| Engineering |
| My research interests include
psychophysical and computational studies of human perceptual and attention
mechanisms, effects of aging on perception and performance, perceptual ... [more/webpage] |
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Audrey Duarte |
(404) 894-2349 |
| Experimental |
| Episodic memory refers to memory for events from the past, including people we have met, places we have been and our thoughts and feelings associated with these experiences. ... [more/webpage] |
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Susan Embretson |
(404) 385-0501 |
| Experimental |
| My interests span modern psychometric
methods (e.g., item response theory), cognitive and intelligence, and
quantitative methods. My main research program has been to ... [more/webpage] |
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Randy Engle |
(404) 894-2680 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
| I am interested in individual
and developmental differences in working memory capacity, what those
differences mean about the nature of working memory and the underlying
causes of those differences ... [more/webpage] |
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Jack Feldman |
(404) 894-3102 |
| Industrial/Organizational |
| My interests center about one goal: the
application of psychological theory and method to problems of social and
organizational importance. To this end, I have conducted both field and
laboratory studies ... [more/webpage] |
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Arthur D. Fisk |
(404) 894-6066 |
| Engineering, Experimental: Cognitive Aging |
| At Georgia Tech, human factors and aging is
studied from the broad perspective representative of the field of human
factors. The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is specifically oriented
toward developing a ... [more/webpage] |
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Zenzi M. Griffin |
(404) 894-6771 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
How do people manage to speak? That is,
how do they take some idea that isn't expressed in words and express it
out loud? Right now we in the Cognition and Communication ....
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Christopher Hertzog |
(404) 894-6774 |
| Experimental: Cognitive Aging |
| Metacognition, Strategy Use, and Aging
(in collaboration with John T. Dunlosky, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro). Studies metacognition in older and younger adults, with
... [more/webpage] |
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Lawrence James |
(404) 385-4621 |
| Industrial/Organizational |
| As a leading researcher in
Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Dr. James has been active in
building new measurement systems for personality and in studying the
effects of organizational ...
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Ruth Kanfer |
(404) 894-5674 |
| Industrial/Organizational |
| My primary research interests
pertain to the prediction of individual behavior and well-being related
to work. Specifically, I have focused on the role of individual differences
in personality, ... [more/webpage] |
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Terry L. Maple |
(404) 894-6770 |
| Experimental: Animal Behavior |
My current fields of interest include applied ethology, comparative and environmental psychology, zoo and conservation biology, primate behavior and development, and non-profit zoo and aquarium leadership.[more/webpage]
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James S. Roberts |
(404) 894-6069 |
| Quantitative |
| My research interests are in the development
and application of item response theory (IRT) models to measure
psychological constructs. Over the past decade, I have developed a family
of polytomous ... [more/webpage] |
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Wendy A. Rogers |
(404) 894-6775 |
| Engineering, Experimental: Cognitive Aging |
I co-direct the Human Factors and Aging
Laboratory. Our goals are to develop a fundamental understanding of
aging, cognition, and attention and to bring that ...[more/webpage]
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Howard A. Rollins, Jr. |
(404) 385-1225 |
| Experimental |
In the past, my areas of research interests focused on cognitive development, especially memory and problem solving development in young children. I have conducted research ... [more/webpage]
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Eric Schumacher |
(404) 894-6067 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
| Whether we're driving a car, cooking dinner,
performing a psychology experiment, or even watching television, we're performing
goal-directed behavior. We must keep track of our current ... [more/webpage] |
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Anderson D. Smith |
(404) 894-8904 |
| Experimental: Cognitive Aging |
| My research interests focus on adult age differences in memory. I want to know what about memory changes as we grow older and what are the causes for those changes. Recently, I have been interested in how context helps, or hurts, younger and older adults with ... [more/webpage] |
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Daniel Spieler |
(404) 894-0538 |
| Experimental: Cognitive |
| Virtually all projects in the lab relate in some way to
the general question of how cognitive processing changes as a result of the aging process.
This is tackled in several ways including ... [more/webpage] |
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Paul Verhaeghen |
(404) 894-0963 |
| Experimental |
| Most of the work in my lab centers around cognitive
aging: What happens to people's minds as they grow older? Our claim is that
there are predictable lines ... [more/webpage] |
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Bruce Walker |
(404) 894-8265 |
| Engineering |
| My overarching goal is to ensure that technology is developed with the end user in mind. All aspects of design, implementation, adoption, and use of a system or device can be enhanced by considering the perceptual, cognitive, and social needs and abilities of those who will use it. [more/webpage] |
Instructors
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Dianne Leader |
(404) 385-4623 |
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Mollie Bloomsmith |
(404) 727-8809 |
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Emeriti
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Edward H. Loveland |
(404) 894-2680 |
| Industrial/Organizational |
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M. Jackson Marr |
(404) 894-2635 |
| Experimental |
| My recent research activities have included the development and assessment of precision learning techniques and other instructional systems for teaching engineering physics, outcomes assessment of engineering education, the applications of dynamical systems theory ... [more/webpage] |
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Stanley A. Mulaik |
(404) 894-6222 |
| Industrial/Organizational |
| My current fields of interest include personality and individual differences, and psychometrics and statistics, including factor analysis, linear structural equations analysis, psychometric test theory, philosophy of science and statistics, and philosophy of causality and objectivity. [more/webpage] |
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