Tuesday, November 5, 2019

AU Psychology Has Key Role in Largest Psych Study

Within the 24 hours, facial perception research involving 11,481 participants from 130 institutions spread across 48 countries and involving 24 different languages has been made public.

It is one of the largest studies in the history of psychology. And it all started at Ashland University.

It marks the completion of the first study undertaken by the Psychological Science Accelerator, the brainchild of AU associate professor of psychology Christopher R. Chartier. The worldwide network of laboratories involving more than 700 psychological scientists was launched in 2017 by a single blog post from Chartier, who reasoned a global collaboration could do for psychology what CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – has done for particle physics.

Quite simply, Chartier said, “the PSA allows us to conduct really, really big tests of human psychology. This first study focused on social judgments we make just from looking at someone’s face.” Participants were asked to look at an array of 120 faces, then rate them on 13 different traits, such as intelligence, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. READ MORE at: news.ashland.edu

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