People

Principal Investigator

Doug Markant, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological Science
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Contact: dmarkant@uncc.edu
Follow @dougmarkant

CV

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Prior to this I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, within the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. In January 2014 I completed my Ph.D. in the Cognition and Perception program at New York University.

I’m interested in how minds make learning possible. The aim of my research is to understand cognitive processes involved in human learning and decision making, how those processes are shaped by one’s environment, and what they imply for real-world learning problems (especially educational practices).

For more information on our research, please see the list of publications.

Current members of the lab

Graduate students

• Shaina Glass is a Ph.D. student in Health Psychology in the General concentration. She earned her undergraduate degree at UNC Charlotte in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science and a certificate in Video Game Design. Her interests are in both basic and applied research with an aim to understand how cognitive processes impact health through health beliefs, decisions, and behavior, including their relationships with emotional processing and regulation. She aims to apply knowledge gained from this research to improve health interventions for both mental and physical health and to implement interventions through applied game design to improve health outcomes and treatment accessibility.

• Josh Gordon, Ph.D. program in Health Psychology
• Ryan Hall, Ph.D. program in Health Psychology
• Matt Andresen, M.A. program in Psychology