Motivation and Cognition Laboratory

Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming

 

 

 

 

 Lab members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Lab Members:

Alexandra Bitter, Ph.D., Point Loma Nazarene University 

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

Joshua Reynolds, Ph.D., University of Scranton

Richard Vann, Ph.D., Gonzaga University

Trent Wondra, Ph.D., Barry University                            

 

 

Recent Publications:

Bitter, A. N., Wondra, T., McCrea, S. M., Darzi, A., & Novak, V. D. (2022). Does it pay to play? Undermining effects of monetary reward and gamification in a web-based task. Technology, Mind, and Behavior.

Wondra, T. K., & McCrea, S. M. (2022). Collective self-doubt: does subjective SES predict behavioral self-handicapping tendency in college students?. Social Psychology of Education, 25(1), 129-167.

Thürmer, J. L., Stadler, J., & McCrea, S. M. (2022). Intergroup sensitivity and promoting sustainable consumption: Meat eaters reject vegans’ call for a plant-based diet. Sustainability, 14(3), 1741.

McCrea, S. M., Erion, C. J., & Thürmer, J. L. (2022). Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(3), 711-728.

Thürmer, J. L., & McCrea, S. M. (2022). On Efficient Mass-Media Messages During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Expertise and Expressed Social Identity. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 3(1: Spring 2022), 52. 

Darzi, A., McCrea, S. M., & Novak, D. (2021). User Experience with Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Methods for an Affective Exergame: Comparative Lab-Based Study. JMIR Serious Games, 9(2):e25771. https://doi.org/10.2196/25771 

Thuermer, J. L., & McCrea, S. M. (2021). Disentangling the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect: Defending the Ingroup or Enforcing General Norms? European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2748 

Reynolds, J. J., Estrada-Reynolds, V., Freng, S. & McCrea, S. M. (2021). Cheese it, it’s the Fuzz: Testing the Belief that Guilt Predicts Police Avoidance. Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, 16, 84-106. http://www.apcj.org/journal/index.php?mode=view&item=162 

Darzi, A., Wondra, T., McCrea, S. M., & Novak, D. (2019). Classification of Multiple Psychological Dimensions in Computer Game Players Using Physiology, Performance and Personality Characteristics. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neural Technology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01278

Reynolds, J.J., Estrada-Reynolds, V.C., Freng, S., & McCrea, S.M. (2019). Investigator beliefs of homicide crime scene characteristics. Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, 15, 60-85. http://www.apcj.org/journal/index.php?mode=view&item=150 

Thuermer, J. L., McCrea, S. M., & McIntyre, B. (2019). Motivated collective defensiveness: Group members prioritize counter-arguing over getting their work done. Social Psychological & Personality Science, 10, 382-392. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618762298

Reynolds, J. J.*, & McCrea, S.M. (2019). Environmental constraints on the functionality of inhibitory self-control: Sometimes you have to eat the donut. Self and Identity, 18, 60-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017.1354066 

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, Paris Lodron University, Salzburg (Austria)

Dr. Frank Wieber, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)