Faculty & Staff

James K. Doyle

Associate Professor and Department Head

Faculty Listing
Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 126
Phone: +1-508-831-5583
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
doyle@wpi.edu

Educational Background

B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1982
M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1990
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied social and cognitive psychology; System dynamics; Judgment and decision making; Risk perception and communication; The psychological study of environmental issues; Mental models of complex systems; Survey research; Improving cognitive skills

IQP Advising Interests

Psychology and technology; Survey research; Risk perception and communication; Environmental behavior

Research Grants

Co-PI, NSF#0750192, $189,500, 10/07-9/09, "Social Networking in the FIRST Robotics Competition Community." This project involves the development and formal assessment of a social networking website for robotics students and their advisors.
Co-PI, Independent System Operator of New England, $64,000, 9/06-8/07, "Peak Power Demand Reduction." This project tested public reaction to alternative peak load reduction devices and policies.

Recent Publications

Doyle, J. K., Ford, D. N., Radzicki, M. J., and Trees, W. S. (2002). Mental models of dynamic systems, in System Dynamics and Integrated Modeling, edited by Y. Barlas, from Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK.
Doyle, J. K. (2005). Face-to-face surveys. In B.S. Everitt and D. Howell, eds., The Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley.
Doyle, J. K., Radzicki, M. J., and Trees, W. S. (2008). Measuring Change in Mental Models of Complex Dynamics Systems. In Qudrat-Ullah, H., Spector, M. J., and Davidsen, P. I., eds., Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice, pp. 269-294. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Ferreira, K. J., Islam, M. T., Chrissanthacopoulos, J., Abebe, E. D., Irace, M., Doyle, J. K., Emanuel, A. E., Pflanz, H. M., Rourke, S. J., and Ehrlich, D. J. (2008). Peak Load Reduction Device. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference, April 20-23, Chicago, Illinois.
James K. Doyle, Khalid Saeed, Jeanine Skorinko. Forthcoming. Situational Dynamics: Revisiting Barry Richmond's Models of Classic Experiments in Social Psychology. In L Stuntz, K Richmond, and J Richmond (eds). Essays in Honor of Barry Richmond. Hanover NH: Isee Systems.

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Professional Societies/Memberships

American Psychological Society
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
International System Dynamics Society

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