Department of Psychology News

Florida Atlantic University has announced the winners of the 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition organized by the Graduate College.

About 580,000 people aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease in Florida and that number is expected to soar to 720,000 by 2025.

In the current social climate of the world, internalizing conditions like anxiety and depression are becoming increasingly common in children and adolescents. Meanwhile, the availability and accessibility of computer and...

Infants of depressed and breastfeeding mothers showed neither behavioral nor brain development dysregulation previously found in infants of depressed mothers.

Children with mean friends described increases in relationship negativity over time, whereas children with nice friends reported that relationship negativity declined.

Re-entry programs are not as effective for African American men when compared to others. The vast number of them return within one to three years of their release.

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.

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.

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...

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...