Renee Babcock Ph.D.

Address:
Foust 251
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
Phone: 989-774-3477

Email: babco1rl@cmich.edu

Website: http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/renee babcock/
Bio:

Renee L. Babcock received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992.  She has previously held an appointment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducting research in aging and cognition.  She joined the faculty at Central Michigan University in 1997.

Research Interest:

Dr. Babcock’s research is in an area called cognitive aging, which deals with normal adult development and aging of cognition.  Her specific areas of interest have been in adult age differences in memory and reasoning ability. She is also interested in age differences in worry and has completed cross-cultural studies in the experience of worry.  She has completed projects designed to examine the nature of adult differences on a nonverbal intelligence test.  Her recent research involves examining young children's stereotypes of older adults.

Recent Research:

Babcock, R. L., Smith, M., & Laguana, K. (in press).  The experience of worry among young and older adults in the United States and Germany: A cross-cultural comparison.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology.

Babcock, R. L. (2002).  Analysis of adult age differences on Errors on the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. Intelligence, 30, 485-503. 

Foster, R. A., & Babcock, R. L. (2001).  God as a Man versus God as a Woman: Perceiving God as a Function of the Gender of God and the Gender of the Participant. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 11. 

Babcock, R. L., Laguna, L., Laguna, K.D., & Urusky, D. A. (2000). Age differences in the experience of worry.  Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 6, 227-235. 

Laguna, K. D, & Babcock, R. L. (2000).  Computer testing of memory across the life span.  Experimental Aging Research, 26, 229-243. 

Babcock, R. L. (1997).  An examination of the adult age differences on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices.  In W. A. Rogers (Ed.) Designing for an Aging Population: Ten Years of Human Factors/Ergonomics Research (pp. 149-153).  Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.