Russell Poldrack blogs for The Huffington Post: "How Habits Can Make Or Break Us"
"We've all done it: We leave the house with the intention of driving to the dry cleaners, and then minutes later find that we forgot to make the right turn and instead ended up at the office. The universal nature of this kind of "auto-pilot" experience shows just how powerful habits are in our lives. By knowing more about where habits come from and how they develop, we can learn to both take advantage of them and manage their impact in our daily lives." Read more...
Poldrack Web Page
(posted 12/15/09)
Art Markman blogs for Psychology Today: "Another shopping tip: Consider opportunity costs"
"As we approach the holidays many of us are doing a lot of shopping. We buy gifts for family and friends, and we also pick up a few things for ourselves, taking advantage of holiday sales.
It ought to seem obvious that every dollar we spend on one purchase is a dollar that we can't spend on another purchase. Economists would say that each purchase has an opportunity cost. Once we have made that purchase, that money cannot be spent on something else in the future. To what extent do these opportunity costs affect the purchases we make?" Read more...
Markman Web Page
(posted 12/15/09)
UT Office of Public Affairs interviews Kim Fromme: "Shedding light on blackouts"
Tim Green interviews Kim Fromme on the Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky Activities (SAHARA) Laboratory's research on blackouts, which can result from drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. By examining the memory processes of those who are vulnerable to experiencing blackouts and comparing them to those who are not vulnerable to blackouts, Dr. Fromme and graduate student, Reagan Wetherill, hope to shed light on how memory deficits occur during periods of alcohol intoxication. Read more...
Fromme Web Page | Studies on Alcohol, Health, and Risky Activities (SAHARA) Laboratory
(posted 12/15/09)
Unlocking the Mystery to Addiction
In a feature story on FOX News on November 24, Kim Fromme and fellow researchers from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research discussed the ways that addiction changes the brain, and what this means for those who grapple with the problem of addiction to drugs or alcohol. Watch video...
Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research | Fromme Web Page
(posted 11/30/09)
Michael Telch, professor of clinical psychology, working with Fort Hood soldiers in study of posttraumatic stress disorder
"During the past few years, soldiers have been bused from Fort Hood to Dr. Michael Telch's anxiety disorders research lab to help determine the factors that may predispose service members to PTSD. More than 160 Iraq soldiers have completed the three phases of the study, which assesses service members prior to deployment, during deployment and after returning home from combat". Read more...
"One of the strengths of the study is that unlike just giving a questionnaire when soldiers get back from deployment, we have the opportunity to assess them before they leave".
...Michael Telch, professor of clinical psychology and principal investigator of the study
Telch Web Page | Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders
(posted 11/19/09)
Psychology undergraduate students to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in April 2010
Psychology undergraduate students James Hammond (English and Psychology) and Martinque Jones
(Psychology) will be presenting their research findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Montana, Missoula, on April 15-17, 2010. They will have the opportunity to present their research findings to a group of peers and faculty across the country also doing research. Additionally, student have the opportunity to publish their work in the Conference Proceedings.
James Hammond "The Memory of Darkness-Race and Fantasy in Medieval Romance"
Martinque Jones: "The African American Dream: A Progressive Discussion of Academic Achievement in African American Students"
(posted 11/15/09)
Rebecca Bigler and Erin Pahlke discuss racial attitudes in children on KEYE TV
Dr. Becky Bigler and graduate student Erin Pahlke (Educational Psychology) were featured on Judy Maggio's "In Depth" story on CBS KEYE TV on Tuesday night, November 10th, at 10:00pm. Their studies on racial attitudes in children were discussed, with some of the children who participated in Erin Pahlke's study at the Children's Research Lab (including the son of Dr. Rebecca Neal-Beevers and Dr. Chris Beevers).
See video feature UT research shows racial profiling at young age | Read transcript
Bigler Web Page | The Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab | See also recent cover story in Newsweek, "Is Your Baby Racist", which features research by Dr. Bigler and the Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab.
