Results for "psychology"

Projects

The Brain and Social Media

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In this project we are examining how participants' behavior outside the scanner (e.g., their personality, their social media usage) relates (or not!) to the  neural activation we observe in the scanner at the UT…

Psychotherapy Effects on Reward Processing in PTSD (PERPP)

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The purpose of this study is to identify how trauma-focused psychotherapy changes the function of brain circuitry in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how this mediates improvements in the diminished ability…

Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network

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NOTE: AS OF 3-3-2022, WE HAVE REACHED CAPACITY FOR VOLUNTEERS; PLEASE CHECK BACK IN 3 MONTHS FOR UPDATES

The objective of this study is to build the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network to…

Pediatric Coping and Language Lab

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The Pediatric Coping and Language Lab studies family, linguistic, and sociocultural influences on children’s adaptation to stress. Our research focuses on families faced with chronic stressors, such as a child’s…

Research on couple relationships

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The Williamson Lab is looking for undergraduate research assistants to work on multiple ongoing studies of romantic relationships. See the lab website for current studies.

Students from all backgrounds are…

Improving Learning and Instruction

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How we can empower people to become motivated and effectively self-regulated learners? Learners must have the right mindset—they must be motivated and interpret the experience of difficulty in productive ways—but…

Indicated Project

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The Indicated Project is a six-month longitudinal study. Participants enrolled in Indicated Project complete an eight-week intervention program to help women with eating disorders. After the program, participants…

Body Project

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Body Project is a three-year longitudinal study. Participants enrolled in Body project complete an eight-week prevention program to help address body image concerns and to ward off disordered eating. After the…

Faculty

Benjamin S Baird

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology
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My research uses a diversity of methods, including behavioral testing, computational modeling, functional and structural MRI, EEG, sleep physiology, non-invasive brain stimulation and eye tracking to address…

Julia L Driver

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Philosophy
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Julia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Uneasy Virtue, Consequentialism, and Ethics: The Fundamentals, as well as many articles in ethics and moral psychology.…

Robbe Lieve Theofiel Goris

Affiliated Departments:
Neuroscience, Psychology
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Dr. Goris is interested in the function of the primate visual system. The purpose of his research is to understand the computations performed by single neurons and populations of neurons in the visual and association…

Julie Irwin

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Business, Government, and Society, Marketing
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Judgment and decision making;  marketing communication; public policy; research methodology; statistical analysis; business statistics; consumer behavior; dot-com industry; environmental studies;…

Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Working memory, cognitive control, episodic memory, functional neuroimaging

Marie Helene Monfils

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience
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Dr. Monfils is currently pursuing 2 research streams: (1) identifying the factors that promote or hinder the social transmission of information between conspecific, and (2) investigating different post-consolidation…

Caitlin A Orsini

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Neuroscience, Dell Medical School
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As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UT Austin, Caitlin Orsini's research continues to focus on uncovering how neural mechanisms, at both a cellular and a systems level, that normally govern…

Alison Preston

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Dell Medical School
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The goal of the Preston Lab is to understand the neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in the human brain. Our research focuses on how interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex promote…