Stories about psychology

Valerie Taylor: Using Virtual Reality to Improve Interracial Interactions and Diversity in STEM

Valerie Jones Taylor has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual reality as a training tool to improve interracial interactions and aid in diversifying the STEM pipeline.

Understanding Resilience: The Impact of COVID-19

In the face of a global pandemic, a team of Lehigh researchers switches gears to study how individuals perceive, respond to and recover from the impact of COVID-19.

Improving Shared Decision-Making for Doctors and Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Jessecae Marsh investigates how people’s beliefs about causal relationships influence their thinking—and how an understanding of these beliefs might lead to better health outcomes.

Psychology, Computational Linguistics and the Evolution of Word Meaning

Barbara Malt and her collaborators examine how we talk about objects across multiple languages—and how that reflects human thought processes.

Lehigh Hosts Workshop on the Convergence of Materials Research and Multi-Sensory Data Science

The three-day NSF workshop invited participants from multiple disciplines to explore real-world challenges.

The Evolution of Word Sense

Researchers examine 1,000 years of English development and identify algorithms that human minds have used to create word senses with implications for artificial intelligence.

Mapping a Millennium of Metaphorical Changes

Researchers shed light on the evolution of terms like “shedding light.”

Civilizing Blame

New psychology research finds that society can civilize punishment by learning a perpetrator's unfortunate history.

Psychology department receives GAANN grant

The U.S. Department of Education grant will support three Ph.D. students.

New perspectives on the emergence of meaning

Cognitive Science Society’s annual conference includes a workshop here.