The Department of Psychology at Wake Forest University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning in July 2021. We are seeking applicants with a research program studying prejudice, bias, discrimination, and/or stereotyping who will substantively contribute to one of the departmental themes in well-being or self-regulation. We welcome applicants from…
Coping with coronavirus: Waugh creates video series to help April 23, 2020 Christian Waugh, associate professor of psychology and expert in stress and coping, has created a video series discussing the science behind coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The series, hosted on YouTube, features Waugh talking about topics like resilience,…
Shamika Starke (2008 BA in Psychology) is highlighted in the Deacon Spotlight (see : https://alumni.opcd.wfu.edu/ ). She discusses her position: Strategic Initiative Manager at The Winston-Salem Foundation in Winston-Salem, NC
We are saddened to post the news that Jessica Rivers passed away on July 2nd. Jessica was a member of our psychology family for two years and graduated with her MA in psychology in May. Professor Christian Waugh served as Jessica’s advisor while she was a graduate student at…
December 4, 2018 REPRINT OF ARTICLE AT: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/12/shilling-chief-officer.aspx APA Names Shilling as New Chief Scientific Officer Brings broad experience as researcher, administrator WASHINGTON — Russell D. Shilling, PhD, has been named the first chief scientific officer of the American Psychological Association, responsible for leading and implementing the association’s transformational science…
Poster # / Oral Pres. Room # Type of Presentation First Name Last Name Major Research Advisor – First Name Research Advisor – Last Name 7 Poster Titilola Babatunde Health & Exercise Science Christy Buchanan 23 Poster Allison Clark Psychology Terry Blumenthal 26 Poster Melissa Cuellar Psychology Lisa Kiang 28…
An Announcement From the Dean of the College Dear Wake Forest faculty and staff, Christy Buchanan will step down as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Advising and return to her position as Professor of Psychology, effective July 1, 2019. Please join me in congratulating Christy on her remarkable six years…
Congratulations to Professor Dagenbach for his recent NIH research grant: “Analytical Tools for Complex Brain Networks: Fusing Novel Statistical Methods and Network Science to Understand Brain Function. “ (PI subcontract, Co-I grant).” The research involves developing multivariate analyses that take full advantage of the rich data available in…
Professor’s Petrocelli’s research on the personality and situational antecedents of “bullshitting” was recently discussed in a psychologytoday.com article . His scientific work on this topic was published recently published: Petrocelli, J. V. (2018). Antecedents of bullshitting. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 249-258, What a bunch of bull: The art and science…
Do moral beacons enable people to work across differences that exist across different communities (as moral beacons such as Martin Luther King Jr. did), or does the current climate mean that our silo-ed communities are doomed to have their own moral beacons? Can “moral beacons” foster positive societal change?…
