2022-11-15 - Professor Brent Roberts has been listed among Claviate's 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List. Click here to read more.

2022-11-29 - Professor Bo Zhang found that neuroticism is a key risk factor for stress perception. Click here to read more.

2022-12-20 - Professor Aron Barbey and co-author Evan Anderson found that network neuroscience theory allows the most accurate predictions of intelligence. Click here to read more.

2023-02-17 - Flyer created by Keely Dugan  

2023-02-15 - Gary Wszalek has played a significant role in advising the students in our department for over the last twenty-two years. He strives to ensure each student is comfortable with their decision to become a psychology major. "Our office tries to create a fall semester of classes that allows them to do as much exploration as possible. The goal is we want you to get a degree. I don't get a commission...

2023-01-31 - Congratulations to Psychology Professor Kara Federmeier, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Federmeier is an expert in cognitive neuroscience, particularly language comprehension and its association with cognitive change and literacy. Her research group combines electrophysiological techniques with behavioral, eye movement, and other brain-...

2023-02-06 - Congratulations to Clinical-Community doctoral student Katie Kemp, advised by Professor of Psychology Thomas Kwapil, who has received a grant from the American Psychological Foundation to support her dissertation!   Schizophrenia is the most extreme manifestation of a continuum of symptoms and impairment known as schizotypy. Schizotypy is multidimensional with positive, negative, and...

2022-12-07 - Congratulations to Industrial-Organizational doctoral student Chu Chu, advised by Assistant Professor of Psychology and Labor and Employment Relations Bo Zhang, who has received a grant from the Society for Organizational and Industrial Psychology to support her dissertation! In this proposed project, we aim to develop and validate a career guidance chatbot—an interactive tool that collects and...

2023-01-27 - Congratulations to Susu Zhang, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Statistics, who has been awarded an AERA-NSF grant! Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Georgia propose to analyze the 2017 NAEP Grade 8 Mathematics process, outcome, and survey data to understand students' revision and review behavior in large-scale computer-based assessments....

2023-01-13 - Jas Jacobson is our inaugural recipient of the “Advanced Research Opportunity Honors Fellowship.” This fellowship provides support over three semesters of undergraduate research conducted toward the completion of an honors thesis in psychology.  Jas is a third-year student currently working as a research assistant in the BEAST lab under the advisement of Professor Berenbaum. She previously...

2023-01-04 - Congratulations to Auburn Jimenez on being one of five students to receive the Dissertation and Research Grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Auburn is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology. His project is titled “A General Ordinal Diagnostic Model for Item- and Category-Level Inferences Using a Polya-Gamma Data Augmentation Strategy.” Recipients...

2022-10-08 - This fall, the Psychology Department created two new Fellowships designed to support underrepresented and first-generation college students. The goal is to lessen financial burdens that would preclude talented psychology students from gaining valuable research experience. Each year, one student will be selected for the Advanced Research Opportunity Honors Fellowship. This...

2022-12-06 - Mindy started with the Office of Advancement in LAS about six months ago and has made an enthusiastic debut. We are excited to welcome her to the UIUC psychology family with a bit of Q & A.   1 –  What is your current role in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences? As Assistant Director of Development, my role is to support the College by inviting...

2022-12-06 - Two of our invaluable members of the psychology department were recently recognized for their contributions by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Firmino Pinto receives the Academic Professional Award. Firmino has worked as a research engineer with us since 1997. He provides a wide range of technology support to the department—everything from troubleshooting...

2022-11-01 - This fall, we had another successful installment of our virtual "Alumni Career Panel" series. Our guests were constructive in giving their perspectives about graduate school experiences for those looking to get into the clinical field.  We received a lot of positive feedback about the relaxed tone, easy access, and informal interpersonal opportunities to ask questions to experts in their...