Psychology News

Kathleen 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.

Neil Lutsky gave a talk titled “What is Quantitative Reasoning? A Critical Thinking Account.”

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.

Julie 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.”

Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, presented research entitled “Number Discrimination in a New World Monkey Species: Assessment of Tamarins Across 3 Tasks, All Using a 2:1 Ratio”, alongside five student co-authors.

Mija van Der Wege presented a poster entitled “The Effects of Audience Awareness and Interactivity on Referential Communication Tasks” at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Julie Neiworth, Professor of Psychology, co-authored a presentation with three Carleton students and alumni, entitled “Hierarchical Processing of Stimuli by Adults, 5-Year Olds, and Monkeys”.

Mija Van Der Wege recently presented a poster entitled “Learning to be fluently disfluent”.