Psychology Achievements
Galotti has a new edition of her textbook published
February 8, 2016Kathie Galotti, William H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, has a new edition of her textbook, Cognitive Development: Infancy Through Adolescence (2nd ed) published by Sage Publishers on January 13.Lutsky presented psychology paper in San Diego
February 8, 2016Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, presented a paper "Better Than Average: Self-Evaluations in an Indian Sample," co-authored with Ashwini Ashokkumar of Ashoka University, Sonipat, India, at the 2016 Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in San Diego, California.Ken Abrams
January 14, 2016Associate Professor of Psychology, recently presented a poster at the annual conference of the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP) titled "Sharpening Quantitative Reasoning Skills in a Summer Psychology Course for High School Students." The findings were from courses he taught at Carleton's Summer Quantitative Reasoning Institute. He also led an Idea Exchange on "Internationalizing the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum."
Julia Strand
January 10, 2016Assistant Professor of Psychology, published an article in the Journal of Memory & Language, "Many neighborhoods: Phonological and perceptual neighborhood density in lexical production and perception." This work, done with a collaborator at University of California Berkeley, examines common factors that influence both the perception and production of spoken language.
Galotti presents paper at meeting of Psychonomic Society
November 1, 2015Kathie Galotti, William H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, along with co-authors Carl Bou Mansour '15, Michael Wheatman '15, Anna Smith '17, and Michael Schneekloth '17, presented a poster entitled "Liking, Defining and Thinking: Oh My! Ways of Knowing and Appraisals of Intellectual Activities" at the 2015 meeting of the Psychonomic Society in November in Chicago.Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Joseph Slote '16, published an article titled, "Conducting spoken word recognition research online: Validation and a new timing method," in Behavior Research Methods.
Neiworth and Groesbeck present at MPA
May 11, 2015Professor of Psychology, Julie Neiworth, delivered an invited talk at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago on May 1. It was entitled "Reconsidering Cognitive and Social Processes in Cotton Top Tamarins." Liz Groesbeck '15 also presented a poster on memory deficits in aging tamarins, sponsored by Neiworth, as part of the Psi Chi Midwestern Poster Session at MPA.
Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, delivered an invited talk at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago on May 1st. It was entitled "Reconsidering Cognitive and Social Processes in Cotton Top Tamarins." Senior Liz Groesbeck (2015) also presented a poster on memory deficits in aging tamarins, sponsored by Neiworth, as part of the Psi Chi Midwestern Poster Session at MPA.
Meerts presents at Oberlin College
March 9, 2015Sarah Meerts, Assistant Professor of Psychology, taught a team-based learning workshop and gave an invited research talk to the Neuroscience Department at Oberlin College titled "Experience and sensory input interact to affect mating in female rats."
Meerts publishes article with student co-authors
January 12, 2015Assistant Professor of Psychology Sarah Meerts, along with co-authors Helen Strnad '14, and Rosemary Schairer '12, recently published an article titled "Paced mating behavior is affected by clitoral-vaginocervical lidocaine application in combination with sexual experience" in the journal Physiology and Behavior.
Galotti Presents a Poster on Brand Logo Recognition
January 12, 2015Kathleen Galotti, William H. Laird Professor of Cognitive Science, and Rebecca Plotnick '14 presented a poster at the 2014 meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Long Beach, California, entitled, "Recognizing Brand Logos in and out of Context.Julia Srand and student co-authors publish article
January 5, 2015Julia Strand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Allison Cooperman '13, Jonathon Rowe '14, and Andrea Simenstad '13, published an article titled, "Individual differences in susceptibility to the McGurk effect: Links with lipreading and detecting audiovisual incongruity," in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
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