The Department of Psychology is pleased to recognize Associate Professor Karen Schloss with this year’s Departmental Teaching Award. Schloss’s contributions in her courses, Information Visualization (Psych 711/601) and Psychology of Perception (Psych 406), have had …
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Schloss shares color communication research on WPR
Visual Reasoning Lab director and associate professor of psychology Karen Schloss spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio about how we interpret different things from different colors and how color helps us communicate. Tune in here. …
Scientific American: Discrimination Persists in Society—but Who Discriminates?
Americans are becoming more tolerant of people of different races, ethnicities and sexual orientations, recent research indicates. Yet discrimination toward people in marginalized groups persists at disturbingly high levels. Scientists have proposed two hypotheses to explain this apparent …
Secret Smiles: What cues do we lose when a smile’s hidden beneath a mask?
Professor of psychology Paula Niedenthal would be among the first to tell you that a smile is never just a smile. Couple wearing face masks with smiles printed on them. (Photo: Filip Bunkens/Unsplash) While many …
Seth Pollak elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Seth Pollak, University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professor of Psychology and an expert on child brain and behavioral development, was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. …
Seth Pollak in The Washington Post: How Parents Can Help Themselves, and their children, feel okay again
Parents can talk about their child’s personal growth and say, “ ‘I’ve been thinking how great it was that you found ways to stay connected to your friends,’ ” says Seth Pollak, a professor in the …
Seth Pollak’s research featured in Knowable Magazine, “Studying poverty through a child’s eyes”
Researchers studying how poverty and adversity affect children’s development often track how negative experiences — be they poverty itself or factors such as having an incarcerated parent — affect decision-making, stress levels or aspects of brain function. …
Shawn Green Receives Award from the Office of Naval Research
Professor Shawn Green has been honored with a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. Professor Green’s previous work has shown that playing some types of highly active and demanding video games results …
Showing pro-diversity feelings are the norm makes individuals more tolerant
Showing people how their peers feel about diversity in their community can make their actions more inclusive, make members of marginalized groups feel more like they belong, and even help close racial achievement gaps in …
Shutts awarded Cattell Sabbatical Award
Psychology professor Kristin Shutts has been awarded a 2022-2023 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award. Since 1974, the James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship has provided professors with a supplemental sabbatical allowance, allowing them to extend their …