Dan RichardUniversity of North Florida | UNF · Department of Psychology
Dan Richard
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Dan Richard is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Florida and Co-Director of the Florida Data Science for Social Good program. His interests include lay-epistemology, research methodology, data science, terrorism, transformational learning, and community engagement.
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August 2001 - present
August 2001 - present
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Publications (36)
This project examined conspiracy theory use across three types of groups: radical violent extremists (RVE), nonviolent extremists, and moderates. Using the theory of significance quest, or the desire for one’s life to have meaning, the current project determined whether RVE groups were more likely to use conspiracy theories and promote loss of sign...
Rooted in the work of community – school collaborations, this text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence that course-learning conducted in an applied, community setting, can positively transform students’ p...
Rooted in the work of community – school collaborations, this text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence that course-learning conducted in an applied, community setting, can positively transform students’ p...
As Heraclitus noted, "all things change." This constant change is expressed in the needs and experiences of students, faculty, and community partners, who, as key partners of the service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) space, continue to evolve. As learning and teaching environments change, as the needs of community partners shift, and as...
The current study explores the relationship between participation in college service-learning (SL) experiences,
in both academic courses and co-curricular programs, and post-college civic engagement. Using
data from a purposeful sample of 1,066 alumni from 30 campuses who participated in the 20th Anniversary
Bonner Scholars Study, we explored the e...
Is it better to drive with one foot or with two feet? Although two-foot driving has fostered interminable debate in the media, no scientific and systematic research has assessed this issue and federal and local state governments have provided no answers. The current study compared traditional unipedal (one-foot driving, using the right foot to cont...
The stimulus-response correspondence (SRC) effect refers to advantages in performance when stimulus and response correspond in dimensions or features, even if the common features are irrelevant to the task. Previous research indicated that the SRC effect depends on the temporal course of stimulus information processing. The current study investigat...
This study investigates the relationship between reflective practices in college service-learning programs and
alumni’s current reflective practices. Additionally, this study explores how graduates’ present reflective practices
help to shape their civic and professional identities. Mixed methods using survey and interview data
explore reflective pr...
Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...
Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...
Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...
Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...
Recent research has suggested that action-video-game playing can enhance attentional capacity and other cognitive capabilities (e.g., Green, C. S, & Bavelier, D., 2003. [1]). However, some published studies failed to replicate those results (e.g., Boot, W.. 2008. [2]). This current research sought to replicate some of the results as well as extend...
The Trp719Arg allele of KIF6 rs20455, a putative risk factor for CHD especially in those with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), was investigated in Filipino-American women (FAW, n = 235) participating in health screenings in four cities. The rs20455 genotype of each subject was determined by a multiplex assay using a Luminex-OLA...
The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive review of the effectiveness of child and adolescent anxiety prevention programs. Mean weighted effect sizes were calculated, and studies were encoded for potential moderator variables. A statistically significant effect size of .18 was obtained at post-intervention, which is consistent with e...
Abstract Complex,problems ,have often been described along certain dimensions, e.g. complexity, transparency, and dynamics. However, problem descriptions of the researcher and problem-characteristics perceived ,by the ,participant might differ. This study investigates subjective task complexity and its relationship to complex ,problem ,solving perf...
This article discusses the meta-analysis of raw mean differences. It presents a rationale for cumulating psychological effects in a raw metric and compares raw mean differences to standardized mean differences. Some limitations of standardization are noted, and statistical techniques for raw meta-analysis are described. These include a graphical de...
This article compiles results from a century of social psychological research, more than 25,000 studies of 8 million people. A large number of social psychological conclusions are listed alongside meta-analytic information about the magnitude and variability of the corresponding effects. References to 322 meta-analyses of social psychological pheno...
Students of intergroup relations have measured segregation with a P* index. In this article, we describe the distribution of this index under a stochastic model. We derive exact, closed-form expressions for the mean, variance, and skewness of P* under random segregation. These yield equivalent expressions for a second segregation index: η 2. Our an...
Many social psychologists believe that if research results are obvious, they are unimportant and uninteresting. The current study evaluated lay perceptions of social psychological research findings. Results from three studies reveal differences between lay evaluations of research and scientific evaluations. In Study 1, students with no prior exposu...
To analyze variance in a triadic variable, Bond, Horn, and Kenny (1997) have proposed a Triadic Relations Model. Here we extend this model to analyze the covariances between triadic variables. A bivariate version of the Triadic Relations Model is specified, and estimation methods are presented. These can be used to decompose the covariance between...
Several models of relationship dissolution imply a sequence of steps or stages, for which there might exist a cultural script. Previous research has identified a script for first dates. The present research attempted to identify a relationship dissolution script by asking men and women to list the steps that typically occur when a couple breaks up....
The current study investigated whether college students specifically have the prerequisite knowledge to use reciprocal information in their reasoning about covariation. Primacy effects on sequential processing tasks provided an opportunity to compare the use of single-cell information versus the use of reciprocal information in judgements about cov...
Researchers have debated whether laypeople can detect covariation and have tried to identify conditions that might facilitate or retard this ability. Language, especially linguistic representation of variables, seems important to consider since misrepresentation appears to be relatively common in linguistic exchanges. In the present theory-based ex...
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Determine the impact of college experiences on community engagement after graduation
In recent years, terrorism and radicalization has been a consistent issue that many countries have faced. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been the most recent in a long trail of organizations that have sought to strike terror against the western world. However, ISIS is distinguished from other groups, like Al-Qaeda, in that ISIS supports a complex propaganda machine. Although ISIS is not the first organization to use the social media platform, they are the first to use it with such diversity. The two main channels that ISIS uses to spread their propaganda messages are through social media sites such as Twitter and through online journals such as the Dabiq. Recent research has attempted to determine how recruitment messages are being received and which messages trigger recruitment. It is the goal of this paper to determine which messages are salient, and the psychological constructs that support them. By coding messages for appeals to identity, need for cognitive closure, time pressure, and appeals to ideology, the researchers expect that the two main channels of ISIS propaganda differ in their messages. We hypothesize that Twitter messages will be targeted towards novice ISIS sympathizers, whereas the Dabiq will be focused on already-radicalized individuals who have moved past the introduction of the radical ideology.
