BIO
Professor Jody Lewis joined the UW-Stevens Point Department of Psychology after earning her doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her primary research interests are biological psychology (specifically evolution), learning, and cognition. Lewis has conducted research in animal and human behavior, anthrozoology (human-animal interactions), evolutionary psychology, and research in higher education (including the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). She serves as department chair.
PUBLICATIONS
Lewis, J. L. (2015). A comparison between two different activities for teaching learning principles: Virtual animal labs versus human demonstrations. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 1(2), 182-188.
Lewis, J.L. & Kamil, A.C., Webbink, K.E. (2013). Changing room cues reduces the effects of proactive interference in Clark’s nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39, 187-192.