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Dean’s Early Career Research Award Recipients Announced
Assistant Professors Monica Rosenberg and Sarah Newman recognized with the inaugural round of awards and research funding By Sarah Steimer The f...
January 28, 2023
Students who study abroad are more civically engaged
This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their page here. A recent study from UChicago's Center for Practical Wisd...
January 5, 2023
New Research Points to the Amygdala as a Contributor to Motivational Biases in Visual Perception
A study in Cerebral Cortex explores how individuals can be motivated to biased perceptions. By Sarah Steimer People are biased to see what they’...
November 19, 2022
Researchers Use Social Media App to Discover a Multidimensional Map of Memory
Personal memories documented via social media opens new doors for studying multiple components of memory content By Sarah Steimer Because ...
October 31, 2022
Researching psychological well-being -- and the societies that foster it
Professor Shigehiro Oishi discusses his career thus far and what’s next at UChicago By Aubrey Christofersen Now the Marshall Field IV P...
October 27, 2022
New study explores how self-transcendence and self-influence impact how we evaluate for meaning and happiness in life
Participants in the study also rated the importance of the factors differently when considering others versus themselves. By Sarah Steimer Many ...
October 11, 2022
Peace-building proposals are better perceived through a native language than a lingua franca
New research shows the benefits of using native language to promote trust-building during conflict. The choice of language in a negotiation is ofte...
September 12, 2022
Inaugural Grabosky Lecture to Feature Marina Bedny on November 3
Bedny’s work in the fields of psychology and neuroscience places her among future-generation leaders in STEM. By Sarah Steimer The Grabosky Neur...
September 1, 2022