Education

Human-Computer Interaction, M.A. (2011)
Rice University, Houston, TX

Psychology and Linguistics, B.A. (2007)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Journal Publications

Alter, A.L., Oppenheimer, D.M., & Zemla, J.C. (2010). Missing the trees for the forest: A construal level account of the illusion of explanatory depth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 436-451.

Conference Proceedings

Zemla, J.C., Ustun, V., Byrne, M.D., Kirlik, A., Riddle, K., & Alexander, A.L. (2011). An ACT-R Model of Commercial Jetliner Taxiing. Proceedings of the 55th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Paper and Poster Presentations

Byrne, M.D., Zemla, J.C., Kirlik, A., Riddle, K., & Alexander, A.L. (2011). A Human Performance Model of Commercial Jetliner Taxiing. Poster presented at the 16th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.

Alter, A.L., Oppenheimer, D.M., & Zemla J.C. (2010, October). The illusion of political sophistication: Creating smarter voters with metacognitive tuning. Paper presented at the Association for Consumer Research, Jacksonville, FL.

Alter, A.L., Oppenheimer, D.M., & Zemla, J.C. (2009, November). The illusion of political sophistication. Paper presented at the Society of Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.

Zemla, J.C, Alter, A.L., & Oppenheimer, D.M. (2009, August). The illusion of political sophistication. Paper presented at SPUDM, Rovereto, Italy.

Professional

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
Research Associate (2011-present)
Advisor: Stephen LaConte

Princeton University, Psychology Department
Research Assistant (2008-2009)
Advisors: Daniel Oppenheimer and Eldar Shafir

Rutgers University, Psychology Department
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2006-2007)
Advisor: Eileen Kowler

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Web: HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, JavaScript (+ jQuery), PHP
Programming: MATLAB, C++, Lisp, Python
Software: SPSS, Photoshop (GIMP)