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Kilian J. Garvey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Credentials

Education

PhD
The University of Toledo
2014

Research

Current research

Exploration of self contradictory or mutually exclusive beliefs in social, political, and religious cognition.

Selected publications

Garvey, K. (2008). Denial of evolution: An exploration of cognition, culture, and affect. The Journal of Social, Evolutionary & Cultural Psychology, 4, 209-216.

Rempala, D., & Garvey, K. (2007). Sex differences in the effects of incremental changes in hip-to-waist ratio. The Journal of Social, Evolutionary & Cultural Psychology, 3, 86-97

Niebauer, C.L., & Garvey, K. (2004). Gödel, Escher and degree of handedness: Differences in interhemispheric interaction predict differences in understanding self-reference. Laterality, 9, 19-34.

Niebauer, C.L., Christman, S.D., Reid, S.A., & Garvey, K. J. (2004). Hemispheric interaction and beliefs on our origin: Degree of handedness predicts beliefs in creationism versus the theory of evolution. Laterality, 9, 433-447.    

Christman, S., Garvey, K., Propper, R., & Phaneuf, K. (2003). Bilateral eye movements enhance retrieval of episodic memories. Neuropsychology, 17, 221_229

 

Other scholarly activity

Garvey, K. (2009). The moral irony of creationists. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society, Oswego, NY.

Garvey, K. (2009). An evolutionary perspective on fair trade: Rational and experient

Research interests

Memory: cerebral laterality of episodic and semantic memory; evolutionary psychology: individual differences in accepting or rejecting biological evolution vs. biblical creationism; political psychology: autonomic nervous system characteristics of authoritarianism.