Eby Lab
Director: Dr. Lilian T. Eby

Our main focus is Project MERITS (which stands for Managing Effective Relationships in Treatment Services) is a 5-year grant funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The project is examining the factors related to turnover among counselors and clinical supervisors working in substance abuse treatment centers throughout the United States. Other projects include research on occupational health, various aspects of mentoring relationships, and work and family.

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Kuhnert Lab
Director: Dr. Karl W. Kuhnert

Our lab's research centers on leadership and organizational development. Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives and research methods, we have examined personality, gender, and many other variables in conjunction with leadership. One stream of research our lab is engaged in uses constructive/developmental theory to show how leaders make sense of themselves and others. This research has revealed discernible patterns in how people make sense of their world and also how these patterns affect the way that people lead others. In general, we seek to demonstrate how leaders' individual characteristics and development can impact their performance as well as the organization within which they work.

Thomas Lab
Director: Dr. Kecia M. Thomas

Our lab works both in collaboration and as independent initiators of research projects in diversity scholarship, under the direction of Dr. Kecia M. Thomas. Given the rapid change in our nation's demography, we realize that diversity is no longer an option but an organizational reality. As diversity researchers, our lab has the unique opportunity to study a wide range of important workplace issues. We also work in conjunction with the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity in an effort to collaborate with and learn from diversity scholars across our campus. Currently, we are examining the potential preference for Native African citizens over African American citizens when applying for acceptance and funding at a fictitious undergraduate university. Other projects examine the impact of sexual orientation/identity, racial identity, religious beliefs, and inter-racial relationships on important workplace outcomes (e.g., performance appraisals, likelihood to hire, willingness to partner/mentor, etc.). Through the RED foundation, our lab is actively involved with measuring and improving the climate for inclusion and diversity in applied organizational settings. We have had great success with the Terry College of Business here at UGA, Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio, and we are looking forward to beginning/continuing a number of new projects that include the Department of Agriculture as well as UGA's Franklin College of Arts. As we continue our focus on diversity and inclusion, we hope to continue scholarship in an effort to promote equity, inclusion, social justice and excellence within our workplaces and communities.

Human Cognitive Processing Laboratory
Director: Dr. Richard L. Marsh

The Human Cognitive Processing Lab (HCPL) is collaborating with the Memory, Attention, and Individual Differences Lab (MAID) to investigate the role of individual differences in prospective memory. This research is examining both time-based and event-based prospective memory paradigms to determine if there is a single construct or cognitive process that is common to all prospective memory. Another goal of this research is to study whether individual differences in working memory capacity (and related measures) share similar processes with prospective memory. For example, does a latent prospective memory factor correlate with a latent working memory or general intelligence factor?

The HCPL has also started collaborating with researchers in the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory to examine the neural correlates of time-based prospective memory.



When people attempt to generate new ideas, they use their past experience. Usually, this information aids in new idea generation but it also has the tendency to result in unconscious plagiarism of friends’ ideas and those of significant others. Our most recent work examines how the generation of new ideas is influenced by the group dynamics and the dyadic interaction between people which may influence the degree to which they come to believe older ideas are actually their own new ideas. This work was recently discussed in the Boston Globe, read more.

Projects & Collaborators:

Individual Differences in Prospective Memory: Richard Marsh, Nash Unsworth, Arlo Clark-Foos, Gene A. Brewer

Neural Correlates of Time-Based Prospective Memory: Richard Marsh, Brett Clementz, Arlo Clark-Foos

Unconscious Plagiarism: Richard Marsh, Arlo Clark-Foos, Gene A. Brewer, Justin B. Knight

Georgia Decision Laboratory
Director: Dr. Adam Goodie

The Georgia Decision Lab is collaborating with the University of Georgia’s Department of Computer Science to examine individuals’ strategic reasoning in competitive sequential-move games and then computationally simulate this behavior via interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs).

Also, the Georgia Decision Lab is investigating personality characteristics that may relate to pathological gambling, such as sensation-seeking.



Finally, the Georgia Decision Lab and the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory are collaborating on an MEG study investigating the neurological imp lications of gambling pathology on various aspects of decision behavior.

Projects & Collaborators:

Pathological gambling and personality: Adam Goodie and Erica Littler

Strategic reasoning in competitive games: Adam Goodie, Diana Young, Prashant Doshi (GDL and Dept. of Computer Science)

MEG-pathological gambling: Adam Goodie, Brett Clementz, Lisa Krusemark, Diana Young (CCNL and GDL)