Personality & Law's Current Research Projects:
Predictors of stalking proneness and anxious attachment: The role of schizotypal personality and childhood warmth (Student researchers: Eliza Feil and Adams Howard).
Schizotypal traits and juror bias: How cognitive distortions influence legal decision-making (Student researchers: Asheton Holden and Kiera Pressley).
Schizotypal traits, political ideology, and susceptibility to misinformation (Student researchers: Bailey Phelan and Ava Riley).
False confessions and schizotypal traits: Investigating the role of suggestibility and memory distrust (Student researchers: Sophie Roehrborn, Yismer Traverzo, and Eliana Ponce).
The influence of personality and perceived attractiveness on eyewitness identification accuracy (Student researchers: Samantha Reiter, Madison Skloff, and Savannah Ouellette).
Perceptions of child witnesses (Student researchers: Alex Mathews, Darby Austin, and Lauren Castner).
Personality, moral foundations, opinions on Nazi policies, and 2024 voting behavior (Student researchers: Alex Matthews, Kayla Rowell, Daniel Moss, Darby Austin, and Lauren Castner).
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, Sydney Watts, Garrett Willis, Casey Dimmery, Stephanie Gillis , and Renee Becker, and Kate Soderlund).
The association between heart-rate and antisocial behavior and fantasies (Student researchers: Gracen Landry, Ellie Lindley, Sophie Roehrborn, Yismer Traverzo, and Eliana Ponce).
The association between eyewitness memory and attachment, personality, and anxiety (Student researchers: Savannah Ouellette, Emilie Malave, Zoe Miller, and Callie Booden).
Jungian types, game performance, moral dilemma decisions, and romantic attraction (Student researchers: Samantha Reiter, Madison Skloff, Elizabeth Warren, and Madison Moore).
Weapon familiarity and the weapon focus effect (Student researchers: Lexie Keffer, Margaret Thoem, Jenny Barton, and Daniel Hupp).
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).
Self-report measure for assessing childhood temperament (Student researchers: Jordan Guancione, Callie Booden, and Karra Gurley).
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).