Joyce Oates, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

+ Provide support and guidance for shelter Guests seeking employment, housing, and other vital community resources.+ Assist shelter Guests with creation of email accounts, basic computer skills, job applications, and food assistance applications. + Resume and cover letter writing. + Pre-interviewing job counseling,

Durham, North Carolina, United States

+ Test evaluation of Science, Mathematics, and English & Language Arts skills.

+ Director of the Perception, Memory, and Cognition Lab+ Coined the phenomenon “single-motherhood penalty”, exposed underlying prejudices about single mothers and alcohol use disorder, and proposed policy change, (Cooke & Oates et al.). Created factorial design, online survey experiments hosted on Google Drive in Google Forms and recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).+ Developed a repeated measures, factorial design, laboratory-controlled experiment and discovered that people better recognize faces with unique eye regions, (Oates et al., 2019).+ Uncovered a white-male participant/observer strength-bias in regard to white-male athletes and their perceived pain, (Thornton & Oates, 2020). Employed repeated measures, mixed-factorial design, online survey experiments. + Psychology Research Sign-Up Administrator, Psychology Advisor, Psychological Society Club Faculty Advisor, Psi Chi Faculty Advisor, Committee on Faculty Developmen.+ Honors/Awards: Student Senate Faculty Member of the Year, Eastern Psychological Association Cognitive Committee, Research Project Leader of two Summer Scholars Grant Program winners, National Award for Chapter Recruitment Psi Chi Honors Society.

+ Director of the MACS (Memory, Applied, Cognitive, and Social) Psychology Lab. + Hot or Not: Discovered that the color red attractiveness effect is clothing article and gender relevant and can either help or hurt on the dating scene, (Oates et al., 2017). Created repeated measures, mixed-factorial design, online survey experiments hosted on Google Drive in Google Forms and recruited via MTurk.+ Found that memory cues (at 5 PM) for to-do tasks (pick-up the dry cleaning) can be overloaded and forgotten if not task specific, (Oates & Peynircioğlu, 2016). + Committee Member for the Qatar Student-Initiated Undergraduate Research Program+ Consultant for WiSTEM (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Club.+ Psychology Advisor, Co-Chair of Health and Well-Being Services, Task Force for the Student Experience, Faculty Board Member: Academic Review Board & University Disciplinary Committee.

Doha, Qatar

+ Designed and coded behavioral and EEG, repeated-measures experiments, collected data, conducted statistical analyses, and co-authored publications resultant in memory applications. + Discovered that events are better remembered when to be-remembered items already exist in semantic memory, (Oates & Reder; Reder … Oates et al., 2013; Reder & Oates et al., 2006).+ Supervised undergraduate programmers and research assistants.

+ Analyzed data involving Williams Syndrome (WS) participants in the LEaRN (Learning, Education, and Related Neuropsychology) Lab.+ Resulted in recommendation of clinical treatment for threat attention bias in WS with higher anxiety and higher IQ, (McGrath & Oates et al., 2016).

+ Designed and coded behavioral and EEG experiments, collected data, conducted statistical analyses, and authored papers and presentations. + Created repeated measures, mixed-factorial design, IRL texting experiment. Found that people are more likely to remember to send text messages on time when they are texting in positive spaces. Recommended that medical, academic, and work-place environments increase positivity in order to achieve more desired outcomes, (Oates & Peynircioğlu, 2014).+ Created a database of over 12,000 face pictures to test face recognition, (Oates et al. 2019).+ Supervised undergraduate programmers and research assistants.

Worked on a meta-analysis of structural differences in the cerebellum related to developmental disorders, (Stoodley & Oates et al., 2011).

Ph.D., Behavior, Cognition, And Neuroscience, 3.96

Doctoral Student Research Award for Dissertation: Relative Distinctiveness and Face Recognition Biases. Graduate Student Mellon Research.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Psychology, 3.93

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi Thesis: Prospective Memory is Resistant to Build-up in Proactive Interference. Graduate Student Mellon.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Double Major In Psychology And Cinema, 3.92

Senior thesis film: Nuee Ardante. Graduated with Honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma.