Psychology

If you are an undergraduate student at Elon we
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Assistant Professor Amy Overman and Lumen Scholar Ruth Robbins '12 co-authored a presentation at the North Carolina Conference on Aging in Charlotte on Oct. 18, 2011, titled, "Memory improvement in older adults through cognitive training: A community approach."

On Thursday, Oct. 20, Chris Leupold, associate professor of psychology and Faculty Leadership Fellow, delivered a presentation titled “A Little of This and a Little of That: Careers in I/O, ” to the graduate students of the Clemson Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists.

Buffie Longmire-Avital, assistant professor of psychology, presented her research findings on sexual partner selection among black American women at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Developmental Brown Bag series on Oct. 7.

An Elon psychology major is driven to help the elderly strengthen their minds in part because of a close bond shared with her grandparents.

An essay by Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, will be published in the forthcoming issue of The Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education.

Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords moved Wednesday to a rehabilitation center after surviving an assassin’s bullet to the head, the latest development in an ongoing story that has captivated the nation since early January. Assistant professor Amy Overman offers insight into traumatic brain injuries and provides advice for patients’ families in the latest in a series of videos where Elon University faculty members share their research and classroom expertise.

Ask an expert in any profession to share how he learned his job and you might not get a good answer. Ask a novice the same thing, and you could hear a detailed response. Jonathan Mahlandt, the seventh student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars, wants to know why this happens, the answers to which may one day help classroom teachers better educate young students.

Kimberly Duggins, a senior Honors Fellow and psychology major mentored by Amy Overman, psychology, has been selected to present her undergraduate research, "Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of schema activation on memory for crime information in older and younger adults, " to members of Congress in Washington, D.C., in April.

Mathew Gendle, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, along with colleagues at Cornell University and the University of California-Santa Cruz, has co-authored a chapter in the forthcoming book Gender Differences in Prenatal Substance Exposure to be published by the American Psychological Association and released on Oct. 15, 2011, as part of the APA’s Decade of Behavior book series.