John "Kevin" DeFord
Title:
Professor of Psychology
School:
College of Arts and Sciences
Office Location:
Bristol Campus: Bristol Hall 212
Office Phone:
423-652-4859
Email:
Education
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, University of Louisville, Louisville , KY
M.A., Psychological Science, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN,
B.A., Academic Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Current research
In graduate school, my research interests and experience were in applied vision science and human factors. My research examined human perceptual performance with night-vision imagery, human sensitivity to orientation with varied frames of reference (with applications to altered states of gravity) and human sensitivity to orientations in natural images. In each of these projects, my interests were in research topics that had direct application. While at King, my research interests have broadened. I have three primary research interests. These research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, the explicit and implicit religious attitudes of college students and the perceptual and cognitive processes as they relate to human interaction with systems.