Projects and Achievements

Psychological misconceptions are commonsense beliefs about psychological topics that are inaccurate and unsupported by scientific research. The Dunning-Kruger effect is when confidence in knowledge is higher than would be appropriate for competence relate...

The Factotum Lab collaborated with a community partner, Housing Connect, to collect research and data on upward mobility and housing stability. Literature reviews were created to report findings to the community partner to help guide practices.

Black Citizens account for 13% of the population, yet make up 27% of fatal police shootings (Burghart, 2021). Anger race bias and misidentification of expressions of emotion contributes to police perceiving Black suspects to be more hostile and dangerous ...

Graduate programs in psychology are competitive, but can give psychology students more career opportunities than a bachelor’s degree alone (Landrum, 2010).

There is mixed evidence regarding the presence of gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (Foote, Harmon, & Mayo, 2003; Morgan et al., 2016).

Depression is a common mental illness, affecting more than 264 million people globally (WHO, 2020). Research suggests that evidence-based treatments, including web-based therapy, can help alleviate depression (DeRubeis et al., 2005; Levin et al., 2020).

Online higher education enrollment increased from 21.4% of students taking at least one online class in 2007, to 32.5% of students in 2012 (Kentnor, 2015).

Meaningful interaction with faculty and peers, honors societies, clubs, research and service-learning opportunities, academic and logistical support are not commonly available to online-only students to the same degree as traditional students.

We conducted a national survey of undergraduate students during the end of the spring 2020 semester. Students nationally (n=197) were asked about mental health and academic outcomes between early and late spring semester.