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Worthy, Darrell Associate Professor
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Worthy, D. A., Lahey, J. N., Priestley, S. L., & Palma, M. A.
(2024).
An examination of the effects of eye-tracking on behavior in psychology experiments. Behavior Research Methods.
1-14.
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Cornwall, A. C., Davis, T., Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2022).
Effects of categorical and numerical feedback on category learning. Cognition.
225, 105163-105163.
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Don, H. J., & Worthy, D. A.
(2022).
Frequency effects in action versus value learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
48(9), 1311-1327.
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Don, H. J., Davis, T., Ray, K. L., McMahon, M. C., Cornwall, A. C., Schnyer, D. M., & Worthy, D. A.
(2022).
Neural regions associated with gain-loss frequency and average reward in older and younger adults. Neurobiology of Aging.
109, 247-258.
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McMahon, M., Malneedi, Y., Worthy, D. A., & Schnyer, D. M.
(2021).
Rest-activity rhythms and white matter microstructure across the lifespan. 44(6), zsaa266-.
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Don, H. J., Worthy, D. A., & Livesey, E. J.
(2021).
Hearing hooves, thinking zebras: A review of the inverse base-rate effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
28(4), 1142-1163.
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Imburgio, M. J., Ballard, H. K., Cornwall, A. C., Worthy, D. A., Bernard, J. A., & Orr, J. M.
(2021).
Preliminary effects of prefrontal tDCS on dopamine-mediated behavior and psychophysiology. Behavioural Brain Research.
402, 113091-113091.
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Byrne, K. A., Peters, C., Willis, H. C., Phan, D., Cornwall, A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2020).
Acute stress enhances tolerance of uncertainty during decision-making. Cognition.
205, 104448-104448.
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Davis, T., LaCour, M., Goldwater, M., Hughes, B., Ireland, M. E., Worthy, D. A., Gaylord, N., & Van Allen, J.
(2020).
Communicating about diseases that originate in animals: Lessons from the psychology of inductive reasoning. 6(2), 1-11.
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Shi, Y., Du, J., & Worthy, D. A.
(2020).
The impact of engineering information formats on learning and execution of construction operations: A virtual reality pipe maintenance experiment. Automation in Construction.
119, 103367-103367.
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Joyner, K. J., Bowyer, C. B., Yancey, J. R., Venables, N. C., Foell, J., Worthy, D. A., ... Patrick, C. J.
(2019).
Blunted Reward Sensitivity and Trait Disinhibition Interact to Predict Substance Use Problems. Clinical Psychological Science.
7(5), 1109-1124.
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Byrne, K. A., Cornwall, A. C., & Worthy, D. A.
(2019).
Acute stress improves long-term reward maximization in decision-making under uncertainty. BRAIN AND COGNITION.
133, 84-93.
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Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2019).
Examining the link between reward and response inhibition in individuals with substance abuse tendencies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
194, 518-525.
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Don, H. J., Otto, A. R., Cornwall, A. C., Davis, T., & Worthy, D. A.
(2019).
Learning reward frequency over reward probability: A tale of two learning rules. Cognition.
193, 104042-104042.
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Byrne, K. A., Otto, A. R., Pang, B. o., Patrick, C. J., & Worthy, D. A.
(2019).
Substance use is associated with reduced devaluation sensitivity. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
19(1), 40-55.
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Smayda, K. E., Worthy, D. A., & Chandrasekaran, B.
(2018).
Better late than never (or early): Music training in late childhood is associated with enhanced decision-making. Psychology of Music.
46(5), 734-748.
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O'Bryan, S. R., Worthy, D. A., Livesey, E. J., & Davis, T.
(2018).
Model-based fMRI reveals dissimilarity processes underlying base rate neglect. eLife.
7, e36395.
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Cornwall, A. C., Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2018).
Gender differences in preference for reward frequency versus reward magnitude in decision-making under uncertainty. Personality and Individual Differences.
135, 40-44.
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Pang, B. o., Blanco, N. J., Maddox, W. T., & Worthy, D. A.
(2017).
To not settle for small losses: evidence for an ecological aspiration level of zero in dynamic decision-making. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
24(2), 536-546.
