Lori Furbush, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Psychological Science
Area(s) of Expertise: Social psychology and Developmental psychology/Gerontology
Overview
Dr. Furbush graduated from North Georgia College, as it was known then, with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in English. She got her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UGA. She also has a Certificate in Gerontology from UGA and a Certificate in Clinical Research from Gwinnett Tech. After graduate school, Dr. Furbush worked at the VAMC Rehab R&D Center and at Emory University as a research scientist specializing in Health & Gerontological Research. She was a statistician and project manager for various studies being conducted at Emory and at the VAMC. After her first son was born, she started teaching at UNG. She has two sons and lives in Cumming.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introduction to Psychological Science
- Human Growth & Development
- Research Methods
- Cognitive Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology Lab
- Biopsychology
- Senior Psychology Seminar
- Sensation and Perception
- Human Memory
Education
- Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Georgia, 1997
- Ph.D., Gerontology Certificate, University of Georgia, 1996
- M.S., Psychology, University of Georgia, 1994
- B.S., Psychology, minor in English, North Georgia College, 1991
Research/Special Interests
Ralph’s research interests focus broadly on the areas of visual perception, memory, and empirical aesthetics. In particular, interests include color vision, figure-ground organization, surface completion, object and scene recognition, visual illusions, visual search, luminance and illumination cues, social gaze, attention, visual short-term memory, long-term memory including encoding and retrieval, memory errors and false memories, universality of visual art, visual art as an evolutionary fitness indicator, and perception of visual art.
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