Dr. Rodney Vogl grew up on a small farm in rural Iowa. He received his BS in Psychology from the University of Iowa. Dr. Vogl then migrated south for graduate school. He received his MS in Psychology and his Ph. D. in Human Experimental Psychology from Kansas State University. Dr. Vogl’s area of specialization is memory. Dr. Vogl worked with students with memory deficits (due to Traumatic Brain Injury) and students with learning disabilities during his years at Kansas State. In addition, Dr. Vogl was part of a team that studied the extraordinary memory skill of a person who had been in the Guinness Book of World Records for memorizing pi to 31,811 places.

Dr. Vogl continued to migrate south when he decided to join the faculty at Christian Brothers University. Dr. Vogl has published several journal articles and book chapters on memory in the “real world.” Dr. Vogl has presented numerous papers with students and other colleagues at psychology conferences both regionally and nationally. His research interests include memory for lies, the fading of emotions over time, involuntary memories (i.e., those memories that “pop” into our head), eyewitness testimony, and memory errors (e.g., source confusion). Dr. Vogl’s interests also involve other areas of cognition such as problem solving and human factors/engineering psychology.

Dr. Vogl’s most recent interests deal with the impact of technology on cognitive processes, such as group decision making in virtual environments, perceptions of others during online conversations, and identity theft. Eventually, Dr. Vogl hopes to continue to migrate south where he plans on retiring on some tropical island.