Dr. Jason D. Runyan
Associate Professor of Neuropsychology
Education
BA, Wheaton College, IL
MS, University of Texas
M.St., D.Phil. University of Oxford
Current Positions
Professor, Indiana Wesleyan University
Co-founding partner, LifeData, LLC. (Lifedatacorp.com)
Teaching
My research and teaching interests are multidisciplinary and involve questions at the interface of neuroscience, philosophy, and theology. In particular, I am interested in questions concerning the formation, expression, and impact of dispositions and virtues. While my work is cross-disciplinary, I use experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment to approach these questions. My primary teaching responsibilities revolve around philosophical psychology, neuropsychology, and psychological science.
Research interests
- Human constitution
- Human agency and freewill
- Dispositions and virtues
- Learning and memory
- Experience sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
Selected publications
Runyan, JD, Moore, AN, Dash, PK (2019) Coordinating what we’ve learned about memory consolidation. Biobehavioral and Neuroscience Review. 100: 77-84.
Runyan, JD, Fry, BN, Steenbergh TA, Arbuckle, NL, Dunbar, K, Devers, EE (2019). Using experience sampling to examine links between compassion, eudaimonia, and prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality. 87(3): 690-701.
Runyan, JD (2017). Agent-causal libertarianism, statistical neural laws and wild coincidences. Synthese. 195(10): 4563-4580.
Runyan JD, Steenbergh TA, Bainbridge C, Daugherty DA, Oke L, Fry BN (2013) A smartphone ecological momentary assessment/Intervention “app” for collecting real-time data and promoting self-awareness. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071325. Access here.