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Faculty research is gaining attention in national and international publications
In an article for The American Naturalist, Sophia Passy, an associate professor of biology, demonstrated that species distribution in biological communities is driven by environmental favorability and species stress tolerance.
The leading neuroscience journal Experimental Brain Research published a study by Professors Yuan Bo Peng (psychology) and J.-C. Chiao (electrical engineering) about their effort to use electrical stimulation of a deep, middle brain structure to block pain signals at the spinal cord level without drug intervention.
In a paper published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, psychology Assistant Professor Jeffrey Gagne and graduate student Catherine Spann found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders.
William Ickes, UTA Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and doctoral students Vivian Ta and Meghan Babcock discovered that when two strangers meet and interact for the first time, words are more effective than non-verbal cues like gestures at developing a mutual understanding. Their findings were published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
In their meta-analysis of retail return policies, Narayanan Janakiraman, assistant professor of marketing, and doctoral candidate Holly Syrdal concluded that stores offering consumers more monetary rewards were likely to increase consumer purchases. Their work was published in The Journal of Retailing.