Based on a review of all admission applications, two outstanding doctoral admittees will be selected for the Cialdini Fellowships. These fellowships were made possible by a generous gift to UWM from Dr. Robert Cialdini ’67 and Bobette Gorden. An internationally …
Abel Mathew, a third-year clinical psychology doctoral student, won 1st place at UWM’s second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition was hosted by the Graduate School and the Office of Research. Originally developed by the University of Queensland, the purpose of the …
The Psychology department’s own Lisa Taxier, a 3rd-year neuroscience graduate student, won the university’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! This competition was sponsored by the Graduate School, Office of Research, and UWM Research Foundation, and originally developed by the …
Stephan Siwiec and colleagues recently published an article in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (JOCRD) that tested the feasibility of a brief computerized cognitive bias modification for interpretations (CBM-I) training as a potential intervention to reduce thought-action fusion …
Ashleigh Harvey was recently awarded a grant-in-aid of research from Sigma Xi, a scientific research honor society. The grant is entitled “A Prospective Investigation of the Association between Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms and Response Inhibition Deficits” and is a part of Ashleigh’s …
Cari Rosoff received the 2017 American Psychological Association Ethics Committee Graduate Student Ethics Writing Prize at the APA Annual Convention in August 2017 for her paper entitled “Ethics in College Sexual Assault Research.” Concerns about the high rates of sexual …
Octavio Santos has been awarded the 2017 APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) for his outstanding practice and application of psychology. He was nominated by Drs. Antonio …
Amy Goetz and her colleagues recently published a new paper in Clinical Psychology Review. Goetz, A.R., Davine, T.P., Siwiec, S.G., & Lee, H.J. (in press). The functional value of preventive and restorative safety behaviors: A systematic review of the literature. …
Barnas, AJ & Greenberg, AS (in press). Visual field meridians modulate the reallocation of object-based attention, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Adam Barnas and Dr. Greenberg have a new manuscript accepted for publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics in which they …
Miskovich, T. A., Pedersen, W. S., Belleau, E. L., Shollenbarger, S., Lisdahl, K. M., & Larson, C. L. (2016). Cortical Gyrification Patterns Associated with Trait Anxiety. PloS one, 11(2), e0149434. Graduate student Tara Miskovich and Colleagues published a new study …
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