Welcome to the Camden Decision Lab!
Here at the Lab we study a variety of topics surrounding choice, culture, memory, and environments. We have examined decisions developmentally, cross-culturally, and through behavioral economics. Current projects include studies on memory, cognitive load, automatic imitation, humor, emotion perception, and many other topics. Get involved in research in the psych department by contacting Sean Duffy or John Smith!
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Topics we study:
Memory and Artificial Intelligence: Given the explosive development of Artificial Intelligence in recent years, how does this affect how people think reason remember and make decisions regarding information that is produced by AI.
Culture, Cognition, and Mental Health: Exploring how people in different cultures manage mental health issues in the U.S., Colombia, and Spain. This project concerns the role that positive ways of thinking affect life course outcomes.
Memory and Learning: Are people Bayesian in their decisions or judgments or just look that way due to how we think about data. The aim of this work is to elaborate on a statistical model of how we use information stored in categories to improve our decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and whether this model or alternative accounts best describe people’s behavior.
Economic choice and imperfect perception: How people make decisions under uncertainty using models borrowed from the psychophysics literature. This work addresses how insights from research in psychology can improve how we understand why people make the decisions they do.
Automatic Imitation: How and why people automatically imitate one another. Humans have a natural tendency to imitate one another. We study this by having people try to ignore a hand making an action that they either have to imitate or ignore – a little bit like Simon Says!
Environmental Psychology: How people think about climate change and other environmental issues. We are interested in how people use what they know about the threat of climate change in their everyday lives.
Culture and Attention: The role culture performs in shaping the way we see and understand the world. The question we address here is whether people engaged in different cultures truly see the world differently at the most basic levels of perception and attention.
Spatial Reasoning in Adults and Children: How do children and adults understand spaces, maps, number, and time. We have done experiments on infants showing that even 6 month olds can measure spaces in a way very much like adults can.
The Dynamics of Moving Crowds: Mathematically modeling dynamic human motion (with B. Piccoli and R. van Der Wel). This project aims to elaborate on how we can create spaces that makes it less likely for people to get into dangerous crowding situations.
The Psychology of Humor: How gender and sexual orientation affect people’s perception of humor. We find that men tend to only find other men as humorous but women see the landscape of humor differently. More on this soon.
CONNTACT INFO
Please feel free to visit our team member page to learn more about who we are and meet some of our pets!
Email: Sean Duffy: seduffy@camden.rutgers.edu or John Smith smithj@camden.rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6204 (Sean Office Phone) (856) 225-6319 (John Office Phone)
MAILING ADDRESS
301 Armitage, ICO Jackie Dunn (administrator)
Rutgers University – Camden Campus
311 N. 5th Street
Camden, NJ 08102
LABORATORY LOCATION
Armitage Hall Basement
Room B22