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Christian Chami is a 2nd year Psychology student at Florida State University working under Dr. Sara Hart. The South Eastern Twin Project is a comprehensive analysis on the factors that may improve or hamper the acquisition and development of numerosi....

Florida State undergrad, Valentina Saracino, presents her research on the role of discomfort intolerance and how it relates to anxiety. Using behavioral challenges to mimic conditions of discomfort intolerance, Valentina investigates how subjects res....

A doctoral student at FSU's College of Social Work, Annelise Mennicke, presents her research investigating intimate partner violence or "IPV". Annelise's research focuses on the context of IPV perpetration as opposed to a victim based approach, resea....

Through the FSU School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Catherine Sassano investigates what it means for students in Florida to not pass the persuasive writing portion of the FCAT. Catherine takes an analytic approach to see how standardize....

Knowing that exposure to screen-related activities correlates with poor reading skills, Danielle Luz presents her research investigating the effects of screen-related activities on children's math abilities

Narrative samples of young children provide snapshots of numerous interconnected language skills and learning. Ariel Basden's research project investigates the effects of animated v.s. static stimuli on children's constructed narratives. Basden also....

The lecture by Professor Simon Lovestone showed how current research in dementia holds great promise both in trying to understand the mechanisms to find new treatments and in researching biomarkers to help identify the condition at an earlier stage.....

What do women want? What do men want? The question of what we find attractive has been asked worldwide for centuries. The importance of being attractive to the opposite sex has increased dramatically in recent times for both men and women. This event....

The Dept of Psychology at the University of Sheffield demonstrates how volunteers are used to record brain signals and how this is used in their research.

Although it seems that knowing what will make us happy is easier than getting it, research in psychology and behavioral economics tells a different story. People not only have trouble predicting the future, they have trouble predicting how much they ....

Dr. Pam Heaton was born into a musical household and became a professional singer with no real academic ambitions. That is until she started to read about psychology as a way of relaxing and as a diversion from singing. After a while she began studyi....