Beverly Roskos, PhD
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Primary Concentration:Cognitive Psychology
Contact Information:Office: 364-C Gordon Palmer
Phone: (205) 310-8557 FAX: (205) 348-8648 E-Mail: broskos@ua.edu Curriculum Vita |
Secondary Concentration:Developmental Science
Courses:Undergraduate
PY 211 - Elementary Statistics PY 491 - Seminar: Environmental Psychology Graduate PY 650 - Cognition and Learning PY 670 - Perception and Action PY 655 - Seminar: Visual-Spatial Cog PY 655 - Seminar: Cognition and Creative Writing |
News!
Former graduate student Sara Steele accepts Assistant Professor position at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Former graduate student En Fu accepts post-doctoral research fellowship at South Normal University in GuangZhou, China.
Graduate student Jessica Mendoza published two papers and is busily working on her dissertation proposal.
Graduate student Janet Horace is busily working on a manuscript based on her thesis and her dissertation proposal.
Graduate student Qichen Zhao is translating her master's thesis for publication and conducting follow-up studies.
Graduate student Dalton Burchardt is finishing up his first-year project.
New graduate student Toni Rebaldo will be beginning her first-year project this semester.
Research Affiliations
Alabama Research Institute on Aging (formerly Center for Mental Health and Aging)
Research Interests
Comprehension, representation, and use of visual and spatial information, including group and individual differences, including
Wayfinding
Sex differences in spatial ability
Media comprehension
Visual creativity
Perceptions of temporary spaces
Wayfinding
Sex differences in spatial ability
Media comprehension
Visual creativity
Perceptions of temporary spaces
Recent Publications
*current or former student
Ewoldsen, D. R., & Roskos, B. (2017). Applying social psychology to the media. In J. A. Gruman, F. W. Schneider, & L. M. Coutts (Eds.), Applied social psychology: Understanding and addressing social and practical problems, 3rd Ed (pp. 155-188). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
*Kim, K., Roskos, B., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (2016). Using the Landscape Model of comprehension to understand framing effects in political advertisements. Korean Journal of Communication Studies, 24(4), 5-26.
Roskos, B. (2016) Visual information-processing. The international encyclopedia of communication theory and philosophy, 1-12. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
*Fu, E., Bravo, M., & Roskos, B. (2015). Single-destination navigation in a multiple-destination environment: A new “later-destination attractor” bias. Memory & Cognition, 43(7), 1043-1055. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-015-0521-7
*Davis, M. Merrill, E., Conners, F., & Roskos, B. (2014). Patterns of differences in route-learning performance and correlations among abilities between persons with and without Down syndrome and typically developing children. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 5 (Article 01446), 1-12.
Merrill, E. C., Conners, F. A., Roskos, B., Klinger, M. R., & Klinger, L. G. (2013). Contextual cueing effects across the lifespan. Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development, 174, 387-402.
Sickler, S., & Roskos, B. (2013). Factors that play a role in students' on-campus housing decisions. Journal of College and University Student Housing, 39(2), 10-30.
*Lee, M., Roskos, B., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (2013). Impact of subtitles on comprehension of narrative film. Media Psychology, 16(4), 412-440.