JEANINE K STEFANUCCI portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Professor, School Of Computing
  • Professor, Psychology Department
  • Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
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Publications

  • Whitaker, M. M., Oddell, D. , Deboeck. P. R., Stefanucci, J. K. & Okifuji, A. (2024). Increased pain variability in patients with chronic pain: A role for pain catastrophizing. The Journal of Pain. Accepted, 02/01/2024.
  • Ivy S, Rohovit T & Stefanucci J (2024). Visual expertise is more than meets the eye: an examination of holistic visual processing in radiologists and architects. Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.). Vol. 10, 015501015501. Published, 01/01/2024.
  • Yao, Q., Zhao, Y., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K. & Bodenheimer, B. (2023). Does teleporting length affect spatial awareness? . (pp. 126-130). In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct). Published, 10/09/2023.
  • Bodenheimer, B., Adams, H., Whitaker, M., Stefanucci, J. K. & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2023). Perceiving absolute distance in augmented reality displays with realistic and non-realistic shadows. (pp. 1-9). ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. Published, 08/04/2023.
  • Zhao, Y., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2023). Evaluating augmented reality landmark cues and frame of reference displays with virtual reality. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Vol. 29, 2710-2720. Published, 08/01/2023.
  • Gagnon, H., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, B. (2023). Calibrated passability perception in virtual reality transfers to augmented reality. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Vol. 20, 1-16. Published, 07/01/2023.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2023). Perceiving distance in virtual reality: Theoretical insights from contemporary technologies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Vol. 378, 1869. Published, 05/01/2023.
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0456
  • Creem-Regehr SH (2022). Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Vol. 378, 2021045620210456. Published, 12/01/2022.
  • Creem-Regehr SH (2022). Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Vol. 378, 2021045620210456. Published, 12/01/2022.
  • Creem-Regehr SH (2022). Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Vol. 378, 2021045620210456. Published, 12/01/2022.
  • Gill DM & Whitaker MM (2022). The perceived duration of vast spaces is mediated by awe. Attention, perception & psychophysics. Vol. 84, 256225812562-2581. Published, 11/01/2022.
  • Stefanucci, J.K., Brickler, D.*, Finney, H.C.*, Wilson, E.*, Drew, T., & Creem-Regehr, S.H. (2022). Effects of simulated augmented reality cueing in a virtual navigation task. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Sec. Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour. Doi:10.3389/fvir.2022.971310. Published, 06/30/2022.
  • Schug, M. G., Barhorst-Cates, E, Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regher, S. H., Olsen, A. P. L & Cashdan, E. A. (2022). Childhood experience reduces gender differences in spatial abilities: A Cross-Cultural Study. Cognitive Science. Vol. 46, e13096. Published, 04/01/2022.
  • Whitaker MM & Hansen RC (2022). The relationship between space and time perception: A registered replication of Casasanto and Boroditsky (2008). Attention, perception & psychophysics. Vol. 84, 347351347-351. Published, 03/01/2022.
  • Jeanine Stefanucci & Saxon, M., & Whitaker, M. (2021). Embodied Perception and Action in Real and Virtual Environments. . (pp. 311-336). Springer, Cham.. Published, 10/01/2021.
  • Barhorst-Cates EM & Stoker J (2021). Using virtual reality to assess dynamic self-motion and landmark cues for spatial updating in children and adults. Memory & cognition. Vol. 49, 572-585. Published, 07/01/2021.
  • Gagnon, H. C., Rosales, C. S., Mileris, R., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2021). Estimating distances in action space in augmented reality. Transactions on Applied Perception. Accepted, 02/26/2021.
  • Harber, K. D., Stefanucci, J. K & Stokes, D. R. (2021). The integrity of motivated perception: A reply to Gilchrist, 2020. Perception. Accepted, 02/25/2021.
  • Ivy, S. , Rohovit, T., Lavelle, M., Padilla, L., Stefanucci, J.K, Stokes, D. & Drew, T. (2021). Through the eyes of the expert: Evaluating holistic processing in architects through gaze-contingent viewing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Published, 01/29/2021.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., Saccomano, T., Gardner, J. & Wright, C. (2020). Spatial reference frame but neither age nor gender predict performance on a water level task in 8-11-year old children. Perception. Vol. 49, 1200-1212. Published, 11/01/2020.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E., Stoker, J., Stefanucci, J. K. & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2020). Using virtual reality to assess dynamic self-motion and landmark cues for spatial updating in children and adults. Memory & Cognition. Published, 10/27/2020.
  • Gagnon, H. C., Na, D., Heiner, K., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2020). The role of viewing distance and feedback on affordance judgments in augmented reality. Conference Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Atlanta, GA. Published, 03/23/2020.
  • Liu, J., Narasimhan, G., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2020). Distance perception in modern mobile augmented reality. PERCAR Workshop at the 2020 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Atlanta, GA. Published, 03/23/2020.
  • Ruginski, Ian R., Creem-Regehr, Sarah H., Stefanucci, J. K. & Cashdan, E. A. (2019). GPS-use negatively affects environmental learning through spatial transformation abilities. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Vol. 64, 12-20. Published, 11/30/2019.
  • Munion A. K., Stefanucci J. K., Rovira E., Squire P. & Hendricks M. (2019). Gender differences in spatial navigation: Characterizing wayfinding behaviors. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Vol. 6, 1933-1940. Published, 11/01/2019.
  • Creem-Regehr, Sarah H., Devin M. Gill, Grant D. Pointon, Robert E. Bodenheimer & Jeanine K. Stefanucci (2019). Mind the gap: Gap affordance judgments of children, teens, and adults in an immersive virtual environment. Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Virtual Environments. Accepted, 10/01/2019.
  • Thaler, A. (2019). The influence of visual perspective on body size estimation in immersive virtual reality. Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, Barcelona, Spain. Published, 09/20/2019.
