David Kidd is a third year doctoral student under the advisement of Dr. Christopher Monk. He received his Master's of Arts in Human Factors at George Mason University in 2008 and his Bachelor's of Science degree in Psychology at Virginia Tech in 2006.

Current Work

Driver Cognition

David is studying various aspects of driver distraction and cognition. Recently, he explored the central bottleneck theory in stop and go responses to yellow light changes. David is now beginning work on characterizing how distractions affect driver the probability of stop and go decisions to yellow light changes. He will also continue work he began this past summer which exploring how well calibrated drivers' perceptions of their distracted driving ability are to their actual distracted driving performance.

Parking and Transportation Program and Policy Evaluation

Beginning the 2008-2009 academic year, David will begin evaluating the current state of alternative transportation use at George Mason University. The primary goal of this project is to identify the proportion of students who use different types of alternative forms of transportation and identify the availability and feasibility of use for each type of transportation. The hope is to use this information to implement a progrom that will increase and optimize the use of alternative forms of transportation.

Individual Differences

David is also interested in using generalizability theory as a method to quantify sources of variation as a means for improving the effectiveness of experimental design. His current work in this area is on identifying how effective standard experimental designs used in the areas of Cognitive psychology and human factors are at minimizing variation at the individual level.