Psychology

Research on ADHD in college students by associate professor of psychology Linda Wilmshurst and alumna Marella Peele has been published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

If you’re trying to convince a jury of your innocence, it may help to tell the truth about where you were at the time of a crime – especially if your story bubbles with juicy details, according to a paper by Kyla Mathews '09, an Elon University alum who won the top prize for her research this summer in a national contest.

The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record reported Aug. 26 on work by associate professor Mat Gendle and his undergraduate researchers into the effects, or lack thereof, of the popular Red Bull energy drink.

If the maker of Big Red and Juicy Fruit thinks its chewing gums have a monopoly on boosting your memory, it should think again. New work by Elon University faculty member Amy Overman and her undergraduate researchers show that gum itself isn’t special – any candy or oral activity probably works just as well at sharpening the mind.

Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, and several Elon Academy scholars from summer 2009 have been featured in an instructor’s resource video produced and distributed by Carolina Biological Supply Company.

If, like the famous advertisements claim, Red Bull does “give you wings,” it may not be the sugar and caffeine that makes you feel like Pegasus. New work by an Elon faculty member and his undergraduate researchers points to something else that happens when guzzling the popular energy drink – and it has more to do with your mind than anything else.

Linda Wilmshurst, an associate professor of psychology, provided expert commentary for Fox 8 News on May 6 in "The Buckley Report" feature segment that is distributed to Fox affiliates nationwide.