Posts tagged with “Psychology in the News” (All posts)
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Interview by Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) with Julie Neiworth about her ACE course Neuropsychology of Aging Outside link
6 February 2026Carleton Professor of Psychology, Julie Neiworth’s neuropsychology of aging course includes an optional lab practicum, which facilitates weekly student interactions with elders at the Northfield local care center, Three Links. The experiential elements of the class and the lab help students debunk myths about memory loss, understand respectful caregiving techniques, and form meaningful emotional connections with residents. Emily Seru, Associate Director for Academic Civic Engagement and Scholarship, recently sat down with Julie to talk with her about how this class came to be, and where she sees the benefits and challenges of a lab practicum shared with students from two different courses and disciplines (Psychology and Sociology).
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Professor Julia Strand, gives a TEDx Talk at St. Olaf College
18 September 2025Julia Strand, professor of psychology, gave a TEDx talk titled, “Color is in the Mind of the Beholder.” In it, she shared insights about the science (and wonder) of color…
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Sarah Meerts, professor of neuroscience and psychology, published a paper titled, “Apomorphine-induced disruption of paced mating behavior in female rats is attenuated by eticlopride, a D2 receptor antagonist, but not…
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Julia Strand, associate professor of psychology, received two commendations from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.
6 September 2023The first commendation was for her 2023 paper, “Error Tight,” which describes exercises for lab groups to identify places in their research workflow where errors may occur and pinpoint ways…
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Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of psychology, presented a talk titled “Using a Web-Based Correspondence Bias Module to Enrich Introductory Students’ Encounter with Psychology” at the 2023 Psychology…
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Neiworth co-authored paper with alumni on whether monkeys can reason to find a treat Outside link
15 June 2023Julie Neiworth, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences and Psychology, and co-authors Ana Knighten (Cognitive Science, 2020) and Christopher Leppink-Shands (Psychology, 2019) published an article entitled “Is inferential reasoning a distinctly human cognitive feature? Testing reasoning in cotton top tamarins” in the Journal of Comparative Psychology (June 12, 2023, online version). This study used a 2-4 cups game common to testing human toddlers, apes, and now monkeys to see if they could infer where a treat is hidden based on partial information.
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Associate Professor Mija Van Der Wege and students Henry Edmonds ’23, Samira Gado ’24, and Amanda Lilienfeld ’23 presented the poster This Statement is False: Labeling Lies Don’t Help at…
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Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, Amanda Lilienfeld ’23 and Samira Gado ’24 presented two posters at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago: “This statement is false: labeling lies doesn’t help,”…
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Associate Professor Julia Strand Gives Two Invited Virtual Talks for an International Audience
5 May 2023Julia Strand, associate professor and chair of psychology, recently gave two invited virtual talks for international audiences. The first was for the Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum, sponsored by the Chinese University…
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Neiworth presents with other faculty who teach across disciplinary divides — LTC event at Carleton
25 April 2023Julie Neiworth, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences and Psychology, together with Professors Annette Nierobisz, Sociology, Claire Kelling, Statistics, and Deborah Gross, Chemistry showcase 3 models of interdisciplinary teaching…
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