News

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

2023-24 Internship Placements -- Costello; Daniel; Davis; Eberle; Rivens; Savell; and Silverman
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Angeline Lillard’s research was featured in a recent BBC report: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230131-does-the-montessori-method-actually-work.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

John Darrell Van Horn, Professor of Psychology and Data Science was quoted in this recent news story: Slower brain development puts boys at greater addiction risk: NIH - Washington Times.
Monday, September 26, 2022

Christina Carroll is the winner of the 2022 International Montessori Award for New Researcher of the Year.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Tobias Grossmann received the 2022 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Amrisha Vaish received a 2021 Max Planck Institute Sabbatical Award. The award supports scientists by offering a research stay at one of the Max Planck Institutes as well as flexible research funding over a 2-year period.
Monday, March 14, 2022

Johanna Chajes and undergraduate Hailey Costello were awarded a Double Hoo Award for their project "The Effect of Time Pressure on Children's Fairness Behavior and Executive Function".
Monday, February 21, 2022

Congratulations to Evan Giangrande and Sean Womack who matched to clinical internship sites. Evan will be headed to Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital and Sean will be headed to the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Monday, November 8, 2021

Dr. Matt Lerner (UVA alumni, now Associate Professor for Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Stony Brook University) won the LIFE alumni award recognizing continued excellence in interdisciplinary developmental science post-PhD.
Monday, November 8, 2021

Kyshia Henderson's recent article, "Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination," has been featured in a number of news outlets including the Washington Post.

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Seanna Leath recipient 2022 APA Georgia Babladelis Best Paper Award - Butler-Barnes, Ross, & Lee-Nelson paper “What Happens If They Come for You? An Exploration of Mothers’ Racial Socialization on Discrimination With Black College Women"
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Jessica Gettleman who won the Psychonomics Graduate Conference Award!
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Evan Giangrande received the Thompson Award for the best oral presentation at the 2021 Behavior Genetics Association meeting. His talk was entitled "Biometric analysis of within-person Flynn Effects."
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Seanna Leath and the FHIRe lab were awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant - Towards a Developmental Model of Thriving: Bridging Academic, Social, and Psychological Wellbeing among Black College Women to Increase STEM Retention.
Monday, August 30, 2021

Zoe Sargent received a Psi Chi APS Convention Society Research Award for her poster titled, Non-Autistic Children Do Not Object to Autistic-like Behaviors. Zoe also received the 2020-21 Summer Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant through Psi Chi.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Congratulations to Jessica Gettleman and Meghan Costello who were awarded the Jefferson Fellowship.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Janelle Billingsley was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Ilana Ladis was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Monday, March 22, 2021

Johanna Chajes was chosen as one of the eight winners of this year's APS Student Grant Competition and will get $500 for her research on intuitive cooperation and executive function.
Monday, March 22, 2021

Janelle Billingsley was selected for the 2021 Psychology Graduate Student Excellence In Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Award.
Monday, March 22, 2021

Noelle Hurd was selected for the 2021 Psychology Faculty Excellence In Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Award.
Monday, March 22, 2021

Isabelle Moore won a Double Hoo Award for her project titled, "Semantic and episodic contributions to false memory formation."
Monday, March 15, 2021

Meltem Yucel was elected as a Student and Early Career Council representative to the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
Monday, March 15, 2021

Jessica Gettleman won a Double Hoo Award for her project "The Contribution of Face Recognition Ability and Other-Race Contact to Confidence and Accuracy in Cross-Race Eyewitness Identifications."
Monday, March 1, 2021

Katie Daniel received the Becky Boone Award.
Monday, March 1, 2021

Meltem Yucel's website Psych Research List received a Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).
Monday, March 1, 2021

Ian Becker was awarded both a UVa GSASC grant and the American Montessori Society’s prize for the best Master’s thesis.
Monday, March 1, 2021

Meltem Yucel and Shannon Savell received Graduate Teaching Awards.
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Meltem Yucel's 'PsychResearchLink' database receives Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Monday, February 22, 2021

Congratulations to Miranda Beltzer, Sarah Coe-Odess, and Nauder Namaky who matched with a clinical internship next year. Miranda will be at Cornell University, Sarah will be at Harvard Medical School, and Nauder will be at Brown University.

Monday, February 1, 2021

Meltem Yucel was selected to become the Cognitive Development Society's Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, an Affiliate to Cornell University's Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and a Research Affiliate to the Department of Human Development.
Monday, November 23, 2020

Meltem Yucel won a $12,000 grant from Cornell University's Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) to conduct research on children's gossip.
Monday, November 16, 2020

Meltem Yucel was selected as a Student Affiliate to UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, directed by Kurt Gray.
Monday, October 26, 2020

Dr. Seanna Leath was recently awarded a grant through the Stanford Innovators Program as a co-investigator.
Monday, October 12, 2020

Prof. Steve Boker has been granted an honorary doctorate from the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen.

