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 …
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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 …
Shutts awarded Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award
Our faculty are recognized nationally for their contributions to the field of psychology, and our reputation as one of the premier psychology departments in the country is undisputed. But there is nothing quite like having …
Shutts Receives Grant to Study Interventions to Reduce Racial Biases in Children
Professor of Psychology Kristin Shutts was recently awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study whether an intervention given by White parents to their kids would help reduce racial …
Siri Carpenter ’95: Psychology Major to Science Journalist
Siri Carpenter ’95 wrote down nearly every word Professor Patricia Devine said during an Introduction to Psychology course she signed up for to fulfill a breadth requirement, even that Professor Devine’s mother was “an intuitive …
SPRING 2019 UNDERGRADUATE DEPTH AND CAPSTONE COURSES
Descriptions of all Spring 2019 Depth and Capstone courses can be found here.
Stereotypes can be self-reinforcing, stubborn even without any supporting evidence
A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison shows why letting stereotypes inform our judgments of unfamiliar people can be such a hard habit to break. Stereotypes are self-perpetuating in our minds, growing …