Category: Department Updates

Assistant Professor Jason Samaha worked in collaboration with Ph.D. student April Pilipenko to publish this 2024 article in the Journal of Neuroscience, finding that synchronous brain waves in the alpha-band inhibit visual perception, regardless of the strength or presence of a stimulus, leading to false percepts. Simultaneously, changes in one’s pupil size boost perception for…

Assistant Professor Saskias Casanova co-published this 2023 article with post-doctoral researcher Melissa Mesinas in Child Development Perspectives, providing nuanced perspectives to studying social and emotional learning (SEL) in Indigenous communal and familial contexts. It examines how the Indigenous value of comunalidad, a collaborative way of thinking to achieve collective well-being, and story-telling to pass down…

Professor Hammack published this 2023 article in the journal Current Opinion in Psychology, exploring how the 21st century has been a time of change in cultural attitudes, social policies, and scientific understandings of sexuality and gender. This article introduces a special issue focused on sexual and gender diversity, highlighting the need for new theories and…