Professor Friedman Awarded GRAMMY Museum Grant
University at Albany professor Ron Friedman was awarded a research grant from The GRAMMY Museum Grant Program for his study: Exploring the Links between Tone Language Use, Pitch Discrimination, and Musical Emotion Perception. This is one of only five such awards in the US and Canada. Read more about the grant.
Statement on Racism and Discrimination
The University at Albany Department of Psychology condemns, without qualification, racism, discrimination, violence, and threats of harm toward Black and Brown individuals locally, nationally, and globally. The accumulated psychological research evidence has pointed to a clear conclusion: Systematic explicit and implicit racism, discrimination, and bias against communities of colors permeate all corners of the globe and exert untold physical and psychological harm to these communities.
From Imagination to Altruism
University at Albany psychology professor Brendan Gaesser who is working to understand the intricacies of our imagination and morality has found that our imagination could be one of the keys behind our ability to help others in times of need.
Psychology Alum Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Jaquelyn H. Berry, PhD, who earned her PhD from UAlbany's Cognitive Psychology Program in 2013, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Egypt for cognitive research in task and interface switching. Berry will research and lecture at the American University in Cairo as part of a project to study behavior in Arabic-English bilinguals when they are switching between different tasks and interfaces.
Berry is one of over 800 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, and/or provide expertise abroad for the 2019-2020 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields.
Avenues of Fear
Forty years of research examining how we learn about fearful experiences and the brain regions that serve this form of learning have primarily left sex and age out of the equation. Now, however, new research by Assistant Professor Andrew Poulos of Psychology, supported by a $1.89 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health, delves into this aspect of fear-learning where nearly all other studies have not.