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2018-11-30 - Three minutes or less. In the time it takes for your favorite song to play, University of Illinois graduate students recently showcased their remarkable research to a panel of judges at the fourth annual Research Live! competition at Illinois.  

2018-12-10 - In the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 16-year-old students in middle-track schools decide whether to stay in school to pursue an academic career or enroll in a vocational training program. A new study offers evidence that the path they choose influences their personality years later.

2019-02-13 - Sarah Challand, an accounting associate for the Department of Psychology, is being recognized for her particularly noteworthy efforts in advancing the mission of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 2018-19.

2019-02-27 - In many societies, teenagers are repeatedly told – by adults, peers and popular media – that teens are more likely than younger children to take risks, ignore their parents, skip schoolwork and succumb to bad influences. But stereotypes are not destiny, a new study of Chinese middle school students suggests.

2017-02-23 - A professor of psychology at Illinois has been recognized as a rising star in her profession. Joey Cheng has been named a 2016 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star, an award reserved for outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers. Cheng earned her doctoral degree from the...

2019-03-01 - John Westbrook is a graduate student and teaching assistant for the Department of Psychology where he studies in the Clinical Community Psychology Program. Westbrook has taught PSYC 238: Psychopathology and Problems in Living, every semester since Fall 2015. Westbrook has become known for his strong interest and...

2018-08-29 - Robert Wickesberg is honored with a retirement party on August 28th for his dedication to the department of Psychology.

2018-06-25 - Despite recent progress identifying specific brain regions and personality traits, it remains unclear whether there are common factors underlying the structural aspects of the brain and the personality traits that, in turn, protect against symptoms of emotional distress.

2017-03-23 - US News has ranked the Psychology department #7 in the nation.

2018-07-25 - The study titled, "Prestige in a large-scale social group predicts longitudinal changes in testosterone" examined the effects of previous experiences of prestige—assessed using community-wide nominations of talent and advice provision—on intraindividual changes in testosterone in a large-scale naturalistic community.

2018-08-03 - The Department of Psychology of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana announces the establishment of the Pola and Harry Triandis Fellowship in Cross-Cultural Psychology.

2017-09-18 - Diane Beck has been awarded the Charles W. Erickson Professorial Scholar award.