POE Lab

Not pictured:
Mrityunjay Mohan, Undergraduate Research Assistant, mrityunjaymithranmohan@gmail.com

Lab alumni (35):
Justin Arber, La'Tavia Banks, Erika Calderon, Patrick Carpenter, Zoe Carpenter, Regan Cate, Cielo Cervantes, Mackenzie Criner, Lila Demirel, Kayla Evans-Kennard, Joel Ferringer, Lexi Figueroa, Laci Garrett, Robert Gatlin, Makayla Gildon, Kaylani Hancock, Jasmine Hernandez, Lucille Jeffery, Ennsleigh Levengood, Ashley Maestas, Kaitlyn McCarty, Talor-Grace Neumeier, Kade Newton, Honey Norfolk, Kellirae Perrine, Emma Rehm, Sidney Severns, Ni Sung, Anna Temple, Gracie Tew, Abbey West, Jenna Wheeler, Brayden White, Flora Williams, Kaitlyn Wright

The Psychology of Existence (POE) Lab investigates how we reason about death and existential threats. The lab also conducts research on artificial intelligence (AI), including but not limited to its relation to existential risks.

Death; Existential Risks

• Methodology for measuring existential risk judgments

• Cross-cultural predictors of moral judgments about existential risks

• Methodology for measuring death anxiety (in collaboration with Cody Mashburn at Kennesaw State University)

• Intergenerational discounting (in collaboration with Stylianos Syropoulos at Boston College and other co-authors internationally)

AI

• AI for improving research methods

• AI existential risks

• AI in higher education (in collaboration with Evan Faidley, Allison Freed, and Leticia de la Garza at University of Central Arkansas)