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Dr. Anthony Barnhart, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
abarnhart@carthage.edu; Curriculum Vitae
Tony Barnhart received his BA in Psychology from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois in 2004 and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2013. He served as a lecturer at Northern Arizona University before joining the faculty at Carthage College in 2015. His research interests fall in the domains of word perception, attention, and the science of magic. For more information, visit the About and Research pages.

2023-2024 LAB MEMBERS:
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Sarah Tuchell
​​Sarah is a Psychology and Criminal Justice major. In the MAGI-Lab, she collaborates on research that looks into the validity of graphology through a meta-analytic approach. She is also contributing to a major qualitative study on expert magicians' beliefs about magic and misdirection, in collaboration with Gustav Kuhn and Dan Simons. By pursuing both Psychology and Criminal Justice, Sarah hopes to explore the field of forensic psychology one day. 

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Luke Ehlert
Luke is a psychology and neuroscience double major. In the MAGI-Lab, he is involved in research looking at audience members' memories of a magic performance and how their beliefs about the natural world could be impacted by exposure to magic. His thesis work in the MAGI-Lab explores a new technique for measuring susceptibility to the Speech-to-Song Illusion. With his double major he hopes to attend graduate school and earn a Ph.D. in order to pursue a career in music cognition research.
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Morgan Donovan
Morgan is a Psychology major with a Social Justice minor. In the MAGI-Lab, she is contributing to ongoing research on event perception in magic. Beyond Carthage, she hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
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Tara Schaalma
Tara is a Psychology and Criminal Justice double major with a Political Science minor. In the MAGI-lab, she is involved in research that looks at the effects of visual and auditory stimuli on attention. After Carthage, she plans to go into the Criminal Justice field in a higher government agency.
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Grace Miller
Lily Rende

​PAST LAB MEMBERS:
Jessica Buhmann
Alison Mackey
Aleksandra Steinert
Chelsea Breyer
Marissa Vavra
Flynn Castellanos
Isabel Montoya
Mandy Ehlert
Brandi Tennesen
Anna Robertson
Sabina Redzic
Maggie Haberman
Michael Von Borstel
Robin Hill
Christina Dodd
Cheyenne Duckert
Gunnar Goetz
Michaela Prall
Micala Giammarino
Lizzie Wenzel
Noah Griser
Megan Hudecek
Shelby Wilson
Emily Furmanek
Madison Gliosci
Oliver Duffy
Dillon Krupa
Matt Schuler
Alyssa Ruediger
Olivia Krahn-Bockhop
Lexington Fitzpatrick
Jaime Utter
Rheanna Weaver
Chad Bolman
Jessica Sendef
Kaitlyn Richardson
Tailyn Ludwiczak
Bennett Shebesta
​Anthony Ortigoza
Ashley Lundell
John Hamer
Caitlin Powers
Jamie Serena
Sara Sobczyk
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