Emory psychologist Monica Thieu caps off publication of a “buzzy” study on trivia experts by competing in the first-ever “Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament” on Thursday, March 28, hosted by trivia legend Ken Jennings.
Beginning with his groundbreaking 1982 book “Chimpanzee Politics,” Frans de Waal pioneered studies of primate cognition and shattered long-held ideas about what it means to be an animal — and a human.
Valeda Dent and Geoff Goodman’s long-term study of literacy and school readiness demonstrates that libraries, community engagement and accessibility are powerful tools for learning.
As an academic research institution, Emory’s faculty and staff conduct studies across every discipline, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards and the work they will support, plus highlights from some published research findings.
Oxytocin, the so-called “love hormone,” plays a key role in the process of how a young zebra finch learns to sing by imitating its elders, suggests a new study by Emory University neuroscientists.
Elaine Walker, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, is this year’s recipient of the Cuttino Award, recognizing a legacy of support and academic excellence that reverberates across the fields of psychology and mental illness research.
Join Emory AI scholars on March 24 as they discuss the medium- and long-term impact of artificial intelligence for pedagogy and higher education in a free webinar titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Higher Education.”
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory College first-year student Kira Young has applied her longterm interest in mental health to initiatives and advocacy for her peers. She recently won a $10,000 scholarship for her work.
Gregory Berns, Emory professor of psychology, added “farmer” to his credentials during the COVID pandemic and now enjoys tending his herd of miniature Zebu cattle. He also wrote a book, “The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent — and Reinvent — Our Identities.”
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Testosterone can foster friendly, prosocial behavior in males, a new animal study conducted by Emory neuroscientists finds. The Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the research on Mongolian gerbils.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Through a new collaboration, Emory’s Faculty Staff Assistance Program will provide an immediate and urgent response to Atlanta Public School employees who may need emotional or behavioral assistance during work hours.
A major analysis of children’s books published during the last 60 years suggests that a bias persists toward male protagonists — despite an overall trend for an increasing proportion of female leads. Emory psychologist Stella Lourenco is senior author of the study.
Research published by Emory anthropologists scanning grandmothers’ brains while they’re viewing photos of their young grandchildren provides a neural snapshot of the special, intergenerational bond.
An analysis of published studies from a range of biological specialties shows that, when data are reported by sex, critical statistical analyses are often missing and the findings are likely to be reported in misleading ways. Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney is senior author on the study.
People with extreme political views that favor authoritarianism — whether they are on the far left or the far right — have surprisingly similar behaviors and psychological characteristics, finds a new study by Emory psychologists.
Some people casually smoke cigarettes for a while and then stop without a problem, while others develop long-term, several packs-per-day habits. Emory researchers find that a complex mix of environmental, behavioral and genetic factors appear to raise this risk for nicotine dependence.
The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program is expanding its reach by joining forces with the South Carolina Department of Veterans’ Affairs to provide free mental health care and services to post-9/11 veterans and service members.
Neurologist Raul Nogueira and psychologist Dorian Lamis are this year’s recipients of the Albert E. Levy Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, established to recognize the contributions of Emory faculty members to the advancement of scientific knowledge.
A new study published by Emory psychologists identifies a novel biomarker indicating resilience to chronic stress. This biomarker is largely absent in people suffering from major depressive disorder, and this absence is further associated with pessimism in daily life, the study finds.
Experiments led by Emory psychologist Arber Tasimi found that children prefer non-stolen money offered by a "bad" person over stolen money offered by an "okay" person. "This sensitivity to morality, even in the context of money, seems to emerge early,” Tasimi says.
Emory faculty and staff are frequently recognized for their work locally, nationally and internationally. Read a sampling of recent accolades, including awards for professional contributions and leadership appointments.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
People are adept at discerning most of the different emotions that underlie screams, such as anger, frustration, pain, surprise or fear, finds a new study led by Emory psychologist Harold Gouzoules. Screams of happiness, however, are more often interpreted as fear when heard without any additional context, the results show.
Part of the risk for repeated cannabis use into adulthood can be attributed to the genetic effects of neuroticism, risk tolerance and depression that can appear during the teen years, a new study finds. The research was conducted by the Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory, headed by Rohan Palmer in the Department of Psychology.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Research by Emory neuroscientists gives the first detailed view of human ventral striatum activity during three phases of effort-based decision-making — the anticipation of initiating an effort, the actual execution of the effort and the reward, or outcome, of the effort.
The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program is celebrating its five-year anniversary during Veterans Day 2020 and announcing the expansion of its virtual telemedicine services to include 13 states across the country.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory psychologists Sherryl Goodman and Stella Lourenco were among the 59 researchers, from nearly 40 different institutions, who co-authored a review of gender parity in psychological science.
