Current Research Projects

Personality & Law's Current Research Projects:

• Personality, moral foundations, opinions on Nazi policies, and 2024 voting behavior (Student researchers: Kayla Rowell and Daniel Moss).

• Mock jury decision making on a sexual assault case with a female victim, and the association between child-perceived parental obligation entitlement and anti-female thoughts (Student researchers: Maile Wartell, Renee Becker, and Kate Soderlund).

• The association between heart-rate and antisocial behavior and fantasies (Student researchers: Gracen Landry and Ellie Lindley).

• The association between eyewitness memory and attachment, personality, and anxiety (Student researchers: Emilie Malave and Callie Booden).

• Jungian types, game performance, moral dilemma decisions, and romantic attraction (Student researchers: Elizabeth Warren and Madison Moore).

• How temperament impacts child witnesses (Student researchers: Jordan Guancione, Callie Booden, and Karra Gurley).

2023/24 Research Projects:

• The association between insecure attachment styles and neurotic trends (Student researchers: Jordan Guancione, Callie Booden, and Karra Gurley).

• How psychopathy and anxiety impact memory for emotional stimuli (Student researchers: Robert Russell and Hailey Stainsby).

• How weapon familiarity impacts the weapon focus effect (Student researchers: Carson Goodier and Hannah Rizik).

• Biological evidence of psychopathy and mock juror sentencing (Student researchers: Elizabeth Warren,  Savannah Diggett, and Daniella Scaff).

• Factors that impact juror decisions in a mock rape trial (Student researchers: Kate Soderlund, Megan Ferer, and Renee Becker).

2022/23 Research Projects:

• The impact of personality and biological evidence on mock juror sentencing and perception of witnesses (Student researchers: Carson Goodier, Cassadi Clemment, and McCall Canady).

• The relation of the Big Five Aspect scales with Disgust Sensitivity, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Social Dominance Orientation (Student researchers: Hailey Stainsby, Megan Ferer, and Savannah Diggett).

• Contributors to anxious/resistant attachment in adulthood, and the association between the Big Five Aspects Scale and MBTI (Student researchers: Chad Asher, Robert Russell, Hailey Stainsby, and Ava Barros).

• The association between anxiety and memories for emotional events, and predictors of third person perspective dreams (Student researchers: Kate Soderlund, Megan Ferer, Anna Teague, and Karra Gurley).

• The association between personality and political orientations (Student researchers: Savannah Diggett).