Psychology

Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has received the 2013 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
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New research from social psychologists at Indiana University Bloomington suggests that feeling powerful might protect against the debilitating effects of negative stereotypes.
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Two Indiana University Bloomington faculty members in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have won major awards for early career contributions to their fields. Brian D'Onofrio, an associate professor of clinical science, has won the 2013 Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions to Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science. Mary Murphy, assistant professor of social psychology who directs the Mind and Identity in Context Lab, was named a 2013 APS Rising Star.
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U.S. News and World Report again gave high marks to Indiana University programs in education, business, law and medicine in its annual Best Graduate Schools rankings. The School of Library and Information Sciences at IU Bloomington was rated eighth-best in the country, and the College of Arts and Sciences' humanities and social-science programs were among the nation's best.
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If you ask a rat whether it knows how it came to acquire a certain coveted piece of chocolate, Indiana University neuroscientists conclude, the answer is a resounding, "Yes." A study newly published in the journal Current Biology offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal.
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Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.
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