Sunday, October 11, 2020

PhD student Taina Quiles and her mentor Seanna Leath are awarded a 2020-21 CERA Racial and Social Justice Mini-Grant
Monday, September 21, 2020

Jess Connelly and Katie Krol have received a STAR Pilot Award
Monday, September 21, 2020

Dr. Seanna Leath was hosted on a podcast series
Monday, September 21, 2020

Meltem Yucel wins the University’s Three Minute Thesis contest!

Monday, August 31, 2020

Meltem Yucel won APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award and APA Virtual Convention Grant.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Welcome New Graduate Students 2020-2021
Monday, August 10, 2020

Seanna Leath receives a Society for Research in Child Development 2020 Early Career Scholar Grant
Prof. Clore, Prof. Adams, and Prof. Salthouse
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

We celebrate the retirements of 3 distinguished faculty members this year
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Department of Psychology Statement on Anti-Black Racism and the Need for Anti-Racist Action
Friday, May 8, 2020

Congratulations Psychology Class of 2020! View program and videos here.
Friday, April 17, 2020

Victoria Mauer received the 2020 The Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching.
Monday, April 13, 2020

Meltem Yucel and Andrea Negrete won the Raven Scholarship.
Monday, March 30, 2020

Meltem Yucel was awarded a dissertation grant from the UVA Democracy Initiative's Corruption Laboratory on Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law.
Monday, March 23, 2020

Andrea Negrete won the UVA Americas Center / Centro de las Américas Fellowship!
Monday, March 16, 2020

Congratulations to Shannon Savell, who won a distinguished teaching fellowship!
Monday, March 16, 2020

Congratulations to Tim Wilson, whose article titled, Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems won the 2019 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize, awarded by the Society of Personality and Social Psychology!
Monday, March 16, 2020

Congratulations to Allie Silverman, who won a Double Hoo award for her project titled, Understanding the Relationship between eHealth Intervention Users and Human Supportive Figures: Does Gender Matter?
Monday, March 16, 2020

Congratulations to Jess Kansky, who has been selected as the 2019-2020 Student Raven Award recipient!
Monday, March 16, 2020

Congratulations to Jessica Stern, who received a postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award! Her project is co-sponsored by Tobias Grossman, Amrisha Vaish, and Joe Allen.
Monday, March 2, 2020

Angel Lillard was featured in Springer Nature 2019 Highlights for her article "Shunned and Admired: Montessori, Self-Determination, and a Case for Radical School Reform" in Educational Psychology Review.
Monday, February 17, 2020

Dr. Rachel Keen receives a Fellow Ribbon from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Friday, January 31, 2020

January Accolades-Yucel, Eisen, Stern, Kansky
Friday, January 3, 2020

John Van Horn is awarded the Fellow of Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Friday, January 3, 2020

Seanna Leath is recognized with the inaugural 500 Women Scientists Award
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Meltem Yucel is awarded the Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation Graduate Research Grant.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Bobby Moulder and Stefen Beeler were initiated to the Raven Society.
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Bethany Teachman is elected as 2019 AAAS Fellow

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 to Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Welcoming the first year PhD class.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 to Saturday, August 15, 2020

Matthew Lerner returns to UVA Psychology as a Visiting Associate Professor.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Gilmer Gazette Summer 2019 edition is now available.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Congratulations to our 2019 Psychology PhD Graduates!
Monday, May 6, 2019

Meret Hofer and Jess Kansky both received Raven Society Fellowships.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Jess Kansky received a Dean's Dissertation Completion Fellowship from GSAS.
Monday, April 22, 2019

Evan Giangrande received a Jefferson Fellowship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
Monday, April 8, 2019 to Saturday, June 8, 2019

Meltem Yucel won the 2019-2020 GSAS Teaching Relief Fellowship!
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Brian Nosek received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent!
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Joe Allen received the Bowlby-Ainsworth Award for Contributions to Attachment Research, given by the New York Attachment Consortium.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Jessica Kansky has been selected to receive the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for Social Sciences. This award is among the highest honors that a graduate student can earn in recognition of their dedication to teaching at UVA.
Monday, March 18, 2019

Evan Giangrande won the Maury Pathfinder award!
Michael Kubovy
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Michael Kubovy is honored at his Festschrift during the European Conference on Visual Perception on July 30, 2018
Jamie Albright
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Congratulations to Jamie Albright, Alex Werntz, and Audrey Wittrup, who are all matched at their clinical internship sites for next year!
Janelle Billingsley
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Janelle Billingsley, Jess Kansky, Jess Taggart, and Meltem Yucel were initiated into the Raven Society!
Bethany Teachman
Monday, February 18, 2019

Bethany Teachman received an APA Presidential Citation for her work in advancing new policy for evidence-based practice.
Monday, February 4, 2019

Victoria Mauer and Meret Hofer were awarded the UVA Power, Violence and Inequality Collective (PVI) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Monday, February 4, 2019

Meret Hofer was awarded a GSASC Graduate Research Grant.
Mavis Hetherington and Mary Ainsworth
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

APA names two new awards after two former Psychology professors: Mavis Hetherington and Mary Ainsworth.

