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Psychology is the science of mind, brain, and behavior. The Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest continuously functioning psychology department in North America.

Work done in the Thompson-Schill Lab shows increased activity in the left frontal operculum when healthy volunteers were asked to selectively retrieve an object's name among competing alternatives

The laboratory of Alan Stocker studies the effects of sequential decision making in perception. For example, the selection of a target affects the subsequent percept of the target's orientation: the perceived angle relative to the distractor orientation is larger than it actually is.

The origin of social relationships: Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, and their colleagues have recently found that, among baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, survival is greatest in the offspring of mothers who have the strongest bonds with other females.

Students in Rob DeRubeis's lab code sessions of cognitive therapy for depression to identify therapist and client behaviors related to better treatment outcome.

News

  • Allyson Mackey is a recipient of International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) Early Career Award

    April 28, 2022

    Allyson Mackey has been selected as an awardee for the IMBES Early Career Award! This award is designed to recognize early career scholars who...

  • Becky Waller receives 2022 SSSP Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award

    April 18, 2022

    The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy has named Becky Waller a recipiant of the 2022 Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award...

  • Amber L. Alhadeff awarded 2021 Eppendorf and Science Prize

    March 3, 2022

    Amber L. Alhadeff named the grand prize winner of The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.

    The Eppendorf & ...

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Grad Students

  • Caitlin Clements has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

    Caitlin Clements has been awarded a US Fulbright student grant to conduct research in Sweden. She will work with Dr. Mikael Landen at the Karolinska Institute to study genetic predictors of treatment response in individuals with depression. 

     

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