Anne Collins McLaughlin

Assistant professor of psychology, North Carolina State University

Anne McLaughlin received her psychology PhD in 2007 from Georgia Tech. She has studied motivation in a number of contexts, including hand-washing in healthcare settings, before focusing on individual differences in cognition in adults over the age of 65 and in particular on maintaining mental abilities at older ages via cognitive exercise. She collaborates with Jason Allaire, a lifespan developmental psychologist at NCSU, and Maribeth Gandy, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech. She maintains the Human Factors Blog. Email: Anne_McLaughlin@ncsu.edu. Web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~acmclaug/.

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