Fred is Co-Principal Investigator and Director of The Full Potential Initiative, an NSF-funded longitudinal study of the development and influence of implicit attitudes about intellectual ability and academic achievement. After receiving his PhD in Quantitative Psychology from UVa in 2004, he studied implicit social cognition and web-based research methods as a post-doctoral fellow with Brian Nosek and Project Implicit. His publication topics have included comparisons of web- and laboratory-based implicit cognition experiments, the relationship between implicit and explicit attitude measures, ethnic and gender differences in science graduation at selective colleges, and standardized testing in college admission.
Fred Smyth
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
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