As a child growing up in New York City, Diane Carol Gooding loved the cultural diversity: the museums, the performances, and the constant hum of bustling sidewalks filled with all kinds of people, including those …
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Chat, are we cooked?
C.Shawn Green’s first big break as a psychologist started with an unexpected discovery in the ’90s: People who play fast-paced action video games saw growth in their perception, attention and cognition. As the Mark and Ilene …
Children develop racial biases as early as preschool—can parents help reduce these biases?
That’s what graduate student Katharine Scott wants to find out. When she started her PhD program in 2015, working in both Kristin Shutts’s Social Kids Lab and Patricia Devine’s Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab, Scott’s …
Chuck Snowdon Honored
Chuck Snowdon will receive the Distinguished Primatologist Award from the American Society of Primatologists, which recognizes his outstanding career and contributions to the field. This is the highest award that the ASP can bestow, and …
Clarke and Zettersten awarded NSF Fellowships
Emily Clarke of Professor Janet Hyde’s lab, and Martin Zettersten of both Professor Jenny Saffran and Professor Gary Lupyan’s labs have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships this year. Please join us in congratulating them.
Clinical Psychology PhD students all match in Phase 1 to predoctoral internships sites
A full‑time, yearlong clinical internship is the final major milestone before clinical psychology students earn their PhDs. Through “Match Day,” a nationwide process that pairs students and internship sites based on mutual rankings and fit, …
Code to Recovery
When you’re addicted, almost everything can be a trigger. A location. A song on the radio. A memory. The smallest thing can unleash an irresistible craving that leads to relapse. It’s what makes overcoming addiction to …
Coffey and Koenigs, along with community partners, recognized for partnership between academia and lived experience for youth empowerment
Congratulations to Dr. Patti Coffey and Dr. Mike Koenigs, along with community partners Aaron Hicks, Frank Davis, and Ben Trolinger, recipients of a Community University Partnership Award! Their project, Best of Both Worlds: Partnership between …
Coffey receives Alliant Energy James R. Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Patricia Coffey, teaching faculty member in the Department of Psychology and respected forensic psychologist, was recently honored by the Universities of Wisconsin and the Alliant Energy Foundation for her exemplary contributions to teaching and …
Communities that experience mass shootings drink more alcohol in the aftermath, a new study finds
Public mass shootings in the United States increase alcohol sales in the affected communities for years afterward, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The findings, published this week in the journal PNAS Nexus, …