2014 Department News

2014 Department News: Photos

Joe Tecce听talked with Pembroke High School students about the psychology of body language. Posted 11/25/14.

Doctoral student听M. E. Panero听has been invited to join the student editorial board of听Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Posted 11/14/14.

Elizabeth Kensinger听was appointed to serve as Associate Editor at the APA journal听Emotion. Posted 11/12/14.

Joe Tecce听hosted a talk for the University Fellowships committee with Dr. Jason Cavallari. A听. Posted 11/10/14.

Michelle Hurst听has received an NSF-sponsored award in STEM education research for her poster, "Working Memory Involvement in Rational Number Processing," to be presented at IMBES conference in November. Posted 10/15/14.

Larisa Heiphetz听补苍诲听Liane Young听have been awarded听a grant from the The John Templeton Foundation, titled "A Social Cognitive Developmental Approach to Folk Representations of God's Mind." The investigators are Liane, Larisa, and Adam Waytz (Northwestern University), with a consultant, Jonathan D. Lane (Harvard University). Posted 9/26/14.

Alexa Veenema听was awarded a five-year, $1.75 million NIH grant to study the neural circuits underlying social play behavior in juvenile rats and how these neural circuits differ between males and females. Social play is a highly rewarding behavior and has been shown to be important for the development of social skills in humans and rodents. Knowledge about sex-specific regulation of social play in rats may help understand social play deficits seen in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that shows a strong sex bias in prevalence. Posted 9/26/14.

Four of our students鈥�James Dungan, Laura Niemi, , Josh Rottman,听补苍诲听Jordan Theriault鈥攚ere awarded travel awards by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).听M.E. Panero听was awarded the SPSP Diversity Fund Travel Award, a competitive award intended to increase diversity within the personality and social psychology field. All of these awards allow recipients to travel to and present research at the upcoming SPSP annual convention. Posted 9/16/14.

Brendan Gaesser, Liane Young, and Elizabeth Kensinger听have been awarded a听听for their project, "Harnessing Episodic Simulation to Facilitate Prosociality." This award from the University of Pennsylvania and the John Templeton Foundation provides support for studies at the intersection of prospection, memory, and moral psychology. Posted 8/21/14.

Jim Russell's听听in听艾可直播 College Magazine. Posted 8/19/14.

Michael Numan, professor in Psychology until 2012, has published a new book,听. Posted 8/15/14.

Sindy Cole, a postdoctoral fellow in Gorica Petrovich's Neurobiology of Feeding lab, has been awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant. This award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Posted 8/15/14.

Liane Young's Morality Lab is featured on WBUR's Common Health program in a series called "." Posted 8/7/14.

Jessica Karanian听had two articles published/accepted recently: "The cortical basis of true memory and false memory for motion" in听Neuropsychologia听and "False memory for context activates the parahippocampal cortex" in听Cognitive Neuroscience. Posted 7/1/14.

Sarah Kark's听poster, entitled "Effect of valence on the recapitulation of sensory processing during emotional remembering," won the Nelson Butters Award at the 2014 Massachusetts Neuropsycholoigcal Society Science Symposium. Posted 6/12/14.

Nadine Weidman, who teaches our graduate seminar on the history of psychology, has just accepted the editorship of the APA journal,听History of Psychology. Congratulations to Nadine! Posted 6/11/14.

Larisa Heiphetz听was awarded the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Posted 6/5/14.

Elizabeth Kensinger听has been appointed to serve on the Cognition and Perception Study Section, Center for Scientific Review at NIH,pl from July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2020. Posted 6/4/14.

听is featured in the June 2014 APA Monitor. Studies by听Sara Cordes,听Jen Drake,听Thalia Goldstein,听Laura Niemi, 补苍诲听Ellen Winner听are described. Posted 5/30/14.

Laura Niemi听补苍诲听Liane Young听published a paper,听, inPsychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory. Posted 5/23/14.

Larisa Heiphetz听won APA's Division 7 Dissertation Award in Developmental Psychology. Posted 5/6/14.

Kelly Dumais听was awarded the听. This honor recognizes a student whose work has made the greatest contribution to the research mission of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Kelly听听by Candace Hetzner, the associate dean for academic affairs in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Posted 5/5/14.

Christina Reppucci听has been named a recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2013-2014. Posted 5/5/14.

Gene Heyman听has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Posted 5/5/14.

Michelle Hurst听received an NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Postgraduate Scholarship. Posted 4/2/14.

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab news:听Sarah Kark听was awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship, 补苍诲听Kelly Bennion听补苍诲听Jackie Ford听were admitted to the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. Posted 4/2/14.

Liane Young听provides听听in the February 2014 issue of the APS Observer. Posted 3/12/14.

Gene Heyman听is featured in听听and a听听about the nature of addiction. Posted 3/10/14.

Drew Linsley听补苍诲听Sean MacEvoy听have published a paper in the journal Cerebral Cortex entitled "." Using perceptual experiments and fMRI, they show that two types of visual information people commonly use to recognize their whereabouts, scenes' 3D layouts and their object contents, are consolidated at a surprisingly early stage of scene processing. Posted 3/10/14.

David Miele, Assistant Professor in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education, who is an affliated 艾可直播with the Psychology Department, has just听. This is an endowed assistant professorship to support junior 艾可直播research and early-career development. Posted 2/26/14.

Sarah Kark听won the Graduate Student听听at the 25th Annual NEURON Conference yesterday for her poster entitled, "Effect of valence on the recapitulation of sensory processing during emotional remembering." Posted 2/24/14.

Kelly Dumais听补苍诲听Caroline Smith, doctoral candidates in Alexa Veenema鈥檚 lab, each won a travel award of $2,000 from the Society for Neuroscience to present their work an the biannual FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Milan, Italy. Kelly and Caroline are among a total of only fifteen U.S., Canadian, and Mexican graduate students receiving this highly competitive travel award. Posted 2/4/14.

Alexa Veenema听has been awarded a three-year NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15): Sex and Age Differences in the Neural Regulation of Social Recognition. Posted 1/13/14.

Josh Rottman, Deb Kelemen, 补苍诲听Liane Young's research on our moral response to suicide听. Posted 1/9/14.

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