  • Munion, A., Stefanucci, J. K, Rovira, E., Squire, P. & Hendricks, M. (2019). Gender differences in spatial navigation: Characterizing exploration patterns during wayfinding. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Accepted, 08/06/2019.
  • Stefanucci, J. K. (2019). Publish with undergraduates or perish?: Strategies for preserving faculty time in undergraduate research supervision at large universities and liberal arts colleges. Frontiers in Psychology: Educational Psychology. Published, 07/01/2019.
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg...
  • Wu, H., Adams, H., Pointon, G., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Bodenheimer, R. E, (2019). Danger from the deep: A gap affordance study in augmented reality. PERCAR Workshop at the 2019 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Osaka, Japan. Published, 03/24/2019.
  • Salas, C., Pointon, G., Adams, H. A., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Thompson, W. B. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2019). Distance judgments to on- and off-ground objects in augmented reality. Conference Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Osaka, Japan. Published, 03/22/2019.
  • Thaler, A., Piryankova, I, Stefanucci, J. K., Pujades, S., de la Rosa, S. , Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J. & Mohler, B. J. (2018). Visual perception and evaluation of photo-realistic self-avatars from 3D body scans in males and females. Frontiers in ICT: Virtual Environments. Vol. 5. Published, 11/20/2018.
  • Schutz, M. & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018). Hearing value: Exploring the effects of amplitude envelope on consumer preference. Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications. Vol. 27, 16-19. Published, 11/01/2018.
  • Munion, A., Stefanucci, J. K & Butner, J. (2018). An ecological approach to modeling vision: Quantifying form perception using the circle map equation. Ecological Psychology. 41-57. Accepted, 09/17/2018.
  • Ruginski, I. T., Stefanucci, J. K. & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2018). State anxiety influences sex differences in survey spatial learning. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Spatial Cognition Conference, Tuebingen, Germany. Published, 07/02/2018.
  • Gagnon, K. T., Thomas, B. J., Munion, A. , Creem-Regehr, S. H., Cashdan, E. A. & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018). Not all those who wander are lost: Spatial exploration patterns and their relationship to gender and spatial memory. Cognition. 108-117. Published, 07/01/2018.
  • Padilla, L. M., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Hegarty, M. & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018). Decision making with visualizations: A cognitive framework across disciplines. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. Published, 05/01/2018.
  • Adams, H. , Narasimham, G., Rieser, J. J., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2018). Locomotive and prism recalibration of children and teens in immersive virtual environments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Vol. 24(4), 1408-1417. Published, 04/02/2018.
  • Ruginski, I. T., Thomas, B. J., Geuss, M. N. & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018). Anxiety influences the perceptual-motor calibration of visually-guided braking to avoid collisions. Journal of Motor Behavior. Published, 03/01/2018.
  • Pointon, G., Thompson, C., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K. & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2018). Affordances as a measure of perceptual fidelity in augmented reality. PERCAR Workshop at the 2018 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR). Published, 01/15/2018.
  • Bodenheimer, R. E., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., Shemetova, E., & Thompson, W. B. (2017). Prism aftereffects for throwing with a self-avatar in an immersive virtual environment. 2017 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Los Angeles, CA.. Published, 03/31/2017.
  • Guess, M. N., McCardell, M. J., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2016). Fear similarly alters perceptual estimates of and action over gaps. PLoS One. 11(7): e0158610. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158610. Published, 04/01/2016.
  • Lambert, A. E., Watson, J. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Medeiros-Ward, N., Bakdash, J. Z., Strayer, D. L. (2016). Stereotype threat impairs older adult driving. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 22-28. Published, 04/01/2016.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Stokes, D. (2016). Commentary on Balcetis: On some limits to the motivational direction approach. Emotion Review, 8 (2), 129-135.Stefanucci, J. K., & Stokes, D. (2016). Commentary on Balcetis: On some limits to the motivational direction approach. Emotion Review, 8 (2), 129-135. Published, 02/01/2016.
  • Jun, E., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Geuss, M. N., & Thompson, W. B. (2015). Big foot: Using the size of a virtual foot to scale gap width. Transactions on Applied Perception, 12, 16:1-16:12.. Published, 10/2015.
  • Gagnon, K., Cashdan, E., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2015). Sex differences in exploration behavior and the relationship to harm avoidance. Human Nature, 27, doi 10.1007/s12110-015-9248-1. Published, 10/2015.
  • Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Thompson, W. B., & Mohler, B. J. (2015). Effect of display technology on perceived scale of space. Human Factors, 57, 1235-1247. Published, 09/2015.
  • Gagnon, K. T., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., Baucom, B. R., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2015). The influence of social context and body size on action judgments for self and others. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 1385-1395. Published, 06/2015.
  • Linkenauger, S. A., Wong, H. Y., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., Bulthoff, H. H., Mohler, B. J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2015). The perceptual homunculus: The perception of the relative proportions of the human body. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 103-113. Published, 02/2015.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Thompson, W. B., Lessard, D. A., & Geuss, M. N. (2015). Evaluating the accuracy of size perception on screen-based displays: Displayed objects appear smaller than real objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 215-223. Published, 02/2015.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., & Thompson, W. B. (2015). Perceiving absolute scale in real and virtual environments: How theory and application have mutually informed the role of body-based perception. In B. Ross (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 62 (pp. 195-224).. Published, 01/2015.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., & Thompson, W. B. (2015). Perceiving absolute scale in real and virtual environments: How theory and application have mutually informed the role of body-based perception. In B. Ross (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 62 (pp. 195-224).. Published, 12/31/2014.
