Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology investigates topics including cognition, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, and psychopathology.

Affiliation: Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Web site: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/psych/

Recent articles about Department of Psychology

Susan Carey receives David E. Rumelhart Prize (July 23, 2008)
Roads not taken disappear more quickly than we realize (February 17, 2008)
Hauser presents theory of "humaniqueness" (February 14, 2008)
Neuroimaging fails to demonstrate ESP is real (January 3, 2008)
Even in healthy elderly, brain systems become less coordinated (December 5, 2007)
Steven Pinker’s ‘Ideas on the Fringe’ (Harvard University Gazette, October 25, 2007)
Tracking down the seat of moral reasoning (October 12, 2007)
Primates expect others to act rationally (Harvard University Gazette, September 6, 2007)
Getting to obesity’s bottom line (Harvard University Gazette, July 3, 2007)
Children can perform approximate math without arithmetic instruction (Harvard University Gazette, May 30, 2007)
Howard Gardner's 'quintet of minds' (Harvard University Gazette, May 10, 2007)
Is doing the right thing hard-wired? (Harvard University Gazette, May 3, 2007)
Verbal beatings hurt as much as sexual abuse (Harvard University Gazette, April 26, 2007)
Unfeeling moral choices traced to damaged frontal lobes (Harvard University Gazette, March 22, 2007)
Study shows importance of sleep for optimal memory functioning (Harvard University Gazette, February 15, 2007)
What does it mean to have a mind? Maybe more than you think (Harvard University Gazette, February 8, 2007)
Children are attracted to the fortunate more than the unfortunate (Harvard University Gazette, November 9, 2006)
Not unusual to forget childhood sexual abuse (Harvard University Gazette, October 12, 2006)
'Face-blindness' disorder may not be so rare (Harvard University Gazette, June 1, 2006)
Bad times make for more accurate memories (Harvard University Gazette, May 11, 2006)

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