Dr. Rosanna Guadagno received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003. Her masters and dissertation examined persuasion via computer-mediated communication. To extend her knowledge of the impact of technology on social interaction, Dr. Guadagno spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studied persuasion and non-verbal behavior in immersive virtual environments.
Brad Okdie received his M.A. from the University of Northern Iowa in 2006 where he worked with Dr. Helen Harton. His masters thesis examined social influence and computer mediated communication. He is currently a doctoral candidate at The University of Alabama where he works with Dr. Rosanna Guadagno in the online social interaction lab. Currently they are conducting research to examine the impact of computers on persuasion.
Cassie Hull (Primary Advisor: D. Roskos-Ewoldsen)
Cassie Hull received her B. A. in Psychology from Simpson College in 2006. Her honor's thesis examined individual differences in response to positive and negative feedback. She is currently working on her masters thesis with Dr. Dave Roskos-Ewoldsen on the influence of existing attitudes on the interpretation of film. She collaborates with Dr. Guadagno and Brad Okdie on a variety of projects on gender roles and social influence.
Nicole received her B. A. in Psychology from Florida State University in 2006 where she worked in several social psychology labs and conducted research on computer-generated humans and stereotypes. She is incoming Fall 2007.
