Research News

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...

2022-05-04 - New work from graduate student Jiawen Wu, Dajung (Diana) Oh, and Professor Eva Pomerantz demonstrate the connection between the way parents support their young children with math homework and their child’s later mathematics motivation and achievement.

2022-04-27 - Graduate student Mahogany Monette has received a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

2022-04-19 - Psychology undergraduates Maria Becerra, Gabrielle (Gabby) Calderon, and Rachel Sun are among the 2022 awardees for an initiative to support community-embedded science.

2022-04-11 - Professor Alejandro Lleras and graduate student Julia Spielmann are among the invited editors for a special issue on the impact of race on psychological process.

2022-03-23 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been recently awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department.

2021-10-27 - New work by professor Yihao Liu and graduate student Fan Xuan demonstrate that how employees ask for help is associated with differences in how competent their coworkers’ perceive them to be and how their supervisors evaluate their job performance.

2021-12-08 - We are proud to announce the following grants have been recently awarded to faculty in the Psychology Department.

2021-09-11 - New research led by professor Sepideh Sadaghiani and graduate student Maximillian Egan outlines the most effective approaches to reduce unwanted noise and ensure participant safety in the most advanced neuroimaging protocols to-date.

2021-08-12 - Mahogany Monette has won the Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant from the American Psychological Association. The award supports early career psychologists in projects aimed at identifying and uprooting systemic racism, discrimination, and violence. Mahogany's research proposal for the grant focuses on understanding the links between racial...

2021-06-28 - For the first time, a group of psychologists and engineers have created a way to simultaneously harness the strengths of three non-invasive brain imaging tools to capture both the precise timing and location of brain activity in the human brain. The team, lead by psychology researchers Professors Florin Dolcos, Gabriele Gratton, Monica Fabiani and postdoc Matthew Moore from the...

2021-06-12 - New research from the Alcohol Research Lab shows that alcohol intoxication can impair a person's ability to remain physically distant from strangers. The reduced social distancing has implications for disease spread and could promote the transmission of respiratory diseases like COVID-19 across social groups.

2021-05-27 - Dr. Michael Pritz recalled the importance of summer fellowships during his own participation in the honors program, and the opportunity to get a jump start on research without the course demands of a typical semester. Upon learning that similar summer funding for undergraduate honors research was no longer available, he took it upon himself to help fulfill this gap and generously established the...

2021-03-19 - Anxiety disorders and depression represent one of the most common sources of disability worldwide. A key feature of emotional disorders involve disruptions in the brain's ability to effectively regulate emotional responses. Conversely, the ability to adaptively self-regulate emotions is a core factor of psychological resilience which can provide a protective mechanism from emotional disorders....