  • Riener, C. R., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2014). Perception and/for/with/as action. In. L.A. Shapiro (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, Routledge Press (pp. 99-107). Published, 10/01/2014.
  • Piryankova, I.*, Stefanucci, J. K., Romero, J., de la Rosa, S., Black, M., & Mohler, B. (2014). Can I recognize my body’s weight? The influence of shape and texture on the perception of self. Transactions on Applied Perception, 11, Article No. 13. Published, 10/01/2014.
  • Linkenauger, S. A., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., Leyrer, M., Richardson, B. H., Proffitt, D. R., Bulthoff, H. H., & Mohler, B. J. (2014). Evidence for hand-size constancy: The dominant hand as a natural perceptual metric. Psychological Science, 25, 2086-2094. Published, 09/01/2014.
  • Storbeck, J., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2014). Conditions under which arousal does and does not elevate height judgments. PLoS One. 9(4): e92024. Published, 04/03/2014.
  • Huynh, S. V., Stefanucci, J. K., & Aspinwall, L. (2014). Self-affirmation counters the effects of self-regulatory resource depletion on height perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 96-100. Published, 01/07/2014.
  • Gagnon, K. T., Geuss, M. N., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2013). Fear influences perceived reaching to targets in audition, but not vision. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 49-54. Published, 11/01/2013.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Gagnon, K. T.*, Geuss, M. N.*, & Stefanucci, J. K. (2013). Relating spatial perspective taking to the perception of other’s affordances. Providing a foundation for predicting the future behavior of others. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.7: 596. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00596. Published, 09/03/2013.
  • Lambert, A. E., Seegmiller, J. K., Stefanucci, J. K., & Watson, J. M. (2013). On working memory capacity and implicit associations between advanced age and dangerous driving. Applied Cognitive Psychology.. Published, 12/31/2012.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Gagnon, K., Tompkins, C., & Bullock, K. E. (2012). Plunging into the pool of death: Imagining a dangerous outcome influences distance perception. Perception, 41, 1-11. Published, 02/01/2012.
  • Geuss, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Thompson, W. B. (2012). Effect of viewing plane on perceived distances in real and virtual environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 1242-1253. Published, 01/13/2012.
  • Siegel, E. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2011). A little bit louder now: Negative affect increases perceived loudness. Emotion. Published, 06/01/2011.
  • Riener, C. R., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., & Clore, G. (2011). An effect of mood on the perception of geographical slant. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 174-182. Published, 06/01/2011.
  • Thompson, W. B., Fleming, R. W., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2011). Visual Perception from a Computer Science Perspective, New York: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Published, 05/01/2011.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Gagnon, K. T., & Lessard, D. (2011). Follow your heart: Emotion adaptively influences perception. Invited review for Social Psychology and Personality COMPASS, 5/6, 296-308. Published, 02/01/2011.
  • Geuss, M., Stefanucci, J. K., de Benedictis-Kessner, J., & Stevens, N. R. (2010). A balancing act: Physical balance influences the perception of spatial layout. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1890-1902. Published, 10/01/2010.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Geuss, M.* (2010). Duck! Scaling the height of a horizontal barrier to body height. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1338-1349. Published, 06/01/2010.
  • Stefanucci, J. K. (2010). Emotional high: Emotion and the perception of spatial layout. To appear in E. Balcetis and G. D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. Psychology Press (pp. 273-297). Published, 01/01/2010.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Geuss, M. (2009). Big people, little world: The body influences size perception. Perception, 38, 1782-1795. Published, 2009.
  • Clerkin, E. M., Cody, M. W., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., & Teachman, B. A. (2009). Imagery and fear influence height perception. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 381-386. Published, 2009.
  • Linkenauger, S., Witt, J. K., Bakdash, J. Z., Stefanucci, J. K., & Proffitt, D. R. (2009). Asymmetrical body perception: A possible role for neural body representations. Psychological Science, 20, 1373-1380. Published, 2009.
  • Linkenauger, S., Witt, J. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Bakdash, J. Z., & Proffitt, D. R. (2009). Effects of handedness and reachability on perceived distance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1649-1660. Published, 2009.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Proffitt, D. R. (2009). The roles of altitude and fear in the perception of heights. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 424-438. Published, 2009.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Storbeck, J. (2009). Don’t look down: Emotional arousal elevates height perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 131-145. Published, 2009.
  • Schnall, S., Harber, K. D., Stefanucci, J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2008). Social support and the perception of geographical slant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1246-1255. Published, 2008.
  • Teachman, B. A., Stefanucci, J. K., Clerkin, E. M., Cody, M. W., & Proffitt, D. R. (2008). A new mode of fear expression: Perceptual bias in height fear. Emotion, 8, 296-301. Published, 2008.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., Clore, G., & Parekh, N.* (2008). Skating down a steeper slope: Fear influences the perception of geographical slant. Perception, 37, 321-323. Published, 2008.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., O’Hargan, S. P.*, & Proffitt, D. R. (2007). Augmenting context-dependent memory. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 1 (4), 391-404. Published, 2007.
  • Witt, J. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Riener, C. R., & Proffitt, D. R. (2007). Seeing beyond the target: An effect of environmental context on distance perception. Perception, 36, 1752-1768. Published, 2007.

