Incorporating Short-term Travel Study in Psychology

Friday, March 21, 2025

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM US EST

Location: Exhibit Hall, Lower Concourse level

Poster Presenter(s)

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Angela Neal (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Psychology
University of South Carolina Lancaster, North Carolina, United States

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Susan Cruise (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Sociology
University of South Carolina Lancaster
Waxhaw, North Carolina, United States

This poster will describe the implementation of short-term travel study into psychology courses. It will include example activities and assignments tailored to a successful former trip (May, 2017), as well as a planned trip (May, 2025), focusing on personality psychology. In addition, the incorporation of travel study into research methods courses will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

Envision ways in which assignments can be tailored to incorporate travel study into different psychology courses.
See how you could present psychological course concepts through the analysis of various famous figures or events from a culture’s history.
Identify ways in which they could utilize travel study to maximize student learning of psychological research methods.