Achievement

IGERT Trainee Lindsay Graham (Psychology) has continued to work with Trainee Erin Darling (Environmental Engineering) to complete research on how personality traits and emotions affect actions that influence indoor air quality. They have shown that differences in basic emotions between individuals affect indoor space and product choices that in turn affect sources of indoor air pollution. Their efforts provide knowledge relevant to analyses of population exposures to ultrafine particles, amongst other pollutants. Their work led to three conference publications and presentations during the past year. Trainee Graham also continues to work with her advisor and IGERT faculty participant Sam Gosling (Psychology) in collaboration with IGERT faculty participant Richard Corsi (Environmental Engineering) on a national survey aimed at elucidating how personality traits affect views and behavior relevant to indoor air quality.