Research by Sam Gosling and Laura Naumann featured on Newsweek's "The Human Condition"
"While it’s difficult to influence the way strangers judge you from a photograph, it’s even harder to control your overall online persona when other features like friend lists and Facebook message walls come into play. 'If I want to appear extroverted, I can’t just suddenly create 450 friends and have them post on my wall and have photos of me yelling drunkenly at the camera at yet another party,' says Samuel Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas and an author of both personality studies. 'You can’t just fabricate those.' "
Read "Making a Digital First Impression: Why You Can't Fake Your Facebook Profile"
(posted 11/12/09)
Research on sleep deprivation by psychologists Todd Maddox and David Schnyer featured in "Science Daily"
"A new study in the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorization is fundamental to survival.
Read more in Sleep Deprivation Can Negatively Affect Information Processing | Maddox Web Page | Schnyer Web Page
(posted 11/03/09)
Art Markman writes about taxing bad habits in the "Houston Chronicle"
According to psychology professor Art Markman, it takes more than willpower to break a bad habit. In an Op-Ed article published in the Houston Chronicle on November 1 he states that, "There are many good arguments against adding another tax to the rolls in the United States. As a psychologist, though, I'm more interested in one bad argument that is often made against such sin taxes: the willpower argument." Read more... | Markman Web Page | Markman's "Ulterior Motives" blog
(posted 11/02/09)
Psychology undergraduates to present research at the 1st Annual Student Research Forum
Two Psychology students are among several Liberal Arts students who will be presenting their research at the 1st Annual Student Research Forum, hosted by LAUNCH. It will be held Wednesday, November 11, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., in the Joynes Reading Room of the Carothers Dorm.
James Hammond
English and Psychology
The Memory of Darkness-Race and Fantasy in Medieval Romance
Martinque Jones
Psychology
The African American Dream: A Progressive Discussion of Academic Achievement in African American Students
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from current Liberal Arts students about their research projects, learn more about LAUNCH (Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Chapter), and support your peers!
(posted 11/10/09)
Research by Sam Gosling and Sonoma State University psychologist Laura Naumann to be published in December 2009 "Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin"
"Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in creating first impressions, until now little research has examined the accuracy of personality impressions based on appearance alone. These findings will be published in the December 2009 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin."
Read more in "First Impressions Count When Making Personality Judgments, New Research Shows"
(posted 11/04/09)
See Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | Paper is available online as Downloadable PDF | Gosling Web Page | Naumann Web Page
New book authored by Cindy Meston and David Buss investigates women's sexual motivations
Psychology professors Cindy Meston and David Buss are the authors of a new book, Why Women Have Sex, published on September 29, 2009. The book investigates the motivations that guide women’s sexual decisions.
"Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide women’s sexual decisions and explain the deep-seated psychology and biology that often unwittingly drive women’s desires—sometimes in pursuit of health or pleasure, or sometimes for darker, disturbing reasons that a woman may not fully recognize."
--from Press Release, Times Books/Henry Holt and Company | Read more...
Study Reveals Complexities of Female Arousal - UT News feature
A Q&A with the authors of Why Women Have Sex - ShelfLife@Texas
The book has received extensive coverage by such major media outlets such as Time, Newsweek, CNN, and The Guardian.
See the Meston lab web site below for more information on news coverage and TV interviews.
Russell Poldrack writes about multitasking and information overload in the Huffington Post
"I will start by admitting up front that I am an information junkie. Try as I might, it's difficult for me to make it through an hour-long meeting without peeking at my iPhone at least once to check my email, and I have, on more than one occasion, come close to hurling myself down the stairs as I try to read emails while descending. Why would I do things that place me in such clear social and physical peril? Part of the answer lies in the brain's response to novelty." Read more in "Multitasking: The Brain Seeks Novelty" | Poldrack Web Page
(posted 11/02/09)
Kim Fromme's Bar Lab featured in UT blog "Further Findings"
"You go to a bar on Austin’s Sixth Street to see and be seen. You go to the Bar Lab to be watched. You go to both to drink. The Bar Lab is exactly that: A bar laboratory. It’s where Kim Fromme, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and her students conduct research on college students and drinking." Read more in "Belly up to the lab"... | Fromme Web Page | Sahara Lab
(posted 10/28/09)
Paper by Marlone Henderson published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Assistant Professor Marlone Henderson's paper, "Psychological distance and group judgments: The effect of physical distance on beliefs about common goals" has been published in the October 2009 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The article is available online as a PDF download.
