SJSU Psychology Department Alumni

Join us this Monday April 18 for our first in-person SPARC event since 2019! We're all looking forward to being back to support student research.

From our own Dr. Snycerski!

The vaccines are here. Trust the science Unfortunately, doubts about vaccinations, especially among people of color, who are more...

Quotes from our own Dr. Snycerski!

California's health order falling on many deaf ears MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — In the Southern California oceanside city of Manhattan Beach, one arm of government is urging residents to stay home except for essential needs while another is...

Check out our Summer 2020 Alumni Newsletter - lots of great stuff going on in the department!

Alumni Newsletter Summer 2020.pdf

From a professor in Sociology doing some great work in the SJSU College of Social Sciences.

Silicon Valley Pain Index shows ‘white supremacy’ prevalent across institutions “The Silicon Valley Pain index shows that white supremacy is operating in most all of the institutions and systems in Santa Clara County, SJSU sociology professor Scott Myers-Lipton said.

From our own Dr. Valerie Carr!

Juneteenth | climbsjsu I'm an Assistant Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University, one of the most ethnically diverse universities in the nation and a leading supplier of employees for Silicon Valley tech companies. In an effort to help meet the nation's need for a diverse, technology-capable workforce, I he...

From the SJSU Alumni page! The artist, Titus Kaphar, is an alumni of SJSU. More information on his work in this article: https://blogs.sjsu.edu/wsq/2019/05/06/titus-kaphars-hidden-histories/

TIME's new cover: Say their names. https://ti.me/2A2VQU1

This semester we welcomed a new faculty member, Dr. Christine Ma-Kellams. Here is a link to some of her great work!

PsycNET

An interesting new publication about sports fans from our own Dr. Snycerski and Dr. Laraway! Dr. Sean Pradhan is also a graduate from our MA program and now faculty at Menlo College.

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PSG45F3QTXVZCYRTFNXS/full?target=10.1080/1612197X.2019.1674904&

Alcoholics Fanonymous: The relationships between reasons for drinking, aggression, and team identification in sports fans (2019). Alcoholics Fanonymous: The relationships between reasons for drinking, aggression, and team identification in sports fans. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Ahead of Print.

A few pictures from before the College of Social Sciences graduation ceremony last Friday!