Research Statement

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” - Aldous Huxley

Perception is the means by which we experience the world and acquire long-term knowledge about it. It is the starting point for all of cognition. I am interested in understanding how people perceive, act in, and remember the spaces around them. For example, how do we perceive the steepness of hills or the magnitude of heights? How do we effectively navigate spaces and remember where we have been? Theoretically, my research addresses whether a person’s bodily states, be they emotional, physiological, or physical, and their bodily size modulates their perception of and memory for spatial layout (e.g., distance, slopes, height, and size). To conduct this research, I gather data in outdoor natural settings, indoors in hallways or buildings, and in mixed realities (virtual and augmented environments). I also test a wide range of age groups to further examine how the relationship between emotion and spatial cognition develops and changes over the lifespan. I find my work rewarding because I strive to make it applicable to issues beyond psychology, including but not limited to the design and development of virtual environments for simulation and training, the participation of women in STEM fields, and the development of anxiety or fear in children able to range freely (i.e., in hunter-gatherer societies) as opposed to those who are not. I believe the applicability of my work has been integral in securing continued funding since obtaining my first academic position. Below, I discuss in more detail the ways in which my work has explored both theoretical and applied questions of spatial perception, action, and memory.

Section 1: Does emotion influence perception and action?

To posit a relationship between emotional processes and perceptual processes is not entirely radical. Anecdotal evidence from clinical psychologists suggests that people with phobias report perceptual biases when they are exposed to fearful or threatening stimuli. My research demonstrates that many emotional states of the body influence perceptions of the environment (be these perceptions visual or auditory).  I have written invited chapters and reviews on this work (Stefanucci, 2010; Stefanucci, Gagnon, & Lessard, 2011; Stefanucci et al., to appear). My experiments investigating the perception of height finds that heights are grossly overestimated when viewed from the top and bottom. Importantly, the extent to which this overestimation occurs is related to the level of fear in the observer (Stefanucci & Proffitt, 2009), is exaggerated in people who are high in height fear (Teachman, Stefanucci, Clerkin, Cody, & Proffitt, 2008), and is increased when the costs associated with falling from the height are emphasized (Clerkin, Cody, Stefanucci, Teachman, & Proffitt, 2008). Because fear is a complex emotion with both physiological and psychological characteristics, I investigate which of these symptoms (or combination of symptoms) influence perception in order to pinpoint a possible locus of the effect of emotion on perception. I have shown that a single component of the fear response, arousal, can influence the perception of height (Stefanucci & Storbeck, 2009) and that this influence of arousal on height perception can be moderated by emotion regulation strategies (Storbeck & Stefanucci, 2011). Manipulations of perceived risk in an otherwise safe environment may also produce perceptual biases (Stefanucci, Gagnon, Tompkins, & Bullock, 2012), and self affirmation can temper height overestimation, suggesting a potential approach for overcoming height overestimation (Huynh, Stefanucci, & Aspinwall, 2014). Finally, I have also found that fear (Stefanucci, Proffitt, Clore, & Parekh, 2008) and sadness (Riener, Stefanucci, Proffitt, & Clore, 2011) increase slant perception, but that the presence of a friend (a potentially positive state) may reduce overestimations of slant (Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, & Proffitt, 2008). 

            Changes in perception due to emotion, if functional, should lead to measurable differences in action (e.g., serving to alter actions to be safer) given the intimate links between perception and action. I have co-authored a general review on such connections between space perception and action that appears as a chapter in a handbook on embodied cognition (Riener & Stefanucci, 2014). One of my PhD students, Michael Geuss, assessed both perception and real action in virtual height environments for his dissertation. We found strong state x trait emotion interactions that predicted not only perceptual biases but also changes in action (actual stepping over a gap at a height; see Geuss, McCardell, & Stefanucci, 2016). Recently published work by former graduate advisee, Ian Ruginski, and former post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Brandon Thomas, showed that anxiety affects the perceptual-motor calibration of the visual guidance of braking (Ruginski, Thomas, Geuss, & Stefanucci, 2018). Further, a funded grant (for which I am the PI at Utah) with collaborators at Vanderbilt University tests how middle-aged children perceive and act in immersive virtual environments in order to assess whether rapid changes in growth affect the ability to perceive and execute actions in risky environments (i.e., stepping over a gap at a height). Our findings thus far suggest that children’s actions are affected by risk in a manner consistent with adults in virtual environments (Creem-Regehr, Gill, Pointon, Bodenheimer, & Stefanucci, 2019).

Section 2: Does emotion influence spatial cognition?

My more recent work (in collaboration with anthropologists) investigates the effects of emotion on navigation and spatial memory. Our primary hypothesis is that caution when exploring environments may lead to poorer spatial memory of those places. Caution and/or risk related to exploration could also serve as a deterrent for women to travel, thereby reducing their exposure to different viewpoints of environments or landmarks. Such differences could lead to deficits in other spatial cognitive tasks, such as mental rotation or perspective taking and may contribute to the robust sex differences observed in most spatial cognition tasks. We have found that experiencing anxiety during spatial learning can reduce survey spatial knowledge of the learned environment, as well as create a less accurate cognitive map. Anxiety affected both sexes, but had a greater effect on females (Ruginski, Stefanucci, & Creem-Regehr, 2018). Our work also found that females who travel farther and have been to more unique places in their lives, as assessed by a mobility questionnaire, show better performance on a virtual Morris water maze task when compared to females who travel less (Padilla, Creem-Regehr, Stefanucci, & Cashdan, 2017). Finally, we show that more harm-avoidant people (as assessed by a scale) tend to explore virtual environments in ways that are less efficient, resulting in worse memories for those environments (Gagnon, Cashdan, Stefanucci, & Creem-Regehr, 2015). Adopting different patterns of exploration of space while wayfinding in a desktop virtual environment predicts spatial memory for targets in that environment (Gagnon, Thomas, Munion, Creem-Regehr, Cashdan, & Stefanucci, 2018) and also affects military cadets’ navigational success in a real-world, large-scale navigation task (Munion, Stefanucci, Rovira, Squire, & Hendricks, 2019).

