{"id":15,"date":"2011-11-08T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.etown.edu\/omctest\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-03-10T21:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:32:27","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"About Michael Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Time Estimation and Self-Assessment:<\/strong> I am interested in why people often underestimate how long it will take them to complete future tasks.&nbsp; We have found that it is often bias in memory, people remember tasks as taking less time than they actually did, that leads to biased predictions.&nbsp; I am also interested in how people assess their own abilities and why it appears that they often overestimate their abilities.&nbsp; Our research indicates that it is often characteristics of that the task, whether it is easy or well defined, that can lead to this apparent bias.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychology of Music:<\/strong>&nbsp; Recent research examines the role that music plays in people\u2019s lives and how that is related to individual differences in personality and cognitive style.&nbsp; I was part of a group that started music programs in South Africa. &nbsp;Below is a link to video of research on the impact of the music programs.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kvc64Iwipww\">APS Presentation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dogs and Other Things:<\/strong> I am also interested in a number of other topics, such as whether or not dogs resemble their owners.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Estimation and Self-Assessment: I am interested in why people often underestimate how long it will take them to complete future tasks.&nbsp; We have found that it is often bias in memory, people remember tasks as taking less time than they actually did, that leads to biased predictions.&nbsp; I am also interested in how people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/bio\/\"><span class=\"custom-more\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/roym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}