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Janet Hyde has been awarded the Evjue Bascom Professorship.

On November 20, 2021, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality presented its Distinguished Service to SSSS Award to Professor Janet Shibley Hyde. Hyde is the Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychology and Gender …

Psychology alumna Carolyn Zahn-Waxler ’62 has spent more than 50 years researching children’s emotional lives, focusing largely on the origins and development of empathy and caring behaviors. Her questions – from how young humans respond …

Our friend and colleague, Professor Len Berkowitz passed away on January 3rd, 2016. Professor Berkowitz was a faculty member in the Psychology Department from 1955 to 1989, and is considered one of the founding members …

I study ways to improve the mental, physical, social, and general well-being of sexual violence survivors. Decades of research have revealed that about one in five women in the United States will experience a rape …

When Jonathan Gallimore joined the Department of Psychology in the fall of 2019, he had never taught a 350-person class and relished the opportunity to adapt his active learning techniques to large classes. Less than …

Prejudice and bias researcher William Cox spoke with Channel 3000’s Amy Reid for the March 26 evening news about the psychology behind foreign election interference.  Research scientist William Cox, an expert on bias and prejudice, …

Are bilinguals more creative than monolinguals? A recent study from the Austerweil Lab published today examined the relationship between an individual’s knowledge representation and their creativity. It supports the null hypothesis that bilingualism offers no …

BBC Future recently highlighted bias research from Patricia Devine, William Cox, Xizhou Xie and colleagues, detailing strategies for reducing bias: “I don’t know if we could ever get rid of those underlying associations, but we …

Here’s how it typically works. A parent brings their child to their pediatrician, concerned about a potential mental health condition — maybe it’s anxiety, or maybe it’s depression. That pediatrician asks the child a set of questions, then assigns a …