Dr. Travis first received his B.S. in Experimental Psychology from USC Upstate, later obtaining his M.A. from the University of Missouri St. Louis and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational psychology from NC State University. He teaches courses in psychological testing, personality, I/O, social, and personnel psychology. His research broadly involves motivation, counterproductivity, and social cognition, and his work has been published in outlets like the Journal of Educational Psychology, Microbiology Spectrum, Psychological Reports, and Current Psychology.