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Sign-Up for Psyc 51a, STATISTICS and Psyc 52a, RESEARCH METHODS & Lab IN PSYCHOLOGY for the Spring 2014 semester will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29 and 30. The department will offer one section of PSYC 51a with 70 spaces and two sections of PSYC 52a with 25 spaces each. Sign-up sheets along with further information will be posted outside the Psychology Office, Brown #125, starting at 8:40 a.m. on those two days only. Individuals who cannot sign-up personally should ensure that their names are entered on the sheets by a second person.
Prerequisite for Psyc 51a = Psyc 1a
Prerequisite for Psyc 52a = Psyc 51a
Schedule:
51a Statistics Prof. DiZio Tue, Thu 5-6:30 pm
52a(1)Rsrch Mthds & Lab Prof. Vasilyeva Mon, Wed 9-11:00 am
52a(2)Rsrch Mthds & Lab Prof. Vasilyeva Tue, Thu 5-7:00 pm
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We are pleased to welcome Professor Jennifer Gutsell to the psychology department faculty! She will be joining us starting in the Fall of 2013. She will be teaching a new course, PSYC 155a, Interpersonal Sensitivity. Professor Gutsell’s main interest is in the area of intergroup person perception, and more specifically she examines how prejudice and social group membership affects the neural mechanisms underlying the perception and understanding of the other’s actions, intentions and emotions. Her second interest is concerned with the role of emotions in self-control and its failure. To investigate these topics she utilizes a number of different research techniques using a multi-method approach that includes neural and physiological methods, as well as more traditional social psychological methods such as reaction time measures and self-report. Her expertise include Social and Affective Neuroscience; Cross-group Resonance; Emotion and Self-control.
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Professor Joseph Cunningham cunningham@brandeis.edu is the Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH). His office is located in Brown 317 and his new office hours will be Tuesdays 1-3pm and Thursdays 8-10am.
Visiting Faculty
Dr. Nadya Vasilyeva received her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Northeastern University. In her research, Dr. Vasilyeva examines cognitive processes underlying reasoning about uncertainty, focusing on how experience affects decision-making and development of flexible inductive reasoning. In addition, she is now working on a project investigating how intuitive beliefs about the workings of the mind affect the way students learn psychology in college. She teaches courses in Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods and Statistics in Psychological Research. This Fall she will be teaching PSYC 33a, Developmental Psychology and PSYC52a, Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology.
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Dr. Stephanie Wasserman is a Physiological Psychologist and Resident Scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. Her early publications focused on animal studies of cocaine self-administration and the potential therapeutic effects of magnesium for treating cocaine addiction.
When she became a foster and adoptive mother, her research interests ventured into a new arena. Her contemporary research seeks to uncover the foster parent voice via in-depth, open-ended interviews. Themes of attachment, separation, risk, and resilience have emerged and are being compared to, and contrasted with, well-established theoretical frameworks in psychology.
Dr. Wasserman will be teaching the Biological Basis of Motivation this fall. During the spring semester she will teach a new course Attachment, Separation, Risk, and Resilience in Adoption and Foster Care.
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Previous Postings:
Yael Dai is the recipient of the 2013 J.V. Cunningham Writing Award for Excellence in Writing in the School of Social Science. Ms. Dai, a psychology major who will soon graduate with the Brandeis class of 2013, was selected for the overall quality of her paper entitled Optimistic Patterns: A music intervention to facilitate routines and decrease anxiety in low-functioning autism.
The J.V. Cunnigham awards are given annually to up to five students. The competition is open to all undergraduates, who must be nominated by members of the faculty. The award consists of a certificate and a $100 cash prize. The papers of all award recipients are also kept in the archives of the Brandeis English department.
Awards
Professor Raymond Knight accepted a Mentorship Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He received this award in recognition of continuous dedication to mentoring students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in the field of psychology.
Professor Arthur Wingfield received a Brandeis-Israeli Collaborative Seed Grant! He will be working with the IDC, in Herzliya to initiate collaborative research efforts there.
Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Rohleder! On Saturday, March 16th he accepted the Herbert E. Weiner Early Career Award and present a lecture at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting.
Professor Arthur Wingfield received 2010 Baltes Distinguished Research Award!
In the News
Professor Leslie Zebrowitz is featured in romantic comedy Losing Control
Health Psychology Laboratory profiled in Brandeis Magazine.
Aging, Culture and Cognition Laboratory study on BrandeisNOW.