My research interests include factors impacting language at both the word and sentence levels. My focus has been on both age-related changes in spelling and changes induced by our use of technologies. Additionally, my research has investigated the effects of misspellings on reading comprehension in young and older adults and the effects of negation on reading comprehension and metacomprehension in young adults and older adults.

Margolin, S.J., & Hover, P.A.+ (in press). Metacomprehension and negation: Assessing readers’
awareness of the difficulty of negated text. Reading Psychology.

Abrams, L., Farrell, M., & Margolin, S.J. (2010). Older adults' detection of misspellings during
reading. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 65B, 680-683.

Desrochers, M.N., & Margolin, S.J. (2010). Factorial Design Tutorial. Society for the Teaching of
Psychology Resources.

Margolin, S.J., & Abrams, L. (2009). Not may not be too difficult: The effects of negation on
older adults’ sentence comprehension. Educational Gerontology, 35, 308-322.

Margolin, S.J., & Abrams, L. (2007). Individual differences in spelling ability: Do good spellers
age better than poor spellers? Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14, 529-544.

Abrams, L., Trunk, D.L., & Margolin, S.J. (2007). Resolving tip-of-the-tongue states in
young and older adults: The role of phonology. In L.O. Randal (Ed.), Aging and the Elderly: Psychology, Sociology, and Health (pp. 1-41). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc

Grants:
Faculty/Staff Technology Initiative Grant
Two Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Awards

Awards:
1. Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship
2. E. Porter Horne Memorial Scholarship
3. Southern Gerontological Society Best Paper Award

Cognitive Processes
Sensation and Perception
Research Methods
Psychology of Aging
Principles of Psychology