Scott Lilienfeld, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory, passed away Sept. 30. He was widely recognized as the foremost authority on pseudoscience in psychology, as well as a preeminent scholar of psychopathy.
In a study by Emory psychologists, Androids, or robots with humanlike features, are often more appealing to people than those that resemble machines — but only up to a certain point. The feeling of affinity can plunge into one of repulsion as a robot’s human likeness increases, a zone known as "the uncanny valley."
Second Lady Karen Pence visited the Emory Brain Health Center Wednesday to tour the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program (EHVP).
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory neuroscientists show the evolutionary role of a “supergene” at the molecular level, and provide a rare look at how genomic divergence can lead to behavioral divergence in a vertebrate.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory is one of five universities across the country collaborating on a study focused on narratives written by first-year college students from last fall about their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 is accelerating an ongoing trend in cognitive psychology to conduct human behavioral experiments online. Emory psychologists find that while the Internet offers a powerful tool for collecting data during a time of social distancing, it also raises new concerns regarding the diversity of study participants.
Emory anthropologist Carol Worthman is among 25 mental health experts who issued a call for global action on mental health science surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stories of family members who persevered through difficult times and maintained loving bonds reassure children that their family will also find a way through situations, says psychologist Robyn Fivush.
Counseling and Psychological Services remains open and is offering HIPAA-compliant telehealth clinical services for Emory enrolled students via Zoom. They also have scheduled several interactive workshops about stress and procrastination during remote learning.
Several personality traits related to psychopathy — especially being openly antagonistic — predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory.
Dogs spontaneously process basic numerical quantities, using a distinct part of their brains that corresponds closely to number-responsive neural regions in humans, finds a study by Gregory Berns, Emory professor of psychology.
Screams are prompted by a variety of emotions, from surprise to terror. But no matter what sparks them, human screams share distinctive acoustic parameters that listeners are attuned to, suggests a new study from the lab of psychologist Harold Gouzoules.
Psychologist Kenneth Carter is not a fan of Halloween haunted houses. But he has written a book coming out Oct. 31 about people who thrive on activities like entering dark passageways, sensing that something unknown and terrifying awaits around the next corner.
With support from a Templeton Foundation grant, Emory psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld will study whether the ability to recognize that you might be wrong can be a buffer against political and religious extremism.
Emory psychologists have found that the human brain uses three distinct systems to perceive our environment — one for recognizing a place, another for navigating through that place and a third for navigating from one place to another.
Emory psychologists have found that a key visual tool for object recognition is the medial axis of an object, showing that while the outer shape of an object is important for rapid recognition, the object's inner "skeleton" may play an even more important role.
Human screams convey a level of individual identity that may help explain their evolutionary origins, finds a study by Emory psychologist Harold Gouzoules.
A machine-learning method discovered a hidden clue in people's language predictive of the later emergence of psychosis — the frequent use of words associated with sound.
Meet Finn and Beowulf, Emory's certified therapy dogs. Emory is among an early wave of universities to utilize animal-assisted therapy, bringing fluffy fun to campus events and a calming presence to counseling sessions.
It is well-established that, on average, men outperform women on a spatial reasoning task known as mental rotation — imagining multi-dimensional objects from different points of view. Men are not, however, born with this advantage, suggests a major meta-analysis by Emory psychologists.
Emory is partnering with Georgia Public Broadcasting on Your Fantastic Mind, a new weekly TV series that features compelling stories on brain-related health and wellness. The show premieres Monday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. on GPB's statewide television network.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named H. Criss Hartzell, Michael J. Kuhar and Elaine F. Walker as 2018 Fellows.
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Even before toddlers can form a complete sentence, they are attuned to how others may be judging them, finds a new study published in Developmental Psychology by Emory psychologists.
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A new study by Emory psychologist Michael Treadway reveals the mechanics of how the brain makes effortful decisions, calculating whether it is worth expending effort in exchange for potential rewards.
Exposed to sarin gas as a soldier in Iraq, Emory PhD student Michael Yandell now studies moral injury, the emotional and spiritual damage that can occur when someone's deeply held moral beliefs are transgressed.
From the lumbering, 200-year-old Frankenstein to sleek, modern-day robots, this year's Atlanta Science Festival, set for March 9 to 24, highlights creations that spark wonder and fun, giving glimpses of the past and the future.
Emory is participating in STAT Madness, a "March Madness" style bracket competition featuring biomedical research instead of basketball teams. Please vote!
Psychology professor Rohan Palmer has earned a $2.34 million grant to examine why some people become addicted to alcohol or drugs, while others don't. His novel project involves both graduate and undergraduate student researchers.
