Tag: Undergraduate Research

Shockvertising: The Efficacy of Graphic Content on Social Media Campaigns for Animal Rights Non-Profits

While shock advertising is omnipresent in our media landscape, the research on its applications for non-profit organizations is minimal. This study evaluated the efficacy of short-form video content in social media campaigns based on shock level, with the goal of assessing and informing advertising tactics for non-profit organizations benefiting animal rights causes...

Storms in the Screenome: An Analysis of Digital Information Acquisition During Extreme Weather Events

As the amount of time people are spending on their smartphones also increases, the “Weather Information Landscape” is shifting away from “traditional” communication sources like radio and television toward digital media, including social media and smartphone-enabled weather communication (Krocak et al., 2024). However, the content people see – and the sources of that content – in this new landscape are not yet well accessible or understood...

Evaluation and Comparison of Statistical Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data

Recent advances in machine learning, data availability, and computational resources have given rise to complex nonlinear models of psychological processes. Though theory can help guide model selection, there is no widely agreed-upon framework for identifying models that are appropriately complex and accurate for examining the phenomenon of interest...

“Screenertia” in the Screenome: Investigating Targeted Exposure to Graphic Content in Vulnerable Populations

Cognitive-affective distress can increase vulnerability to addictive behavior, often manifesting as addictive sexual or violent behavior, including the consumption of pornography and violence online (Sinha, 2008)...

The Attention Economy and Mental Health: Anxiety as a moderator between ADHD symptoms, phone use, and sleep

In 2024, 90% of adults and 95% of teens in the United States report having access to a smartphone (Pew Research Center). Smartphones have been shown to impact attention.

Digital Behavior, Wellness, and Affect: Exploring the effects of wellness practices and digital help-seeking behavior on mental health

Rising mental health concerns in the U.S. (Wilson, 2022) underscore the need to identify influencing factors. Poverty profoundly affects well-being (Marbin 2022), highlighting the importance of considering the impact of socioeconomic factors such as income on mental health. Some studies suggest a strong negative correlation between excessive cell phone use and mental health, (Daniyal, 2022) however findings are mixed (Brinberg 2021).

Get Off Your Phone?? By Why?! Commentary on the Personal, Societal, and Corporate Motivations of Smartphone Use via Notifications and Creative Outlets

Our relationships to our phones are complicated...

America’s Quietest Emergency: Exposing, identifying and analyzing suicide contagion in institutions of higher learning

Social influence processes can induce desired or undesired behavior change in individual members of a group...

Bayesian Methods Tutorials for Psychological Research

Methods for collecting psychologically relevant data and modeling these data are rapidly advancing. Bayesian statistical methods have emerged as a set of particularly useful techniques, both within cognitive psychology and more broadly in psychological science...

Summer 2024 Undergraduate Opportunities

Undergraduate students are encouraged to contribute their own research interests and life perspectives while developing advanced research projects alongside a fast-moving collective of graduate students, post-docs, and faculty working at the edges of the possible.