People

Principal Investigator

Doug Markant, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological Science
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Contact: dmarkant@uncc.edu

CV

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Prior to this I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, within the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. In January 2014 I completed my Ph.D. in the Cognition and Perception program at New York University.

I’m interested in how minds make learning possible. The aim of my research is to understand cognitive processes involved in human learning and decision making, how those processes are shaped by one’s environment, and what they imply for real-world learning problems (especially educational practices).

For more information on our research, please see the list of publications.

Current members of the lab

Graduate students

• Ryan Hall, Ph.D. program in Health Psychology
• Josh Gordon, Ph.D. program in Health Psychology
• Noah Mangione, Psychology M.A. program
• Isabella Tsai, Psychology M.A. program
• Ata Yilmazemre, Psychology M.A. program