Dr. N. Kyle Smithnksmith@owu.edu B.S. 1994 Union College (Chemistry and Psychology) |
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I joined the psychology faculty at OWU in the fall of 2001. I am a social psychologist with research interests that include examining differences in the way positive and negative stimuli are processed, and using priming to eliminate the processing advantage that negative stimuli tend to enjoy. Here are gratuitous pictures of my three pets: Joules, Sid, and Lao. (The ubercute basset in the above picture is Sadie. She belongs to my parents.)
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Spring 2007 |
Fall 2007 |
| Psychology 252 - Social Psychology | Psychology 110 - Introduction to Psychology |
| Psychology 310 - Research Methods in Psychology | Psychology 252 - Social Psychology |
| Psychology 452 - Social Cognition | Psychology 310 - Research Methods in Psychology |
| Psychology 190.11 - The Science of Subliminal Messages |
My specific area of interest is turning off people's default tendency to allocate more attention to negative information than positive information. My dissertation focused on using electrophysiological measures of attention allocation to determine how quickly attention was being allocated to negative information [abstract]. My more recent work has used priming (both subliminal and supraliminal) with positive information to attenuate this default attention bias [abstract] (conducted in collaboration with OWU students Heather Savage (now Katafiasz) and Katie Moran). I am in the process of writing up two studies conducted in collaboration with Jennifer Brunsdon that look at the ability of real world situations to attenuate the attention bias. This line of research is ongoing and I am always looking for OWU students to join my research team.
I also have supervised many student-initiated research projects in diverse areas such as context-dependent memory and the effects of pheromones on mood.
For a full summary of my professional activities, please see my CV.
