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May 14, 2020
Edward Ester, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, which provides a grant of $553,436.
April 23, 2020
Across a two-month period, primary school children perceived by classmates as someone who is fun to be around experienced an increase in the number of classmates who liked them and the number who rated them as popular.
March 30, 2020
When discussions occur face-to-face, people know where their conversational partner is looking and vice versa. With “virtual” communication due to COVID-19 and the expansive use of mobile and video devices, now more than...
March 25, 2020
For the study, babies were fitted with a stretch Lycra cap to measure EEG activity during a five-minute quiet-alert state at three-months. Oxytocin was measured by collecting maternal and infant urine, and infant cortisol...
January 13, 2020
The orange section shown in the fMRI image of the brain is the region in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) researchers identified in their study. Activity in the dACC signals surprising events during motivated behav...
July 09, 2019
Many bullies have parents who are hostile, punitive and rejecting. Derisive parenting precipitates a cycle of negative affect and anger between parents and adolescents, which ultimately leads to greater adolescent bullying...
July 19, 2017
One in 5 children in the U.S. live in households in which a language other than English is spoken, and 79 percent of school-age language minority children in the U.S are Spanish-speaking. Children from these homes are at...