University at Albany Psychology Department

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Dr. Cynthia Najdowski of the University at Albany Psychology Department has published the following article to share from Psychology Today

Jury Selection in the Black Lives Matter Era Prospective jurors can be excluded from trial participation due to their attitudes toward the movement, but this can produce racial discrimination and biased jury decision-making.

Our Industrial/Organizational Psychology Students are doing great things!

Psychology Students Partner with Regional Food Bank to Conduct Job Analyses, Offer Recommendations

Psychology Students Partner with Regional Food Bank to Conduct Job Analyses, Offer Recommendations UAlbany graduate students in the industrial-organizational psychology practicum course work with organizations in the local community to analyze challenges and offer science-backed recommendations. This academic year, for the first time, they partnered with the Regional Food Bank to conduct a jobs a...

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We are looking for a new Administrative Manager. This position is open to the public!

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❓What have our Professors and Researchers been doing lately?

📢Dr. Earleywine's lab recently published the attached and linked article.

In a nutshell, previous work has made a big deal out of psychedelics creating mystical experiences, and the more mystical, the more the patients in psychedelic-assisted therapy benefit. Nevertheless, most psychotherapists don't really know what to do with mystical experiences or how to increase them as an acute response to ketamine, L*D, or other molecules.

We note that mystical experiences and improvements in well being also correlate with changes in dysfunctional attitudes-- the maladaptive thoughts like "I'm nobody unless somebody loves me," or "My value is inherently tied to how much I work." Cognitive therapists do know how to handle these dysfunctional attitudes, and these results might make them more likely to recommend and assist in psychedelic-assisted interventions.

Acute Psychedelic Reactions, Post-Acute Changes in Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Psychedelic-Associated Changes in Wellbeing Dysfunctional attitudes – a cornerstone to cognitive psychotherapy – vary with both psychological and pharmacological interventions. Post-acute changes in these cognitions appear to covary with the...

Wishing a Warm Welcome and a fantastic year to our incoming Ph. D students!

One of our faculty, Dr. Cynthia Najdowski, was recently listed in the Social Issues and policy review. Dr. Nadjowski's paper was one of the top 10 most cited papers published in Social Issues and Policy Review from 2022 to 2023. The citation for the paper is:

Najdowski, C. J., & Goff, P. A. (2022). Towards a psychological science of abolition democracy: Insights for improving theory and research on race and public safety. Invited submission in Social Issues and Policy Review, 16(1), 33-78.

SPSSI Journals We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that W. E. B. Du Bois articulated as the need to dissolve slaver...

APSY 450T students with Dr. Sarah Domoff presenting their research on social media and mental health today. Senator Ashby attended our panel discussion!

Our professor in the Social Psychology Department, Cynthia Najdowski Received the 2023 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for this paper:



Najdowski, C. J., & Goff, P. A. (2022). Towards a psychological science of abolition democracy: Insights for improving theory and research on race and public safety. Invited submission in Social Issues and Policy Review, 16(1), 33-78.

SPSSI Journals We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that W. E. B. Du Bois articulated as the need to dissolve slaver...