Read article | Henderson Web Page
Art Markman, co-author of "Tools for Innovation", quoted in The New York Times
In an article discussing the importance of linking an innovation to something familiar, Art Markman, Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing and co-editor of Tools for Innovation, says that, “What category you place something in has a huge influence on how you view its basic properties...The category signals not only a set of features to expect, but at a more basic level, when and how you should use the novel item."
-Art Markman, in "It’s Brand New, but Make It Sound Familiar", The New York Times, October 3, 2009
Tools for Innovation was named by BusinessWeek magazine as one of their top summer reads on innovation.
Read article | Markman Web Page | "Tools for Innovation"
Sam Gosling writes about mixed signals in Psychology Today cover article
In the September 2009 issue of Psychology Today, social psychologist Sam Gosling discusses the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us.
"How well we understand ourselves has a profound impact on our ability to navigate the social realm. In some areas, we know ourselves better than others do. But in other areas, we're so biased by our need to see ourselves in a good light that we become strangers to ourselves. By soliciting feedback from other people, we can learn more about ourselves and how we're coming off. Only by understanding how we're seen can we make sure we're sending the right signals. To be understood by others, in other words, the first step is understanding ourselves."
-Sam Gosling, "Mixed Signals", Psychology Today
Read article online...
Gosling web page
Newsweek cover story discusses Psychology student and faculty research on the development of racial discrimination in children
Research by Drs. Rebecca Bigler and Brigitte Vittrup, as presented in this week's Newsweek cover story, "Is Your Baby Racist", reveals the importance of having explicit conversations about race in terms children can understand.
"For decades, it was assumed that children see race only when society points it out to them. However, child-development researchers have increasingly begun to question that presumption. They argue that children see racial differences as much as they see the difference between pink and blue—but we tell kids that "pink" means for girls and "blue" is for boys. "White" and "black" are mysteries we leave them to figure out on their own."
...from "Is Your Baby Racist", Newsweek, 09/14/09
Read more...
Rebecca Bigler web page | Gender & Racial Attitudes Lab | Children's Research Lab | Brigitte Vittrup web page
Art Markman blogs in Psychology Today
"School is back in session in Texas and many other parts of the country, and kids all over are flocking back to the classroom. The setup of a typical classroom is pretty similar to what it has been for 100 years. The teacher sits in the front of the room. The students are in desks in rows.
Setting up a classroom in this way assumes that the purpose of school is to train the minds of students. And as far as it goes, that is probably right. The problem is that we also assume that training the mind is something separate from the body."...Art Markman, "Educating mind and body I: Body affects memory" in Psychology Today online.
Read Art Markman's blog, "Ulterior Motives: How goals, both seen and unseen, drive behavior" in Psychology Today online...
Art Markman's web page
(August 2009)
New Chairs of Psychology for the 2009-2010 Academic Year
On September 1, 2009 Developmental psychologist Jacqui Woolley will assume her new position as interim chair of the Department of Psychology for the 2009-2010 academic year. Clinical psychologist and Director of Clinical Training, Caryn Carlson, is now Associate Chair of the Department. She will continue in this role when James Pennebaker returns from leave in August 2010.
Jacqueline Woolley Web Page
Caryn Carlson Web Page
Psychology Department welcomes three new faculty members
The department is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members beginning in Fall 2009.
Kathryn Paige Harden, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Clinical)
Dr. Harden received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. Her research is broadly concerned with adolescent developmental psychopathology. Web page
Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology, (Cognitive)
Director of the Imaging Research Center
Dr. Poldrack received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory, decision making, and executive function, using neuroimaging as the primary method to examine these questions. Web page
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology)
Dr. Tucker-Drob received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he was involved in research on cognitive aging. Web page
(August 2009)
Psychology staff member's home featured in the New York Times
The home of Gary Zuker, senior systems analyst, is featured in the July 30, 2009 edition of the New York Times. The house is a 900 square foot cottage he built himself out of straw and clay. Read more...