Trypophobia, commonly known as "fear of holes," is linked to a physiological response more associated with disgust than fear, finds a new study led by Emory psychologist Stella Lourenco.
Electrical stimulation of the human amygdala can enhance next-day recognition of images when applied immediately after the images are viewed, Emory neuroscientists have found.
The hustle and bustle of the holiday season often bring demands and deadlines that create added stress in our everyday lives. Emory psychologist Nadine Kaslow offers these survival tips to help reduce stress during the holidays and create a more positive and meaningful holiday season.
Meet Finn, the little brother of Emory's first therapy dog, Beowulf. Expect to see this friendly fellow helping out at special events throughout the year.
Wagging tails greeted students at Woodruff Library on Thursday, Dec. 7, for the sixth annual Pet Therapy Study Break.
Rationale for the Goldwater Rule -- which prohibits psychiatrists from publicly commenting on the mental health of public figures -- doesn't hold up to current scientific scrutiny, finds a new analysis led by psychology professor Scott Lilienfeld.
On Friday, scientists from psychology, neuroscience and anthropology -- along with a leading journalist, a theater director and a professional magician -- will discuss their insights into lying and deception at the "The Lying Conference."
In a recent talk on campus, Emory alumna Mary Gresham discusses the taboo topic of money and why we think about it the way we do.
Emory researchers have identified a new mechanism that contributes to learning an association between an auditory warning and a fearful event. The findings could aid research into how to help combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A joint project between Emory and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Institute for Neurobiology leads students to new ways of learning science and conducting research.
Ready to relax with a good book? Whether you're in the mood for thoughtful poems, intriguing novels or compelling nonfiction, Emory faculty authors have you covered.
Aimed at undergraduates and new graduate students, the Emory Initiative to Maximize Student Development seeks to diversify the STEM workforce through mentoring, seminars and career coaching.
Neuroscientist Jennifer Mascaro finds that a toddler's gender influences the brain responses and behavior of fathers in a new study published in Behavioral Neuroscience.
The Atlanta Science Festival began March 14 as astronaut Mark Kelly drew crowds to Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Events continue through March 25, including the popular Physics Live and Chemistry Carnival at Emory on Friday.
Fathers given boosts of the hormone oxytocin show increased activity in brain regions associated with reward and empathy when viewing photos of their toddlers, an Emory University study finds.
Captain Mark Kelly, who led NASA missions into space, will lead off the action-packed schedule of this year's Atlanta Science Festival on Tuesday, March 14.
Listening to metaphors involving arms or legs loops in a region of the brain responsible for visual perception of those body parts, scientists have discovered. More evidence that metaphorical language engages parts of the brain involved in sensation or perception.
Emory neuroscientists have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes.
When given a choice between cooperating or competing, chimpanzees tend to cooperate, Yerkes researchers have found. This suggests the roots of human cooperation are shared with other primates.
Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study by Emory psychologists.
A national consortium of researchers has developed an individual risk calculator for schizophrenia and other psychosis, comparable to those for cardiovascular disease and other illnesses.
Preparing to leave Oxford College for Emory's Atlanta campus, Diane Glover leaves a record rich in community service and engagement.
Through experiments in the Emory Spatial Cognition Laboratory, senior Meghan Hickey found that trypophobia, commonly known as a fear of holes, isn't really about fear at all. Her research could lead to better treatments for the condition.
Melissa Pinto, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
This fall, professors Marshall Duke, Miriam Udel and Melvin Konner take "the world's first deep dive" into the often-overlooked body of Yiddish children's literature published between World War I and World War II.
Doctoral education at Emory focuses on the creation and transmission of knowledge for the next generation of intellectual leaders. Here are a few examples of the dissertations of this year's PhD recipients from the Laney Graduate School.
The emotional appeal of facilitated communication is "very powerful and understandable," says psychologist Scott Lilienfeld. "The problem is, it doesn't work."
"Positive Psychology: Reframing Your World for Success" will be the next presentation in The Good Life Speaker Series, scheduled for this Thursday, Feb. 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Emory's Center for Ethics, room 102.
Intensive behavioral intervention can be effective at eliminating pica, which is the repeated ingestion of inedible substances, researchers from Marcus Autism Center report.
Emory psychology professor Marshall Duke offers pointers in his talk, "Resilience and Happiness: Living Strong, Living Well, Living Good," on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Room 102 of the Center for Ethics.
Children under two years old can learn certain communication skills from a video, such as how to use signs in sign language, and perform similarly in tests when compared to babies taught by their parents, according to a new Emory study.
Emory psychology professors Robyn Fivush and Marshall Duke share their tips on how to make the holidays memorable and beneficial for children.