Tracy Alloway featured on The Best Of Our Knowledge

As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.

Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.

For this week‘s edition (#1303), Bob has selected Tracy Alloway’s segment that studies the psychology behind the lies of children.  Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD is an associate professor of psychology and program director of the Psychology Graduate program at the University of North Florida.

Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD is an associate professor of psychology and program director of the Psychology Graduate program at the University of North Florida. Her area of research interest is in working memory and has spent over a decade being part of cutting-edge research on the importance of working memory in childhood and education. She has published seven books and almost 100 scientific articles on this topic. She is an associate editor for Applied Cognitive Psychology and also serves on the editorial board of several international scholarly journals.

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