Basic Behavioral and Bio-behavioral Processes Group (BBBP)

Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR) at the University of Georgia

The Basic Behavioral and bio-Behavioral Processes (BBBP) group provides opportunities for interaction and collaboration among faculty and graduate students concerned with cognitive, genetic, and biological processes that may under gird a wide range of individual, dyadic, and societal problems. The group represents and supports basic bench science in the social and behavioral sciences. In addition, the group provides opportunities for collaboration and application of basic bench methods to a wide range of health problems.Because the focus of the BBBP group is on basic laboratory investigations and extrapolations from basic laboratory research, we focus group activities on development and sharing of techniques in laboratory based research and the identification of funding opportunities for such investigations. The research of participants is enriched by collaboration and supportive feedback. Cross-fertilization and intellectual exchange take place through informal interactions, scheduled seminars, visiting scholars, and collaborative research proposals. The resulting milieu is ideal for promoting translational research as well as for stimulating new directions for basic research.

Researchers affiliating with the group may investigate psychological or biological processes and may be interested in the processes for their own sake or in the application of basic research to the solution of individual, social or cultural problems. Current participants in the group examine health, mental health, and learning outcomes as well as description of processes involved in cognition, memory, affect, brain-behavior relationships, and behavior of neurotransmitter systems. In some cases participants examine cognitive, affective, or biological processes that serve as proximal or distal influences for important health, mental health, or social outcomes. Development of novel ideas for prevention or intervention, or for changes in taxonomies of behavior are also supported and encouraged. Both animal and human models are potentially relevant to the elucidation of basic mechanisms. Cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers using animal and human subjects has considerable potential to promote high quality translational research. The BBBP group also will attempt to foster the development of significant translational research within the IBR framework. Common to all those affiliating with the group will be an interest in basic laboratory research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and an interest in conducting or applying such basic research.

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Fellows Affiliated with Group:

Amir, Nader
Andreatta, Richard
Beach, Steven
Bothe, Anne
Carr, Marty
Crystal, Johnathon
Frick, Janet
Goodie, Adam
Hohmann, Andrea
Holmes, Phil
Horne, Andy
Kernis, Michael
Marsh, Richard
Monahan, Jennifer
Robinson, Dawn
Nathani, Suneeti
Samp, Jennifer
Schirmer, Annette
Tesser, Abraham