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Byrne, K. A., Tibbett, T. P., Laserna, L. N., Carter-Sowell, A. R., & Worthy, D. A.
(2016).
Ostracism Reduces Reliance on Poor Advice from Others during Decision Making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
29(4), 409-418.
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Byrne, K. A., Patrick, C. J., & Worthy, D. A.
(2016).
Striatal Dopamine, Externalizing Proneness, and Substance Abuse: Effects on Wanting and Learning during Reward-Based Decision Making. Clinical Psychological Science.
4(5), 760-774.
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Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2016).
Toward a Mechanistic Account of Gender Differences in Reward-Based Decision-Making. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.
9(3-4), 157-168.
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Worthy, D. A., Davis, T., Gorlick, M. A., Cooper, J. A., Bakkour, A., Mumford, J. A., Poldrack, R. A., & Todd Maddox, W.
(2016).
Neural correlates of state-based decision-making in younger and older adults. NEUROIMAGE.
130, 13-23.
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Cooper, J. A., Worthy, D. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2016).
Information about foregone rewards impedes dynamic decision-making in older adults. 23(1), 103-116.
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Byrne, K. A., Norris, D. D., & Worthy, D. A.
(2016).
Dopamine, depressive symptoms, and decision-making: the relationship between spontaneous eye blink rate and depressive symptoms predicts Iowa Gambling Task performance. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
16(1), 23-36.
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Byrne, K. A., Davis, T., & Worthy, D. A.
(2016).
Dopaminergic Genetic Polymorphisms Predict Rule-based Category Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
28(7), 959-970.
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Pang, B. o., Otto, A. R., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Self-Control Moderates Decision-Making Behavior When Minimizing Losses versus Maximizing Gains. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
28(2), 176-187.
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Gorlick, M. A., Worthy, D. A., Knopik, V. S., McGeary, J. E., Beevers, C. G., & Maddox, W. T.
(2015).
DRD4 long allele carriers show heightened attention to high-priority items relative to low-priority items. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
27(3), 509-521.
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Byrne, K. A., Silasi-Mansat, C. D., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Who Chokes Under Pressure? The Big Five Personality Traits and Decision-Making under Pressure. Personality and Individual Differences.
74, 22-28.
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Cooper, J. A., Worthy, D. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2015).
Chronic motivational state interacts with task reward structure in dynamic decision-making. Cognitive Psychology.
83, 40-53.
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Steingroever, H., Fridberg, D. J., Horstmann, A., Kjome, K. L., Kumari, V., Lane, S. D., ... Wagenmakers, E.
(2015).
Data from 617 Healthy Participants Performing the Iowa Gambling Task: A Many Labs Collaboration. Journal of Open Psychology Data.
3(1),
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Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Gender differences in reward sensitivity and information processing during decision-making. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
50(1), 55-71.
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Worthy, D. A., Otto, A. R., Doll, B. B., Byrne, K. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2015).
Older Adults are Highly Responsive to Recent Events During Decision-Making. 2(1), 27-38.
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Cooper, J. A., Gorlick, M. A., Denny, T., Worthy, D. A., Beevers, C. G., & Maddox, W. T.
(2014).
Training attention improves decision making in individuals with elevated self-reported depressive symptoms. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
14(2), 729-741.
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Worthy, D. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2014).
A Comparison Model of Reinforcement-Learning and Win-Stay-Lose-Shift Decision-Making Processes: A Tribute to W.K. Estes. Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
59(1), 41-49.
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Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Worthy, D. A., Mata, R., McClure, S. M., & Knutson, B.
(2014).
Adult age differences in frontostriatal representation of prediction error but not reward outcome. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
14(2), 672-682.
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Worthy, D. A., Cooper, J. A., Byrne, K. A., Gorlick, M. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2014).
State-based versus reward-based motivation in younger and older adults. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.
14(4), 1208-1220.
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Worthy, D. A., Byrne, K. A., & Fields, S.
(2014).
Effects of emotion on prospection during decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology.
5(JUN), 591.
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Worthy, D. A., Pang, B. o., & Byrne, K. A.
