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 Sloane Freeman on a successful MA thesis defense! Pictured from left to right are committee members Dr. Levi Baker, Dr. Paul Silvia, Sloane Freeman, and faculty mentor Dr. Brittany Cassidy.
Congratulations to clinical student Haley Hedrick on a successful MA thesis defense! Pictured here with Haley Hedrick are committee members Drs. Kari Eddington, Paul Silvia, and Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn.
They scurry around the department to classes, labs, and seminars. We see them present and read their reaction papers. Let’s take some time to learn about the people behind the PowerPoints. Graduate students are essential to the research enterprise and valued members of any department with a graduate program. The… 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…
Clinical graduate student Shae Nester (Faculty mentor: Dr. Blair Wisco) recently received two honors from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Shae received the 2026 Pierre Janet Writing Award. This award signifies the best clinical, theoretical or research paper in the field of dissociative and/or trauma… Continue reading…
Clinical psychology graduate student Greg Chase (Faculty mentor: Dr. Michaeline Jensen) recently published a paper from his comprehensive exam in Developmental Review. In this paper, Greg examined how the reinforcement of behavior problems manifests in online spaces. He also considered key components of social media that are more or less… 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…
