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Virtual Reality, Real Jealousy

Learning to handle jealousy can be especially beneficial because it’s so easy for a partner, intentionally or not, to induce the feeling in us. Just how easy? A virtual-reality experiment conducted at the University of Arizona offers some insights.

A study by Assistant Professor Mary-Frances O'Connor, Graduate Student Austin Grinberg and Jesus Serrano Careaga (BS Psychology) is featured in the November issue of Psychology Today!

Post date: Wed, 11/02/2016 - 14:55

Study Links Athletic Performance to Mortality

UA doctoral students Colin Zestcott and Uri Lifshin conducted two studies showing that athletes are subconsciously motivated by reminders of death.

It's not the locker room pep talk you'd expect, but new research from the University of Arizona suggests that athletes might perform better when reminded of something a bit grim: their impending death.

Post date: Tue, 11/01/2016 - 11:11

Do you believe in ghosts? UA researcher explains the science of spirits

Gary Schwartz, director of the laboratory for advances in consciousness and health, has been looking into the existence of ghosts for 18 years.

Read the Full Story on Cronkite News:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/10/31/do-you-believe-in-ghosts-we-explain-the-science-of-spirits/

Post date: Tue, 11/01/2016 - 11:37

Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award

Congratulations to Ariana Stickel, who was just given the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor award by UBRP - Undergraduate Biology Research Program.

Post date: Wed, 10/26/2016 - 15:19

How Your BMI Might Affect Your Brain

There are plenty of reasons it's important to maintain a healthy weight, and now you can add one more to the list: It may be good for your brain.

Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that having a higher body mass index, or BMI, can negatively impact cognitive functioning in older adults.

How? They say inflammation is to blame.

Post date: Tue, 10/18/2016 - 13:39

Psychologist Creates Tool for Measuring Memory

With support from a $2.9 million grant, Jamie Edgin is testing the effectiveness of an innovative touchscreen children's memory assessment that started as a homemade project.

Psychologist Jamie Edgin studies human memory at the University of Arizona, where her research often involves working with very young children and children with intellectual disabilities.

Post date: Fri, 10/07/2016 - 10:34

Jamie Edgin Awarded 5 Year Grant from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Congratulations to Jamie Edgin, who has just been awarded a 5-year grant from NICHHD. The goal of the multi-site study (with UC Davis and Drexel University) is to develop valid and sensitive measures of cognitive functioning in individuals with fragile X syndrome and Down Syndrome that can be used as primary outcome measures in clinical trials.

Post date: Fri, 09/23/2016 - 15:18

First Alfred W. Kaszniak Graduate Fellowship

Congratulations to graduate student Aubrey Wank. She is the first recipient of the fellowship established in honor of Dr. Al Kaszniak, to support first-year graduate students with research interests in the neuropsychology of emotion and aging.

Donate Now if you would like to help support the Kaszniak Graduate Fellowship

Post date: Thu, 09/22/2016 - 09:52

UA Partners on Study to Improve Cognition in Older Adults

Cognitive decline is a normal part of aging, but as the world’s population of older adults grows, researchers are looking at ways to prevent it. The University of Arizona, the University of Florida and the University of Miami have been awarded a five-year, $5.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study whether a combination of computer-based cognitive training exercises and direct electrical stimulation to the brain can help improve cognitive functioning in older adults. Dr.

Post date: Wed, 09/21/2016 - 08:29

UA Researchers Develop New Way to Look Deep Inside the Brain

Researchers at the University of Arizona may be on the cusp of a breakthrough when it comes to examining the deepest parts of the brain. Their new technology, similar to an ultrasound, has the potential to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain. They have dubbed the project, Acoustoelectric Brain Imaging, or ABI. Stephen Cowen, assistant professor of psychology, believes ABI has much to offer the world of psychological research as well in the areas of diagnosis and treatment.

Post date: Wed, 09/21/2016 - 09:26

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John Allen Earns Humboldt Research Award for Work on Depression

Congratulations to John Allen on receiving the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. “The award is granted in recognition of a researcher whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.”

Post date: Mon, 11/28/2016 - 16:09

Virtual Reality, Real Jealousy

A study by Assistant Professor Mary-Frances O'Connor, Graduate Student Austin Grinberg and Jesus Serrano Careaga (BS Psychology) is featured in the November issue of Psychology Today!

Post date: Wed, 11/02/2016 - 14:55

Do you believe in ghosts? UA researcher explains the science of spirits

Gary Schwartz, director of the laboratory for advances in consciousness and health, has been looking into the existence of ghosts for 18 years.

Read the Full Story on Cronkite News:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/10/31/do-you-believe-in-ghosts-we-explain-the-science-of-spirits/

Post date: Tue, 11/01/2016 - 11:37

Study Links Athletic Performance to Mortality

UA doctoral students Colin Zestcott and Uri Lifshin conducted two studies showing that athletes are subconsciously motivated by reminders of death.

Post date: Tue, 11/01/2016 - 11:11

Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award

Congratulations to Ariana Stickel, who was just given the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor award by UBRP - Undergraduate Biology Research Program.

Post date: Wed, 10/26/2016 - 15:19

How Your BMI Might Affect Your Brain

There are plenty of reasons it's important to maintain a healthy weight, and now you can add one more to the list: It may be good for your brain.

Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that having a higher body mass index, or BMI, can negatively impact cognitive functioning in older adults.

How? They say inflammation is to blame.

Post date: Tue, 10/18/2016 - 13:39

Psychologist Creates Tool for Measuring Memory

With support from a $2.9 million grant, Jamie Edgin is testing the effectiveness of an innovative touchscreen children's memory assessment that started as a homemade project.

Psychologist Jamie Edgin studies human memory at the University of Arizona, where her research often involves working with very young children and children with intellectual disabilities.

Post date: Fri, 10/07/2016 - 10:34

Jamie Edgin Awarded 5 Year Grant from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Post date: Fri, 09/23/2016 - 15:18

First Alfred W. Kaszniak Graduate Fellowship

Donate Now if you would like to help support the Kaszniak Graduate Fellowship

Post date: Thu, 09/22/2016 - 09:52

Lynn Nadel Receives 2016 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award

Lynn Nadel has been awarded the prestigious Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Experimental Psychologists. The Society is the oldest in the field of Psychology, established over a hundred years ago by Edward B. Titchener, the British psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt. We congratulate Dr.

Post date: Wed, 09/21/2016 - 09:33