Michele Lee, a second-year student in the Master of Arts in Psychology Sciences degree program was selected for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award in the Student category. This award honors a Northern Arizona University student who has made outstanding contributions to women’s leadership development and towards advancing the status of women at Northern Arizona University.
Michele has worked with… Read more
Meliksah Demir, Ph.D., Nora Dunbar, Ph.D., and former NAU student Shelby Burton authored the article Professor-Student Rapport and Perceived Autonomy Support as Predictor of Course and Student Outcomes in the January edition of Teaching of Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s flagship journal for educators in the field. One of the conclusions resulting from their research was that “providing professors with opportunity to enhance rapport and autonomy may improve student success.” Ms. Burton is now a fourth-year doctorate student in… Read more
The Northern Arizona University’s Department of Psychological Sciences will be offering an APA Summer Undergraduate Psychology Research Experience (SUPRE). This paid 8-week program provides talented undergraduates who have little or no prior laboratory experience with the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of how scientific research is conducted.
Visit the program announcement for more information on this exciting program.
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Fall Research Symposium was held on Friday, November 30, 2018, in Ashurst Hall. Over 160 posters were presented during the event, involving 341 participants and 27 faculty sponsors from throughout the college. The fall symposium provides a much anticipated opportunity for students from the Department of Psychological Sciences to present research they conducted during Introductory Undergraduate Research (PSY 279), Undergraduate Research (PSY 485), or Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (PSY 302W)… Read more
The manuscript The Relationship between Creativity and Global/National Identity: Comparative Study of Lithuanian and American Students’ Samples based on the results of a study done in collaboration with Dr. Donohue’s research lab and colleagues in Vilnius University, Lithuania was accepted for publication in the international journal Psichologija this fall.
Citation
Tidikis, V., Donohue, D., Petkeviciute-Barysiene, D., & Rakickiene. L. (in press). The Relationship between Creativity and Global/National Identity: Comparative Study of Lithuanian and American Students’ Samples. Psichologija.
