Kate Blackburn, Ph.D.

It has been awhile since I last posted a blog. Mainly, the Covid-19 pandemic happened, and like many of you I’ve found myself…

The Circle. The basic idea behind the show is that strangers from all walks of life meet and form relationships. Sounds a lot…

First, what is sexting? According to wikipedia it is, “sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images, primarily between mobile phones,…

I shamelessly admit I adore watching “The Voice” – there is something appealing about judging a person not on their appearance, but solely…

My undergraduate research group and I just finished reading, The Mind Club, by Daniel Wegner and Kurt Gray. It is a close look…

This month I am traveling to St. Louis, Missouri to give a talk on text analysis and big data. 

Researchers were interested in learning if police officers were better at writing reports alone or with a fellow officer. In a training experiment,…

After I got my first Kindle (or e-book reader) I thought there was no going back to reading books in print. However, over…

My 2019 Undergraduate Lab photo. It was a great group! Over the past two years, we worked on several research projects. A published…

Often researchers are interested in studying how we remember important life events. We know from this line of research that the brain words…