Psychology

In keeping with the values of the Women’s Forum, new women are taking leadership after a successful inaugural year.

Meredith Allison published article on the accuracy of English-as-a-Second Language eyewitnesses with Cecily Basquin '16 and colleague Dr. Jennifer Gerwing of the University of Victoria

Bridgette Agbozo ’19 will study this summer at the University of Bristol through the program sponsored by the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission. 

The recent Cognitive Aging Summit assembled nearly 300 researchers supported by National Institutes of Health grants who like Amy Overman, associate professor of psychology, are focused on age-related brain and cognitive changes. 

Faculty, students and alumni gathered at the Society for Research in Child Development conference to present their research in Austin, Texas.

A recent study by Amy Overman, associate professor of psychology, and Alison Richard '16, was highlighted on the Psychonomic Society's blog.

Lauren Salig '17, a psychology and Spanish double major from Downingtown, Pennsylvania, will travel to South America as part of a federal program that builds good will between the United States and people of other nations. 

The best-selling author and Harvard University professor of psychology headlined Elon's annual Spring Convocation on March 30. 

Associate professor of psychology and Coordinator of African and African-American Studies, Buffie Longmire-Avital gave an invited talk titled, “'I Fought so Hard to Get Here?': Navigating Microaggressions in Historically White Spaces."

The associate professor of psychology and coordinator of African and African-American Studies at Elon gave a talk titled “A Comparative Exploration of Depressive Symptomatology among Black and White Collegiate Women.”