Faculty Bio

Kira Bailey

David O. Robbins Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology; Neuroscience Program Director; Department Chair

Education

• B.A., Concord University
• M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University

About

Kira Bailey obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology at Concord University and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology at Iowa State University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Missouri – Columbia, she joined the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan in 2015.

Bailey is interested in understanding how experience modifies the neural bases of cognitive control, affective information processing, and decision-making. Specifically, she studies the effects of video games on emotion and cognition, and how pathological video game use is related to impulsivity and decision making under risk. She also studies the neural effects of alcohol use, and how individual differences in alcohol sensitivity influence the neural correlates of cognitive control and decision making.

Recent Publications

• Bailey, K.; Propp, A.; Alonso, M. (2024). Prevalence of internet gaming disorder, depression, and anxiety symptoms before and after the pandemic. Healthcare, 12, 2471. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12232471
• Carr, C.E.G. & Bailey, K. (2023). Early-career pedagogical practice: The value of training undergraduates to teach. The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 22. https://doi.org/10.59390/XYFR3420
• Toma, R. A., Anderson, C. A., Matichescu, M., Franţ, A., Almǎjan-Guţă, B., Cândea, A., & Bailey, K. (2022). Effects of media use, smart phone addiction, and adult ADHD symptoms on wellbeing of college students during the COVID-19 lockdown: Dispositional hope as a protective factor. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019976
• Rice, M., Lease, A., Walker, M., & Bailey, K. (2021). Shooting your accuracy in the foot? Examining the short-term Effect of playing an action or strategy video game on cognitive control. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158001
• Jiang, J., Bailey, K., & Xiao, X. (2018). Midfrontal theta and posterior parietal alpha band oscillations support conflict resolution in a masked affective priming task. Frontiers: Human Neuroscience, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00175
• West, R., Bailey, K., & Anderson, S. (2018). Transient and sustained ERP activity related to feedback processing in the probabilistic selection task. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 126, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.02.011
• Gentile, D. A., Bailey, K., Bavelier, D., Brockmeyer, J. F., Cash, H., Coyne, S., et al. (2017). Internet gaming disorder in children and adolescents. Pediatrics, 140, S81-S85. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1758H
• Uncapher, M. R., Lin, L., Rosen, L. D., Kirkorian, H. L., Baron N. S., Bailey, K., et al. (2017). Media multitasking and cognitive, psychological, neural, and learning differences. Pediatrics, 140, S62-S66. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1758D
• Bailey, K. & West, R. (2017). Did I do that: The association between action gaming experience and feedback processing in a gambling task. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 226-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.024
• Bailey, K. & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Alcohol words interfere with cognitive control in low sensitivity drinkers. Psychophysiology, 53, 1751-1759. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12741
• Bailey, K., Mlynarczyk, G., & West, R. (2016). Slow wave activity related to working memory maintenance in the N-back task. Journal of Psychophysiology, 30, 141-154. https://doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803/a000164
• Jiang, J., Bailey, K., Xiang, L., Zhang, L., Zhang, L., & Zhang, Q. (2016). Comparing the neural correlates of conscious and unconscious conflict control in a masked Stroop priming task. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00297
• Bailey, K., Amlung, M., Morris, D., McCarthy, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Separate and joint effects of alcohol and caffeine on conflict monitoring and adaptation. Psychopharmacology, 233, 1245-1255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4208-y

Winner of the 2021 Sherwood Dodge Shankland Award for Encouragement of Teachers