Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience here in the Psychology Department at Emory, Dr. James Rilling studies the human brain as much as those of our primate…
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The Kelly Lab Leads Groundbreaking Research in Social Neuroscience
Dr. Brandon Fricker, along with Dr. Aubrey Kelly and lab collaborators published work in Current Biology with their breakthrough research to identify the circuitry in the brain that drives the…
Dr. Gregory Berns Publishes “Cowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows”
In his new book, Dr. Gregory Berns brings insight from his knowledge as a neuroscientist and his day-to-day experience caring for a bovine family on his Georgia farm together into…
Rohan Palmer featured in APS’ Careers Up Close
Learn more about what Dr. Palmer has to say about his ever-evolving work on the genetic and environmental factors that leave some people vulnerable to substance dependency. Congratulations on this…
Dr. Sherryl Goodman named 2023 recipient of the Joseph Zubin Award
The Society for Research in Psychopathology instituted an award given each Fall to one deserving individual for lifetime contributions to the understanding of psychopathology. Everyone at Emory Psychology would like…
Dr. Robert Hampton awarded the James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fund Fellowship
Funded by the James McKeen Cattell Fund, this award had been helping recipients pursue new research by supplementing the regular sabbatical allowance provided by their home institutions so they can…
Dr. Donna Maney is named a Harvard Radcliffe fellow
Psychology professor Donna L. Maney is a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023-24 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful and the vast: from reckoning with the…
Dr. Aubrey Kelly Awarded a 2021 Frank A. Beach Early Career Award
Congratulations to Dr. Aubrey Kelly on being awarded the 2021 Frank A. Beach Early Career Award. The Society of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)’s award recognizes an early-career scientist who has established…
Aarhus University Awards Dr. Bauer an Honorary Doctoral Degree
“Dr. Bauer’s connection to Aarhus University was established many years ago, and she works closely with researchers at the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research – CON AMORE under the Department…
Scott Lilienfeld Memorialized as ‘One of the most influential figures in contemporary Clinical Psychology.’
His contributions were prodigious and spanned psychopathy and personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, dissociation, memory and trauma, neuroscience and cultural sensitivity. Dr. Lilienfeld’s memorial was published in APA PsycArticles,…