(2013).
Decomposing the roles of perseveration and expected value representation in models of the Iowa gambling task. Frontiers in Psychology.
4(SEP), 640.
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Byrne, K. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2013).
Do narcissists make better decisions? An investigation of narcissism and dynamic decision-making performance. Personality and Individual Differences.
55(2), 112-117.
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Cooper, J. A., Worthy, D. A., Gorlick, M. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2013).
Scaffolding across the lifespan in history-dependent decision-making. Psychology and Aging.
28(2), 505-514.
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Beevers, C. G., Worthy, D. A., Gorlick, M. A., Nix, B., Chotibut, T., & Todd Maddox, W.
(2013).
Influence of depression symptoms on history-independent reward and punishment processing. Psychiatry Research.
207(1-2), 53-60.
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Worthy, D. A., Hawthorne, M. J., & Otto, A. R.
(2013).
Heterogeneity of strategy use in the Iowa gambling task: a comparison of win-stay/lose-shift and reinforcement learning models. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
20(2), 364-371.
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Worthy, D. A., Markman, A. B., & Todd Maddox, W.
(2013).
Feedback and stimulus-offset timing effects in perceptual category learning. BRAIN AND COGNITION.
81(2), 283-293.
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Worthy, D. A., Otto, A. R., & Maddox, W. T.
(2012).
Working-memory load and temporal myopia in dynamic decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
38(6), 1640-1658.
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Worthy, D. A., & Maddox, W. T.
(2012).
Age-based differences in strategy use in choice tasks. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
5(JAN), 145.
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Maddox, W. T., Gorlick, M. A., Worthy, D. A., & Beevers, C. G.
(2012).
Depressive symptoms enhance loss-minimization, but attenuate gain-maximization in history-dependent decision-making. Cognition.
125(1), 118-124.
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Cooper, J. A., Worthy, D. A., Gorlick, M. A., & Maddox, W.
(2012).
SCAFFOLDING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: AGE, TASK COMPLEXITY, AND PRESSURE EFFECTS ON DECISION-MAKING. The Gerontologist.
52, 158-159.
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Worthy, D. A., Gorlick, M. A., Pacheco, J. L., Schnyer, D. M., & Maddox, W. T.
(2011).
With age comes wisdom: decision making in younger and older adults. Psychological Science.
22(11), 1375-1380.
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Worthy, D. A., Brez, C. C., Markman, A. B., & Maddox, W. T.
(2011).
Motivational Influences on Cognitive Performance in Children: Focus Over Fit. Journal of Cognition and Development.
12(1), 103-119.
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Worthy, D. A., Markman, A. B., & Maddox, W. T.
(2009).
Choking and excelling under pressure in experienced classifiers. 71(4), 924-935.
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Worthy, D. A., Markman, A. B., & Maddox, W. T.
(2009).
What is pressure? Evidence for social pressure as a type of regulatory focus. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
16(2), 344-349.
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Worthy, D. A., Markman, A. B., & Maddox, W. T.
(2009).
Choking and Excelling at the Free Throw Line. 19(1), 53-58.
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Worthy, D. A., Maddox, W. T., & Markman, A. B.
(2008).
Ratio and difference comparisons of expected reward in decision-making tasks. Memory and Cognition.
36(8), 1460-1469.
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Markman, A. B., Maddox, W. T., Worthy, D. A., & Baldwin, G. C.
(2007).
Using regulatory focus to explore implicit and explicit processing in concept learning. Journal of Consciousness Studies: controversies in science and the humanities.
14(9-10), 132-155.
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Worthy, D. A., Maddox, W. T., & Markman, A. B.
(2007).
Regulatory fit effects in a choice task. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
14(6), 1125-1132.
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Markman, A. B., Maddox, W. T., & Worthy, D. A.
(2006).
Choking and excelling under pressure. Psychological Science.
17(11), 944-948.
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Worthy, D., McOwen, K., & Don, H.
Trait Boldness Predicts Increased Risk-Taking in a Gambling Task
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Worthy, D. A., Lahey, J. N., Priestley, S. L., & Palma, M. A.
