Psychology
With Ilana Ritov, Jon Baron found that outcomes that are absolutely prohibited (PVs) tend to show a greater discrepancy between acts and omissions that cause them (omission bias).
By analyzing participants' eye movements to task-relevant display as they follow spoken instructions to manipulate one of the pictured objects on the display, research in Delphine Dahan's lab examines speech comprehension in real time.
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.