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Happy Holidays & Congratulations to our Graduates
The Psychology Department would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday! We’d also like to congratulate all of our students, undergraduate and graduate, who were awarded their hard-earned degrees at the December convocation. Our newly minted PhD holders, all from our clinical psychology program, are shown in this photo. From left to right:
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Vrshek-Schallhorn wins Career Development Award
Dr. Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn is the recipient of a 2014 Career Development Travel Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. This award was also honored at the annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, held November 20-23, 2014 in Philadelphia. Vrshek-Schallhorn earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of
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Kane and other researchers offer clarification on “brain training” effects
Dr. Michael Kane is part of a prestigious group of memory and neuroscience researchers who signed a consensus statement concerning the effects of brain training of cognitive abilities. The statement addresses questionable claims made by some brain-game manufacturers that their products enhance alertness, intelligence, and memory, and that they stave off cognitive slowing and forgetfulness.
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Delaney & Sahakyan research discussed in Scientific American
Research by Drs. Peter Delaney and Lili Sahakyan was part of a recent Scientific American feature on mind wandering, which refers generally to the tendency to shift one’s attention away from a primary task. In the 2010 paper that is discussed by Scientific American, Delaney and colleagues demonstrated that daydreams can cause forgetting of encoded
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Hot off the press: Silvia’s latest book
Dr. Paul Silvia’s new book, “Write It Up” (APA Books, 2015) will be released in the coming weeks. Suitable for early career and seasoned scholars, the book offers strategies for producing compelling, high-impact journal articles, as well as a host of tips for navigating the publication process. Silvia is also the author of “How To
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DeCasper paper voted one of “most important” in child psychology
In a recent survey, members of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Society on Infant Studies, and the Cognitive Development Society voted Dr. Anthony DeCasper’s landmark paper, “Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer their Mothers’ Voices” (1980) as the 15th most important paper in the study of child psychology since 1960. Dr. DeCasper
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Silvia is President-Elect of APA Division 10
Dr. Paul Silvia has been named the President-Elect of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. This society promotes interdisciplinary scholarship that falls into three primary topics: creativity, the arts, and subjective impressions of the arts. Silvia has conducted extensive work in these areas,
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Wisco named “Rising Star” in Clinical Science
Dr. Blair Wisco has been named a “Rising Star” in Clinical Science by the Association for Psychological Science. Wisco earned a PhD in clinical psychology at Yale University in 2011, after which she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for PTSD in Boston, MA. She joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant
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Research Excellence Awards for Kane and Silvia
Two Psychology Department faculty have won the two highest research awards at UNCG. Dr. Michael Kane was named this year’s recipient of the UNCG Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award. His research program centers on attention and working memory, with particular emphasis on individual differences using a variety of methodologies (experimental, correlational, experience sampling). Dr. Paul
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Stein Awarded 2014-2015 Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship
The Bernard-Glickman professorship is awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences to Assistant Professors in recognition of “outstanding accomplishments as a member of our faculty and the demonstration of great promise for the future.” Dr. Gabriela Stein was nominated for her outstanding research in Latino mental health, and for the study of depression and
