2020-10-19 - Dani Kang has been awarded a NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship for her work investigating alcohol's effects on threat sensitivity in a social context. She is sponsored by Professors Catharine Fairbairn and Kara Federmeier.  Her research uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to assess stress responses in a social context either after drinking a...

2023-01-26 - The Psychology Department Diversity and Inclusion Committee are pleased to announce our Anti-racism Grant Fund, designed to support members of the psychology department in seeking financial support for anti-racism events and initiatives. All psychology affiliated staff, undergraduate majors, graduate students, and faculty are eligible. Thank you to all of the donors of the...

2020-11-02 - The Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology, awarded by the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, is designed to recognize a mid-career scholar whose work has added substantially to the body of knowledge to the social psychology field and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology. Carol and Ed Diener spent much of their careers here in the...

2020-10-01 - When planning activities for courses, committee meetings, or other events, you may want to consult the Interfaith Religious Calendar to make sure you have maximum participation and to avoid unintentionally excluding members of religious groups from your events. The University has also provided ...

2020-09-29 - October 2 Seminar in Sociology Policed: Criminalization and the Policing of Public Housing Philip V. McHarris, Yale University 9 am, October 2, 2020  

2020-09-23 - The Building Pathways for Emerging Leaders at Illinois program is patterned after leadership programs developed by the Big Ten Academic Alliance and peer universities. The goal of the program is to increase the pool of potential academic leaders at Illinois and to expand the university's capacity for leadership development.  Professor Hunter will participate in the 2020...

2020-09-22 - This year's theme for the C-U Pride Festival is "Staying Apart, Rising United." To celebrate that feat, the organizers have assembled an amazing schedule of Virtual Events for you to enjoy this weekend. Including... A virtual workshop for clinicians about providing culturally competent care for trans patients.  It's being held on Saturday, 9/26 from 2:00-4:00pm.  Representatives...

2020-09-22 - Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Student Paul Bogdan is the inaugural winner of the Thomas and Margaret Huang Graduate Fellowship.  He was chosen for his work using statistics and machine learning to gain insight into the processes underlying trust and productive social relationships. The fellowship honors the legacy of Thomas and Margaret Huang. Dr. Thomas Huang was an...

2020-09-14 - In America, poor people are punished more frequently and more severely for offenses than are the wealthy. One potential explanation for this divide could be that people in society think that poor people have more guilt for their actions and thus deserve harsher punishments. New research by graduate student Drew Weiner and Psychology professor Dr. Sean Laurent aimed to assess this prediction.

2020-09-09 - Professor Wendy Heller along with 58 women psychologists, who are faculty members in Psychology and Neuroscience and related Departments across North America and Australia, have published an article on "The Future of Women in Psychological Science" in Perspectives on Psychological Science. In...

2020-08-12 - Women's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), a type of domestic violence, can have profoundly negative consequences on their mental health. New research published by Dr. Heidemarie Laurent and graduate student Paty Cintora in the Journal of Traumatic Stress reveal that, in conjunction with current levels of IPV, past exposure to childhood trauma is associated with worse symptoms...

2020-07-22 - A paper published by Dan Newman and his former graduate student coauthors, "Gender and Leadership Emergence: A Meta-Analysis and Explanatory Model" has been selected for the 2020 “William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award: Honorable Mention” from the Society for I/O Psychology (SIOP). This honorable mention award is given to the second-best "publication in a refereed journal...

2020-07-16 - Professor Alejandro Lleras and colleagues at SPARK recently helped organize a new initiative so that under-represented scholars at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, postdoc and faculty members) can submit their manuscripts or grant proposals and get a "First Review" by a well-established member of our profession, prior to submitting the work to a journal or granting agency. The idea is to...

2020-07-15 - Professor Diane Beck along with her colleagues in Females of Vision et al. (FoVea) launched the FoVea Speaker List.

2020-06-15 - As many professors are learning to adapt to the transition to online course delivery, Psychology professor Dr. Carla Hunter has found ways to leverage the new online format to expand content by allowing students to interact with guest lecturers. With online instruction, it becomes more feasible for lecturers located in different parts of the world to easily join a classroom and share their...