Congratulations to Gabe for winning: + An APS RISE Award for his poster titled, “The Adverse Effect of Stereotype Threat on the Speech Performance of Latinx Students,” presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. (co-authored by Diane M. Quinn) + A Grant-in-Aid from the Society for the Psychological Study of […]
American Psychological Association recognizes David A. Kenny
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Dave Kenny received the American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution at the APA’s annual conference in August, 2019. https://www.apa.org/about/awards/scientific-contributions?tab=3 Specifically, the citation reads: For his outstanding contributions to both theory and methods for studying social perception and behavior. Kenny’s work on person perception, under the general rubric of the “social relations […]
ISPP recognizes Felicia Pratto with the Jeanne Knutson Award
At its July, 2019 annual meeting in Lisbon, the International Society for Political Psychology (https://www.ispp.org/ ) gave the Jeanne Knutsen award to Prof. Felicia Pratto for her long-standing service to the scientific society. The award is named in honor of the late Dr. Jeanne Knutsen, ISPP’s founder.
Prof. Felicia Pratto elected again to serve ISPP
Felicia Pratto will become the president-elect of the International Society of Political Psychology at the end of its annual meeting in July 12-15 in Lisbon. She will serve in that capacity til July, 2020, when she becomes president and will host the annual meeting in Berlin in July 2021, whereupon she becomes past-president (each of […]
Kudos to Dr. Mary Crawford!
UConn emerita professor Mary Crawford was awarded the Carolyn Wood Sherif award from Div. 35 of APA in 2018. “The award is given to a senior individual based on sustained and substantial contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor and leader.” How well deserved! You do us proud, […]
Alumna Dr. Jessa LaCroix’s work on suicide prevention in the military
An article in the September 2017 Military Medical Research News describes how Jessica LaCroix’s program is training military chaplains to prevent suicide. Begins on front page. 9 – DRP SEPTEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER – VOLUME 4 ISSUE 9
Bon Voyage to our 2017 PhDs
Congratulations to our recent PhDs, Dr. Talea Cornelius, who has begun a post-doctoral position at Columbia University Medical Center (her page) and Dr. Brad Weisz, who has become an Assistant Professor at California State University at Long Beach (his page). We are very proud of your successes and we miss you both.
Prof. Kerry L. Marsh and alumnus Benjamin Meagher featured in The New Yorker
A central concept of their research program and recent research of Dr.s Marsh & Meagher is featured in The New Yorker. Word of the day: Affordance.
Why are there still Nazis? Social dominance theory in the news.
New article by Eion O’Carroll at Christian Science Monitor features Felicia Pratto.
SPSSI grant to PhD student Devon Price
Devon Price won a SPSSI Applied Social Issues Internship research grant for research on psychological factors impacting HIV testing and PreP medication uptake.