Biography

Karl Bailey is a Professor of Psychology in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Andrews University, and the director of the undergraduate Behavioral Neuroscience Program. A cognitive psychologist by training, Dr. Bailey's work with his research students on attention and self-control among Seventh-day Adventist young adults led him to the study of the relationship between religious belief and motivation. For the past four years, Dr. Bailey and his students have been working on a large project to develop and refine instruments to study the internalization of Sabbath keeping among Seventh-day Adventists, and to better understand the positive relationship between Sabbath keeping and well-being. Dr. Bailey and his students (along with Herb Helm) also use eye tracking to study watercolor paintings and language comprehension in the Andrews University Cognitive Psychology Laboratory.

Dr. Bailey has taught courses in cognitive psychology, learning and behavior, psychology and the brain, research methods, cognitive science and faith, and the statistical programming language R. He also is one of the leaders of the department’s annual trip to Chicago to attend the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting.

Dr. Bailey is married to Rosemary (Bauer) Bailey, and is the father of Lilianora, and Annalise. When not teaching or researching, Dr. Bailey programs computers and plays the guitar, ukulele, autoharp, and bass (but not at the same time).

Current Research or Professional Activities

Primary Research Interests

Psycholinguistics; Comprehension of disfluent spontaneous speech; Misinterpretation effects; Language and the Visual world; Visual attention as a measure of complex human cognition.

Scholarly/Professional Papers Read (Conference Presentation)

• Helm, H.W., Jr., & Bailey, K. (2013, January). Contemplating the psychology lab issue in an understaffed psychology department. Symposium presented at the 35th National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl.
• Bailey K.G.D. (2012, August). An Adventist approach to cognitive science. Paper Presented at the 2012 North American Division of Teachers' Convention, Nashville, TN.
• Bailey, R., Montagano, J.K., & Bailey, K.G. (2012, May). Gender differences in math and test anxiety. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Montangano, J.K. Bailey R., and Bailey, K.G. (2012, May). Math and test anxiety across ethnicities. Paper read at the 84th Annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Helm, H.W., Jr., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2012, May). Eye Tracking and Art: A case study of integrating innovations in research in the undergraduate classroom. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Bailey, R.N., Montagano, J.K., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2011, October). Are math anxiety and test anxiety the same construct? Paper presented at the Michigan Association of School Psychologists. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Beltre, E., Ramos, C., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2011, May) Predictors of attentional variability on a college campus. Paper presented at the Psi Chi session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Raethel, A.E. & Bailey, K.G.D. (2011, May) Implicit attitudes of vegetarians and omnivores toward meat and vegetables. Paper presented at the Psi Chi session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Titus, O. & Bailey, K.G.D. (May, 2011) Personality and visual attention. Paper presented at the Psi Chi session of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychologicval Association, Chicago.
• Bailey, R.N., Montagano, J.K., & Bailey K.G. (2011, October) Are math anxiety and test anxiety the same construct? Paper presented at the Michigan Association of School Psychologists. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Montagano, J., Bailey, R., Bailey, K.G. & Gundy C. (2011, May) A confirmatory factor analysis of the Math Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Bailey, R.N., Montagano, J.K., Bailey, K.G.D., & Gundy, C.S. (2011, May). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Newstead Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire 9NMAQ). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Ferreira, R., Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2003, November). A model of disfluency processing during parsing. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
• Bailey, K.G.D. & Sorensen, D.W. (2007, May). Array size and the time-locking of eye movements and language comprehension. Paper to be presented at the 79th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• Sorensen, D.W. & Bailey, K.G.D. (2006, November). The world is too much: Effects of array size on the link between language comprehension and eye movements. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference, Houston, TX.
• Bailey, K.G.D & Ferreira, F (2005, March). Don't swim, hop: The timecourse of disfluency processing. Paper to be presented at the 18th annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.
• Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D. & Ferreira, F. (2004, March). "But it's already on a towell": Reconsidering the one-referent visual context. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD.
• Ferreira, F , Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2004, March). A model of disfluency processing based on Tree-Adjoining Grammar. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2001, November). Disfluencies influence parsing of garden-path sentences. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2001, August). Do Non-Word Disfluencies Affect Syntactic Parsing? Paper presented at the 2001 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Tutorial and Research Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2001, May). Syntactic parsing can be affected by non-word speech disfluency. Paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Poster Presentations

• Helm, H. W., Jr., & Bailey, K. G. D. (2012, January). Students' perception of the usefulness of a professional conference. Poster presented at the 34th National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.
• Bailey, K.G.D., Bailey, R.N., Magsino, V.J., & Wiedemann, S.R. (2011, May). Factors underlying the free will beliefs of students at a religious university. Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Helm, H.W., Jr., Bailey, K.G.D., McBride, D.C., & LaBianca, O.S. (2011, January). Building a departmental culture of research: Promoting undergraduate student development and transformation through a research methods curriculum. Poster presented at the 33rd National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.
• Bailey, K.G.D., Chuah, M., Siebold, L.C., LaBianca, O. & Bailey, R.N. (2007, May) Cultural background affects eye movements during scene perception. Poster to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Bailey, K.G.D., Siebold, L.C., & Bailey, R.N. (2007, May) Believing is seeing: prior beliefs affect problem solving. Poster to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2005, March) Coordination ambiguities in the visual world paradigm. Poster to be presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.
• Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (November, 2004) Garden Pathing or Syntactic Priming: A Closer look at the Visual World Paradigm. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Minneapolis, MN.
• Bailey, K.G.D. & Ferreira, F. (2004, March) When is a Path Not a Path? Eye Movements and Parsing in the Visual World. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD
• Bailey, K.G.D., Xiang, M., & Ferreira, F. (2003, March). Parsing and misinterpretation in coordination ambigiguities. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2003, March). Eye movements and the comprehension of disfluent speech. Poster presented at the 16th Annual meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2001, March). The disfluent hairy dog: Can syntactic parsing be affected by non-word disfluencies? Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA

Chapters Contributed to Volume

• Bailey, K. G. D. (to appear). Being humans: Biology, faith, & human nature. In T. Goodwin (Ed.) Biology: A Seventh-day Adventist Approach. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferriera, F. (2007). The processing of filled pause disfluencies in the visual world. To appear in R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray & R. Hill (Eds.), Eye movements: A window on mind and brain. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2004). The Disfluent Hairy Dog: Can Syntactic Parsing be Affected by Non-Word Disfluencies? In J. Trueswell & M.K. Tanenhaus (eds.), World situated language use: Psycholinguistic, linguistic, and computational perspectives on bridging the product and action traditions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Bailey, K. G. D. (2012). Faith-learning integration, critical thinking skills, and student development in Christian education. Journal of Research on Christian Education, 21, 153-173.
• Helm, H. W., Jr., Bailey, K. G. D., McBride, D. C., & LaBianca, O. S. (2011). Creating a research culture in a small non-selective department. Journal of Psychology, 8, 93-101.
• Sorensen, D. W. & Bailey, K. G. D. (2007). The world is too much: Effects of array size on the link between language comprehension and eye movements. Visual Cognition, 14, 112-115.
• Engelhardt, P.E., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 554-573.
• Ferreira, F. & Bailey, K.G.D. (2004). Disfluencies and human language processing. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 231-237.
• Ferreira, F., Lau, E.F., & Bailey, K.G.D. (2004) Disfluencies, parsing, and tree-adjoining grammars. Cognitive Science.
• Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferreira, F. (2003). Disfluencies affect the parsing of garden-path sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 183-200.
• Ferreira, F., Bailey, K.G.D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 11-15.