Alquist Lab People

Jessica Alquist, Ph.D.

Jessica received her PhD in Social Psychology from (the) Florida State University working with Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice. She received her undergraduate education at Drew University in New Jersey.

Although she finds most social psychological research pretty irresistible, she focuses her research primarily on the limited resource model of self-control, uncertainty, and the effects of beliefs about agency on behavior.

Graduate Students

Heidi Martin

B.A. University of New Hampshire

My research interests include free will beliefs, uncertainty, and self-control. Primarily, I am interested in studying the relationship between free will beliefs, behavior, and thought processes.

Niloofar Najib Nia, M.A.

B.A Kharazmi University of Tehran
M.A Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

My research interests center around the field of health psychology. I am working on health communication and conveying health messages for promoting healthy behaviors within different groups of people. As well as this, I am interested in understanding the role that personality plays in the area of health behavior.

Lab Alumni

Ashalee Hurst, Ph.D.

B.A. University of Central Oklahoma
M.A. University of Central Oklahoma
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow, OK. My research primarily focuses on women's aggression against other women. Currently, I am testing how both social factors (e.g., family history, scarcity of resources) and biological factors (e.g., the ovulatory cycle) and relate to aggressive behavior. In another line of research, I am testing how a man's muscularity interacts with trait judgments (e.g., dominance) to influence women's ratings of his physical attractiveness.

Mindi Price, Ph.D.

 

B.A. College of Idaho
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

I am living and working in Idaho doing independent research and statistics consulting after graduating in December 2019. My dissertation was about self-control and affective forecasting, and I am currently conducting research about self-control.

Jordan Rodriguez, Ph.D.

B.A. University of Kansas
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

Jordan is enjoying her position as a Senior Research Analyst at National Research Group after completing a PhD in Experimental Psychology and a certificate in Business Analytics. With a passion for leveraging data to make sense of the consumer experience, Jordan is excited to apply her knowledge gained in the SCAB Lab to the entertainment industry. In her free time, you can find Jordan updating her life master plan or cuddling with her ragdoll cat Theodore.

Alec Stinnett, Ph.D.

B.A. Northern Illinois University
M.A. Western Illinois University
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

I’m an Assistant Professor of Psychology at a tiny private school in Illinois called Monmouth College. I research people’s free will beliefs, teach statistics, and write short autobiographical blurbs.

Tammy Core, Ph.D.

B.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A. Wake Forest University
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

My research interests are quite broad and include the effects of uncertainty on behavior, self-regulation, and prejudice. My main research projects include the effects of religious certainty on health behaviors, the effects of concealing an identity on self-regulation, and examining the Atheist stereotype of immorality and untrustworthiness.  

Tyler Owen, Ph.D.

B.S. Indiana University Purdue University- Indianapolis
M.A. Claremont Graduate University
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

My research interests are broadly on developing and evaluating interventions to improve people's self-regulation as a way of improving their health and goal attainment. More specifically, I am interested in improving all forms of self-regulation (executive control, emotional control, self-control, and stress management) as a way of improving people's control over their lives.