(2024).
An examination of the effects of eye-tracking on behavior in psychology experiments. Behavior Research Methods.
1-14.
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chapter
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Maddox, W. T., Gorlick, M. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Motivation and Cognitive Control. Braver, T. S. (Eds.),
Motivation and Cognitive Control.
(pp. 313-338).
Taylor & Francis.
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Beauchaine, T. P., Hinshaw, S. P., Patrick, C. J., Foell, J., Venables, N. C., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Substance Use Disorders as Externalizing Outcomes. Beauchaine, T. P., & Hinshaw, S. P. (Eds.),
The Oxford Handbook of Externalizing Spectrum Disorders.
Oxford University Press (OUP).
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Maddox, W. T., Gorlick, M. A., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
Motivation and Cognitive Control. Braver, T. S. (Eds.),
Motivation and Cognitive Control.
(pp. 313-338).
Taylor & Francis.
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conference paper
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Bowyer, C. B., Venables, N. C., Yancey, J. R., Patrick, C. J., Hajcak, G. P., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
DISTINCT BRAIN CORRELATES OF GENERAL DISINHIBITION VS. SUBSTANCE ABUSE: EVIDENCE FROM AN ERP/GAMBLING TASK PARADIGM. S30-S30.
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Patrick, C. J., Foell, J., Heinrich, A., Worthy, D. A., Iacono, W. G., & Flor, H.
(2015).
WEAK RESPONSE INHIBITION AND THE BRAIN: VALIDATING A SCALE MEASURE OF TRAIT DISINHIBITION IN A LARGE NEUROIMAGING DATA SET. S59-S59.
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Byrne, K. A., Worthy, D. A., Cooper, J. A., Kline, A., McGeary, J. E., Beevers, C. G., & Maddox, W. T.
(2013).
THE C957T DRD2 POLYMORPHISM PREDICTS DECISION-MAKING PERFORMANCE IN THE IOWA GAMBLING TASK. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
59-59.
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Worthy, D. A., Maddox, W. T., & Markman, A. B.
(2009).
Less is More: Stimulus-Feedback Co-Occurrence in Perceptual Category Learning. 1192-1197.
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Worthy, D. A., Otto, A. R., Gershman, S., & Hotaling, J. M.
Symposium: Computational, Neuroscientific, and Lifespan Perspectives on the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma. 2633-2634.
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Bowyer, C. B., Venables, N. C., Yancey, J. R., Patrick, C. J., Hajcak, G. P., & Worthy, D. A.
(2015).
DISTINCT BRAIN CORRELATES OF GENERAL DISINHIBITION VS. SUBSTANCE ABUSE: EVIDENCE FROM AN ERP/GAMBLING TASK PARADIGM. S30-S30.
Teaching
teaching activities
- NRSC485 Directed Studies Instructor
- NRSC491 Hnr-research Instructor
- NRSC671 Exp Design Behav Scien Instructor
- NRSC691 Research Instructor
- PBSI345 Human Cognitive Proc Instructor
- PBSI350 Cognitive Neuroscience Instructor
- PBSI485 Directed Studies Instructor
- PBSI491 Hnr-research Instructor
- PBSI685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PBSI689 Sptp: Models Of Cognition Instructor
- PBSI690 Cognoscenti Prof Issues Instructor
- PBSI691 Research Instructor
- PSYC345 Hnr-human Cognitive Proc Instructor
- PSYC485 Directed Studies Instructor
- PSYC491 Hnr-research Instructor
- PSYC607 Experimental Psych Instructor
- PSYC671 Exp Design Behav Scien Instructor
- PSYC685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PSYC689 Sptp: Decision Making Instructor
- PSYC690 Cognoscenti Prof Issues Instructor
- PSYC691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Silasi-Mansat, Crina (2015-08). Studying While Multitasking: Effects of Cognitive Style and Working Memory Capacity.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology & Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 2010
- M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 2007
- B.S. in Psychology, University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States) 2005
Contact
first name
- Darrell
has last name
- Worthy
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Psychology
4235 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4235
USA
Other
- worthyda@tamu.edu