Past and Present Funding
Marsh, K. L., & Tucker, A. Nudging toward better driving: Phase I. The Travelers Indemnity Company, Hartford (2019).
Hodges, B., & Fowler, C. Conference: Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use. National Science Foundation, #1352717. (2014-2016). Awarded for a 3 day conference, held June 2014 at UCONN.
Marsh, K. L. (Co-PI), with Luh (PI), and Olderman. Building emergency evacuation: Innovative modeling and robust optimization. National Science Foundation, #1000495. (2010-2014).
Marsh, K. L. (PI), with Fein, Isenhower, Richardson, Schmidt & Kinsella-Shaw. Assessing synchrony as a basis for social connection in autism. ITA Grant, Cure Autisim Now. (2006-2007).
Marsh, K. L. (PI), with Baron, Carello, & Richardson. Affordances for cooperation as a dynamical system. National Science Foundation, # 0342802. (2004-2008).
Recent Presentations
2022
Hodges, B. H. (2022, July 18-19). Beyond goals, rules, and laws: Realizing values in action and interaction. Keynote address at the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES), Seoul, Korea.
Jiang, S., Ott, A., Burt, C., & Marsh, K. L. (2022, June). Salience of affordances: Exploring differences between outdoor natural versus built environments. Poster presented at the North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology. Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
2021
Marsh, K. L., Jiang, S., Ott, A., & Burt, C. (2021, October). Affordances of natural versus built environments. Presented at NatureRx at UConn: Connecting with nature for better well-being and mental health. Storrs, CT.
Hodges, B. H. (2021, Sept. 16-18). Methods for locating what is non-local: Realizing values in action, reasoning, and development. Keynote address at 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language, and Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Hodges, B. H. (2021, June 25-27). Conversing as perceiving, acting, and caring: An ecological approach to language. Keynote address at Interactivism in Perspective: Celebrating Mark Bickhard’s Contributions to the Psychology of the Whole Person, Lehigh University (USA) and University of Murcia (Spain).
2019
Dhaim, A & Sheya, A. (2019, July). Do we think to act or act to think? Insight from a developmental joint action task. Paper presented at Joint Action Meeting 8, Genova, Italy.
Tucker, A. & Marsh, K. L. (2019, July). Communication, co-presence, and distraction in autonomous vehicles. Poster presented at Joint Action Meeting 8, Genova, Italy.
Hodges, B. H., Ventura, J. D., & Lundberg, E. (2019, July). The complexity of coordination in carrying, reaching, and driving: The search for fields of dexterity. Paper presented at International Conference on Perception and Action, Groningen, NL.
Srinivasan, S., Kaur, M., Wanamaker, C., Gifford, T., Marsh, K. L., & Bhat, A. (2019, May). Using mobile robots to facilitate academic skills in children with ASD. Poster presented at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Montreal.
Dhaim, A. & Sheya, A. (2019, March) Exploratory Movements and the development of joint action. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Burt, C., & Marsh, K. L. (2019, February). Does the presence of disorder in an environment affect viewers’ judgments about police-citizen interactions? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.
2018
Marsh, K. L. (2018, September). Using motion tracking and affordance experiments to examine the emergence of interpersonal synchrony and joint action. Invited talk presented in A. Reader (Organizer), Beyond the video: naturalistic approaches to examining social motor behaviour. Symposium presented at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy.
Tucker, A. & Davis, T. (2018, July). The effect of gait symmetry on path integration. Talk presented at 2018 North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, Normal, IL.
Tucker, A. , & Marsh, K. L. (2018, June). An ecological perspective on autonomous vehicles. Talk presented in A. Tucker & K. L. Marsh (Organizers), Dyads and beyond: Different approaches to collective behavior. Symposium presented at the 15th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, Montauban, France.
Recent Publications
In Press
Paxton, A., Varoquaux, N., Holdgraf, C., & Geiger, R. S. (in press). Community, time, and (con)text: Online communication patterns in open-source software communities and their implications for community health. Cognitive Science.
2022
Hodges, B. H. (2022). Values, affordances, and agency: Giving Heft to ecological accounts. In M. Heras-Escribano, M. Segundo-Ortin, & V. Raja (Eds.), Placing psychology in context: Essays in honor of Harry Heft. Routledge, in press.
Hodges, B. H. (2022). Values define agency: Ecological and enactive perspectives reconsidered. Adaptive Behavior, in press. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221076876
Hodges, B. H., & Rączaszek-Leonardi, J. (2022). Ecological values theory: Beyond conformity, goal-seeking, and rule-following in action and interaction. Review of General Psychology, 26(1), 86-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211048174
Schwab, S. M., Carver, N. S., Forman, M., Abney, D. H., Davis, T. J., Riley, M. A., Paxton, A., & Silva, P. L. (2022). Child-caregiver interactions during a collaborative motor task in children with cerebral palsy: A descriptive exploratory study. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 34, 255-277. doi: 10.1007/s10882-021-09798-6
2021
Romero, V., & Paxton, A. (2021). Visual information and communication context as modulators of interpersonal coordination in face-to-face and videoconference-based interactions [Registered report]. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103453. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103453
Pouw, W., de Jonge-Hoekstra, L., Harrison, S. J., Paxton, A., & Dixon, J. (2021). Gesture-speech physics in fluid speech and rhythmic hand movement. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1491(1), 89-105. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14532
Paxton, A.*, Roche, J. M.*, Ibarra, A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2021). Predictions of miscommunication in verbal communication during collaborative joint action. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(2), 613-627.
