Social area graduate student Tyler Robinson (faculty mentor: Dr. Ethan Zell) is proud to report a new publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This paper reflects a second-order meta-analysis of over 3000 studies and 1 million participants. This work shows a strong positive relation between emotional… Continue reading…
Congratulations to developmental graduate student Julianne Peebles, who was recognized as a winner in the Social Sciences, Education, and Business category at the annual Graduate Research & Creativity Showcase at UNCG. Peebles presented work from her Master’s thesis, titled “My Body Does So Much for Me”: How 8- to 10-Year-Old Girls in… Continue reading…
Dr. Jaimie Lunsford, a graduate of the clinical program (Faculty mentor: Dr. Kari Eddington) recently published her dissertation work in Emotion. Check out the abstract (i.e., a summary of the work) below, and read the full paper here. Congratulations, Dr. Lunsford! This study used a qualitative approach to examine how… Continue reading…
Social area graduate student Tyler Robinson (faculty mentor: Dr. Ethan Zell) recently published work in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations examining people’s attitudes toward Confederate symbols (e.g., flags and monuments) in the United States. Across two studies ranging college-aged and online samples, Robinson showed that a tendency for more conservative… Continue reading…
People have lots of lay theories about how relationships work. But do these lay theories reflect what psychological research reveals about the inner workings of relationships? In a large-scale collaboration, UNCG Ph.D. graduate Dr. Ashlyn Brady and her faculty mentor, Dr. Levi Baker, led work asking if men or women… Continue reading…
Have you ever made a sarcastic comment to a partner? It’s not actually helpful in terms of bringing about a desired change and, in fact, it undermines relationship quality. Why, then, do people continue to use indirect opposition when confronting their partners? Dr. Levi Baker and colleagues endeavored to find… Continue reading…
Dr. Margaret Fields-Olivieri, director of the TALK Lab, recently published research in Infant Behavior and Development examined communication sequence that reflect important aspects of parent-toddler conversation. Along with clinical graduate students Kristin Jennings, Crystal Thinzar, and Brianna Halter, Dr. Fields-Olivieri showed that the extent to which toddlers had more effortful… Continue reading…
The Psychonomic Society recently announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, “Individual Differences in Cognition.” Dr. Mike Kane, director of the IDEA Lab, has been named one of the two inaugural co-editors of this journal. Dr. Kane’s inclusion as this journal begins speaks to his reputation as an expert… Continue reading…
What’s brown and sticky? A STICK! But why do people find this joke funny? Why does it evoke a likely universal eye roll response? A recent preprint from Dr. Paul Silvia endeavored to answer these questions by analyzing over 32,000 jokes from the Reddit community dadjokes. You can read the… Continue reading…
Congratulations to clinical psychology student Emily Heinlein (faculty mentor: Dr. Blair Wisco), who successfully defended her thesis on Wednesday, 11/19. Her thesis focused on guilt and shame as potential drivers of social isolation in a trauma-exposed sample. Looking forward to learning where this research takes you, Emily! Congratulations!
