Faculty Comparative Human Development Psychology Announcements

Exploring how whole-to-part learning is a natural bias in children

By Sarah Steimer Young children learning a language approach it in two ways: by learning parts and constructing wholes, or by learning wholes and disc...

What makes something memorable (or forgettable?) with Wilma Bainbridge (Ep. 138)

Faculty Anthropology Psychology Announcements

2024 Dean’s Early Career Research Awards

By Aubrey Christofersen The Annual Dean’s Early Career Research Awards have been announced. Now in their second year, the awards are supported thro...

Faculty Psychology Announcements

New study reveals how brain activity reflects hostile interpretations of social situations

Brain imaging shows distinct neural patterns in individuals prone to seeing hostility, according to a paper from the Motivation and Cognition Neurosci...

Faculty Student Psychology Announcements

Can artists predict the memorability of their own work?

A new study from the Brain Bridge Lab asks artists to submit work they deem either memorable or forgettable as the team continues to research if certa...

Announcements Psychology

Children develop adult-like image memorability by age 4

The latest Brain Bridge Lab study could have major implications for designing educational materials. By Sarah Steimer The Brain Bridge Lab has b...

Psychology Announcements

Wilma Bainbridge receives funding in the Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition initiative

Seven collaborative teams of early career researchers have won funding for projects to advance understanding of the processes that underlie memory and...

Getting to Know Anthropology’s Teaching Fellows

Rafadi Hakim is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist whose research examines how gender, kinship, and religion emerge as relational categ...

The Guardian - The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

Faculty Economics History Psychology Political Science Announcements

SSD Welcomes New Faculty for the 2023-24 Academic Year

Christina Brown Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Christina Brown is a development economist studying labor and ...