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Beverly Roskos, PhD
(Ross-kuss)
Associate Professor

Beverly Roskos

Primary Concentration:

Cognitive Psychology

Contact Information:

​Office: 364-C Gordon Palmer
Phone: (205) 348-5083

FAX: (205) 348-8648
E-Mail: broskos@ua.edu


Curriculum Vita
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Secondary Concentration:

Developmental Science

Courses:

Undergraduate
PY 211 - Elementary Statistics
PY 491 - Seminar: Environmental Psychology
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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

Recent PhD graduates:
Dr. Sara Steele accepts Assistant Professor position at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. En Fu in on a post-doctoral research fellowship at South Normal University in GuangZhou, China.

Current PhD graduate students:

Jessica Mendoza is working on her dissertation.
Janet Horace is working on her dissertation.
Qichen Zhao is working on her dissertation proposal.

Dalton Burchardt is working on his thesis.
Toni Rebaldo is working on her thesis.

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 one's physical environment


Recent Publications
*current or former student

*Costlow, K., Parmelee, P., Choi, S., & Roskos, B. (2020). When less is more: Downsizing, sense of place, and well-being in late life. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 71, 101478. doi: 10.1016/j.envp.2020.101478 

*Himmelberger, Z., Merrill, E. C., Conners, F. A., Roskos, B., *Yang, Y., & *Robinson, T. (2020). The acquisition of survey knowledge by individuals with Down syndrome. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, Article 256. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00256 ​

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.
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