Faculty Directory
Psychology
Dodd, David H.
623 Beh S
Phone: 581-8932
E-mail: david.dodd@psych.utah.edu
General Research Interest: 1. Language development;
2. Program evaluation.
Student Participation: Collecting data, coding, data
entry.
Background Needed: Prefer some background in language/linguistics
for language development; statistics and methodology for program
evaluation.
Outside Majors: Sociology, FCS, Education.
Key Words: Language development & evaluating children's
programs.
Student generated projects may be considered.
Drews, Frank
BEH S 502
Phone: 585-1977
Email: drews@psych.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Applied cognitive Psychology,
Cognitive Psychology, visual perception.
Student Participation: Running experiments, interviews
and data analysis.
Background Needed: None.
Outside Majors: Any.
Student generated projects are possible.
Fogel, Alan
603 Beh S
Phone: 581-8560
Email: alan.fogel@psych.utah.edu
General
Research Interest: Development of communication, emotions,
and self in infancy (0-3 years), psychological and health
benefits of somatic awareness pracitces for adults (e.g. Feldenkrais,
Rosen method, bodymind centering.), treatment of chronic pain,
autism, and depression using somatic awareness practices.
Student
Participation: Assist in making videotapes of mother-infant
interactions, code behavior from videotape (e.g., emotional
expressions, mother-infant communications, discovery of self).
Assist in data entry and possible analysis.
Background
Needed: Interest in topic area, good observation skills,
good communication skills, computer literacy, some people
with spanish speaking skills are also needed.
Outside
Majors: Biology, Psychology, Linguistics, Family &
Child Development, Computer Science, sociology, health.
Key
Words: Infancy, non-verbal communication, developmental
psychology, social development, emotional development, somatic
awareness, self, parent-child relationships, change processes.
Student
generated projects may be considered.
Friedrich, Frances
502 BEH S
Phone: 581-5068
Email: friedrich@psych.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Attention and perception;
cognitive neuro-psychology.
Student Participation: Testing research participants
and data analysis.
Background Needed: Prefer some Psychology courses.
Outside Majors: Biology.
Student generated projects are possible.
Pasupathi, Monisha
502 BEH-S
Phone: 585-9175
Email: pasupathi@psych.utah.edu
General
Research Interest: Autobiographical remembering, narrative,
development from adolescence through adulthood, conversational
approaches, construction of memory and self.
Student Participation: I prefer to have undergraduates
begin by working for credit as research assistants, coding,
entering data, running experiments and doing library work.
Once a student has a more defined interest, I then like to
encourage students to take on a more leadership-type role;
supervising a prject, developing a senior thesis idea, or
wititng up data for a poster presentation. For this altter
type of work, I encourage students to seek UROP funding.
Background Needed: Introductory psychology and research
methods are preferred but I am willing th train people.
Outside
Majors: Communications, Ed-Psych, family and Consumer
Studies.
Student
generated projects may be considered.
Smith, Timothy W.
1320 BEHS
Phone: 581-5087
E-Mail: tim.smith@psych.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Cardiovascular psychophysiology,
stress, and health.
Student Participation: Running studies in the psychophysiology
lab; data management.
Background Needed: Good computer skills; willingness
to learn. Psych major useful.
Outside Majors: Pre-Med.
Student generated projects may be considered.
Strayer, David L.
1004 SBS
Phone: 581-5037
Email: David.Strayer@utah.edu
General Research Interest: Attentional phenomena
- selective attention, inhibitory mechanisms of attention,
visual perception, object and space-based attention, skill
acquisition, and cognitive process of the elderly.
Student Participation: Test participants using behavioral
and psychophy siological measures, data collectiona dn interpretation,
lab management and administration.Additional duties commensurate
with experience and dedication.
Background Needed: At least preliminary exposure
to psychology courses. Main requirements are an interest in
human cognitive processes (esp. Attention), desire to learn
about these processes, and reliability.
Outside Majors: Philosophy, Sociology, Computer Science
(as related to cognitive science).
Key Words: Cognition, attention, inhibition, visual
processes.
Student generated projects may be considered.
Suchy, Yana
502 BEHS/office: 1330 SBSB
Phone: 585-0796
Email: yana.suchy@psych.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Neuropsychology.
Student Participation: Data collection, literature
searches, coordination of research activities (across several
projects).
Background Needed: Good interpersonal skills, famialiarity
with library research/or willingness/ability to learn it on
ones own. Data analysis (optional).
Outside Majors: Statistics, Computer Science - data
analysis and help with task programming, etc.
Student generated projects are possible.
Werner, Carol
502 BEH S
Phone: 581-8938
E-Mail: carol.werner@m.cc.utah.edu
General Research Interest: Changing human behaviors
to protect nature.
Student
Participation: Formulating research, developing persuasive
messages, data gathering, data entry, and analysis using SPSS.
Background
Needed: Research Methods class and/or either Social Psychology
or Environment and Behavior
class.
Outside
Majors: Biology, Chemistry, Meteorology, Communications.
Student
generated projects may be considered.
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