2019-12-04 - Founded in 1904, the Society of Experimental Psychologists is the oldest and one of the most prestigious honorary societies in Psychology.

2019-11-20 - Consisting of four seminars held during a 12-month period, the objective of the leadership program is to broaden participants’ understanding of higher education issues and to strengthen their skill sets in leading and managing a public institution at the university or system level. The Board of Trustees supports the program as a mechanism for identifying and developing a diverse group of...

2019-11-04 - Researchers in the Cognition and Brain Lab, led by Kara Federmeier, have recently published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that investigates how predicting during sentence comprehension affects memory. This study demonstrates that what you predict can affect what you later remember. The study can have potential applications in learning outcomes. Read more about their work...

2019-10-01 - Chadly Stern has received the 2019 Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON). The award recognizes and encourages a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of social cognition. Congratulations Dr. Stern!

2019-10-01 - On Thursday 09/26, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee hosted the Inclusive Psych Party, a party to promote inclusiveness among students, faculty, and staff within the department. Representatives from a number of organizations like Psychology Leaders, Undergraduate Neuroscience Society, the Association of Minority Psychologists, the Women's Resource Center, Social Justice Educator...

2020-02-04 - The journal Psychophysiology has published an article honoring Drs. Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton in response to their award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychophysiology.

2019-10-01 - The Society for Personality and Social Psychology bestowed Dr. Brent Roberts with the 2019 Block Award for his distinguished contributions to our understanding of personality. His work has lead to new insights into the relationship between basic features of personality such as conscientiousness to important life outcomes....

2019-09-27 - Professor Alejandro Lleras, along with a team of researchers from around the country, receives a grant from the NSF to fund the activities of the SPARK society. The SPARK Society’s mission is to establish a society of Cognitive Scientists of color that improves the visibility of its membership and creates mentorship opportunities for junior cognitive psychologists of color. The NSF award...

2021-08-10 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been recently awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department.

2019-09-20 - Psychology Professors Sepideh Sadaghiani and Wendy Heller receive NIH funding to investigate how inherent brain oscillations relate to cognition.

2019-08-27 - In an article featured in Psychology Today, Dr. Gaither discusses the tension between the desire for large sample sizes and the difficulty in recruiting minority populations. Dr. Gaither uses the work conducted at the Illinois Summit on Diversity in Psychological Science as an example of ways that scientists can create incentive structures to value representation in...

2019-05-19 - This project will develop, implement, and evaluate a transformative virtual initiative, high-impact initiative for protecting rural drug-using populations at risk from HIV/HCV outbreaks in the midst of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Most counties at high risk for HIV/HCV outbreaks are clustered in Appalachia and the Midwest. Although the origins of the opioid crisis are complex, social...

2019-05-06 - Predictions were recently proposed to be the core mechanism organizing brain functioning at all levels and in all domains. However, in contrast, within language comprehension, evidence for predictions has not been ubiquitous across participants, tasks, and materials. Earlier research by Jakub showed that this discrepancy can be reconciled by positing the existence of at least two different...

2019-03-07 - The title of the project is "Phthalates and Maternal Infections: Implications for Schizophrenia". Congratulations Dr Juraska!

2019-01-28 - Student characteristics play a crucial role in the attention and enthusiasm directed toward learning. If a student sees no value in learning or does not expect to do well in an academic setting, then the student is unlikely to be motivated. Unraveling the antecedents of effort put toward learning (i.e., conscientiousness), ease of learning (i.e., cognitive abilities), and motivation (i.e.,...