Juan Dominguez awarded grant from the National Institutes of Health
Juan Dominguez, assistant professor of psychology in behavioral neuroscience, was recently awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant funds total $401,360 ($275,000, direct cost). The proposed studies will examine regions of the brain mediating gender-sensitive behavioral differences in response to administration of cocaine.
Dr. Dominguez received his Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo. Before joining the UT faculty in 2008, he was an assistant professor of psychology at American University in Washington, DC. The goals of his lab are to elucidate the underlying neural and endocrine mechanisms regulating motivated behaviors, specifically, using the study of sexual behavior as a prototypic model for understanding motivation, its acquisition and associated disorders.
Juan Dominguez Web Page
Bas Rokers, Larry Cormack, and Alex Huk article to be published in Nature Neuroscience
In a forthcoming article to be published in the prestigious
journal Nature Neuroscience, the authors (who are all affiliated
with both the Department of Psychology and the Center for
Perceptual Systems) show that a specific brain area is responsible
for computing the three-dimensional trajectories of objects (for
example, whether an object is flying towards or away from your
head). This brain area (known somewhat enigmatically as hMT+)
had previously been linked to the computation of two-dimensional
motion (such as occurs on a TV screen or in the images on the
retinas in the back of the eyes), but the computation of three-
dimensional motion had been thought to occur elsewhere. The
results will force other scientists to rethink the way in which motion
and depth are computed and integrated in the human brain.
(posted July 2009)
Read the advanced online version of article...
Cormack Web Page | Huk Web Page | Rokers Web Page
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Psychology Department welcomes new students to the "Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)"
Front row (left to right): Virgina Pinto (UT), Victoria Rodriguez (St. Edwards), Kelly Banneyer (Rice U), Melissa Flores (UT)
Back row (left to right): Fabian Aguirre (SURE Coordinator), Patricia Moreno (UT), Estelle Anuwe (Baylor U), Sally Rocel (UTEP), Carlos Vargas (UTEP)
SURE is a summer internship program for undergraduates from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who are interested in research in psychology. It provides stipends for students to conduct 2 months of full-time (40 hours/week) summer research under the supervision of a UT-Austin Department of Psychology faculty member. This is the fourth group of students enrolled in the program, which launched in the summer of 2006.
Fabian is a graduate student researcher in Dr. Manuel Ramirez' Multicultural Psychology Lab, which, among its other goals, seeks to encourage undergraduate students from underrepresented ethnic/racial groups to pursue careers in social science research and mental health service. (posted July 2009)
Read more about the SURE program....
Peter MacNeilage' "Origins of the Left & Right Brain" published in Scientific American
Peter MacNeilage, professor of psychology in the areas of Cognition and Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology, is the author of an article published in the July 2009 issue of Scientific American. "Origins of the Left & Right Brain" proposes that, "The division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres--once thought to be uniquely human--predates us by half a billion years. Speech, right-handedness, facial recognition and the processing of spatial relations can be traced to brain asymmetries in early vertebrates." Dr. MacNeilage is the author of The Origin of Speech, which was published last year. His main research interest is in the evolution of complex action systems, which has led him to develop theories of the evolution of handedness and the evolution of speech. (posted June 2009)
Read "Origins of the Left & Right Brain" (PDF)
MacNeilage Web Page
Andreana Haley to receive grant from American Heart Association
Andreana Haley, assistant professor of clinical psychology, has been awarded a $140,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the neurocognitive effects of treated hypertension in a multiethnic sample. The grant is for a two year period.
