Jay L. Michaels
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Biography
Jay L Michaels is a/an Associate Professor in the University Of South Florida department at University Of South Florida
Presbyterian College - Psychology
Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
Jay
Michaels
Sarasota, Florida Area
I am an experimental psychologist with expertise in social and quantitative psychology. I am dedicated to teaching excellence and critically examining how social cognition intersects the person-situation interaction through experimental and correlational research.
I have an active research program centered on how cognitive, affective, and social factors dynamically interact to give rise to specific behavioral outcomes. For example, most recently I am applying a dynamic systems approach to understand how religious and spiritual beliefs interact with different forms of cognition to alter people's motivation, coping, and ultimately well-being. In the past, I have used this approach to study human conflict, personality as an emergent process, and even biological phenomena. Numerous students contribute to my research and develop projects of their own as a part of my lab activities; I am always excited to mentor motivated students and assist in their professional development.
My teaching interests include: introductory psychology, research methods, statistics, social psychology, personality psychology, systems and theories of psychology (psychology history), and special topics such as dynamical psychology and psychology of religion. My teaching overlaps with some of my research, as I help guide students in their working with my various projects so that they can develop conference presentations and work with me on manuscripts as co-authors.
Experience
Education
University of Central Florida
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts
Psychology, History
Brevard Community College
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
Liberal Arts
Florida Atlantic University
Ph.D.
Experimental Psychology (Social & Quantitative Psychology focus)
Internal Competitive Grant: Social Psychology Research Lab Expansion II
(P.I. = Jay Michaels). Awarded $12,158 to purchase new equipment and software for social psychology research; funded for 2010 - 2012. This was a competitive internal grant at Florida Atlantic University.Internal Competitive Grant: Social Psychology Lab Expansion I
(P.I. = Jay Michaels). Awarded $500 to purchase video recording equipment for social psychology research.Dr. Daniel B. Newell & Aurel B. Newell Fellowship
The Newell Fellowship is provided to outstanding doctoral graduate students at Florida Atlantic University. It is awarded to a handful of students who are nominated and who have a 3.70 or higher GPA . I was awarded this prestigious fellowship for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic years (two consecutive awards).First Place Research Poster: Social Sciences
Awarded at the Florida Atlantic University annual graduate research day, out of approximately 80 presenters.Florida Atlantic University
Instructor
My primary responsibilities included teaching experimental design and statistical inference along with intermediate statistics lab (SPSS based). I also taught one section of experimental study of personality. In each of these courses, I developed my own content including PowerPoint slides, assignments, exams, and syllabi that adhered to the university catalog. Courses taught: Experimental Design & Statistical Inference, Experimental Study of Personality, Intermediate Statistics Lab.Florida Atlantic University
Teaching Assistant
I assisted with several courses including experimental design and statistical inference, research methods, and fractals in psychology. Part of my duties included holding a recital section for research methods where I instructed and evaluated students on APA style research report writing.Florida Atlantic University
Graduate Assistant (Tutor)
During this time I was a writing tutor at the Florida Atlantic University Center for Excellence in Writing. My primary responsibility was assisting students with their writing in one-on-one sessions. Beyond tutoring, I also completed the College Learning and Reading Association's training (completing the Master Tutor certification level) and assisted with the college's Writing Across the Curriculum initiative.Florida Atlantic University
Research Assistant
I designed and began data collection on dyadic cooperative, competitive and mixed cooperative-competitive interactions to test a mathematical model developed by Larry Liebovitch, Vincent Naudot, Robin Vallacher, Andrzej Nowak, Lan Bui-Wrzosinska, and Peter Coleman. I also assisted with manuscript preparation, especially in respects to identifying links between model outputs and empirical/applied research.
Publications
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
Dynamic stabilization in the PU1- GATA1 circuit using a model with time-dependent kinetic change
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
This article details results from a non-linear mathematical model of blood stem cell gene interactions. The main innovation described in this article is the incorporation of time-dependent changes of the two interacting gene's activation/inhibition levels. These time-dependent changes result in the evolution of stable states without either gene completely deactivating.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
Dynamic stabilization in the PU1- GATA1 circuit using a model with time-dependent kinetic change
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
This article details results from a non-linear mathematical model of blood stem cell gene interactions. The main innovation described in this article is the incorporation of time-dependent changes of the two interacting gene's activation/inhibition levels. These time-dependent changes result in the evolution of stable states without either gene completely deactivating.
Dynamics of cooperation-competition interaction models
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
This article presents a mathematical developed by Larry Liebovitch and then discusses how the model outputs align with numerous empirical findings about human conflict.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
Dynamic stabilization in the PU1- GATA1 circuit using a model with time-dependent kinetic change
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
This article details results from a non-linear mathematical model of blood stem cell gene interactions. The main innovation described in this article is the incorporation of time-dependent changes of the two interacting gene's activation/inhibition levels. These time-dependent changes result in the evolution of stable states without either gene completely deactivating.
Dynamics of cooperation-competition interaction models
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
This article presents a mathematical developed by Larry Liebovitch and then discusses how the model outputs align with numerous empirical findings about human conflict.
Social Forces Sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian Tensions: A Dynamical Psychology Perspective
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most deeply entrenched in the world. While there is great knowledge about numerous individual factors contributing to this conflict’s persistence, much of the information is fragmented and segregated into different disciplines. This article seeks to integrate an array of literature using a dynamic systems perspective to examine how social – as opposed to political – forces contribute to ongoing tensions. The first part describes the dynamical systems perspective, focusing on how intractable conflicts emerge as a result of interlinking factors that anchor the social system in patterns that resist change. The second part explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of specific social forces contributing to the conflict’s persistence. These include leadership issues, economic inequalities poverty, youth disenfranchisement, and population distribution. Then the contribution maps how the discussed social factors interrelate to reinforce the ongoing tensions and addresses how small-scale approaches may circumvent the volatile, entrenched patterns of hostility.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
Dynamic stabilization in the PU1- GATA1 circuit using a model with time-dependent kinetic change
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
This article details results from a non-linear mathematical model of blood stem cell gene interactions. The main innovation described in this article is the incorporation of time-dependent changes of the two interacting gene's activation/inhibition levels. These time-dependent changes result in the evolution of stable states without either gene completely deactivating.
Dynamics of cooperation-competition interaction models
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
This article presents a mathematical developed by Larry Liebovitch and then discusses how the model outputs align with numerous empirical findings about human conflict.
Social Forces Sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian Tensions: A Dynamical Psychology Perspective
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most deeply entrenched in the world. While there is great knowledge about numerous individual factors contributing to this conflict’s persistence, much of the information is fragmented and segregated into different disciplines. This article seeks to integrate an array of literature using a dynamic systems perspective to examine how social – as opposed to political – forces contribute to ongoing tensions. The first part describes the dynamical systems perspective, focusing on how intractable conflicts emerge as a result of interlinking factors that anchor the social system in patterns that resist change. The second part explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of specific social forces contributing to the conflict’s persistence. These include leadership issues, economic inequalities poverty, youth disenfranchisement, and population distribution. Then the contribution maps how the discussed social factors interrelate to reinforce the ongoing tensions and addresses how small-scale approaches may circumvent the volatile, entrenched patterns of hostility.
Destiny is in the details: Action identification in the construction and deconstruction of meaning
The experience of meaning in life: perspectives from the psychological sciences. New York: Springer
In this book chapter, we focus on how Action Identification theory and concepts from dynamic systems theory (e.g. coherence) can explain the formation of meaning in one's situation, actions, or life.
The ghost in the system: Where free will lurks in human minds
In-Mind Magazine
In this article, Robin Vallacher and I examine how dynamic systems theory can help explain the perception of free-will. This article is intended for a more general audience.
Why the mind works: The emergence of consciousness from mental dynamics
Consciousness and the Human Sciences. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers
This chapter presents ideas about how conscious experience emerges from dynamic mental processes.
Volatile psychological dynamics in social interactions: Attitudes and emotions react asymmetrically to interaction shifts between agreement and disagreement.
Social Psychological and Personality Science
An empirical study examining how people's attitudes and emotions change when encountering agreement, disagreement, or shifts between agreement and disagreement. This article also includes a comprehensive online appendix detailing new statistical methods for analyzing dynamic properties of time-series.
Social Capital's Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey
Sociological Perspectives
This article (Feng Hao - lead and corresponding author) examines how social capital relates to people's environmental concern in China. The empirical paper details how people who are more social, have stronger connections with others, and feel greater trust tend to exhibit greater concern for the environment.
Dynamic stabilization in the PU1- GATA1 circuit using a model with time-dependent kinetic change
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
This article details results from a non-linear mathematical model of blood stem cell gene interactions. The main innovation described in this article is the incorporation of time-dependent changes of the two interacting gene's activation/inhibition levels. These time-dependent changes result in the evolution of stable states without either gene completely deactivating.
Dynamics of cooperation-competition interaction models
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
This article presents a mathematical developed by Larry Liebovitch and then discusses how the model outputs align with numerous empirical findings about human conflict.
Social Forces Sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian Tensions: A Dynamical Psychology Perspective
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most deeply entrenched in the world. While there is great knowledge about numerous individual factors contributing to this conflict’s persistence, much of the information is fragmented and segregated into different disciplines. This article seeks to integrate an array of literature using a dynamic systems perspective to examine how social – as opposed to political – forces contribute to ongoing tensions. The first part describes the dynamical systems perspective, focusing on how intractable conflicts emerge as a result of interlinking factors that anchor the social system in patterns that resist change. The second part explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of specific social forces contributing to the conflict’s persistence. These include leadership issues, economic inequalities poverty, youth disenfranchisement, and population distribution. Then the contribution maps how the discussed social factors interrelate to reinforce the ongoing tensions and addresses how small-scale approaches may circumvent the volatile, entrenched patterns of hostility.
Destiny is in the details: Action identification in the construction and deconstruction of meaning
The experience of meaning in life: perspectives from the psychological sciences. New York: Springer
In this book chapter, we focus on how Action Identification theory and concepts from dynamic systems theory (e.g. coherence) can explain the formation of meaning in one's situation, actions, or life.
Mental dynamism and its constraints: Finding patterns in the stream of consciousness
Personality dynamics: Embodiment, meaning construction, and the social world. New York: Eliot Werner Publications.
This book chapter first discusses general dynamic systems theory in relation to various mental processes. The chapter concludes with presentation of several new techniques to identify real attractor dynamics in time-series data.
