(Last modified on Tuesday, November 14, 2000)

A short note- I'm in the process of changing some of the information here- for the moment, here's a little new music- one of my own compositions. I'll also add a little of Bach's ``Nun komm der Heiden Heiland." under the music page. Enjoy!

I've now joined the ICQ folks- see the contact information at the bottom of the page regarding contact information.

RJ Research: I'll be presenting a paper at the American Psychological Association on Sunday, August 6th which outlines research we have done under a grant funded by OERI.. The paper concerns differences in how students think about real-world controversies according to the Reflective Judgment theory advanced by Karen Kitchener and Patricia King (and myself). Results from the paper and pencil measure based on this model are described here.

Basically we found that advanced undergraduates and graduate students can discriminate more from less sophisticated justifications for an opinion about such matters, report that more sophisticated approaches to such problems are similar to the way they think, and also rank sophisticated justifications as similar to their own views. In many ways, these findings mirror results obtained with the Reflective Judgment instrument, which is also summarized here.

I've recently completed a chapter dealing with statistical interactions using structural equation models (This is called ``Genint".) I found a small big in it, but will post the program here when I've fixed it. If you want a copy of the program right away, email me at the address below and I'll send it on to you.

On the more mundane information front, I'm a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. This fall, I'll again be teaching  Psych 431, Latent Variables. Other semesters I've been known to teach Psych 420, Multiple Regression.

Intellectually, I have two passions statistical methodology and the study of adult cognitive development (which you can probably tell from my vita):

First, I am interested in studying how individuals grow and change cognitively during the college years. I am fortunate to be working with Karen Kitchener at Denver University on a grant funded by the  National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning (a Field initiated study in collaboration with Karen Kitchener at Denver University). The writeup of the award by the Institute is given here.  Some preliminary communications regarding the grant can be seen here.

This work has also extended to a broader study of young adults with particular focus on the effect of problematic alcohol consumption during young to mid-adulthood. This research is housed in the Alcohol, Health & Behavior Project. The project is funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (in collaboration with Ken Sher.

Email me at: woodpk@missouri.edu or you can ICQ me at: #57562325 or under the Nickname PhilWood.

or write to me at:

Psychology Department
210 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri-Columbia 65211
Ph 573-882-4579|Fax 573-882-7710
Lab Ph: 884-2209/884-2210