All students in the psychology program complete a 12 credit research core that culminates in an original research project.
Many students also collaborate with faculty in one of the five full-time research laboratories.
The Psychology Program maintains an 11 room laboratory in Lawrence Hall for faculty and student teaching and research. The Lab is staffed by approximately 15-20 psychology students each semester who are conducting independent research or work study. I'm especially interested in nonliteral language such as metaphor, irony and idioms. Dennis Merski and I are looking at the creative processes involved in the reading and writing of Haiku poetry. In this project I am collaborating with Dr. Peg Thoms from the School of Business.