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Department of Psychology & Communication Studies
 

Contact & Location

Moscow

Psychology & Communications Studies

Physical Address:
Student Health Center (832 Ash St.)
2nd Floor & Basement
PHONE: (208) 885-6324
FAX:(208) 885-7710
E-MAIL: seanm@uidaho.edu

HUMAN FACTORS
hfactors@uidaho.edu

Mailing Address:
Psychology & Communications Studies
c/o University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 3043
Moscow, ID 83844-3043

Russell Jackson

Russell E. Jackson

Office: Student Health Center 209
Phone: 5-6261
Email: rjackson@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address: Psychology & Communications Studies, University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 3043
Moscow, ID 83844-3043

College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Psychology and Communication Studies
Assistant Professor

With UI Since 2012
  • B. A., University of Colorado, Psychology (minor Biology), 2001
  • Ph. D., University of Texas, Psychology (focus Statistics), 2007

Research/Focus Areas

  • Human Factors
  • Human Evolution
  • Navigation
  • Visual Perception

Biography

Dr. Jackson received a B.A. in Psychology minoring in Biology from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in Psychology focusing on Statistics from the University of Texas.  He served as an Assistant Professor at a university in southern California for five years before arriving at the University of Idaho in 2012.

Dr. Jackson's research investigates how the environments in which humans evolved may have shaped how we navigate and perceive our envioronment.  His work focuses on human factors applications in the navigation of environmental hazards.  He uses virtual reality methods and live outdoor testing in order to determine how perception and navigation adapt to risks such as falling.

Selected Publications

Jackson, R. E. & Willey, C. R. (2011). Evolved navigation theory and horizontal visual illusions.  Cognition, 119, 288-294.  doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.003

Jackson, R. E. & Cormack, L. K. (2010). Reducing the presence of navigation risk eliminates strong environmental illusions.  Journal of Vision, 10(5): 9, 1-8. doi:10.1167/10.5.9

Jackson, R. E. (2009). Individual differences in distance perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 1665-1669.

Jackson, R. E. & Cormack, L. K.  (2007).  Evolved navigation theory and the descent illusion.  Perception & Psychophysics, 69(3), 353-362. 

Jackson, R. E. (2005).  Falling towards a theory of the vertical-horizontal illusion.  Studies in Perception and Action, 8, 241-244.

Research Projects

Current research includes a virtual and physical reality investigation of the individual differences in navigation.

Awards and Honors

Psychology Professor of the Year, California State University San Marcos, Sole departmental award, given for student engagement in research and teaching, 2010-2011

Psychology Professor of the Year, California State University San Marcos, Sole departmental award, given for student engagement in research and teaching, 2010-2011

Human Behavior and Evolution Society Outstanding Post-Doctoral Research Award, Kyoto, Japan, One of only three awards given by HBES and the only one for this career stage, 2008

Janet Spence Commendation, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Teaching, 2007

University of Texas Recruitment Fellowship, Top 1% of over 15,000 graduate students, 2002

My Courses

  • PSY 512:
    Graduate Research Methods, PSY 404: Special Topics: Evolution and Human Behavior, PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology

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