The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2024. This recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields. UFRF Professors earn significant grants; […]
Dr. Shepperd and his team surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of over 1,400 teens from Florida between 2010 and 2012. Although the majority of our sample self-identified as Christian, many of the teens identified as belonging to other religious groups or as nonreligious. There work has focused on risky behaviors – […]
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Dr. Susan Bluck, Professor, Director, Life Story Lab at the recent Science of Care Summit at UF brought together experts across the country to discuss multi-dimensional, humanistic approaches to end-of-life care. Dr. Susan Bluck (Psychology) and Dr. Carma Bylund (Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics) hosted the summit along with the assistance from Mary Kate Koch […]
Carolyn M. Tucker, PhD has dedicated her career to supporting under-served communities, inspiring new generations toward community-based participatory health and health care research, public service, and scholarship, a record of achievement that was recently recognized with a first-place Sapphire Award from the Florida Blue Foundation. You can read the full article about Dr. Tucker HERE.
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Dr. Brian Cahill is sponsoring three students that were selected to be summer interns for the Federal Public Defenders office. The Federal Defender Internship Program provides UF students with invaluable experience working on Federal and State criminal cases. Olivia, Mercedes, and Lilly will have the unique opportunity to receive hands-on experience in assisting investigators and […]
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Dr. Brian Cahill established a year-long internship with the Gainesville Public Defenders Office, exclusively for Psychology undergraduate students. Students will be working directly with lawyers who represent low income clients facing criminal charges in Alachua County, both misdemeanors and felonies. After a competitive process, two Psychology undergraduates have been named as the newest members of […]
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Join us for a poster session and research competition showcasing work by undergraduate students conducting research with a faculty mentor Thursday, April 18th, 2023, 4 – 5pm 1st floor of Psychology PGSO Flyer
If you missed Professor Michał Kosiński give his talk about Large Language Models (LLMs) visit our YouTube page for the full presentation. UF Psychology YouTube
The 1st Annual Walk Out of the Darkness event was a wonderful success with over 100 participants, well over half of whom were Psychology students!! Faculty and Staff also attended. Many thanks to everyone!
Emergent Cognitive Abilities in Large Language Models: Mirage, Miracle, or Mundane? Large Language Models (LLMs) trained to predict the next word in a sentence surprised their creators by displaying emergent properties ranging from a proclivity to be racist and sexist, to an ability to write computer code, translate between languages, and solve mathematical tasks. This […]