Psychology at Pratt Institute

06/08/2016

Dr. Bruner thought that a teacher’s primary task was what he called “the mining of human intellectual potential.” Too often, he said, that mission was undercut by well-meaning but poorly designed schools, churches and other institutions that did not understand the needs of children.
“If you construct a classroom in which children must keep their seats,” he said in 1987, “you are assuring that there will be a hyperactivity syndrome."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jerome-s-bruner-influential-psychologist-of-perception-dies-at-100/2016/06/07/033e5870-2cc3-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html

Dr. Bruner helped launch the field of cognitive psychology and was a major educational theorist.

03/12/2016

Many many years ago, Freud was asked to describe what a person should do to attain happiness. The questioner expected a complicated answer and, given Freud’s past, this was a reasonable expectation. But Freud is reported to have said quite succinctly: “Lieben und arbeiten,” or “to love and to work.”.... a wave of new research in psychology is beginning to improve on the old professor’s formula. Conventional wisdom holds that money can’t buy happiness, but science disagrees. According to research, if you work hard and earn the right amount of money, you CAN buy happiness. http://www.aswglobalist.com/journey/money-can-buy-happiness/

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03/12/2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/the-superior-social-skills-of-bilinguals.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Yet another benefit to speaking multiple languages.

03/05/2016

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/psychology-crisis-whether-crisis/

The psychology establishment is fighting back against an attack on its reliability. But it might be letting emotion get in the way.

02/24/2016

Take a look at our new poster - we've added new courses.

02/12/2016

The 2016 Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Summer Institute will be held July 11 to 15, 2016 on Manhattan’s beautiful Upper East Side and will be directed by Dr. BJ Casey and Ali Cohen of the Sackler Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. This year’s course will focus on law and neuroscience specifically as it relates to juvenile justice reform, racial bias and lie detection. Participants will benefit from lectures and from direct interactions with neuroscientists, psychologists and legal scholars during both social and scientific events scheduled each day. Room and partial board will be provided for the attendees through the generous support of the Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. family.

Applications are now being accepted through April 15, 2016. The application form can be downloaded here and requires a copy of your Curriculum Vitae, a brief statement of interest (no more than 250 words), and two brief letters of reference. Completed applications should be emailed to B. J. Casey, Ph.D. at [email protected]. Reference letters should be emailed with applicant's name as subject line to from the referee or a signed letter on letterhead can be attached to applicant's submission. Please direct all other inquiries regarding the 2016 Summer Institute to Melanie Silverman at [email protected].

https://www.sacklerinstitute.org/cornell/summer_institute/

02/11/2016

FA investigators take standard architectural and digital tools such as telemetry, video-footage syncing and shadow clocks, and repurpose them to reveal the secrets of conflict zones. Weizman's team has also pioneered plume analysis -- the study of the whirling clouds of mainly atomised concrete created when bombs are dropped in urban areas. Each plume has a distinct shape, like a fingerprint. Weizman and his colleagues' brief is as wide-ranging as man's cruelty to man: they mine the information seam where enemies clash, where migrants drown, natives are dispossessed and civilians bombed.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2016/01/features/gaza-data-forensics

In the heat of war, ‘truth’ can be fuzzy. So a London team are bringing forensic tools to unravel violent clashes

02/11/2016

The Social Cognitive Development Group, headed by Professor Felix Warneken in the Harvard University Lab for Developmental Studies, is seeking motivated students to assist with research focused on cooperative behaviors and social cognitive development in young children. In particular, we study how children start to engage in altruistic helping and how they share resources with others. We study a broad age range, from toddlers to school-aged children, to better understand how these behaviors emerge over development. Research Assistants will gain experience and exposure to a variety of research activities, including: testing children in the lab, in parks in the Boston area, at the Museum of Science, or at daycares; recruiting and scheduling child participants and their families; data analysis (including advanced video coding technology); and aiding in the development of new studies. An interest in psychology and working with children is essential, and previous experience is a plus. Students must commit to working 35 hours per week in the lab, which includes attending weekly lab meetings.

http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/programhub.aspx?sort=SUM-Harvard-DevelopPsychology

02/06/2016

01/28/2016

Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies hosts an annual summer internship, supervised by Dr. Susan Carey and Dr. Jesse Snedeker.


https://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/lds/research/carey/summer-internship/

Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies hosts an annual summer internship, supervised by Dr. Susan Carey and Dr. Jesse Snedeker. Interns gain in-depth research experience. You can learn about Dr. Carey and Dr. Snedeker’s current research by reading our website; focusing on publications from our lab me…

01/22/2016

The Yale Mind and Development Lab, under the direction of Dr. Paul Bloom, is accepting applications for our annual Summer Internship Program. Our research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, including topics such as morality, religion, free will, and the nature of the self.

http://minddevlab.yale.edu/join-us

2016 Summer Internship We are now accepting applications for our annual volunteer summer internship program, open to undergraduate students (and recent graduates) from any college or university. The Yale Mind and Development Lab Summer Internship will provide interns with the opportunity to work wit…

01/22/2016

Second section of Environmental Psychology SS 358.02 just opened up! Tuesday afternoons from 2 - 4:50 in Engineering Building Room 311.