Faculty

2026-09-02 - Building on a 2021 study of emotional resilience in veterans, Sanda and Florin Dolcos created a five-week training intervention which taught students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events.For the cognitive reappraisal training, researchers asked participants to practice reinterpreting potentially negative emotional situations in a more positive light. These situations...

2026-03-27 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is welcoming Professor Emeritus, Art Kramer to join their 2025 class of Honorary Fellows.Professor Kramer received his Ph.D. in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from the University of Illinois. Professor Kramer’s research projects include topics in Aging, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive...

2026-03-03 - Robert “Bob” S. Wyer, Jr. passed away on February 3 at the age of 90. An intellectual giant in the fields of social psychology and consumer behavior, Bob Wyer spent most of his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Department of Psychology and later in the Gies College of Business. His career spanned several decades and chapters. At Illinois, in the Psychology...