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Gabriella Harari uses smartphones to collect behavioral data
Gabriella Harari, PhD, is part of a new generation harnessing mobile platforms in methodologically sound ways to develop more advanced personality research methods.
David Budescu examines how we communicate uncertainty
Budescu’s empirically based studies on the effectiveness of using more natural, colloquial words to describe science-based predictions about climate change have drawn national media attention.
Julianne Holt-Lunstad probes loneliness, social connections
Her research showed that people with strong social bonds are 50 percent less likely to die over a given period of time than those who have fewer social connections.
Dorothy Carter explores a mission to Mars
The three-year, collaborative study, called Project FUSION (Facilitating Unified Systems of Interdependent Organizational Networks), aims to help NASA successfully complete a mission to Mars by the year 2030 by accelerating knowledge of multiteam systems.
David Schwebel taps virtual reality to keep kids safe
Schwebel has created a sophisticated street-crossing training application that runs using software for a smartphone retrofitted with Google Cardboard — an inexpensive virtual-reality platform.
Charlotte Patterson, at the forefront of LGBTQ family studies
Her landmark work, 'Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents' was among the first research that debunked then-prevalent beliefs that children with lesbian or gay parents showed compromised psychosocial development relative to children from heterosexual parents.
Adventures in dog research with Stanley Coren
APA fellow Stanley Coren’s research on dog behavior has brought him worldwide acclaim.
Norweeta Milburn wants to prevent teenage homelessness
Chronic homelessness among young people often is traced to factors such as family violence, substance abuse and negative peer pressure—issues that are difficult to address and whose impact is hard to measure.
Suzanne MacDonald helps threatened species survive
With the use of technology under development and some new, learned behavior, the bears will be able to control their levels of light, temperature, amount of mist they get in the summer—and maybe even their playmates—with the thrust of a snout in a laser beam.