Colors convey meaning, influence behavior and make us experience emotions. To explain why this is, Larry Meiller of WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show talks with Karen Schloss, associate professor of cognition in UW-Madison’s Department of …
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Schloss Lab Receives NSF grant to understand visual reasoning
Led by Assistant Professor of Psychology Karen Schloss, the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab investigates how people make conceptual inferences from visual information, and how those inferences influence judgments about the world. Now, armed with a …
Schloss recognized with Departmental Teaching Award
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 …
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 …