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New funding for Silvia, Beaty, Kwapil, and Kane
Drs. Paul Silvia, Roger Beaty, Thomas Kwapil, and Michael Kane have received competitive funding from the Imagination Institute. Their project will examine the neuroscience of individual differences in creative thought, using neuroimaging, cognitive tasks, personality factors, and intensive daily experience sampling in a community sample varying in creative accomplishment. Paul Silvia and Roger Beaty are
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Mendez comments on recent tragedy in Charleston
Dr. Julie Mendez, Associate Professor of Psychology, commented on the emotional consequences of the massacre in Charleston in the Winston Salem Journal. The article can be accessed here. Mendez is a licensed psychologist and a core member of the APA-accredited graduate training program in Clinical Psychology in the department. She has expertise in parenting, school
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Psychology Clinic to host Dream Camp this summer
The UNCG Psychology Clinic is hosting DREAM Camp this summer! DREAM Camp is a therapeutic and recreational summer day camp for children/adolescents ages 8-18 years with social skills and friendship challenges, including but not limited to those with High Functioning Autism. The main focus of the camp is to enhance social and friendship skills. In
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Postdoctoral position available in the DUCK Lab
The DUCK Lab (Development and Understanding of Children’s Knowledge), led by Drs. Janet Boseovski and Stuart Marcovitch invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. We seek excellent candidates who have earned a PhD in developmental psychology with an emphasis on cognitive or social aspects of development. Funds for this position are not tied to a specific
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Delaney gives invited address at University of Granada
Dr. Peter Delaney traveled to Spain this spring to give an invited address titled, “Personality, Inner Strength, and Memory: How Different People Remember and Forget“, based on work completed with graduate students Yoojin Chang and Jake King, undergraduates Alyssa Mielock and Juan Ventura, and colleagues Dr. Rosemery Nelson-Gray and Dr. Kari Eddington. During his trip, Dr.
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Department Graduation Ceremony: May 8, 2015
The department will hold this year’s graduation ceremony on Friday May 8 at 2:30pm in the Cone Ballroom of the Elliott University Center. Dr. Stuart Marcovitch, Head of Psychology, will preside over the event. We are proud to announce that this year’s class speaker is Ms. Markeela Lipscomb (shown on the right), honors student and
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New paper and summer institute acceptance for Strickhouser
Jason Strickhouser, a graduate student in the social psychology program (Advisor: Dr. Ethan Zell) has been selected to attend the 2015 Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology, which is a two-week intensive experience for pre-doctoral students in the discipline. The workshop is taught by key figures in the field and this year’s program will
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Clinical program has 100% internship match rate
We are proud to announce that all of the students in this year’s cohort matched successfully to their preferred American Psychological Association-accredited predoctoral internships. Our clinical program has a consistent record of success in these placements, which is a testament to the skills of the students and the mentorship and training provided by our faculty.
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Kendon Smith Lecture Series: April 9 and 10, 2015
The Department of Psychology is proud to announce this year’s Kendon Smith Lecture Series: Self in a Social World: Social Psychological Perspectives on Self and Identity Featuring: Dr. Geoffrey Cohen (Stanford University), Dr. Jennifer Crocker (Ohio State University), Dr. David Dunning (Cornell University), and Dr. Daphna Oyserman (University of Southern California) Organizer: Dr. Ethan Zell
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Accolades and new paper for graduate student Roger Beaty
Roger Beaty, a graduate student in the social psychology program (faculty advisor: Dr. Paul Silvia), has published a review paper on “The neuroscience of musical improvisation” in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. The paper synthesizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of improvisation, with the aim of identifying the complex brain regions that subserve this skill