Brian Nosek
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Brian Nosek elected as a Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sierra Eisen
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Sierra Eisen won her second APA dissertation award!
Caroline Kelsey
Monday, October 29, 2018

A new study by graduate student Caroline Kelsey and Profs. Vaish & Grossmann
Friday, September 21, 2018

Coan, Meliza, Sederberg, Teachman and Tong each received 3 Cavalier Research Funds.
Brian Nosek
Monday, September 17, 2018

Brian Nosek is awarded a 2018 Golden Goose Award!  
Lillard
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

$3.3 million 5-year grant awarded to Angeline Lillard to study Montessori education
Bethany Teachman
Friday, August 31, 2018

Bethany Teachman is profiled at A&S magazine Fall 2018.

Monday, August 27, 2018

Katie Krol was awarded a Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hartwell Foundation to continue her work with Jessica Connelly.
Monday, August 27, 2018

Sierra Eisen was awarded the American Psychological Association Division 15 Dissertation Research Grants Award.
Rachel Keen
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Rachel Keen wins Distinguished Contribution Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies
Children learn sitting on carpet in a classroom
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Vikram Jaswal’s oped piece challenging dogmas about autistic people’s social interactions is on New York Times!
Monday, July 2, 2018

Joe Allen is the recipient of a NIH-MERIT award! This is a highly prestigious award provided only to the most outstanding scientists supported by the Institute, and it doubles the duration of the original funding.
Friday, June 22, 2018

Katie Krol’s application was selected as the Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellowship program. This is an exceptionally prestigious national award, which UVA endorses only one fellow each year. Big congratulations go to Katie and her mentor, Jess Connelly!
Friday, June 22, 2018

Toby Grossmann has been elected a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science! Congratulations, Toby.
Noelle Hurd
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Noelle Hurd to be appointed as the Scully Family Discovery Associate Professor in Psychology.

Illustration of girl reading a book with a train on the ocver and ideas in illustrated in her mind
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Dan Willingham had an op-ed in the New York Times titled "How to Get Your Mind to Read". The full article can be found at the url below.
Monday, April 23, 2018

Caroline Kelsey awarded $25,000 for the 2017-2018 Dannon Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant.
Rachel Farr
Monday, April 23, 2018

Rachel Farr, who received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from UVA’s Psychology Department in 2011, has been named to the highly competitive WT Grant Young Scholars program for 2018.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dan Willingham was on a panel discussing the 2017 scores of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ("the Nation's Report Card") upon their release at the National Press Club on April 10th.
Double Hoo Award
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Meltem Yucel & Maddi Mitchell, Cat Thrasher & Demitra Chavez, Caroline Kelsey & Kate Haynes, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange & Alexandra Levin for renewing their Double Hoo awards!

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Jessica Taggart who won an All-University Graduate Teaching Award!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Remy Furrer & Jenny Lim who were awarded the Double Hoo research grant this year!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Anup Gampa, Audrey Wittrup, Andrea Negrette, and Jamie Albright who were inducted into the Raven Society!
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Congratulations to Anup Gampa who won the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for Social Sciences.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Jessica Taggart's play research was the cover story of Science News last week (in an article that also featured UVa grads Patricia Ganea and Matt Lerner) and also has just come out in The Science Breaker.
Dr. Angeline Lillard
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

NBC29 News recently did a short story on Dr. Angeline Lillard’s Hartford study on Montessori education. See url below.
Monday, February 19, 2018

Kathleen Kroll won the New Horizon's Travel Grant, an international travel grant for postdocs seeking to pursue new areas of research. She will be pursuing her interest in data visualization through graphic design coursework.
Three children playing in the woods
Friday, February 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard’s work on pretend play recently got highlighted on ScienceNews.
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Congratulations to Amrisha Vaish, who received the 2018 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from APS.
Monday, January 22, 2018

Dan Meliza, Chris Deppmann, and Mark Beenhakker received a Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant from the UVA Brain Institute to investigate "A novel model for dyslexia and other language-processing disorders"
Monday, January 22, 2018

Lillard, A. S., Heise, M. J. R., Eve M., Tong, X., Hart, A., & Bray, P. M. (2017). Montessori preschool elevates and equalizes child outcomes: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01783
Amrisha Vaish
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Amrisha Vaish receives a 2018 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science! Congratulations Amrisha!
Yellow cylindrical blocks organized by height
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard’s recent conversation with The Hechinger Report. This column appears in the US News and World Report as well.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angeline Lillard -- "Are Montessori Schools a Better Approach for Teaching Low-Income Children?"
Education
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Angel Lillard's current research receives media coverage
Steve Boker
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Steve Boker’s Explore to Build proposal titled “Institute for Healthy Development” is selected as one of three such provost initiatives this year!
Monday, December 11, 2017

