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The Psychology Advising and Resource Center hosts a graduate school workshop on Tuesday, March 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Porter 103. Planning for Graduate School? How to Get Started: A Workshop for Psychology Students helps answer questions for Psychology majors applying to graduate school. What is involved in […]

The Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Stephen Benning on “The Psychopathic Circumplex: Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral and Interpersonal Correlates of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality” on Friday, Feb. 5, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102. Benning is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He earned […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team competes in the regional American Mock Trial Association contest at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pennsylvania on Feb. 26-28. The Ohio University Mock Trial Team is a new interdisciplinary student organization made up of 19 students interested in law and the legal system. Prospective […]

Psychology graduate student Andrew McClintock received the Elsie Ramos First Author Student Poster Award at the annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) in Chicago in November. McClintock’s adviser, Dr. Timothy Anderson, Associate Professor of Psychology, co-authored the poster on “Mindfulness-Based Treatment for Maladaptive Interpersonal Dependency: […]

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 Can discrimination have an effect on physical health? Wilson Figueroa, a graduate student in health psychology, thinks so. Through his research in the Psychology Department’s stress lab, Figueroa is tracking associations between discrimination and self-reports of poor health in the LGBT community. His adviser is Dr. […]

The Center for Intervention Research in Schools is looking for children ages 8 to 14 with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity to participate in a research study about social and emotional skills. Children will view pictures of faces of animals, watch a children’s television show, and be asked […]

Dr. Kimberly Rios, Assistant Professor of Psychology, was interviewed about her research on stereotypes about Christians in science for NPR’s Morning Edition. In addition to host David Green, NPR’s Shankar Vedantam and Steve Inkeep joined the conversation. VEDANTAM: That’s right, Steve. Most of the work on stereotype threat has looked […]