Future Directions and Conclusions

     My research program investigates interactions between emotion, perception, and cognition as they pertain to our understanding of spatial layout.  Emotional influences are a fascinating field of study because they challenge typical notions of “cognition” and help to elucidate links between social and cognitive aspects of behavior.  The ways in which cognition and perception are modulated by our emotional states will continue to be the focus of my research program, but I also foresee my work broadening to address developmental aspects of these relationships, as well as the cultural and demographic determinants of spatial expertise. Further, I hope to broaden my approach to include more investigations of these interactions within virtual and augmented environments. In conclusion, I feel strongly that this research should be applied to settings where it can be of most help and use, from treatments for clinical populations to the design of human interfaces and the education of spatial cognitive abilities for women in the sciences.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

As a female in a STEM-related field, I strive to promote diversity in all aspects of my academic career. Below I will outline how I do so in my research program, my teaching approach, and my service to the community.

Research

At the University of Utah, I have been conducting research with diverse populations. I think this is quite important given that some basic cognitive effects may differ for non-WEIRD populations (WEIRD = Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic). While only 12% of the world’s population is WEIRD, almost 80% of the studies that have been done on human performance have been done with these populations. I have secured grant funding with anthropologists and geographers to study spatial cognition in hunter-gatherer societies all over the world. We have collected data with adults, older adults, and children in these populations. Doing this work has revealed so many issues with methodology and experimental design for studies that I have never considered before. For example, we have had to consider foregoing collecting reaction time data if the entire village is watching the participant while they perform tasks. We have had to consider how technology is not well understood by these populations. We have had to make instructions and tasks quite intuitive in case interpreters do not have adequate vocabulary to translate exact wording. All of this has been integral to my development as a researcher who now seriously considers implications of diversity in my work.

Teaching and Mentoring

In the classroom, I believe that my being a female in STEM has changed student perspectives on the field of cognitive psychology and human factors. More than once my undergraduate students (mostly females) have told me that they were inspired to see a female doing human factors research. In my mentoring, I am committed to supporting women in science. I regularly advise females in my field at the Women in Cognitive Science events. I have an adjunct appointment in the School of Computing where there is a dearth of female faculty and mentors (only 15% of faculty in computer science departments, on average, are women). We have organized a once a month meeting to increase visibility of female faculty with the female graduate and undergraduate students in that department. I have also organized workshops with girls from local high schools in order to show them that psychology is a science and there are female scientists in STEM fields like psychology and neuroscience.

Service

I have two service endeavors in my department that are highly related to increasing diversity on campuses. The first is that I am the faculty advisor to the Graduate Student Advisory Board. This is a graduate student run organization (developed by one of my graduate students in consultation with me) in which our graduate students meet with underrepresented undergraduates who are planning to apply for graduate school and help them with their application process. To help these students who often have fewer monetary resources, we also worked with ETS to give some of the students access to practice GRE tests free of charge. The second is that I formed the outreach committee in our department in order to try to engage with our local and rural communities about psychology and human factors research. Two graduate students and I approached the Utah State Rural Schools committee while they were meeting during the state legislature session. We asked to visit rural high school systems in the state to recruit students to the University of Utah by presenting about our research programs. We also offered to help the students with future college applications, given that many of them in rural communities would be first-generation college students. We have presented now at 4 high schools and have garnered many contacts for future expansion of this program.

Research Keywords

  • spatial cognition
  • Visual Perception or Processing
  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality

