Congratulations to Life Story Lab postdoc @marykatekoch who just received the 2023 Hershel D. Thornburg Dissertation Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence! https://annualmeeting.s-r-a.org/2023-award-winners
Dr. Peter Kvam, Assistant Professor received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious CAREER award to fund a project: “An accessible, dynamic model of pricing applied to wage and housing purchases.” Dr. Kvam received $696,802 from NSF to understand how people assign value in everyday transactions including homebuying, requesting wages, etc. This work uses AI to understand how individuals respond to competition and market changes. The project partners with financial education programs on money management and first-time homebuyers to understand how differences between people predict their success in job and housing markets. The findings will lead to better understand the psychology of value, create educational resources to help people adopt better strategies for finding jobs or housing, and identify public policy interventions that can alleviate housing and labor shortages.
Dr. Steven Weisberg, Assistant Professor is a 2022 Psychonomic Society Fellow. This award honors his research and mentoring within the cognitive neuroscience of spatial navigation and the experimental study of cognition more broadly.
Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Mintz for being featured in Forbes 50 over 50: Innovation. Dr. Mintz is being recognized for her work in sex positivity advocacy.
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Dr. Ron Chandler’s talk “The Role of Human Dignity in Sustainability” is about the centrality of human dignity in sustainability. With stories from the field, he presents examples of how selfish misguided efforts to bolster dignity actually destroy it, but actions to help others and to protect the land in which they live successfully improves the dignity of all. You can watch the talk HERE on You Tube
In other contributions to sustainability, Dr. Ron Chandler’s textbook “The Psychology of Sustainability: Understanding the Relationship Between Self and Earth” is now available in it’s 2nd edition.
Dr. Lori Knackstedt, Associate Professor along with Dr. Marek Schwendt, Associate Professor and Dr. Natalie Ebner, Professor were awarded R61Patterns and neurocognitive consequences of opioid-alcohol polysubstance use by NIH/NIDA. The award amount comes to $447,474. This award will allow Our team will assess temporal patterns of opioid-alcohol polysubstance use in humans and use these data to develop rat models of polysubstance use to characterize its biological and cognitive consequences and thus guide development of therapies to ameliorate pathological outcomes. Opioid-alcohol polysubstance use is common and is accompanied by worsened health outcomes. There is little to no research characterizing the temporal patterns of such polysubstance use or the neuro-biobehavioral outcomes of polysubstance use.