Recent News

Kristjen Lundberg received the 2012 Tanner Teaching Assistants Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She [was] recognized on Saturday, February 11th during the half-time ceremony at the UNC-Virginia Men’s Basketball game, in the Dean E. Smith Center. Congratulations, Kristjen!

Dr. Sara Algoe officially joined the Social Psychology core faculty on July 1 as an Assistant Professor.  You can learn more about Professor Algoe’s research on emotions and social interactions by visiting her lab website. Welcome aboard, Sara!

Doctoral candidate Daryl Cameron wins the very first 2011 Chester A. Insko Best Publication Award for his 2011 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Congratulations, Daryl!

Doctoral candidate Lahnna Catalino received a two-year NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging for her work on how to promote well-being in midlife adults by increasing the degrees to which they value their own positive emotions.  Well done, Lahnna!

Professor Melanie Green received a one-year grant from the Spencer Foundation to support her work with doctoral candidate Joe Simons on “Social Controversy and Intellectual Avoidance: Overcoming Barriers to Engagement with Conflicting Information.”  Kudos to you both!

Doctoral candidate Bethany Kok wins the inaugural 2011 Christopher R. Agnew Research Innovation Award for her research on the physiological underpinnings of social motives, as exemplified in her 2010 paper in Biological Psychology. Congrats to you, Bethany!

First-year doctoral student Elise Rice received a highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.  Way to go, Elise!