The AD&D Lab will be contributing to a new R01 project led by Dr. Ladda Thiamwong (UCF Nursing), funded by the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). The project entitled, “Optimizing a technology-based body and mind intervention to prevent falls and reduce health disparities in low-income […]
Congratulations to AD&D Lab Honor’s Thesis student, Trenton Lam, for defending his Honors Thesis entitled, “The Effect of Past Betrayals on Trust Behavior”. His project found that while people who have not experienced betrayal trauma typically invest less in untrustworthy-looking partners in the Trust Game, victims of betrayal show similar […]
New publication alert in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. The paper, “Facial trustworthiness perceptions across the adult lifespan” led by Didem Pehlivanoglu, describes the impact of perceiver and facial characteristics on facial trustworthiness perception across adulthood. The project included collaboration across five universities and two countries: University of Florida […]
Congratulations to undergraduate researchers, Haily Follese, Trenton Lam, and Sadie Hughey, who have been awarded student research grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) and the Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) at UCF! And congratulations to undergraduate lab manager, Zounaira Shahzad, on her LIFE at UCF Disability, Aging & […]
As the capstone to his Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship, Trenton Lam presented at the UCF Summer Research Poster Showcase. Trenton’s summer project examined how trust-related behavior with new social partners is shaped by past betrayals of trust using a multi-round version of the Trust Game. His results showed that those […]
Congrats to recent AD&D Lab Ph.D. graduate, Xiaoqing Wan, Dr. Lighthall, and UCF Statistics and Data Science colleague, Dr. Rui Xie, on their paper: “Consistent and Robust Predictors of Internet Use among Older Adults over Time Identified by Machine Learning” — which is in press at the journal of Computers […]
Local NPR station 90.7 WMFE featured a story about our Florida Consortium to Reduce Misinformation and Exploitation in Alzheimer’s Disease, funded by the Florida Department of Health. You can listen to the story and read the transcript here. The story highlights the consortium’s aim to develop a tool kit that […]
Read UCF Today’s story on our lab’s lead role in the Florida Consortium to Reduce Misinformation and Exploitation in Alzheimer’s Disease, funded by the Florida Department of Health! The story highlights our lab’s mission to determine risk factors for vulnerability to deception and develop tools for early detection of scam […]
Congratulations to incoming AD&D Lab Ph.D. student, Maggie Doheny, on earning a UCF Summer Mentoring Fellowship award! With funding support from Graduate Studies, Maggie will complete a summer research project before beginning graduate school. Maggie’s summer project study will use computational modeling to compare trust-related learning in social and non-social […]
Congrats to AD&D Lab member Xiaoqing Wan on earning her Ph.D.! This semester, Xiaoqing successfully defended her dissertation, “Predictors of technology use among older adults: Evidence from non-users to elite users.” Dr. Wan is now working as a Senior Data Scientist at SAANS Health. Best wishes, Xiaoqing!
Dr. Lighthall, along with MPIs Dr. Natalie Ebner (University of Florida) and Dr. Bob Wilson (University of Arizona), were awarded a Multi-PI R01 from the National Institute on Aging entitled, “Characterizing and Modulating Neurocognitive Processes in Learning to Trust and Distrust in Aging.” The goals of this project are to […]
In their new publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, “Aging in an “infodemic”: The role of analytical reasoning, affect, and news consumption frequency on news veracity detection” by Pehlivanoglu, Lighthall, Lin, Chi, Perez, Polk, Cahill, & Ebner find that age-related vulnerabilities to deceptive news may only become apparent in […]
The Fall 2021 was a special one for the AD&D Lab, as we celebrated our first PhD student graduation — congrats to Dr. Kylie Fernandez! We look forward to seeing great applied psychology work from you, and many more inspired poses like this one!
Lead PI Dr. Lighthall, along with Co-PIs Dr. Natalie Ebner (University of Florida) and Dr. Bonnie Levin (University of Miami), were awarded a Consortium Grant from the Florida Department of Health’s Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program. This four-year grant project will examine cognitive and neural mechanisms of […]
Congratulations to AD&D Lab Ph.D. student, Kylie Fernandez, for defending her dissertation entitled, “Dissociable Temporal and Performance Effects of Two Stress Pathways on Economic Decision Making”. Dr. Fernandez will be graduating this semester and moving on to a Research Psychologist position at StraCon Services Group. Best wishes, Kylie!
In their new publication in Computers in Human Behavior, AD&D Lab Ph.D. student, Xiaoqing Wan, Dr. Lighthall and UCF Clinical Psychology colleague, Dr. Daniel Paulson, show that subjective health stands out among self-perception measures as a robust predictor of Internet use in older adults. Of particular importance, the study’s findings […]
Congratulations to AD&D Lab collaborator, Dr. Didem Pehlivanoglu (UF), for receiving the APA Division 20 Postdoctoral Research Award. Her first-authored presentation entitled, “Aging in an “infodemic”: The role of cognition, affect, and experience on news veracity detection during the COVID-19 pandemic”, features findings from a collaborative project between the UF […]
In their new publication in Brain and Cognition, AD&D Lab Ph.D. student, Lindsay Conner and Dr. Lighthall, in collaboration with University of Florida co-authors Natalie Ebner (Professor of Psychology) and Marilyn Horta (Postdoctoral Fellow), present a novel fMRI task for isolating effects of memory processes on value mechanisms. Findings from […]
Congratulations to former AD&D Lab undergraduate research assistant, Michael Gordon who will begin a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology this fall at Boston College where he will receive a full graduate fellowship to support his doctoral training. While in the AD&D Lab, Michael received a Summer Research Award from the […]
Congratulations to AD&D Lab Honor’s Thesis student and lab manager, Krupali Patel, for defending her Honors Thesis entitled, “Examining the Relationship Between Mental Health Conditions and Risk Perception in Determining COVID-19 Preventative Behaviors”. Krupali will be graduating with Honors in the Major this semester and moving on to a post-baccalaureate […]