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Julie Neiworth interviewed on NPR program
6 December 2010Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, was interviewed recently for an NPR-related program about animal awareness and language. Listen to the Interview, which occurs about half-way through the program. It features her observations about the recent Hauser debacle at Harvard and the effect of it on the field of animal cognition and psychology.
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Greenberg publishes article in Scientific Studies in Reading
15 November 2010Seth Greenberg, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology, along with Vincent Chuan ’09, published an article “Chinese Radical Detection Also Depends on Linguistic Role” in Scientific Studies in Reading. November 2010, 544-553. The article examines how Chinese readers process various types of function morphemes in Chinese as a test of Koriat and Greenberg’s structural model of reading. The study indicates that reading ideographic text, in respect to processing function units, is like that of reading alphabetic text. Mark Hansell, Professor of Chinese, provided valuable assistance in this project.
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Abrams publishes article in Journal of Gambling Studies
13 September 2010Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, in collaboration with Serena King of Hamline University, and Todd Wilkinson of the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, published an article in the Journal of Gambling Studies titled “Personality, Gender, and Family History in the Prediction of College Gambling.”
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Abrams publishes article in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
31 May 2010Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, in collaboration with Fiammetta Cosci (University of Florence), Koen Schruers (Maastricht University), and Eric Griez (Maastricht University), co-authored an article published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry titled “Cigarette smoking and panic: A critical review of the literature.”
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Greenberg publishes article in Perceptual and Motor Skills
26 April 2010Seth Greenberg, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor and Chair of Psychology, and Maren Macgreggor-Hannah ’07, published a paper on cross-race face identification that examines the differences in features examined when recognizing own and other race faces. The article appears in Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2010, 110, 2, 567-579.
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Neiworth awarded Minnesota Psychological Association’s Walter D. Mink Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award
19 April 2010Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, is being awarded the Minnesota Psychological Association’s (MPA) Walter D. Mink Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award. This award is given to the best undergraduate teacher of psychology in the state, and recognizes a teacher who brings a special quality or commitment to undergraduate teaching in psychology. Neiworth accepted the award at the Minnesota Psychological Association’s annual meeting on Saturday, April 17, in Plymouth.
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Abrams publishes two chapters in Nova Science book Social Drinking: Uses, Abuses, and Psychological Factors
12 April 2010Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Melissa Mayer ’09, published two chapters in the Nova Science book Social Drinking: Uses, Abuses, and Psychological Factors. The chapters are titled “Alcohol Cues, Alcohol Expectancies, and Aggression” and “Abstinence vs. Controlled Drinking: Trends and a Call for Research.” The former chapter, for which Melissa is first author, is based largely on Melissa’s comps research.
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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.”