A new survey reveals the importance of talking about racism with White 8–12-year-olds when Black children start to experience it. Professor of psychology Sylvia Perry and Jamie Abaied of the University of Vermont conducted this survey to understand the extent …
Megan Bang, a Professor of the Learning Sciences and Psychology and active member in the Spencer Foundation, was one of 22 scholars in 2021 elected to the National Academy of Education.
The Academy is comprised of U.S. members and international …
Austin J. Waldron graduated in 1978, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University. Because of his experience, Waldron partnered with the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences to create and endow the Austin J. Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program…
Dedre Gentner, the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Gentner is associate director of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center and a faculty affiliate of the Qualitative Reasoning …
Professor Mesmin Destin of the Department of Psychology and the School of Education and Social Policy was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
With the fellowship, Destin will explore how communities and institutions can leverage multiple social forces and resources …
The study “Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants” was published in PLOS ONE on March 11, 2021, in a collaboration between scientists in the departments of psychology at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and …
In this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast, Professor Dan McAdams discusses his book, The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning (2020).
McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and …
The study “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” was published in Current Biology on February 18.
Professor Ken Paller, of the Department of Psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, was senior author of the study …
Myrna García, assistant professor of instruction in Latina and Latino Studies, and the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of the physical therapy and human movement sciences department at Feinberg School of Medicine will receive the Daniel Linzer Award for …
Professor Sylvia Perry, professor in the Department of Psychology, has been awarded the 2020 SAGE Young Scholar Award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
The Sage Young Scholar Awards recognize outstanding achievements by young scholars who …