The laboratory is located in Hoover Building on the 2nd Floor in Room 200, and houses the following equipment, software, and materials for student and faculty research:

Measuring relationships between human psychological phenomena and physiological states.  All equipment is  non-invasive and includes the following:
    -pulse plethysmograph
    -respiration monitor
    -event marker (reaction time device)
    -temperature sensor
    -galvanic skin response monitor
    -non-invasive blood pressure monitor
    -leads for ECG/EMG/EEG
    -4-channel acquisition unit

Helps to design experiments on the computer.  Can randomize items or stimuli presentation.  Allows participants to input responses multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and open-ended format.  Can present stimuli using MS Word, MS PowerPoint, HTML, and multi-media files (audio, video, image). Data can be written to ASCII text file for analysis in SPSS or MS Excel.

           Software package to analyze statistical data

The laboratory is designed to assist graduating seniors in conducting their required senior projects, help professors in their professional projects, and introduce any student to research in general.  The Department hopes that the laboratory will also be utilized in the curriculum of faculty in their various courses for student projects or demonstrations.

Links to online psychology experiments and laboratories:

General Psychology:             http://epsych.msstate.edu
Experimental Psychology:     http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/psychlab/
Social Psychology:               http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm
Cognitive Psychology:          http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/Exps/resexperiments.htm