De Bari, B., Paxton, A., Dixon, J. A., Kondepudi, D., & Kay, B. A. (2021). Functional interdependence in coupled dissipative structures: Physical foundations of biological intra- and inter-organism. Entropy, 23(5), 614. doi: 10.3390/e23050614
Chiovaro, M., Windsor, L. C.*, Windsor, A., & Paxton, A.* (2021). Online social cohesion reflects real-world group action in Syria during the Arab Spring. PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0254087. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254087
Abney, D., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(9), 1760-1771. doi: 10.1037/xge0001018
2020
Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Reply to Ravignani and Kotz: Physical impulses from upper-limb movements impact the respiratory-vocal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23225-23226. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015452117
Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Ecological psychology meets ecology: Apis mellifera as a model for perception-action, social dynamics, and human factors. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 192-213. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1836966
Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. (2020). Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11364-11367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004163117.
Chiovaro, M., & Paxton, A. (2020). Action coordination in non-human self-organizing collectives: Multidisciplinary lessons from living and nonliving systems. Ecological Psychology, 32(4), 139-142. doi: 10.1080/10407413.2020.1842136
Müller-Frommeyer, L. C., Kauffeld, S., & Paxton, A. (2020). Beyond consistency: Contextual dependency of language style in monologue and conversation. Cognitive Science, 44(4), e12834. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12834
DeMasi, O.*, Paxton, A.*, & Koy, K. (2020). Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(5), e1007695. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007695
Blau, J. J. C., & Paxton, A. (2020). Scale-independent aggression: A fractal analysis of four levels of human aggression. Complexity, 2020, 2047157.
2019
Duran, N., Paxton, A., & Fusaroli, R. (2019). ALIGN: Analyzing Linguistic Interactions with Generalizable techNiques. Psychological Methods, 24(4), 419-438. doi: 10.1037/met0000206
Paxton, A., & Tullett, A. (2019). Open science in data-intensive psychology and cognitive science. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6(1), 47-55. doi: 10.1177/2372732218790283.
Hodges, B. H. (2019). Resisting knowledge, realizing values, and reasoning in complex contexts: Ecological reflections. Theory & Psychology, 29, 291-310.
Tucker, A., Marsh, K. L. (2019). Performing bimanual coordination under stereotype threat. In L. van Dijk & R. Withagen (Eds.), Studies in perception & action XV: Twentieth International Conference on Perception and Action (pp. 45-48). New York: Routledge.
Zhang, M., Lu, A., & Hodges, B. H. (2019). Lifting, tasting, and carrying: The interaction of magnitude and valence effects in time perception. Acta Psychologica, 193, 1-10.
2018
Tucker, A. Marsh, K. L., Gifford, T., Lu, X., Luh, P. B., & Astur, R., (2018). The effects of information and hazard on evacuee behavior in virtual reality. Fire Safety Journal, 99, 1-11.
Smith, G. K., Mills, C., Paxton, A., & Christoff, K. (2018). Mind wandering rates fluctuate across the day: Evidence from an experience sampling study. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3, 54. doi: 10.1186/s41235-018-0141-4
2017
Hodges, B. H. (2017). Conformity and divergence in interactions, groups, and culture. In S. Harkins, K. Williams, & J. Burger (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence (pp. 87-105). New York: Oxford University Press.
Hodges, B. H. (2017). Carrying, caring, and conversing: Social and ecological constraints on the emergence of conformity, cooperation, and language. Interaction Studies, 18, 25-53.
Marsh, K. L. (2017). Dynamics of synchrony and joint action. In R. Vallacher, S. J. Read, & A. Nowak (Eds.), Computational models in social psychology (Chapter 9, pp. 178-207). New York: Psychology Press. (Volume in the Frontiers of Social Psychology series, Eds.: A. W. Kruglanski & J. P. Forgas)
Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2017). Seeking the safety of sociofugal space: Environmental design preferences following social ostracism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 192-199.
Paxton, A., & Dale, R. (2017). Interpersonal movement coordination responds to high- and low-level conversational constraints. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1135.
Paxton, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Finding the traces of behavior and cognition in big data and naturally occurring datasets. Behavior Research Methods, 49(5), 1630-1638
Patents
Gifford, T., Bhat, A., Dixon, J., & Marsh, K. (2016). Methods and apparatus for interpersonal coordination analysis and training. Inventors of US patent No. US947814782 held by UConn (filed 5/17/2012, granted 10/25/2016) https://patents.google.com/patent/US9478147B2/en