Please join us for the 8th annual Ann Rankin Cowan Lecture, which will be presented by Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall, Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistics, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Her talk is titled, “Navigating Our Uncertain Social … Read more
September 20, 2023 | Russ Campbell RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2023 Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) awards. This program aims to foster diversity and inclusion within the … Read more
Chapel Hill, N.C. (Sept. 21, 2023) – The Carolina Center for Public Service (CCPS) is pleased to announce the 2023-2025 class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars. The program brings together selected faculty from across campus in a two-year competency-based … Read more
Allison Lazard and Barbara Fredrickson are using social media to promote wellness through in-person connection. Their interdisciplinary studies are gaining momentum, with three out of three research proposals receiving funding. Barbara Fredrickson and Allison Lazard (Photo by Megan Mendenhall) Researchers … Read more
Job Ad- Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Neuroscience The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to recruit a new tenure track faculty at … Read more
The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hosting a Diversifying Psychology Weekend event on October 27-28th. This online event offers students interested in graduate training in Psychology the opportunity to learn … Read more
Together with health communication scientist Dr. Allison Lazard of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a faculty member in the Social Psychology Doctoral Program and Director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (PEP Lab), was … Read more
Positive Emotion Psychophysiology Laboratory (PEP Lab) Ph.D. candidate, Taylor West, was awarded the Laura Mayer Summer Research Fellowship as she works to complete her dissertation on positive emotions stemming from interactions between strangers, including in the areas of political debate … Read more
What It Really Means to Have Intrusive Thoughts On average, people have about 6,200 thoughts each day. Some will be unwanted, alarming, or just plain strange. To learn more about intrusive thoughts and what you can do about … Read more
