Associate Professor of Psychology Shane T. Mueller announces that Volume 3 of the JMUBR (Journal of Midwest Undergraduate Behavioral Research)—an on-line journal dedicated to the research projects conducted by our undergraduates in PSY 3001 – Experimental Methods and Statistics II—has been published. This was research conducted in Spring 2015.
Highlights include:
- Research that spans disciplines of cognitive, perceptual, social, moral, health, sports, clinical, and personality psychology.
- A study on how for some types of behaviors, legality is an important factor in whether people judge them as moral.
- A study of how people categorize and classify naturalistic objects (chairs!)
- Two studies investigating the interaction of color and memory.
- A study of the perceptions of how LBGTQ students on campus are viewed, both within and outside the Greek system.
- A study on how college students balance financial pressures with convenience and health in making decisions about what they eat.
- A study on the types of factors that may contribute to false memory.
- A study on the factors that motivate student athletes.
- A study of bullying and anti-social behavior in online and multiplayer video games.