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.
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.
SPSP to feature UConn Social Research
Four of our current PhD students will be presenting their research at the upcoming SPSP conference in Jan. 2017 in San Antonio: Elif Ikizer, Gabriel Camacho, Brad Weisz, and Gloriana Rodriguez-Arauz. In addition, SPSP granted diversity travel awards to Gabriel Camacho and Brad Weisz.
PhD Candidate Liz Lawner publishes new book on women in STEM
Intergroup team wins Klineberg award
A recent paper by recent intergroup lab alum Andrew L. Stewart (plus Felicia Pratto, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Joseph Sweetman, Véronique Eicher, Laurent Licata, Davide Morselli, Rim Saab, Antonio Aiello, Xenia Chryssochoou, Aleksandra Cichocka, Atilla Cidam, Rob Foels, Benjamin Giguère, Li Liu, Francesca Prati, and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg ) entitled “International support for the Arab uprisings: Understanding sympathetic collective action using theories of social dominance and social identity” has won the 2015 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. doi: 10.1177/1368430214558310
Baron & Kenny (1986) listed in top 100 most-cited papers–Nature
The journal Nature has named the article that Reuben M. Baron and David A. Kenny published in 1986 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology one of the top 100 most-cited research publications of all time, entering the list at number 33. The publications on the top 100 list were published between 1925 and 2008; that the Baron and Kenny article had far less time to accrue citations than most other papers on the list makes their accomplishment all the more distinguished. Of the six publications in the disciplines of psychology and psychiatry to make the list, the Baron and Kenny article is the second most cited even though it is the most recently published of the six. 
Congratulations, Reuben and Dave!
Nadya Soto recognized by Ford Foundation
Graduate student Nadya Soto received an honorable mention in the competition for the Ford Foundation graduate fellowship.