Positions at Gettysburg College
- Associate Professor of Psychology (Current)
- Co-Chair, Neuroscience Program (Current)
- Faculty Parliamentarian (Current)
- Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Program (Past)
- Chair, Faculty Council (Past)
- Chair, Academic Program and Policies Committee (Past)
Education & Training
- BA, Swarthmore College (Psychology & Philosophy)
- Phd, University of Pennsylvania (Experimental Psychology)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Duke University (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience)
Course Taught
- Psychology 238, Cognitive Neuroscience (Current)
- Psychology 305, Experimental Methods (Current)
- Psychology 338, Advanced Laboratory in Cognitive Neuroscience (Current)
- Psychology 101, Introductory Psychology (Past)
- Psychology 215, Human Cognition (Past)
- FYS 139, Reading the Brain (Past)
Representative Publications & Presentations (past 5 years)
- Wilson, K.D., Longergan, M.*, Nagle, C.*, & Meier, B.P. (In Press). Does reductive information increase satisfaction with scientific explanations? Three preregistered tests of the reductive allure effect. Cognition.
- Wilson, K.D. (In Press). Attention and executive function. In E.D. Kirby, M.J. Glenn, N.J. Sandstrom, & C.L. Williams (Eds.), Introduction to behavioral neuroscience. OpenStax.
- Li-Chay-Chung, A., Tippett, L.J., Wilson, K.D., Rosenbaum, R.S., & Addis, D.R. (2024). Using cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation to investigate cerebellar contributions to autobiographical memory. Poster To Be Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
- Lewin, K.M.*, Merz, P.E.*, Russo, T.-J.*, Buckley, M.N.*, Taipina, S.S.*, Biggs, O.L.*, Lo, F.*, Heliodoro, K.M.*, & Wilson, K.D. (2023). Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation to the tight ventrolateral prefrontal cortex does not impact aggressive responses following social exclusion. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
- Longergan, M.*, Nagle, C.*, Meier, B.P., & Wilson, K.D. (2023). The effects of reductive explanations, scientific topic, and political attitudes on credibility ratings: Three pre-registered tests of the reductive allure effect. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
- Wilson, K.D. (2022). Integrating non-invasive brain stimulation into the undergraduate psychology curriculum: An upper-level laboratory course using transcranial direct current stimulation. Teaching of Psychology, 51(1), 110-117.
- Wilson, K.D. & Berg, T.F. (2021). Reading the brain: An interdisciplinary first-year seminar on the intersection of neuroscience, literature, and popular culture. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 19(2), A210-A225.
- * denotes undergraduate co-authors
Significant Awards & Fellowships
- James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship (Association for Psychological Science)
- Support of Mentors and their Students in the Neurosciences Award (National Science Foundation)
- McDonnell-Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship (James S. McDonnell Foundation)