Dr. Haley received her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in 2005. She has been teaching at the University since 2007, after two years as a Dementia Research Fellow at Brown University, and as a visiting research fellow at the Center for Neurological Imaging at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Her research examines the biological underpinnings of cognitive impairment associated with aging and dementia. (posted June 2009)
Haley Web Page
Hongjoo Lee earns research grant to pursue studies of mental health effects of hormone replacement therapy
Hongjoo Lee and Michele Rountree, assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin, are among 10 tenure-track faculty members in Texas to receive research grants totaling $150,000 from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. They will study the effects of menopause and hormone replacement therapy on attention and memory, using an animal model mimicking abnormal neural activities often seen in many mental disorders. (posted June 2009)
Read article| Hongjoo Lee Web Page | Michele Rountree Web Page
Marc Lewis' speech at May 2000 psychology commencement is one of "10 stellar commencement addresses" according to USA Today
Clincal psychology professor Marc Lewis has been named as having given one of the "10 stellar commencement addresses" in USA Today (05/13/09). Dr. Lewis' address was given on May 19, 2000 at the University of Texas Psychology Department's commencement ceremony. (posted May 2009)
Read more...
Read full text of Lewis speech | Marc Lewis Web Page
NIH grant awarded to Robert Josephs and Peter Giancola to study effects of alcohol on aggression
Peter Giancola (University of Kentucky) and Robert Josephs have been awarded $730,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of alcohol on aggression. Their project has two overarching goals: 1) Identify neuropsychological and personality traits that place an individual at risk for behaving aggressively when intoxicated, and 2) Determine how alcohol intoxication leads to aggression by examining its effects on cognitive and emotional factors. (April 2009)
Josephs Web Page | Giancola Web Page
Psychology research utilizing Diffusion Tensor MRI (DTI) technique to be published in the Journal of Neuroscience and the journal Sleep
Do individual differences in White Matter microstructure predict cognitive or genetic vulnerabilities? That is a question being asked by researchers in the Department of Psychology here at UT by using a technique referred to as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI).
The left hand figure shows the relationship between cognitive vulnerability to sleep deprivation and a composite measure of white matter microstructure in the genu of the corpus callosum. The right hand figure shows the relationship of the same measure of WM microstructure in a critical frontal-limbic pathway and 5-HTTLPR genetic status, that has been related to depression vulnerability.
In a recently accepted paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, Jenni Pacheco, Chris Beevers and David Schnyer demonstrated that people at genetic risk for depression show alterations in a critical limbic-frontal white matter pathway that has been postulated to be involved in the cognitive control of emotion. Further, in a second study, Chris Beevers, Jenni Pacheco, Peter Clasen, and David Schnyer found that smaller prefrontal white matter volume predicted delayed disengagement of attention from emotional stimuli among people at genetic risk for depression. Finally, in an article recently accepted in the journal Sleep, Matt Rocklage, Jenni Pacheco and David Schnyer demonstrated extensive white matter differences that predict cognitive vulnerability to the effects of sleep deprivation. Together these papers reveal the importance of considering white matter structure when brain mapping mental abilities. (April 2009)
David Schnyer Lab | Chris Beevers Lab
Special Issue of Visual Neuroscience, based on CPS "NETI" workshop, now in print
In 2008 the Center for Perceptual Systems sponsored a workshop titled "Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence (NETI)." The purpose of NETI was to promote a new research strategy in perception and perceptual neuroscience called "Natural Systems Analysis". A special issue of the journal, Visual Neuroscience, based on this meeting, is now in print. The issue includes three articles from psychology/CPS faculty labs (Geisler, Hayhoe and Ballard).
Organization for next year's meeting (NETI 2010) is currently in progress. (April 2009)
View PDF of the cover, inside cover, and first page of special issue
VNS Web Site | Center for Perceptual Systems
UT sex researchers identify correlation between sexual motives and satisfaction
Sexual satisfaction in both males and females is often related to motives for having sex, UT researchers have found.
Psychology graduate student Kyle Stephenson is leading the analysis of data collected for several years through 2008 from nearly 1,000 UT undergraduates in psychology professor Cindy Meston’s Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory. In addition to studying satisfaction, the lab also examines various other aspects of sex, including arousal and dysfunction.
“There were some interesting gender similarities,” Stephenson said. “Self-esteem motives — for example, if people have sex to feel better about themselves — were associated with decreased satisfaction in both men and women.”
Read more in the March 23 edition of The Daily Texan...
