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Joe TecceÌýtalked with Pembroke High School students about the psychology of body language. Posted 11/25/14.

Doctoral studentÌýM. E. PaneroÌýhas been invited to join the student editorial board ofÌýPsychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Posted 11/14/14.

Elizabeth KensingerÌýwas appointed to serve as Associate Editor at the APA journalÌýEmotion. Posted 11/12/14.

Joe TecceÌýhosted a talk for the University Fellowships committee with Dr. Jason Cavallari. AÌý. Posted 11/10/14.

Michelle HurstÌýhas received an NSF-sponsored award in STEM education research for her poster, "Working Memory Involvement in Rational Number Processing," to be presented at IMBES conference in November. Posted 10/15/14.

Larisa HeiphetzÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýLiane YoungÌýhave been awardedÌýa grant from the The John Templeton Foundation, titled "A Social Cognitive Developmental Approach to Folk Representations of God's Mind." The investigators are Liane, Larisa, and Adam Waytz (Northwestern University), with a consultant, Jonathan D. Lane (Harvard University). Posted 9/26/14.

Alexa VeenemaÌýwas awarded a five-year, $1.75 million NIH grant to study the neural circuits underlying social play behavior in juvenile rats and how these neural circuits differ between males and females. Social play is a highly rewarding behavior and has been shown to be important for the development of social skills in humans and rodents. Knowledge about sex-specific regulation of social play in rats may help understand social play deficits seen in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that shows a strong sex bias in prevalence. Posted 9/26/14.

Four of our students—James Dungan, Laura Niemi, , Josh Rottman,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýJordan Theriault—were awarded travel awards by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).ÌýM.E. PaneroÌýwas awarded the SPSP Diversity Fund Travel Award, a competitive award intended to increase diversity within the personality and social psychology field. All of these awards allow recipients to travel to and present research at the upcoming SPSP annual convention. Posted 9/16/14.

Brendan Gaesser, Liane Young, and Elizabeth KensingerÌýhave been awarded aÌýÌýfor their project, "Harnessing Episodic Simulation to Facilitate Prosociality." This award from the University of Pennsylvania and the John Templeton Foundation provides support for studies at the intersection of prospection, memory, and moral psychology. Posted 8/21/14.

Jim Russell'sÌýÌýinÌýBoston College Magazine. Posted 8/19/14.

Michael Numan, professor in Psychology until 2012, has published a new book,Ìý. Posted 8/15/14.

Sindy Cole, a postdoctoral fellow in Gorica Petrovich's Neurobiology of Feeding lab, has been awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant. This award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Posted 8/15/14.

Liane Young's Morality Lab is featured on WBUR's Common Health program in a series called "." Posted 8/7/14.

Jessica KaranianÌýhad two articles published/accepted recently: "The cortical basis of true memory and false memory for motion" inÌýNeuropsychologiaÌýand "False memory for context activates the parahippocampal cortex" inÌýCognitive Neuroscience. Posted 7/1/14.

Sarah Kark'sÌýposter, entitled "Effect of valence on the recapitulation of sensory processing during emotional remembering," won the Nelson Butters Award at the 2014 Massachusetts Neuropsycholoigcal Society Science Symposium. Posted 6/12/14.

Nadine Weidman, who teaches our graduate seminar on the history of psychology, has just accepted the editorship of the APA journal,ÌýHistory of Psychology. Congratulations to Nadine! Posted 6/11/14.

Larisa HeiphetzÌýwas awarded the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Posted 6/5/14.

Elizabeth KensingerÌýhas been appointed to serve on the Cognition and Perception Study Section, Center for Scientific Review at NIH,pl from July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2020. Posted 6/4/14.

Ìýis featured in the June 2014 APA Monitor. Studies byÌýSara Cordes,ÌýJen Drake,ÌýThalia Goldstein,ÌýLaura Niemi, ²¹²Ô»åÌýEllen WinnerÌýare described. Posted 5/30/14.

Laura NiemiÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýLiane YoungÌýpublished a paper,Ìý, inPsychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory. Posted 5/23/14.

Larisa HeiphetzÌýwon APA's Division 7 Dissertation Award in Developmental Psychology. Posted 5/6/14.

Kelly DumaisÌýwas awarded theÌý. This honor recognizes a student whose work has made the greatest contribution to the research mission of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. KellyÌýÌýby Candace Hetzner, the associate dean for academic affairs in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Posted 5/5/14.

Christina ReppucciÌýhas been named a recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2013-2014. Posted 5/5/14.

Gene HeymanÌýhas been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Posted 5/5/14.

Michelle HurstÌýreceived an NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Postgraduate Scholarship. Posted 4/2/14.

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab news:ÌýSarah KarkÌýwas awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship, ²¹²Ô»åÌýKelly BennionÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýJackie FordÌýwere admitted to the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. Posted 4/2/14.

Liane YoungÌýprovidesÌýÌýin the February 2014 issue of the APS Observer. Posted 3/12/14.

Gene HeymanÌýis featured inÌýÌýand aÌýÌýabout the nature of addiction. Posted 3/10/14.

Drew LinsleyÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýSean MacEvoyÌýhave published a paper in the journal Cerebral Cortex entitled "." Using perceptual experiments and fMRI, they show that two types of visual information people commonly use to recognize their whereabouts, scenes' 3D layouts and their object contents, are consolidated at a surprisingly early stage of scene processing. Posted 3/10/14.

David Miele, Assistant Professor in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education, who is an affliated faculty with the Psychology Department, has justÌý. This is an endowed assistant professorship to support junior faculty research and early-career development. Posted 2/26/14.

Sarah KarkÌýwon the Graduate StudentÌýÌýat the 25th Annual NEURON Conference yesterday for her poster entitled, "Effect of valence on the recapitulation of sensory processing during emotional remembering." Posted 2/24/14.

Kelly DumaisÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýCaroline Smith, doctoral candidates in Alexa Veenema’s lab, each won a travel award of $2,000 from the Society for Neuroscience to present their work an the biannual FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Milan, Italy. Kelly and Caroline are among a total of only fifteen U.S., Canadian, and Mexican graduate students receiving this highly competitive travel award. Posted 2/4/14.

Alexa VeenemaÌýhas been awarded a three-year NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15): Sex and Age Differences in the Neural Regulation of Social Recognition. Posted 1/13/14.

Josh Rottman, Deb Kelemen, ²¹²Ô»åÌýLiane Young's research on our moral response to suicideÌý. Posted 1/9/14.