2016 Department News
Katie McAuliffe听has won the听2017 Early Career Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development. Congratulations Katie! Posted 12/9/16.
Jessica Karanian听received an APA Dissertation Award, which will be used to fund some of her dissertation research involving fMRI-guided TMS听to听assess the role of early visual regions during confident false memories for visual information. Posted 11/22/16.
M. E. Panero, along with Hiram Brownell, Ellen Winner, and researchers from other universities combined forces 补苍诲听. Posted 10/11/16.
Lauren Anderson听was awarded the Student Poster Award for the best poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Posted 10/4/16.
Sarah Kark听has a new publication with听Scott Slotnick听补苍诲听Elizabeth Kensinger听entitled "" in听Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.听Posted 9/29/16.
Jim Russell听and colleagues published an article, "The Fear Gasping Face as a Threat Display in a Small-Scale Melanesian Society," in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science). Posted 9/19/16.
Maureen Ritchey听received an R00 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health: "Emotional modulation of human memory processes and cortico-hippocampal systems." Posted 9/16/16.
Elizabeth Kensinger听补苍诲听Ehri Ryu, in collaboration with Angela Gutchess at Brandeis University, have been awarded an R21 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study "Mechanisms supporting encoding of self-referential and emotional information with age." Posted 9/16/16.
Joshua Hartshorne听has received a three-year NSF grant entitled, "CompCog: Large-scale, empirically based, publicly accessible database of argument structure to support experimental and computational research." Posted 8/24/16.
A recent publication by听Michelle Hurst听补苍诲听Sara Cordes听飞补蝉听(Particularly Exciting Experiments in Psychology). Posted 8/19/16.
Liane Young听received a three-year grant from NSF entitled, "Social cognition for competition versus cooperation." Posted 8/3/16.
Joshua Hartshorne听补苍诲听Katherine McAuliffe听received the American Psychological Foundation鈥檚 2016 Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grant. This grant will fund a summer research experiences program for high schoolers next summer. Posted 7/20/16.
Liane Young听and former doctoral student听Laura Niemi听丑补惫别听听颈苍听The New York Times听June 26. Posted 6/27/16.
Kelly Bennion听and members of Mike Chee's laboratory at Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School have published a new paper entitled "" in the听Journal of Sleep Research. Posted 6/23/16.
Kelly Bennion听补苍诲听Elizabeth Kensinger听have published a new paper entitled "" in the journal听Behavioral Neuroscience. Posted 6/15/16.
John Christianson听has been awarded an NIMH R21 grant entitled听Stressor controllability,听resilience 补苍诲听prefrontal endocannabinoids. The project will begin听July 1听and run for two years, with total costs in excess of $430,000. Posted 6/6/16.
Congratulations to the Psychology majors who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on Sunday, May 22nd, 2016: Daniel Cho, Kerri Keeler, Cara Lucke, Morgan McGoey, Scott Rizzi, Mary Sarlitto, Andrew Seto, Caitlin Slotter, and Andrew Stone. These students join others in the Boston College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron of Massachusetts, and include the very best scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences. Posted 5/25/16.
Sara Cordes, in collaboration with Hilary Barth and Andrea Patalano at Wesleyan University, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation on the "Foundations of Quantitative Thought: Number, Space, Time, and Probability." Posted 5/19/16.
Ellen Winner听补苍诲听Sara Cordes听(along with听Jill Hogan, who co-authored the grant and directs the project) have been awarded a two-year Research: Artworks grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support their study on the effects of intensive orchestral music training on children's executive functioning, affective development, and school liking. Posted 5/11/16.
Katie McAuliffe's 2011 paper "" in听颁辞驳苍颈迟颈辞苍听is listed as one of the most cited articles in this journal since 2011. Posted 5/3/16.
Kelly Dumais, graduate student in Alexa Veenema's lab, is the 2016 recipient of the Donald and Helene White Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the field of social sciences. Posted 5/2/16.
Jessica Karanian听won the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award. Posted 4/28/16.
Laura Niemi听won a poster award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society for her dissertation's fMRI research. She will present this work at the SANS conference this month. Posted 4/13/16.
Gorica Petrovich听has been appointed to serve on the Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Study Section, Center for Scientific Review at NIH, from July 1, 2016 until June 30, 2022. Posted 4/11/16.
Barry Schneider听has just published the second edition of his book,听Childhood Friendships and Peer Relations: Friends and Enemies (2nd Edition), New York, Routledge 2016. Posted 4/11/16.
Ellen Winner听objects to Boston Globe听听颈苍 a听. Posted 4/4/16.
Gene Heyman听and two recent 小艾电竞 undergraduates, Katherine Grisanzio from Psychology and Victor Liang from Chemistry, published a paper titled听听颈苍听Frontiers in Cognition. Posted 3/29/16.
Morgan Rogers, a student in the lab of John Christianson, was awarded a 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Fellowship. Posted 3/29/16.
John Christianson听is named the Gianinno Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor in recognition of excellence in research, teaching, and service. Posted 3/10/16.
A commentary by听Josh Hartshorne听and others听. A response to a different commentary that argued replicability in psychology is high, this commentary shows that the original conclusion depends on several conceptual and mathematical errors. Posted 3/8/16.
Caroline Smith听received honorable mention for the听. Posted 3/4/16.
Sara Keefer,听Sindy Cole, 补苍诲听Gorica Petrovich听published a paper in the journal听Physiology & Behavior听entitled "." Posted 3/3/16.
Sara Cordes听补苍诲听Alexa Veenema听have both been granted tenure and will be promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations Sara and Alexa! Posted 2/22/16.
According to Altmetrics, a service which tracks the volume of mainstream media and Internet discussion of journal articles,听Gene Heyman鈥檚 publication:听, ranks in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetrics and in the 98th听percentile of publications of the same age. Posted 2/11/16.
Thalia Goldstein, Boston College Psychology Ph.D. 2010, former student of Ellen Winner and now assistant professor at Pace University, has been awarded APA Division 10鈥檚听Daniel E.听Berlyne听Award for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Scholar.听This award is in recognition of听her research on听acting 补苍诲听performance, as well as on the听topics of听pretence, play and imagination. Posted 2/8/16.
Liane Young听has won听, awarded annually by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology to "a young scholar who has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research in philosophy, psychology, and/or related disciplines and who has been active in the Society for Philosophy and Psychology." Posted 2/7/16. []
Barry Schneider听is the 2016 recipient of the Buhrmester Memorial Award for Career Contributions to Research by the Society for Research on Adolescence. Posted 2/3/16.
Josh Hartshorne听was awarded an NSF grant to support听. Posted 1/22/16.
Karen Rosen听published a new book,听Social and Emotional Development: Attachment Relationships and the Emerging Self听(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Posted 1/19/16.
Katie McAuliffe'蝉听听is published in听Nature. This research was听听from the Dean. Posted 1/7/16.
Josh Hartshorne'蝉听听is one of the five most viewed articles in 2015. Posted 1/5/16.
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