Psychology Achievements
Lutsky receives Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award
February 12, 2019Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, recently received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award at the annual convention of the society held February 7-9, 2019, in Portland, Ore.
Strand, Liben-Nowell, and students publish paper
January 14, 2019Professors Julia Strand (Psychology) and David Liben-Nowell (Computer Science), along with five students, are recognized for the publication of a research paper.
Lutsky Publishes Paper
October 30, 2018William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, presented a paper, How Positive Should We Be? Challenges Balancing the Science and Application of Positive Psychology, at the annual meeting of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology in Phoeniz, Arizona on October 20.
Neiworth and Students Present Poster at Conference
October 24, 2018Psychology professor Julie Neiworth sponsored and advised five students who presented "the most outstanding poster" at the 2018 MidBrains Annual Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference.
Neiworth and Neirobisz receive FaCE funding with St Olaf to build an effective learning community on aging
May 8, 2018Julie Neiworth (Psychology) and Annette Nierobisz (Sociology) joined colloeagues from St. Olaf to work on a Faculty Career Enhancement project.
Brown '17 Awarded NSF Fellowship
April 13, 2018Violet Brown '17, Educational Associate in Psychology, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She will use the grant to pursue a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis in the division of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition. She plans to research spoken word recognition and audiovisual integration.
Galotti Selected as Fellow
January 29, 2018W. H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, was recently selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in recognition of her "sustained outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychological science." Galotti is a Charter member of the APS, which was founded in 1988.
Abrams Publishes Paper
January 29, 2018Associate Professor of Psychology, published a paper co-authored with Kate Cieslowski '15, Sam Krimmel '15, Stacey Johnson '15, Gabby Bierlein-De La Rosa '17, Kirstie Barton '16, and Pombie Silverman '17. The paper, "The effects of alcohol on heartbeat perception: Implications for anxiety," was published in the journal Addictive Behaviors and presents a novel mechanism potentially linking alcohol consumption and panic attacks.
Galotti Presents Paper
December 4, 2017Kathleen Galotti, William H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, and former students Anna Smith '17, Carl Bou Mansour '15, and Michael Schneekloth '15, recently presented a poster at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Vancouver Canada. The presentation was entitled, "Poké Balls and Gym Brawls: Ways of Knowing and Learning Pokémon Go."
Abrams Publishes Paper
December 4, 2017Associate Professor of Psychology, published a paper co-authored with Sam Krimmel '15, Stacey Johnson '15, Kate Cieslowski '15, Helen Strnad '14, Arielle Melum '14, and Caroline Kryder '14. The paper, "Nicotine deprivation attenuates panic reactivity in smokers: Findings from a placebo-controlled nicotine patch study," is published in the journal Depression and Anxiety.
Neiworth Presents Paper
November 20, 2017Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences and Psychology, co-authored a poster with Sijin "Cathy" Chen '17, entitled "Do monkeys consider cooperation and competition? A study of tactical deception in cotton top tamarins" at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, in Vancouver, CANADA, on November 11.
Strand Publishes Paper
November 15, 2017Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, along with co-authors Violet Brown '17, Hunter Brown '17, and Jeff Berg '15, published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. The project, "Keep Listening: Grammatical Context Reduces but Does Not Eliminate Activation of Unexpected Word," used eye-tracking to evaluate the effects of listener expectations on spoken word recognition.