Jens Herberholz named Associate Editor
January 23, 2012
Jens Herberholz has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the journal...
Welcome to the Department of Psychology
Announcement: The Department of Psychology is seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of statistics, modeling and the organizational sciences. More information about the position can be found here.
We are very pleased to welcome several new faculty and staff to the Psychology Department. Meet our new people here.
Psychology is a remarkably broad field that studies mind and behavior at all levels of analysis ranging from the micro to the macro; from single cells to complex systems; from individuals to groups and cultures; and from invertebrates to humans. Our department is committed to research, teaching/mentorship, and service. We have over 1,000 undergraduate majors and enroll approximately 100 graduate students in our Ph.D. programs. Graduate students have an unusually high success rate in securing external funding, and we have an excellent track record for placing them following their Ph.D.s. Much of the research within the department is funded by extramural sources and is published in highly visible outlets. Over 60% of the faculty members are fellows in their scientific societies, almost half have received an external career award, and a third have held Editor or Associate Editor positions.
Our department is organized into five Ph.D. program areas:
- Clinical
- Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS)
- Counseling
- Developmental
- Social, Decision, and Organizational Science (SDOS)
Cutting across these areas and knitting them together are three research themes:
- Brain, Mind, and Behavior
- Mental Health
- Social, Group, and Cultural Processes
Please browse through our site to learn more about our department.
Department News
Happy Holidays to all
December 17, 2011
The department's efforts to Adopt A Family in conjunction with the Prince Georges Department of Human...
Dr. Gelfand awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award
December 7, 2011
Dr. Michele Gelfand has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt...
Cindy Moss featured on the Diane Rehn show
November 8, 2011
Cindy Moss took part in discussion about the declining bat population in the United States on NPR's...
Dr. Scott Roberts named a Center for Teaching Excellence Lilly Teaching Fellow
November 2, 2011
Scott Roberts has been selected as one of this year's Center for Teaching Excellence Lilly Teaching...
Event Calendar
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NACS Seminar Series
Dr. Margaret Sheridan from Harvard University will give a talk entitled "Environmental influences on neural development: from institutionalization to socioeconomic status"
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Cognitive Science Colloquium
Andrew Nevins from University College, London will give a talk entitled "Underlearning"
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Cognitive Science Colloquium
Elissa Newport from the University of Rochester will give a talk entitled "Statistical language learning: Computational and maturational constraints".
A massive study carried out by Dr. Michele Gelfand and colleagues examines nations around the world in terms of whether they are tight or loose. 
Dr. Jens Herberholz discovers that crayfish integrate information from different sources in the environment in previously unexpected ways. 
A study carried out by Dr. Andrea Chronis-Tuscano provides new evidence of an association between childhood diagnoses of ADHD and depression and suicide among teenagers. 
Research carried out by Dr, Michele Gelfand and her colleague Dr. Hannah Riley Bowles indicates that bias in workplace evaluations can be affected by both the perceived status of the employee and the person making the evaluation. 
A theory of judgment that unifies the processes underlying deliberative and intuitive judgements is presented by Dr. Arie Kruglanski and his colleague Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer.