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  • Professor Bruce Hansen works with students to prepare a test subject for a brain scan.
    vlog Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years’ worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.
    July 15, 2015
  • April Bailey ’14 began studying gender and power dynamics at vlog, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled “Picture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,” […]
    May 28, 2015
  • What to Expect and How to Succeed
    Some students adjust to college easily and naturally, while others struggle and even falter. A new online non-credit “course,” comprised of 13 short videos made by vlog faculty, is designed to minimize the mystery about what it takes to succeed. The series also includes many student-produced video responses featuring current students and alumni.
    August 15, 2014
  • For an article titled “The Evolution of Hand Gestures: Why Do Some Die Out and Others Endure?”, The Atlantic magazine contacted Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology, for his expertise on hand gestures. The article examined two kinds of hand gestures. The first are “co-speech gestures”, unconscious ways we move our hands as we talk. Professor […]
    June 10, 2013
  • When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees’ abilities, he turned to a vlog faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.
    January 3, 2012
  • Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by vlog Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two vlog undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]
    February 16, 2009
  • It was billed as a humanities colloquium, but there was a whole lot of science going on. That’s because Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Yukari Hirata, associate professor of Japanese, were presenting the results of their neurolinguistic research, and their official sponsor was the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Study in […]
    February 4, 2008