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Abrams presents at Anxiety Disorder Association of America Conference in Baltimore
15 March 2010Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a paper at the Anxiety Disorders Association of America conference in Baltimore. The paper, co-authored with Kate Leger ’10, Laura Schlosser ’10, and Anna Minkina ’10, was titled “Does Acute Nicotine Use or Withdrawal Promote Panic? Findings from Biological Challenge Studies.” Abrams, Avantika Jalan ’10, Emily Snyder ’11, and Kelley Stevens ’11 also presented a poster titled “Cognitive Processes Underlying the Elevated Rate of Panic Among Smokers.”
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Lutsky presents at annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting in Las Vegas
22 February 2010Neil Lutsky, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, and Annelise M. Lawson ’09, presented the paper The Peak/End Rule in Prospective Judgments of Life Quality at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in Las Vegas in January.
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Abrams awarded grant to host undergraduate psychology conference
18 January 2010Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Dana Gross, Professor of Psychology at St. Olaf, were awarded a Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Grant by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) to organize and host a two-day conference in 2011 titled “Strategies for Internationalizing Undergraduate Psychology.”
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Neil Lutsky, Nathan Grawe, and Christopher Tassava have published “A Rubric for Assessing Quantitative Reasoning in Written Arguments” in Numeracy, the journal of the National Numeracy Network.
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Galotti presents at annual Psychonomic Society meeting
4 January 2010Kathleen M. Galotti, Professor and Director of Cognitive Science, and Educational Associate in Psychology, Lacey Dorman, 2009, presented a poster at the 2009 annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society entitled “Making Progress On and Deriving Satisfaction From Goals: Does Urgency Eclipse Importance?”
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Lutsky publishes chapter in Oxford University Press book
4 January 2010Neil Lutsky recently published the chapter “Teaching Psychology’s Endings: The Simple Gifts of a Reflective Close” in the Oxford University Press book Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major.
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Galotti publishes article in American Journal of Psychology
16 November 2009Kathleen M. Galotti, Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of Cognitive Science, and Carey Tinkelenberg ’05 recently published an article entitled “Real-Life Decision-Making: Parents Choosing a First-Grade Placement” in the American Journal of Psychology.
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Lutsky gives Plenary Address at SENCER Midwest Center for Innovation Fall Symposium
16 November 2009Neil Lutsky gave a talk titled “What is Quantitative Reasoning? A Critical Thinking Account.”
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Seth Greenberg, along with colleagues, published an article entitled “Remembrance of Eyewitness Testimony: Effects of Emotional Content, Self-Relevance, and Emotional Tone” in the December issue of Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
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Neiworth and students publish article on inequity in monkeys
25 February 2009Julie Neiworth published an article in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, February issue, 2009, together with several Carleton alumni. The article was titled “Is a sense of inequity an ancestral primate trait? Testing social inequity in cotton top tamarins.”