Presentations

  • Shayman, C. S., Finney, H. C., Fino, P. C., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (November, 2022). Sensory integration for navigation: Aging and virtual reality. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Presentation, Presented, 11/20/2022.
  • Chamberlain, B., Tighe, E., Saxon, M., Fernberg, P., Spencer, C., Johnson, S., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (November, 2022). Detecting spatial gist while locomoting in an immersive virtual environment: The role of speed of travel and urban design. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Poster, Presented, 11/19/2022.
  • Whitaker, M., Finney, H. C., Elston, J., Epperson, L. M., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (November, 2022). The Perceptual Fidelity of Affordance Judgments in Real and Virtual Environments. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Presentation, Presented, 11/18/2022.
  • Whitaker, M., Okifuji, A., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2022, May). The impact of fibromyalgia pain on space and time perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society. Journal of Vision, 22(14): 3217. Poster, Presented, 05/14/2022.
  • Konold, C., Geuss, M., Butner, J., Whitaker, M., Murdock, R., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Drew, T. (May, 2022). Unintended consequences of trying to help: Augmented target recognition cues bias perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society. Journal of Vision, 22(14): 3362. Poster, Presented, 05/12/2022.
  • Bodenheimer, R. E., Adams, H. A., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2022, May). Judging distances to virtual objects generated by optical and video see-through augmented reality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society. Journal of Vision, 22(14): 4407. Poster, Presented, 05/12/2022.
  • Saxon, M. A., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (May, 2022). The role of head movement in estimating virtual heights. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society. Journal of Vision, 22(14): 3298. Poster, Presented, 05/12/2022.
  • Whitaker, M., Okifuji, A., Creem-Regehr S., & Stefanucci, J. (April, 2022). Increased pain variability in chronic pain patients: a role for pain catastrophizing. Flash Talk presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science. Presentation, Presented, 04/15/2022.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Environments - Notre Dame. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/26/2021.
  • Gagnon, H. C., Na, D., Heiner. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2020, June). Judgments of passing through augmented reality apertures: The role of viewing distance and feedback. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Poster, Presented, 11/19/2020.
  • Virtual Reality: A Tool for Testing Perceptual Theories - Texas A & M Commerce. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/30/2020.
  • The role of the body in perceiving real and virtual environments - University of Virginia. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/22/2020.
  • Whitaker, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Okifuji, A. (2020, September). Perception of action capabilities in experimentally induced pain. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Poster, Presented, 09/21/2020.
  • Saxon, M. A., Thomas, B. J., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2020, June). Investigating cues for perspective-taking in virtual reality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Poster, Presented, 05/20/2020.
  • Gagnon, H. C., Na, D., Heiner. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2020, June). Judgments of passing through augmented reality apertures: The role of viewing distance and feedback. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Poster, Presented, 05/19/2020.
  • Rohovit, T., Ivy, S., Lavelle, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Stokes, D., & Drew, T. (2020, June). Through the eyes of the expert: Evaluating holistic processing in architects using gaze-contingent viewing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Poster, Presented, 05/18/2020.
  • Libraries as Partners in VR Exposure and Development - Discussant on Panel - IEEE VR 2020. Panel, Presented, 03/25/2020.
  • The role of the body in perceiving real and virtual environments. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/03/2019.
  • The role of the body in perceiving real and virtual environments. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/04/2019.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E.M., Creem-Regehr, S.H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2019, October). Developmental differences in optimal locomotion methods for spatial updating in virtual reality. Talk presented at Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, IL. Presentation, Presented, 10/19/2019.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E.M., Creem-Regehr, S.H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2019, May). Movement experience and balance affect performance on a virtual triangle completion task. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Montreal, Canada. Poster, Presented, 05/24/2019.
  • Pointon, G., Salas, C. Adams, H., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., Bodenheimer, R. E., & Thompson, W. B. (2019, September). Perceived distance to augmented reality images in influenced by ground-contact. Journal of Vision, 19, 15a. Presentation, Presented, 05/18/2019.
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  • Saxon, M., Thomas, B. J., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2019, May). Does avatar presence facilitate affordance judgments from different perspectives? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/14/2019.
  • Gill, D. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Olpin, Z., & Thompson, W. B. (2018, November). Awe-inspiring: Time perception slows in vast spaces. Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/17/2018.
  • Nicora, G. L. , Drew, T., Stokes. D., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018, November). Do you see what I see?: Exploring holistic processing with gaze-contingent viewing. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Poster, Presented, 11/17/2018.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K., (2018, November). Real and imagined spatial updating in expert dancers and non-dancers. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Poster, Presented, 11/16/2018.
  • Pointon, G., Thompson, C., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., Joshi, M., Paris, R., & Bodenheimer, R. E. (2018, November). Investigating space perception with affordance judgments in augmented reality. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Poster, Presented, 11/15/2018.
  • Munion, A. K.*, Stefanucci, J. K., Rovira, E., Squire, P., & Hendricks, M. (2018, September). Gender differences in spatial navigation: An approach to characterizing how we wayfind. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy. Presentation, Presented, 09/14/2018.
  • Barhorst-Cates, E., Wright, C., Creem-Regehr, S., Stefanucci, J. K., & Cashdan, E. A. (2018, September). Movement and art experience: Spatial abilities and familiar environment representations in 9-10 year olds, Poster presented at the 10th Annual Spatial Cognition Conference: Tuebingen, Germany. Poster, Presented, 09/06/2018.
  • McElroy, N., Barhorst-Cates, E., Tarampi, M., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2018, April). Investigating static and dynamic spatial abilities in dancers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO. Poster, Presented, 04/13/2018.
  • Gill, D.*, Ruginski, I.*, Butner, J.*, Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J.K., Creem-Regehr, S.H. (2018, April). Investigating insight generation and decision making with visualizations in real and virtual environments. Poster presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association: Technology, Mind, and Society, Washington D.C. Poster, Presented, 04/05/2018.
  • Ruginski, I., Barhorst-Cates, E., … (2017, November). Mobility for spatial cognition and navigation: Developing and validating a self-report scale to characterize travel patterns. Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC. Poster, Presented, 11/18/2017.
  • Pointon, G., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2017, November). Actor specific kinematics and affordance judgments for others. Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC. Poster, Presented, 11/17/2017.
  • Gill, D. M., Pointon, G., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2017, November). A comparison of children’s and adults’ judgments of action capabilities in virtual environments. Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC. Poster, Presented, 11/16/2017.