Researchers find that well-timed timeout is more effective in wiping out memory response to fear stimulus
"Marie Monfils, an assistant professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, has taken advantage of a key time when memories are ripe for change to substantially modify memories of fear into benign memories and to keep them that way. The finding is a significant advance in learning how memory can be manipulated in rodents. It also could indicate a potential treatment for humans suffering from anxiety-related disorders."...Tim Green, UT Office of Public Affairs (April 2009)
Read more...
Dr. Monfils paper has been published this week in Science Express, an online publication of Science. Read "Extinction-Reconsolidation Boundaries: Key to Persistent Attenuation of Fear Memories
UTmost names Psy 301 "Introduction to Psychology" classes one of top 3 "most interesting" for Spring 2009
Juan Salinas' and Deborah Stotes' "Introduction to Psychology" classes tied as UTmost's 3rd "most interesting class" of Spring 2009. Their interviews have been published in the March 13 issue of UTmost, which is published by Texas Student Media.
Download PDF with interviews...
Memorial Service Scheduled for Clarke Burnham
The Psychology Department has just learned that Clarke Burnham died on the morning of March 13, 2009. Although Clarke's death from cancer was not entirely unexpected, it occurred more quickly than anyone thought. The funeral will be on Monday at 10 AM at All Saints Episcopal Church at 209 West 27th Street.
Clarke started in the Department of Psychology in 1965 after completing his PhD with Leon Festinger at Stanford. Clarke, who was primarily interested in perception and cognition, was a mainstay of the Psychology Department for a generation. He single-handedly ran the graduate program from 1982 until his retirement in 2005. From 1996 until his retirement, Clarke served as the chair of the university IRB. Indeed, when he retired, it took two people in the Psychology Department and half a dozen in the IRB office to replace him.
The loss of Clarke, and recently, Carl Creeger, sadden us all. Our hearts are with their families and loved ones.
Read more about Dr. Burnham in the CLA College News....
Memorial Service Scheduled for Carl Creeger
Carl Creeger, a long-time staff member in the Psychology Department and Center for Perceptual Systems, died on March 4, 2009 at the age of 54. Carl worked as the department's electronics expert for many years before moving to the laboratories of Bill Geisler, Randy Diehl, and Duane Albrecht as a computer programmer and designer of computer interfaces. According to Bill Geisler, "he contributed greatly to all of our research programs and he deserves a good bit of the credit for whatever success we achieved. Carl was a very friendly and easy-going person who was fun to be around and to learn from. He will be greatly missed."
A memorial service will be held for Carl at the Pickle Road Compound (202 Pickle Rd) on Saturday, March 21, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. For more information and to RSVP if you plan to attend, please download the PDF or DOC file. (March 2009)
Dominguez paper published in The Neuroscientist
Recent research by assistant professor Juan Dominguez has just been published in the February issue of The Neuroscientist. The title of the paper is "A Role for Preoptic Glutamate in the Regulation of Male Reproductive Behavior". Dr. Dominguez is one of several new faculty members who joined the Department in 2008. He currently teaches Psy 301: Introduction to Psychology. (February 2009)
Read abstract of "A Role for Preoptic Glutamate in the Regulation of Male Reproductive Behavior" | Juan Dominguez Web Page
Zenzi Griffin in Omaha World-Herald article on word choice errors
The Omaha World-Herald refers to cognitve psychologist Dr. Zenzi Griffin, as "an expert on the psychology of language, especially errors speakers make in word choice." The column discusses Dr. Griffin's findings on the reasons why a person can be called by the wrong name.
Read "Cleveland Evans: What's your name again?"
Dr. Griffin received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (with a minor in Linguistics) from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She joined the Psychology faculty in 2008, after teaching at Stanford University and Georgia Tech. She teaches PSY 418 (Statistics and Methods) and PSY 394U (Human Language Processing).
Zenzi Griffin's Web Page
Cindy Meston in New York Times Magazine report on female sexuality
In an article titled "What Do Women Want", in the January 25, 2009 edition of The New York Times Sunday Magazine, researchers who study human sexuality discuss their findings. Among those mentioned in the article are Cindy Meston and the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory. (January 2009)
Read more in "What Do Women Want?" | Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory
