Garrett Strosser

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Southern Utah University

  • Cedar City UT

Specializing in empirical social psychology research on topics such as morality, political psychology, and cultural psychology.

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Biography

Dr. Garrett Strosser is an associate professor of psychology and chair of the Psychology Department at Southern Utah University. He focuses on researching social norms, bicultural identity, morality and values, attitudes toward stigmatized groups, and political psychology.

Before teaching at SUU, he was a graduate instructor at New Mexico State University. Dr. Strosser has been published several times and presented numerous different research studies with student collaborators at various meetings, festivals, and conferences all over the United States.

Dr. Strosser earned his bachelor’s degree at Angelo State University, a master’s of education in community agency counseling at Auburn University, a master’s degree in experimental psychology and a Ph.D. in social psychology with a minor in experimental statistics at New Mexico State University.

garrettstrosser@suu.edu

Industry Expertise

Research
Education/Learning

Areas of Expertise

Morality and Values
Stigma Against Mentally Ill
Statistics in Psychology
Social Norms
Political Psychology
Moral Judgements in Relationships
Morality and Religion
Ignorance Towards Atheists
Forensic Psychology
Ethics
Dark Triad Traits
Culture and Cognition
Cognitive Psychology
Bicultural Identity

Education

Angelo State University

B.A.

Psychology

Auburn University

M.Ed.

Community Agency Counseling

New Mexico State University

M.A.

Experimental Psychology

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Accomplishments

Southern Utah University Influencer Award

2017

Institutional Review Board Chair

The Board Chair is responsible for reviewing all "human participants research" that occurs with an SUU-affiliated individual for ethical concerns.

Affiliations

  • The Journal of Social Psychology : consulting editor.
  • Society for Personality & Social Psychology : member.
  • International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology : member.
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology : member.

Event Appearances

The influence of positive conservative and liberal messages on attitudes towards same-sex marriage

AGM of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association  Denver, CO

2016-04-01

Softening the stigma: Using service learning to shift explicit and implicit attitudes toward people with mental illness

AGM of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association  Denver, CO

2016-04-01

The influence of conservative and liberal messages on attitudes towards same-sex marriage

San Diego, CA  Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychologists

2016-02-01

Articles

Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests: Making Transparent How Design Choices Shape Research Results.

American Psychology Association

Landy, J. F., Jia, M. (L.), Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Ebersole, C. R., Gronau, Q. F., Ly, A., van den Bergh, D., Marsman, M., Derks, K., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Proctor, A., Bartels, D. M., Bauman, C. W., Brady, W. J, Uhlmann, E. L.

To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions that scientists make as they design studies? Fifteen research teams independently designed studies to answer five original research questions related to moral judgments, negotiations, and implicit cognition.

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Service-learning in abnormal psychology: Softening the implicit stigma against the mentally ill

APA PsycNET

Barney, Steve T. Corser, Grant C. Strosser, Garrett L. Hatch, Daniel L. LaFrance, Kevan

Because of stigma, people with mental illnesses report feeling isolated and lonely, tend to be reluctant to discuss their conditions, and are less likely to seek treatments. Stigma reduction programs that incorporate some form of contact with stigmatized individuals have been shown to be effective in altering self-reported negative biases. The present study tested whether contact with individuals who have mental illnesses through a service-learning project incorporated into an undergraduate psychopathology course would reduce self-reported and also implicit biases against those with mental illnesses. Participation in a course with a service-learning component indeed resulted in significant reductions in self-reported, F(1, 69) = 121.35, p < .001, ηp2 = .64, and implicit biases, F(1, 64) = 41.88, p < .001, ηp2 = .40, toward people with mental illness beyond a course in which service-learning was not a component.

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Attributions About Morally Unreliable Characters: Relationship Closeness Affects Moral Judgments

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Across 6 studies, relationship closeness strongly influenced moral attribution. First, we found that moral attributions were stronger when one interacted with an intimate compared to less intimate other. Second, we examined attributions about those who treat some people well and others badly. Moral character attributions were worse when an actor harmed an intimate relationship partner compared to a ...

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Courses

PSY 1010 General Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior. This course provides a broad overview of this field of science.

PSY 2010 Psychology as a Science and Profession

This course applies psychology to life. It also lays the foundation for further studies in psychology. Self-discovery; paradigm exploration; life, career, and education planning; professional organizations; research opportunities; graduate school; APA writing format; goal setting; decision making; life and stress management; learning and memory skills; diversity; and psychology department resources are among the topics addressed. Because the course is team taught students have the opportunity to meet and assess all members of the psychology department faculty.

PSY 3010/15 Statistics in Psychology

A presentation of statistical concepts of particular relevance to psychologists. Topics include: descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, t tests, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and Chi-square.

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