The Psychology Department welcomes two new faculty members: Onnie Rogers and Sylvia Perry
September 1, 2016 – from Department of Psychology
2016 News
September
August
Professor Alice Eagly has been awarded the 2016 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Attitudes and Social Influence Interest Group
August 25, 2016
Assistant Professor Vijay Mittal has been awarded the Early Career Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology
August 19, 2016
July
Professor Dedre Gentner received the 2016 David E. Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science
July 13, 2016 – from Cognitive Science Society
Professor Dan McAdams' June 2016 article in the Atlantic, "The Mind of Donald Trump," was one of the most engaging stories of 2016
July 13, 2016 – from chatbeat.com
Professor Alice Eagly received an honorary doctorate, Docteur en Sciences Économiques Honoris Causa, from the Université de Lausanne
July 11, 2016
June
Professor Onnie Rogers has been named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
June 15, 2016 – from psychologicalscience.org
Associate Professor Jennifer Tackett is elected as a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
June 14, 2016
Professor Eli Finkel is awarded the 2016 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize
June 6, 2016
Professor Eli Finkel is awarded the 2016 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize along with co-authors Gráinne M. Fitzsimons and Michelle R. vanDellen for their 2015 Psychological Review article entitled “Transactive Goal Dynamics”
April
Professor Mesmin Destin has been awarded a 2016 fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation
April 18, 2016 – from wtgrantfoundation.org
Professor Mark Beeman and post-doctoral fellow Darya Zabelina received the 2016 Best Paper Award
April 15, 2016
Professor Mark Beeman and post-doctoral fellow Darya Zabelina received the 2016 Best Paper Award from the journal Memory and Cognition for their work, “Flexible or leaky attention in creative people? Distinct patterns of attention for different types of creative thinking”
March
Professor Eli Finkel, Professor of Instruction Renee Engeln, and Associate Professor of Instruction Ben Gorvine are named to the Faculty Honor Roll by the Associated Student Government (ASG)
March 16, 2016
Associate Professor Robin Nusslock is named a Northwestern AT&T Research Fellow.
March 10, 2016