  • Thaler, A., Piryankova, I., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., de la Rosa, S., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., & Mohler, B. J. (2017, August). Gender differences in visual perception of own body weight. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany. Poster, Presented, 08/26/2017.
  • Thaler, A., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., Molbert, S. C., Giel, K. E., Black, M. J., & Mohler, B. J. (2017, May). Perception of others’ body sizes is predicted by own body size. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/10/2017.
  • Thomas, B., Geuss, M. N., Ruginski, I., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2017, May). Braking bad: Arousal influences the visual guidance of braking. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/10/2017.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Cashdan, E. A. (2017, March). Mobility contributes to sex differences in spatial cognition and navigation. Poster presented at the 2017 International Conference on Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria. Poster, Presented, 03/25/2017.
  • Ruginski, I. T., Gill, D. M., Padilla, L. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Cashdan, E. A. (2016, November). The effect of sex and parenthood on perceived distances to objects. Poster presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Poster, Presented, 11/19/2016.
  • Dixon, L., Padilla, L. M., Stefanucci, J.K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Johnstone, A. (2016, November). Relating video gaming and spatial cognition in women. Poster presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Poster, Presented, 11/17/2016.
  • Munion, A. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Butner, J., Rovira, E., Hendricks, M., & Squire, P. (2016, November). Investigating sex differences in a large-scale, real-world wayfinding task. Poster to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Poster, Presented, 11/17/2016.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Environments, invited talk at University of Central Florida. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/09/2016.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Environments, invited talk at Indiana University, Bloomington. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/06/2016.
  • Ruginski, I.T., Stefanucci, J.K., & Creem-Regehr, S.H. (2015, November). The effect of anxiety on gender differences in survey spatial learning. Talk presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2015.
  • LEO After Hours: The Science of Fear, October 2015. Panel, Presented, 10/2015.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Padilla, L. M., Stefanucci, J. K., & Cashdan, E. (2015, September). Effects of spatial abilities, cue types, and scale on spatial memory in virtual natural landscapes. Talk presented at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2015.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Gagnon, K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Cashdan, E. (2015, September). An Investigation of Mobility and Spatial Anxiety on Spatial Memory in a Virtual Environment. Talk presented at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/2015.
  • Padilla, L., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J.K., & Cashdan, E. (2015, July). Sex Differences in Virtual Navigation Influenced by Scale, Visual Cue-Types, Spatial Memory and Lifetime Mobility. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA. Poster, Presented, 07/2015.
  • Gill, D. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Barhorst, E. (2015, July). The effects of spatial anxiety on memory for spatio-temporal scale. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA. Poster, Presented, 07/2015.
  • Cashdan, E., Gagnon, K., Barhorst, E., Padilla, L.M., Stefanucci, J.K, Creem-Regehr, S.H. (2015, May). Sex differences in range size: When is travel worth the risk? Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Columbia, MO. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2015.
  • Schug, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Cashdan, E. (2015, March). Wayfinding anxiety and childhood experience. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA. Poster, Presented, 03/2015.
  • Gagnon, K., Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Cashdan, E. (2014, November). Characterizing exploration behavior in a large-scale desktop virtual environment. Poster to presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Poster, Presented, 11/15/2014.
  • Padilla, L., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., & Cashdan, E. (2014, November). Effects of scale on sex differences in a virtual water maze. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Poster, Presented, 11/14/2014.
  • Ruginski, I., Geuss, M. N., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2014, November). Braking bad: The dynamic influence of anxiety on visually guided action performance. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Poster, Presented, 11/13/2014.
  • Tarampi, M. R., Geuss, M. N., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2014). A preliminary study on the role of movement imagery in spatial perception. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Spatial Cognition Conference, Bremen, Germany. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/20/2014.
  • Satyavolu, S., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Stefanucci, J. K., & Thompson, W. B. (2014). Pointing from a third person avatar location: Does dynamic feedback help? Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACMSIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, Vancouver, BC. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/09/2014.
  • Gagnon, K.*, Cashdan, E., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2014, July). Sex differences in exploration and the relationship to harm avoidance. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Natal, Brazil. Poster, Presented, 07/20/2014.
  • Geuss, M., Du Toit, F., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2013, November). The dynamic relationship between fear and estimates of virtual heights. Talk to be presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2013.
  • Gagnon, K., Geuss, M., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2013, November). The influence of body size and social context on action judgments for self and others. Talk to be presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/2013.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Spaces Dagstuhl Conference on Virtual Realities, Wadern, Germany, June 2013 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2013.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Spaces Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, February 2013 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2013.
  • The Adaptive Influence of Bodily States on Perception University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 2013 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2013.
  • The Adaptive Influence of Emotion on Perception Fred Rhodewalt Social Psychology Winter Conference, Park City, UT, Jan. 2013 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2013.
  • Huynh, S., Stefanucci, J. K., & Aspinwall, L. A. (2013, January). Self-affirmation counters the effects of cognitive resource depletion on height perception. Poster presented at the 14thannual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster, Presented, 01/2013.
  • Pasupathi, M., Drews, F. A., Stefanucci, J. K., & Wainryb, C. (2013, January). Body-focused narration of sedentary activity reduces subsequent caloric intake. Poster presented at the 14thannual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster, Presented, 01/2013.
  • The Role of the Body in Perceiving Real and Virtual Spaces NC State University, Raleigh, NC, Dec. 2012 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/06/2012.
  • Chair of Invited Symposium for Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP): Emotional and Motivational Influences on Perception Austin, TX, Oct., 2012 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/27/2012.
  • Real and Virtual Changes to the Body Affect the Perception of Affordances Invited symposium talk presented at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2012 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/05/2012.
