Hello and thanks for stopping by…

I’m Martin, and I’m in my fifth year in the graduate program at Old Dominion University as doctoral candidate in Applied Experimental Psychology. 

My primary interests are various area of social cognition, which include: judgments of trust, the hindsight bias, stigma, and the influence of media imagery toward human judgment formation. I work out of the Human Cognition Lab at ODU's Department of Psychology, where Ivan K. Ash Ph.D. is the principal investigator. In Fall of 2010 I begin as an adjunct professor at my alma mater, Virginia Wesleyan College teaching psychology there.

In my "other life," I’m a team leader and photo editor at The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, where I’ve worked for more than two decades as a photojournalist. I've also worked in Texas and the Washington D.C. area. I'm having  a great career in visual communication which has taken me all over country as well as many parts of the world. I've had some pretty amazing life experiences, however now I'd like to expand my areas of expertise, continue to make a difference, and, well, here I am...

I’m also the proud father of fabulous two young adults (Wilson and Katherine) and husband of the brilliant and lovely Pam Smith-Rodden. We live in an old turn-of-the-century house on the banks of Scott's Creek in Portsmouth, in a classic "sidewalk neighborhood" called West Park View.

This page is officially “Under Construction.” So there’s not much here right now and I’ll be adding to this page as I go along. Please come back in the future I may have some more links or something interesting to say.