The Department of Psychology welcomes Dr. Rex Wright to the faculty! Dr. Wright's expertise centers on the determinants and cardiovascular consequences of effort. A persistent focus has been on the manner in which perceptions of ability, or self-efficacy, impact effort and associated cardiovascular responses. This has evolved into interests in (1) fatigue and age-related cognitive decline as determinants of ability perception, (2) sleep loss and obesity as determinants of fatigue, and (2) self-regulatory (restraint, or inhibitory) training as a determinant of the capacity to self regulate.