Department Research

Here you will find both research being conducted online and links to web-published department research by both students, faculty, and alums. The most recent research is listed at the top of the page.

Here are faculty research interests

Index:

Ellen Altermatt    Bill Altermatt    Stephen Dine Young    John Krantz   
Student Research    Current Online Research

Ellen Altermatt

Presentations Online

• Coping with achievement-related failure: An examination of conversations between friends. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. with Broady, E. F. (07), & Bellgard, T. C. (07) (2007, May).

Bill Altermatt

Presentations Online

• The Effects of Courtesy and Payment on Impressions of a Couple Out to Dinner at MPA in 2004 with J. Witherup ('04) and A. Miller (04)

• The Mediating Role of Agency in Positive and Negative Gender Stereotypes at MPA in 2004 with J. Shelton

• Chivalry is not for everybody: Chivalrous men are more courteous toward 'virtuous' women with Cohen at SPSP in 2003.

Stephen Dine Young

Presentations Online

• You Changed My Life: The Impact of Dylan's Music on Fans' Identity Development.  Presented at Bob Dylan Symposium, March 25-27, 2007--Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World organized by the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota

• Stephen "Skip" Dine Young (2001). Character Motivation in the Representation of Mental Health Professionals in Recent Movies.  Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 2001.

John Krantz

Publications Online

Krantz, J. H. (in press).  Did I Really See That? The Complex Relationship Between the Visual Stimulus and Visual Perception.  Journal of Voice. Link to accepted version.

Krantz, J. H. (2005b). Society for Computers in Psychology: Editorial.  Behavior Research Methods, 37, 195-196.

Krantz, J. H. (2005a).  Editorial.  Behavior Research Methods, 37, 1-2.

Krantz, J. H. (2001).  Stimulus delivery on the web: What can be presented when calibration isn't possible.  In U.-D. Reips & M. Bosnjak (Eds.), Dimensions of Internet Science (pp.113-130).  Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers. 

Krantz, J. H. (2000).  Tell me, what did you see?  The stimulus on computers.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 32, 221-229.

Woods, C. B. & Krantz, J. H.  (2001).  Sensation and perception: A window on brain and mind.  In S. F. Davis & J. Halonen, eds. The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the Twenty-First Century.  Teaching Of Psychology.

Krantz, J. H., Ballard, J., Scher, J. (1997). Comparing the results of laboratory and World-Wide Web Samples on the determinants of female attractiveness.   Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 264-269.

Krantz, J. H. and Eagley, B. M. (1996).  Creating psychological tutorials on the World-Wide Web.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 156-160.

Welch, N. & Krantz, J. H. (1996).  The World-Wide Web as a medium for psychoacoustical demonstrations and experiments:  Experience and results.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 192-196.

Krantz, J. H. (1995).  Linked gopher and world-wide web services for the American Psychological Society and Hanover College Psychology Department.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 27, 193-197.

Presentations Online

• Using Media for Exploration: From Demonstration to Theoretical Modeling.  Presented at the 4th Annual ICI Instructiona Technology Summit, held at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, IN.

• Did I Really See That? The Complex Relationship Between the Visual Stimulus and Visual Perception.  Invited presentation at the 35th Annual Meeting of The Voice Foundation.

• Presentations at NSF and now APA Advanced Training Institute in Psychology Experiments via the WWW.

• Computerized Tutorials: Animation vs. Modeling at the 34th Annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology

• Model of Retinal Ganglion Cells that Incorporates Eye Jitter at the Fall 2004 Indiana Academy of Science meeting.

• Invited address to Chicago State University entitled: Web-Based Research: Issues, Problems and an Example Technique. (As PowerPoint)

• Two addresses at the Mid-America Conference for Teachers of Psychology (MACTOP) at the University of Southern Indiana.  The titles are: Technology for the Terrified: The Why and How to Get Started Using Media in the Classroom, and Media, Media Everywhere but Nothing for Me: A Survey of Media for  a Broad Cross-section of Psychology (October 2001)

• The Psychological Experiment: Web-Based Research in Context.  Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 2001.

• A Computational Model of the Retina.  Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

• Tell Me, What Did You See?  The Stimulus on Computers.  Presidential address at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.

• Stimulus Presentation and the Validity of Web Studies.  Presented at the 107^th annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

• Technology as a Tool to Make the Introductory Classroom a Forum for Scientific Psychological Inquiry.   Invited address to the Prentice Hall Roundtable: Teaching Psychology with Technology: Current Perspectives.

• with Smith, M.A. (U. Toronto), Dalal, R. ('98)(1997). Validity of Internet and World-Wide Web studies: What is similar and what is different. Presented at the 27th annunal meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology.

Student Research

• Fall 2006 Research Methods Projects

• 2005-2006 Senior Thesis Projects

• Winter 2006 Research Methods Projects

• Fall 2005 Research Methods Projects

• 2004-2005 Senior Thesis Projects & Butler Presentations

• Winter 2005 Research Methods Projects

• Fall 2004 Research Methods Projects

• Abby Ramser ('05) presented The Relationship Between Effective Engagement and Developmental Age in Children with Autism at the Fall 2004 Indiana Academy of Science meeting.  Also in html format

• Julie Witherup ('04) presented The Visual Cocktail Phenomenon at the Fall 2004 Indiana Academy of Science meeting.  Also in html format.

• 2003-2004 Senior Thesis Projects & Butler Presentations

• Winter 2004 Research Methods Projects

• Fall 2003 Research Methods Projects

• 2003-2004 Senior Theses Projects & Butler Presentations

• Winter 2003 Research Methods Projects

• 2002-2003 Subject Pool Projects

• 2001-2002 Senior Thesis Projects & Butler Presentations

• 2002 Cognitive Psychology Class Butler Presentations

• Moore, Megan (Feb. 2002).  Sexual Harassment of Professional Women... Presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychologists, Savannah, GA.

• Winter 2001 Research Methods Poster Session

• Fall 2001 Research Methods Poster Session

• M. Paava Stults. (2001).  Motivation and Perceived Relatedness. Presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 

• 2000-2001 Senior Thesis Projects & Butler Presentations

• Cognitive Psychology Class Research 

• Human Factors Class Project 

• Sensation and Perception Class Research

• 1999-2000 Senior Thesis Presentations at Butler

• Andrea L. Buuck('98), Neil Dishman('99), Sean Hanrahan('99), Jennifer Oser, Melanie Perry ('98), M. Paava Stults ('00), and John H. Krantz. (1998). Human Factors Standards for the Design of Online Syllabi A human factors class project. Here is a powerpoint version developed for Society for Computers in Psychology. Here are slides of the same talk.

Current Online Research

Sensation and Perception Online Laboratory