Congratulations to our second-year graduate students, who presented their Master’s theses at the Department’s annual Master’s Convention, this Friday, March 22nd!

Last month, members of our department’s Personality and Social area group traveled to New Orleans to attend the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Mollie Ruben, one of our graduate students working under Professor Judith Hall, was chosen as a recipient of SPSP’s Diversity Fund Travel Award, which helped to […]

Professor David DeSteno was featured on Friday’s Katie Couric Show, in a segment on why people cheat, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.

The department is happy to announce that our own Professor Iris Berent is set to release a new book, “The Phonological Mind,” published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was featured in an article in the Financial Times this week!

InSolution, Northeastern University’s research blog, has recently published a post about our own Professor John Coley’s research.

For the past eight years, inspired by her daughter Sophia, Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has put on the ultimate haunted house to raise money for a local food bank.

Gwyn Buell, our much beloved Psychology Department secretary, retired at the end of September, after 33 invaluable years of service. We’re sad to see her go, but incredibly grateful for her contributions to the department over the past three plus decades! This week, a special luncheon was held in her honor. See below for pictures […]

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Neal Pearlmutter has been appointed Director of the Linguistics Program, starting Fall 2012.

Congratulations to the second year Psychology Graduate Students for successfully completing their Masters’ presentations! Each student presented a talk on their current research to department faculty, fellow graduate students and guests. Great job everyone! To read the abstracts of each graduate student presenter, click on the name below. Eric Anderson Leah Dickens Jeff Nador Devin […]

On Wednesday, May 2, the Department of Psychology hosted the first annual Symposium for Boston-Area Graduate Students in Psychology.

Dr. Yury Petrov and graduate student Jiehui Qian were featured on the website NewScientist.

The Department of Psychology and the College of Science were pleased to co-sponsor “The Human Capacity for Language: Nature, Origins and Use,” an interdisciplinary symposium. Organized by Dr. Iris Berent, the symposium featured internationally-renowned scholars Simon Fisher, Steven Pinker, and Albert Galaburda.

Dr. David DeSteno spoke at the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s “Science on Screen” program on Monday, February 20th.