Stephanie Groft Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email Phone: Vita:

 

Stephanie Groft graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in psychology in 2006. Upon graduation she entered the psychology Ph D. program at Louisiana State University under Dr. Sean Lane.

I am currently doing research in two areas: eyewitness suggestibility and source monitoring. Within our source monitoring research we are specifically looking at source constrained recall and feature importation. In the eyewitness suggestibility research we are testing different methods of making line-up procedures more effective. I am interested in eyewitness and suggestibility situations, false memory, and source monitoring.

 

Bill J. Sallas Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email Phone: Vita:

 

Bill Sallas received his M.Ed. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. He was an early childhood educator in the Chicago public schools from 2001-2003.

Bill is currently a graduate student in the Office of Applied Cognition at Louisiana State University, where his work deals with how people learn and how technology can be used to facilitate learning. For example, he is currently studying the effects on animation on learning in Miller’s (1967) artificial grammar paradigm. He is working on a National Science Foundation grant with an interdisciplinary group of researchers whose focus is using technology to reduce medical errors by healthcare professionals.

 

Thomas E. Watkins, III Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email Phone: Vita:

 

Thomas Watkins graduated from Hampton University in 2002 with a B.A. in psychology. He went on to George Mason University to receive training in human factors assessment and design techniques. In 2004 he received a M.A. in Human Factors, and joined the Psychology Ph.D. program at Louisiana State University.

I am interested in how metacognitive strategies can be used to enhance performance in various decision-making domains. I am also interested in implicit skill acquisition, and the role of prospective memory in workflow.   Currently, I work on an NSF funded project examining the cognitive effects of new technology on healthcare practice.

 

Cristine Roussel Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email Phone: Vita:

 

Cristine Roussel graduated from LSU in 2003 with a B.S. in psychology. In 2003 she joined the Psychology Ph.D. program at LSU and in 2005 received a M.A. in Cognitive Psychology.

Cristine’s interests rest primarily in eyewitness memory and in particular the effect of emotion and attention on eyewitness suggestibility and eyewitness ID. In addition, she is involved in more basic research on explicit memory. Lastly, she is also involved in psycholinguistics research, specifically the production and comprehension of simple past –tense of verbs for bilinguals as compared to native English speakers.

Jon Tall Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University Email Phone: Vita:

 

Jon Tall graduated from Northwestern State University in 2003 with a B.S. in psychology. He received his M.A. in Philosophy of Science from LSU in 2006. He is now currently working towards a Ph.D. in Psychology. Jon is currently interested in studying decision-making skills in experts, as well as the role of implicit processes in judgment and learning. He is currently working on an Army Research Institute grant examining rule discovery in complex and noisy environments.

 

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