  • Raj, M., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Rand, K. M. Stefanucci, J. K., & Thompson, W. B. (2012). Kinect based 3D object manipulation on a desktop display. Presented in Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACMSIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, Los Angeles, CA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/05/2012.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., Lessard, D., Geuss, M., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Thompson, W. B. (2012). Evaluating the accuracy of size perception in real and virtual environments. Presented in Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACMSIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, Los Angeles, CA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/04/2012.
  • Gerritsen, D., Gagnon, K., Stefanucci, J. K., & Drews, F. (2012). I’d like to introduce you to my desktop: Toward a theory of social human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Boston, MA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 07/01/2012.
  • Gagnon, K., McCardell, M., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2012, May). When reaching is risky, disgust influences estimates of exocentric distance. Poster presented at the the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/06/2012.
  • Lessard, D., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2012, May). Effects of environment constraints and judgments about action on distance judgments. Poster presented at the the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/06/2012.
  • Rand, K., Bakdash, J., Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2012, May). Perceptual dependence of size and distance? A within subjects variability approach. Poster presented at the the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/05/2012.
  • Lambert, A. E., Watson, J. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Seegmiller, J. K., Medeiros-Ward, N., & Strayer, D. L. (2012, April). On attentional control and the elderly driver stereotype. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA. Poster, Presented, 04/01/2012.
  • Crowell, S. E., Bride, D. L., Skidmore, C. R., O’Connor, C. G., Allred, C., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2012, March). Concordance and discordance between self-report and psychophysiological assessments across several discrete emotion elicitation tasks. Paper presented at the biennial meeting for the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, British Columbia. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/01/2012.
  • Bride, D. L., Crowell, S. E., Skidmore, C. R., O'Connor, C. G., Nguyen, T., Hansen, E., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2012, March). Psychophysiological responding to 2D versus 3D film clips. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, British Columbia. Poster, Presented, 03/01/2012.
  • The Adaptive Influence of Emotion on Perception Embodiment Preconference, Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2012 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/24/2012.
  • Lambert, A. E., Fitzpatrick, C., Watson, J. M., Seegmiller, J. K., Stefanucci, J. K., Medeiros-Ward, N., & Strayer, D. L. (2012, January). Negative stereotypes of elderly drivers impact older adult driving performance. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, San Diego, CA. Poster, Presented, 01/24/2012.
  • Tarampi, M.*, Geuss, M. N.*, Stefanucci, J. K., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2010, November). Yes I can: Dancers are overconfident in their affordance judgments. Poster to be presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MI. Poster, Presented, 11/17/2010.
  • Geuss, M.*, Stefanucci, J. K., Creem-Regehr, S. H., & Thompson, W. B. (2010). Can I pass? Using affordances to measure perceived size in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, Long Beach, CA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/20/2010.
  • Creem-Regehr, S. H., Geuss, M. N.*, Ziemek, T. R.*, Allen, G. C.*, Stefanucci, J. K., & Thompson, W. B. (2010, May). Comparing different measures of space perception across real and virtual environments. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/08/2010.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Geuss, M. N.* (2010, May). Perception of the height of a barrier is scaled to the body. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/08/2010.
  • Geuss, M. N.*, & Stefanucci, J. K. (2010, May). Arousal and imbalance influence size perception. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/08/2010.
  • Siegel, E. H., Walker, P., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2009, May). So close and yet so far away: An effect of disgust on distance perception and graspability. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 06/08/2009.
  • Stefanucci, J. K., & Siegel, E. H.* (2009, May). Things that go bump in the night: Fear alters sounds and smells. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. Poster, Presented, 05/31/2009.
  • Geuss, M. N., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2009, May). Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Can I walk through this aperture? Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/07/2009.
  • Niederhut, D. E., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2009, March). Yes I know he's Jack the Ripper, but how fast is he running? Fear and motion perception. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA. Poster, Presented, 03/15/2009.
  • Niederhut, D. E., & Stefanucci, J. K. (2009, February). The effect of emotion on biological motion perception. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Poster, Presented, 01/29/2009.
  • Clerkin, E. M., Cody, M. W., Aikens, T.H., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., & Teachman, B. A. (2008, November). Imagery biases visual perception in height fear. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL. Poster, Presented, 11/15/2008.
  • Siegel, E.*, Geuss, M.*, & Stefanucci, J. K. (2008, May). How’s it going to feel? Affective forecasting of fear and excitement in dangerous situations. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Poster, Presented, 05/31/2008.
  • Riener, C. R., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., & Clore, G. (2008, May). Does depression change slant perception? Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Poster, Presented, 05/31/2008.
  • Bakdash, J., Linkenauger, S., Stefanucci, J., Witt, J., Banton, T., & Proffitt, D. (2008, May). Perceived distance influences simulated walking time. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/09/2008.
  • Stefanucci, J. & Geuss, M.* (2008, May). Changing Spaces: Body size influences the perception of aperture width. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/07/2008.
  • Siegel, E.*, Geuss, M.*, & Stefanucci, J. K. (2008, May). Studying the relationship between emotion and height perception in naturalistic settings. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. Poster, Presented, 05/07/2008.
  • Siegel, E.*, Geuss, M.*, & Stefanucci, J. K. (2008, March). Emotional heights: The influence of affect on behavior and perception. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA. Poster, Presented, 03/21/2008.
  • Storbeck, J. & Stefanucci, J. K. (2008, January). Emotion regulation of arousal influences perception of heights. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Poster, Presented, 01/29/2008.
  • Nishimura, E. M., Rapoport, E. D., Darling, B. A., Cervenka, J. P., Stefanucci, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., Downs, T. H., & Downs, J. H. (2007). Functional brain imaging for analysis of reading effort for computer-generated text. In D. D. Schmorrow & L. M. Reeves (Eds.) Foundations of Augmented Cognition, New York: Springer. Conference Paper, Refereed, Other, 2007.
  • Schutz, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Carberry, A.*, & Roth, A.* (2007, November). Name that (Percussive) Tune: Tone Envelope Affects Learning. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Long Beach, CA. Poster, Presented, 2007.
  • Teachman, B. A., Stefanucci, J. K., Clerkin, E. M., Cody, M. W., & Proffitt, D. R. (2007, November). Looking over the edge: Perceptual and implicit association biases in height fear. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA. Poster, Presented, 2007.
  • Stefanucci, J. K. & Storbeck, J. (2007, May). Arousal Influences the Perception of Height. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. Poster, Presented, 2007.
  • Stefanucci, J. K. & Proffitt, D. R. (2007, May). Fear Influences the Perception of Spatial Layout. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Meeting the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC. Poster, Presented, 2007.
  • Schnall, S., Harber, K. D., Stefanucci, J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2007, January). Social support and the perception of geographical slant. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Poster, Presented, 2007.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Germany
    Conducted research from Jan 2013-Aug 2013 at a Max Planck Institute in Tubingen for my Humboldt fellowship.