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Recent Research
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"Guided parent-child discussion can help address subtle racism" featuring Professor Sylvia Perry
- "The Mass Psychology of Trumpism" by Professor Dan McAdams
- Professor Renee EngeIn was featured in the article "Can being objectified affect women’s cognitive ability? New study has a surprising answer"
- Dan Mroczek's work was featured in the article "Neuroticism Isn’t Funny and May Impact Your Health" on Web MD
- "The stories in our minds: Enterprising students push narrative identity in unexpected directions" featuring Professor Dan McAdams and his students
- Professor Eli Finkel’s article "Common Cents: Bank Account Structure and Couples’ Relationship Dynamics” was featured in the Wall Street Journal
- A write up on the Waxman Lab's recent publication, "Talking about the absent and the abstract: referential communication in language and gesture"
- IPR psychologists Sandy Waxman, Onnie Rogers, and Terri Sabol create a toolkit to measure racial bias in preschools
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The Department of Psychology at Northwestern University was founded in 1909. Our department is a group of eminent faculty - scholars and teachers - who make major contributions to the field by helping to shape the base of knowledge, academic literature, and training of both undergraduate and graduate students of psychology
Events
May
17
2024
Prof. David Creswell: Psychology Colloquium Series, "How do mindf...
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
There has been a significant growth in research and public interest in mindfulness interventions, which teach a capacity to be more ope...