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., University of Scranton

Richard Vann, Ph.D., Gonzaga University

Trent Wondra, Ph.D., Barry University                            

 

  

Recent Publications:

 

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 

McCrea, S. M., & Vann, R. (2018). Postactional goal pursuit: consequences of task completion for thought content, affect, and behavioral intentions. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 852-870. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9713-3   

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.  https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21116  

Thuermer, J. L., & McCrea, S. M., (2018). Beyond motivated reasoning: Hostile reactions to critical comments from the outgroup. Motivation Science, 4, 333-346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000097

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)