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“Gender Differences in Episodic Encoding of Autobiographical Memory” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Azriel Grysman appears in the March issue of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Gary Lewis, a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, will present a lecture on “Getting Personal with DNA" on Friday, March 3, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Ravi Thiruchselvam was the co-author of an article published in Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), a leading journal in human neuroscience.

Calling herself “the biggest fan of Dan Chambliss,” whose research she cites in her best-selling book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth explained to a large Chapel audience that success depends on grit - the propensity to pursue goals with sustained passion.

Author and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Angela Duckworth will deliver the Morris Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture will explore who succeeds in life and what lessons we can learn from them.

Superhero Costumes Come to Parents' Rescue, a Feb. 8 Wall Street Journal article, featured a recent study by Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel White titled The “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children.

Professor of Psychology Jen Borton along with seniors Barbara Singhakiat and Leah Pranschke recently presented a poster at the 18th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio.

In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.

Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology Emeritus, was recently named the recipient of a Career Achievement Award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN).

Associate Professor of Psychology Tara McKee presented a poster, co-authored by Kerry Reilly ’14, at the annual conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) in Boston on Nov. 20.