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A clinical psychology doctoral student is conducting a study of children’s understanding of emotion using the Disney/Pixar film Inside Out and is looking for children between the ages of 9–11 and their parent(s) to participate. Participation involves completing surveys, watching the movie, and participating in a discussion about emotions. This is a group study that will be held in the Stapleton Library on the IUP campus and will take approximately three hours. Adult participants will each get a Sheetz gift card, and child participants will receive a prize.

Dr. Melissa Bell will give the commencement address to the students receiving PsyD, MA, and BA degrees from the Department of Psychology on May 7. Bell is a distinguished alumna of the Psychology Department.

Psychology Day is a new, day-long event packed with research talks by faculty members and students, panel discussions with practicum supervisors and IUP alumni about practicum opportunities, careers, employment, and graduate studies, and much more. Psychology Day is aimed at psychology students, but offers something for everyone at IUP, and the campus community is invited to attend.

 On March 12, 20165, Psychology's Meg Reardon presented a paper titled “Policing the Police: Attitudes Towards the Militarization of Police” at the annual American Psychology - Law Society conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, inducted these new members on April 20, 2016.

Ian Bright (left) and Professor Raymond Pavloski are pictured in front of a research poster at the Research Experience for Summer Scholars. They both presented research recently at Neurotechnix 2015: the third International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics, and Informatics in Lisbon, Portugal. Raymo

Graduate students in the  Clinical Psychology doctoral program  are learning to administer tests of intellectual functioning and are in need of volunteers between the ages of six years and 16 years, 11 months. Graduate student examiners will schedule testing sessions at a date and time that is convenient for the volu

Graduate students in the  Clinical Psychology doctoral program  are learning to administer tests of intellectual functioning and are in need of volunteers between the ages of six years and 16 years, 11 months. Graduate student examiners will schedule testing sessions at a date and time that is convenient for the volu

Graduate students in the  Clinical Psychology doctoral program  are learning to administer tests of intellectual functioning and are in need of volunteers between the ages of six years and 16 years, 11 months. Graduate student examiners will schedule testing sessions at a date and time that is convenient for the volu

Professor Pearl Berman (Psychology) was the editor of, and wrote an introductory article for, the September/October issue of the newsletter for the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence . This issue of the newsletter specifically concerns domestic homicide across the lifespan. The following graduate stu

Rick Kemp, head of acting and directing in IUP’s Department of Theater and Dance, will present “Acting Expertise in Shakespeare” at the next Psychology Brown Bag gathering in Uhler Hall, Room 111, on Friday, October 31, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. Kemp, author of Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us Abou

On Friday, October 24, in Uhler Hall Room 111, Sadie Mummert of the Criminology Department will present “The Relationship Between Risky Behavior, Individual Characteristics, and Sexual Poly-Victimization Among College Women.” Although general poly-victimization has begun to be researched, sexual poly-victi

Psychology faculty and students hosted the fourth annual PA State System Psychology Conference on Saturday, October 4, 2014. This conference was initiated in October 2010 in order to promote interactions among psychology faculty and students across all State System universitie

The Center for Applied Psychology clinics are accepting new clients. The Center for Applied Psychology provides psychotherapy and assessment services to the IUP community. Services are available for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Psychotherapy and assessments are conducted by graduate s

Psychology’s Elephant Café Brown Bag Series presents Professor Francisco Alarcón , Department of Mathematics , who will conduct an introductory workshop on the use of SMART board technology in the classroom. The presentation will feature several actual class materials used in IUP’s courses that employ the SMA

Krys Kaniasty , of the Department of Psychology , just published “Parental Crucibles: Families Coping with Disaster” in Buchwal, Moore, and Ringeisen’s (editors) work, Stress and Anxiety: Application to Education and Health . Disaster victims primarily rely on their indigenous support networks. Researchers obse

The Center for Applied Psychology presents Leonore Tiefer on Friday, April 13, 2012 from 9:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. She will discuss “Integrating a Non-Medical View of Sexual Problems into Clinical Practice, The Contributions of the New View Campaign.” The workshop will be held in 210 Stabley Library. Leonore Tiefer,

Wanted: Parents to participate in a new study about child development. Laura Knight and Lisa Newell in the Department of Psychology are currently conducting a study of parents’ knowledge of child development. They are looking for moms and dads with at least one child under age five to participate. Particip

The second annual PASSHE Psychology Conference was held October 14 and 15, 2011, at Kutztown University. This conference is a yearly gathering designed to foster community and allow for members of the psychology departments at the fourteen state universities to share ideas and research findings. The inaugural confe

Dr. Elizabeth Kincade, chair of the Counseling Center at IUP, will discuss her new book, Feminist Therapy: Strategies for Social and Individual Change, on Friday, April 22, 2011, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Uhler Hall, Room 116. Although feminist therapy is often considered a newcomer to the field of clinical p

Dr. John Mills , chair of IUP’s Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects and professor of Psychology , will describe important concepts and applications in responsible conduct of research, with particular attention to levels of privacy and informed consent procedures. This discussion will

Michael Mascolo of the Department of Psychology at Merrimack College will be presenting a colloquium for the Psychology Department titled “What Would a Holistic Psychology Look Like?: Analyzing the Development of Persons .” The colloquium takes place on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in Uhler Hall, Room 11

David Werner, interim president of IUP, will welcome faculty and students from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to the luncheon of the Psychology Potluck conference on Saturday, October 23, 2010.

Dr. Maureen O’Connor, graduate of the Psy.D. program in Clinical Psychology , was chosen to receive the department’s Young Alumni Award. As part of completing the doctorate at IUP, she did her internship at the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School. She proceeded to a postdoctoral fellowship at

Dr. David LaPorte of the Department of Psychology was honored with the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, which is awarded by the University Senate to one faculty member each year. The awards were presented by President Tony Atwater during IUP’s 2009 Honors Day on March and again at the University C

Senior psychology major Carol Shuler, second-year doctoral student Janna Foster, and Dr. Krys   Kaniasty have provided the latest entries in the Psychology Department’s  Research and Recognition ! Ms. Shuler received an award from the IUP McNair Program for best overall research during the program’s Summer Resea