(704) 687-4749
Office:
Colvard Building Room 4032
Email: pagoolka@uncc.edu
Paula Goolkasian is a Professor
of Psychology and Director of Cognitive Science at the University of
North Carolina, Charlotte. She is a member of the Health
Psychology PhD program and participates on a research team with the
medical staff from the Salisbury W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical
Center. She received her PhD degree in Experimental Psychology
from Iowa State University in 1974. Her research interests are in
the area of perception and attention with over 80 research articles and
presentations at professional conferences. Her research in pain
perception has been supported by grants from pharmaceutical companies,
NIH, NIMH; and she has been the principal investigator for 6 NSF
grants. She has a long history of involving graduate and
undergraduate students in her research activities. The Perception Lab,
which she supervises, has housed 7 dissertation and masters theses and
over 50 independent research projects conducted by undergraduate
students. She was active in The Society for Computers in Psychology
(President 1994, Secretary/Treasurer 1988-91, Steering Committee
1986-99, 2000-2003) a scientific society that promotes the
instructional and research applications of computers. Currently,
she is an executive editor of The
Journal of General Psychology, and a consulting editor for Behavior Research Methods, and American Journal of Psychology.
