Payir is Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston/Harvard University

Dr. Ayse Payir (PhD, 2015) is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boston University (BU) School of Education. She is working with Drs. Kathleen Corriveau (BU) and Paul Harris (Harvard) on a project that examines children’s ideas about religion and science cross-culturally. The research team aims to conduct experiments that… Continue reading…

Kendon Smith Lecture Series: March 2 and 3, 2017

The Department of Psychology is proud to announce this year’s Kendon Smith Lecture Series: Memory across time: From neurons to life stories Featuring: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University), Dr. Thomas Lyon (University of Southern California), Dr. Elaine Reese (University of Otago, New Zealand), and Dr. Daniel Schacter (Harvard University) Organizer: Dr. Jeni Pathman   Schedule Thursday, March… Continue reading…

New paper by graduate student Katherine Cotter

Katherine Cotter has published a new paper titled, “Musical minds: Personality, schizotypy, and involuntary musical imagery” in the journal Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain. The work is co-authored with fellow social psychology graduate student Alex Christensen and Faculty Advisor, Dr. Paul Silvia. Access the abstract here. The paper examines the relation… Continue reading…

Hard Data Café Series: Fall, 2016

The Experimental area program is proud to present this semester’s Hard Data Cafe. All are welcome and encouraged to attend these talks!

Graduate Research Colloquium

The Department of Psychology will hold its annual Graduate Research Colloquium on Friday, September 9 at 1pm. This is a signature event in which rising 2nd year graduate students present their research to department faculty and students, as well as other guests from around the university. Research presented at this… Continue reading…

Faculty Search: Child Clinical Psychology

Child Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor) position  #2286 The Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Child Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2017. The Department of Psychology consists of 21 tenure-track faculty and offers a BA and BS in psychology,… Continue reading…

Clinical Program Awarded GPEP Grant

We are proud to announce that our Clinical Psychology program has once again received a Graduate Psychology Education Preparation Grant (Total Direct and Indirect Costs: $921, 037; 2016-2019). Congratulations to Primary Investigator Dr. Susan Keane and Co-Investigators Drs. Rosemery Nelson-Gray, Gabriela Stein, and Blair Wisco on this accomplishment. The project… Continue reading…

Department welcomes Dr. Chris Wahlheim

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Chris Wahlheim has joined the department! Dr. Wahlheim is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology and the Director of the Memory and Cognition Lab at UNCG. He completed his PhD and postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis, where his work was… Continue reading…

In memoriam: Dr. Anthony James (Tony) DeCasper

Anthony James (Tony) DeCasper, Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Tony DeCasper passed away from complications of glioma at the age of 75 on July 4, 2016. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Akron, served in the US Air Force from… Continue reading…

Marcinowski enjoys grant success in Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Emily Marcinowski is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physical Therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Emily earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at UNCG in 2015 under the direction of Dr. George Michel in the Infant Development Center. Her research program focuses on the way in which… Continue reading…