Motivation and Cognition Laboratory

Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming

 

 

 

 

 Lab members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Lab Members:

Angel Munoz Gomez Andrade, Ph.D., Earlham College

Joshua Reynolds, Ph.D., Stockton University

Richard Vann, Ph.D., Penn State Behrend
                           

 

  

Recent Publications:

McCrea, S. M., & Vann, R. (in press). Postactional goal pursuit: consequences of task completion for thought content, affect, and behavioral intentions. Motivation and Emotion.

Vann, R., Rosa, J., & McCrea, S. M. (2018). When consumers struggle: Action crisis and its effects on problematic goal pursuit. Psychology and Marketing, 35, 696-709. DOI: 10.1002/mar.21116

Thuermer, J. L., McCrea, S. M., & McIntyre, B. (in press). Motivated collective defensiveness: Group members prioritize counter-arguing over getting their work done. Social Psychological & Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618762298

Thuermer, J. L., & McCrea, S. M., (in press). Beyond motivated reasoning: Hostile reactions to critical comments from the outgroup. Motivation Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000097

Reynolds, J. J., & McCrea, S.M. (in press). Environmental constraints on the functionality of inhibitory self-control: Sometimes you have to eat the donut. Self and Identity. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1354066

Reynolds, J. J., & McCrea, S. M. (2017). Criminal behavior and self-control: Using the Dual Component Theory of Inhibition Regulation to advance self-control and crime research. Current Psychology, doi:10.1007/s12144-017-9567-y

Reynolds, J. J., & McCrea, S.M. (2017). Spontaneous violent and homicide thoughts in four homicide contexts. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 24, 605-627.

Estrada, V., Reynolds, J. J., Freng, S., & McCrea, S. M. (2017). I don’t like the cut of your jib: Perceived facial masculinity as a cue to criminality. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 24, 392-409.

McCrea, S. M., Geršak, G., & Novak, D. (2017). Absolute and relative user perception of classification accuracy in an affective videogame. Interacting with Computers, 29, 271-286.

Jaconis, M., Boyd, S. J., Hartung, C., McCrea, S. M., Canu, W. H., Lefler, E. K. (2016). Sex differences in claimed and behavioral self-handicapping and ADHD symptomatology. ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, 8, 205-214.

Reynolds, J. J., & McCrea, S.M. (2016). Life history theory and exploitative strategies. Evolutionary Psychology, 14, 1474704916659483.

Reynolds, J. J., & McCrea, S. M. (2016). The Dual Component Theory of Inhibition Regulation: A new model of self-control. New Ideas in Psychology, 41, 8-17.

 

Grant Activity:

2017-2020  A Kinder, Gentler Technology: Enhancing Human-Machine Symbiosis Using Adaptive, Personalized Affect-Aware Systems, PI Domen Novak (UW), NSF 1717705

2015  Treatment noncompliance as a form of self-handicapping behavior, University of Wyoming (PI)

2014  Overcoming collective defensiveness with implementation intentions, University of Konstanz (collaboration with PI Dr. Lukas Thuermer, University of Konstanz)

 

External Research Collaborators:

Dr. Peter M. Gollwitzer, New York University; University of Konstanz (Germany)

Dr. Edward R. Hirt, Indiana University

Dr. Lukas Thuermer, University of Konstanz

Dr. Frank Wieber, University of Konstanz (Germany)