2022-08-29 - A team of psychologists, led by scholars at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, proposes a new training model that would prepare all practitioners in their discipline to respond to the social ills of racial discrimination and other forms of repression. Click here to read more.

2022-10-10 - Professor Karen D. Rudolph and graduate student Haley Skymba found that girls with a history of bullying and other peer adversity may be especially sensitive to situations that threaten their self-worth. 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.

2023-02-06 - 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...

2022-11-07 - Markera Jones received this year’s Graduate Student Leadership Award from The Graduate College.

2022-11-10 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department during the Fall 2022 semester.

2022-08-19 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department during the Summer 2022 semester.

2022-07-01 - Written by Diana Yates Illinois News Bureau Photo Credit: Michelle Hassel A new study finds that the more a person stares at themself while talking with a partner in an online chat, the more their mood degrades over the course of the conversation. Alcohol use appears to worsen the problem, the researchers found. Reported in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, the findings point to a...

2022-05-10 - Congratulations to Megan Finnegan on being named to the 2022 class of Backman Institute Graduate Fellows! Megan is currently pursuing two Ph.D.s in psychology and neuroscience.  Finnegan is examining the relationship between female teenagers’ well-being and a type of cyberbullying called online exclusion. She is interested in how the biological processes that occur in the brain during...