Advisor- Dr. Ryan T. Howell, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology
Dr. Howell is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University. He received his B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, from Westmont College (1998) and his Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from the University of California, Riverside (2005). Howell currently teaches courses in psychological statistics and research methods and serves as graduate adviser. He is also the director of the Personality Well-Being Lab on campus. His main research interest is developing statistical models to predict subjective well-being from financial choices and daily activities. He recently developed a website, Beyond the Purchase, exploring the outcomes of different purchasing and money-management choices, as well as the motivations behind them.
Personality and Well-Being Lab
Beyond the Purchase
Personality and Well-Being Lab
Beyond the Purchase
Co-Advisor - Dr.Sarah Barber, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dr. Barber is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University. She received her B.S. in Psychology with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003) and her Ph.D. in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from Stony Brook University (2010). After receiving her PhD., Dr. Barber completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. At SFSU, Dr. Barber is the director of the Cognition and Aging Lab. Research in her lab focuses on memory processes in younger and older adults and in particular how negative stereotypes about aging affect older adults' memory performance via stereotype threat. Dr. Barber currently teaches courses on the Psychology of Aging and Human Memory.
Link to Cognition & Aging Lab: http://www.cognitionaginglab.com/
Link to Cognition & Aging Lab: http://www.cognitionaginglab.com/
