PsychologyPhilip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers on prediction and Dianne Chambless for her work on an evidence based mental health treatments.
News
-
March 27, 2013
-
January 24, 2013
He will assume the deanship on July 1, 2013, succeeding Dr. Rebecca Bushnell, professor of English, who will return to full-time scholarship and teaching after serving as dean since January 2005. For more information on Dr. Fluharty, please visit http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v59/n18/fluharty.html
-
November 14, 2012
This chair is one of ten Browne Distinguished Professorships created by the late Christopher H. Browne, C’69, former chairman of the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences and trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. The Browne Chairs recognize faculty members who have achieved an extraordinary reputation for scholarly contributions, who have demonstrated great distinction in teaching, and who have demonstrated intellectual integrity and unquestioned commitment to free and open discussion of ideas.
-
November 14, 2012
Bart Hoebel was a Penn Psych PhD who worked with Phil Teitelbaum and was a member of Princeton Psychology Department, where he spent his whole career. Harvey also was just named the President of the Obesity Society, a group of about 2500 scientists who focus on obesity science, treatment, education and policy.
-
November 14, 2012
-
August 20, 2012
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor appointment in evolution, broadly interpreted. We are interested in exceptional scientists and mathematicians who have well-developed research programs employing mathematical or computational techniques to study the evolution of dynamical processes far from equilibrium in the context of any of the following: biology, chemistry, or materials from the molecular to the systems scale, language, geology, psychology, or the environment. The successful candidate's primary...
-
May 23, 2012
Robert's field studies of nonhuman primates, specifically a troop of baboons in Botswana, have illuminated how primate relationships may reflect the evolutionary origins of social relationships, intelligence and language in humans. He will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 6, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
-
November 14, 2011
The John Castellan SJDM Service Award is named after the first Newsletter Editor of the society. It is given following special recommendation of the Executive Board and it honors individuals who have given significant service to the society. Click here for past awardees.
-
November 1, 2011
JD/PhD Department of Psychology
The JD/PhD Program is designed to expose lawyers and psychologists to the growing number of issues that involve both fields, such as competence, mental illness and incapacity, and the field of behavioral law and economics.
Both degrees can be earned in seven years course of study. Students will generally spend their first year in the Department of Psychology. The second academic year is spent full-time in the first-year curriculum of the Law School. Years three and four continue with study at the Law School, with some course...
-
August 4, 2011
Marc Coutanche has been awarded an inaugural International Student Research Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For more information about this award, please click here.