Erik Tracy
 Associate Professor of Psychology 
 
	- Email:erik.tracy@uncp.edu
- Phone:910.775.4512
- Office:Sampson Building, Room 111
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Erik Tracy, PhD,  received his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University
                        of Buffalo in 2000 and his PhD in Cognitive / Experimental from the Ohio State University
                        in 2006.  After graduating, Dr. Tracy was a lecturer at Ohio State until joining the
                        麻豆社区P faculty in 2011.  Presently, he teaches Introduction to Psychology, the History
                        and Systems of Psychology and Sensation and Perception.  
                     
                     Dr. Tracy also serves as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and is
                        actively engaged in research.  Specifically, Dr. Tracy is interested in speech perception
                        and how we perceive personal characteristics about talkers.  For example, upon hearing
                        a talker's voice, how would a listener perceive the sexual orientation of the talker?
                         What information, within the speech signal, is the listener using?  More recently,
                        Dr. Tracy has also investigated which personality traits listeners associate with
                        gay and heterosexual talkers.
                     
                     In his free time, Dr. Tracy enjoys spending time with his family, going to the gym,
                        watching movies and collecting action figures.