Cynthia Tong's and Jianhui Zhou's (Dept. of Statistics) proposal, "Robust and Interpretable Quantile Growth Curve Modeling in Social Sciences" was funded by a College of Arts and Sciences Quantitative Collaborative (QC) Seed Grant.
How to Get Your Mind to Read
Monday, December 4, 2017

Dan Willingham had an op-ed in the New York Times titled "How to Get Your Mind to Read". The full article can be found at the url below.
Raven
Monday, November 13, 2017

Miranda Beltzer, Jason Sumontha, and Alexandra Werntz were initiated into the prestigious Raven Society.
Monday, November 13, 2017

Jessica Mazen won first place in the Diversifying Scholarship poster session, and Diane-Jo Bart-Plange won second place in the Diversifying Scholarship oral presentation category.
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Charlie Ebersole has been awarded one of eight 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes in Emerging Researchers category for Open Social Science!

Monday, October 2, 2017

Congratulations to Meltem Yucel for her election to the board of the Cognitive Development Society (CDS) as a student representative!
Monday, September 25, 2017

Congratulations to Meghan Puglia who has been awarded an APF/COGDOP Research award!
Monday, September 25, 2017

Congratulations to Diane-Jo Bart-Plange who received a 2017 Clara Mayo Award from the Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues!
Put Aside Those Toys
Thursday, August 31, 2017

UVAToday features recent research from Lillard Lab
Xiaorong Liu
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Xiaorong Liu's research is featured at Neuronline.
Diana Dinescu
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Diana Dinescu received the International Studies Office Award for Academic Excellence by a Graduate Student as well as a Travel Award from the Behavior Genetics Association.
Friday, April 28, 2017

Diversifying Psychology Visit Day at University of Virginia
Monday, April 24, 2017

Jess Kansky received a Jefferson Fellowship.
Monday, April 24, 2017

Meret Hofer and Lucy Guarnera each received a Doris Buffett Fellowship to support applied work related to the topic of children and families in need.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Emily Loeb won the All-University Graduate Teaching Award
Karl Fua
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Karl Fua won the American Psychological Foundation's 2017 Randy F. Gerson Memorial Grant.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Several pairs from the department were awarded the Double Hoo Research Grant. They are: N. Meltem Yucel & Maddi Mittchel, Cat Thrasher & Demitra Chavez, Caroline Kelsey & Kate Haynes, Diane-Jo Bart-Plange & Alexandra Levin.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Shaina Rowell won the All-University Graduate Teaching Award.

Vikram Jaswal
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Vikram Jaswal’s year long autism seminar releases a new video documenting the collaboration between the class and the Tribe, a group of non-speaking autistics in Northern Virginia
American Psychology-Law Society
Monday, March 27, 2017

Lucy Guarnera and Dick Reppucci were awarded a grant from the American Psychology-Law Society.

Monday, March 27, 2017

Psychology once again did very well at the Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition! Oral Presentations - Beltzer (1st), Taggart (2nd). Poster Presentations - Kansky and Werntz (1st), Rowell and Maresh (2nd).
Sierra Eisen
Monday, March 27, 2017

Sierra Eisen won the APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award for her predissertation.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Cat Thrasher received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Meghan Puglia
Monday, March 20, 2017

Meghan Puglia received one of the American Psychological Foundation's 2017 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowships.
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Congratulations to Meghan Puglia on winning a 2017 Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Psychological Association!
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Department of Psychology at UVa has been ranked in the top 20 in the latest US News and World Report rankings.
Virginia Education Science Training (VEST)
Monday, March 13, 2017

Victoria Mauer and Sierra Eisen received Virginia Education Science Training (VEST) predoctoral fellowships. Congratulations, Victoria and Sierra!
The Economist
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Tim Salthouse's research featured in The Economist.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Dan Willingham appointed by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences.
Villanova University
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 to Thursday, November 1, 2018

Laura Getz has accepted a Mendel Science Experience Post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Villanova University
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Congrats to Becca Weast, Liz Gilbert, Saida Hussain, Bommae Kim, and Kelly Hoffman for successfully defending their dissertations!
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Sarah Thomas won the Benjamin D. Wright Innovations in Measurement Award at the 2016 International Objective Measurement Workshop
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Andrea Negrete receives the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and Margot Bjoring receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Daniel Willingham
Thursday, April 14, 2016

DAN WILLINGHAM WAS NAME-CHECKED IN A SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE US SECRETARY OF EDUCATIO ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION