Technical/Statistical Director

Psychology

Mark is currently a research facilitation specialist, assisting faculty with and mentoring students on project design, implementation, and analysis. He works extensively with students in PY205 Methods I, PY305 Methods II, PY251 Psychological Investigations, and PY451 Final Project, the department's research-focused courses. All students in the department are also welcome to drop in for ad hoc consulting. He manages the department's wide array of technology and is the primary consultant for SPSS, Qualtrics, Amazon MTurk, Tobii eye-tracking and other technological research tools. Mark also helps research technology purchases and coordinates some of the department's major administrative processes.

Mark's research interests include the intersection of technology and research, psychometrics, social perception, aggression, and development.

Mark earned his Ph.D. in Social/Developmental Psychology from Brandeis University where he studied the causes and correlates of human aggression. His dissertation examined several factors that cause aggressive behavior to be perceived favorably or unfavorably by observers.

Publications

Stephens, A., Saviano, M. S., & Horner, J. (2015, May). Homo economicus performance on social value orientation and psychopathy measures: Evidence for quasi-Homo economicus? Poster presented at the Twenty-seventh meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Saviano, M. S. (2005). The video guide for SPSS version 13 . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth-Thomson.

Saviano, M. S. (2005). When is aggression perceived favorably? The role of provocation, facial maturity, and form of aggression. Dissertation Abstracts International, 66, 6-B . (UMI No. 3180567)

Saviano, M. S., & Watson, M. W. (2002, July). When aggression is justified: The role of initiator, motivation of aggressor, and type of harm . Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Montreal, Canada.

Regular Classes

Instructor

PY202 SPSS Lab Series

PY205 Methods & Statistics I

PY305 Methods & Statistics II

Consultant and Assistant for:

PY202 Research Design

PY251 Psychological Investigations

PY451 Final Project