Congratulations to Dr. Aubrey Kelly on being awarded the 2021 Frank A. Beach Early Career Award. The Society of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)’s award recognizes an early-career scientist who has established an independent research program which exhibits the potential for continued significant impacts on the field of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology as well as demonstrating leadership in the society with a commitment to mentorship and outreach. Dr. Kelly's research focuses on the neural mechanisms of social behavior.

"At this moment in history, the stakes are high," says Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney, senior author of the analysis. "Misreported findings may affect health care decisions in dangerous ways."

“We see interdisciplinary study as the core of everything we want to accomplish in undergraduate education,” says Robyn Fivush, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and director of the Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA). Dr. Kazama, a lecturer and director of undergraduate research in the psychology department, says the critical work is helping professors and students alike to think about a topic that will resonate differently in other fields.

Dr. Patricia J. Bauer’s connection to Aarhus University was established many years ago, and she works closely with researchers at the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research - CON AMORE under the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences.

By Emory Psychology Professor, Dr. Donna L. Maney and Dr. Clemens Küpper of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

Dr. Patricia J. Bauer, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology, in Child Development Perspectives.

"Having clarity about the appeal of authoritarianism may be relevant to help better understand what's going on in the political landscape today," says Thomas Costello, an Emory graduate student of psychology and first author of the study.

Emory Psychology Professor Dr. Jack McDowell in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

The first author on this research article is Dr. Hilary Miller-Goldwater who is a postdoctoral fellow in the Bauer Memory Lab. Published in Cognitive Psychology.

"Genetic studies may help reduce some of the stigma society has against substance use disorders, while also making treatment more accessible," says Victoria Risner, first author of the new study on nicotine dependence, who did the work as an Emory undergraduate.

His contributions were prodigious and spanned psychopathy and personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, dissociation, memory and trauma, neuroscience, and cultural sensitivity.

"Learning more about how acute stress and chronic stress affect the brain may help in the development of treatment targets for depression," says Jessica Cooper, first author of the study and a post-doctoral fellow in Emory's Department of Psychology. Nature Communications published the research by scientists at Emory University.

Experiments led by Emory psychologist Arber Tasimi found that children prefer non-stolen money offered by a "bad" person over stolen money offered by an "okay" person.

This award is presented annually as part of Commencement to faculty members in each of Emory’s four undergraduate schools. It recognizes a record of excellence in undergraduate teaching, and was established by Emory Williams, a 1932 Emory College alumnus and longtime trustee

Dr. Rohan Palmer et al. in Genes, Brain, and Behavior

The APS Rising Star designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.

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Dr. Patricia J. Bauer, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology, in Child Development Perspectives.

Experiments led by Emory psychologist Arber Tasimi found that children prefer non-stolen money offered by a "bad" person over stolen money offered by an "okay" person.

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By Emory Psychology Alum, Dr. Brett A. Murphy, and Dr. Scott O. Lilienfeld (posthumously). Published in The American Journal of Psychology 134, no. 3 (2021): 347–61

By Emory Psychology Alum, Dr. Nicole L. Varga and Emory Professor, Dr. Joseph Manns. Published in NeuroImage Volume 244, 1 December 2021, 118600

First author is Emory Psychology Alum Dr. Andrew Persichetti. Co-authored with the Dilks Lab. Published in Journal of Vision.

Emory Psychology Alumni, Dr. Holly E. Poore, Dr. Ashley L. Watts, and Emory Professor, Dr. Irwin Waldman,

First author is Dr. Alena Esposito (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Clark University). Dr. Esposito was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory in 2018. This paper was co-authored with Bauer Memory Lab members Katherine Lee and Dr. Jessica Dugan. Dr. Jillian Lauer is an alum of Emory Psychology and a postdoctoral fellow at NYU.

Dr. Emily Brown, an alum of Dr. Robert Hampton's Laboratory of Comparative Primate Cognition, has won Learning and Behavior's 2021 Best Article Award for 'Cognitive control of working memory but not familiarity in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)', published in issue 4, vol 48. The Psychomomic Society will formally present the award at the 2021 Psychonomic Society annual meeting in New Orleans.

The first author on this research is Lauren DiFazio who was a Research Specialist in the Manns Lab. Published in Behavioral Neuroscience.

This paper, published in NeuroImage, is authored by Dr. Shin Ah Kim and Dr. Sang Hee Kim (Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University) in collaboration with Emory Professor Dr. Stephan Hamann. Dr. Sang Hee Kim is an alum of the Hamann Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.

BGA Lab (Emory alum Victoria Risner, current post-doctoral fellow Chelsie Benca-Bachman, current graduate student Lauren Bertin et al.)

By Emory Psychology alumni Dr. Aubrey M. Toole and Dr. Devon LoParo in Body Image, Volume 38, Pages 191-200

Recent alum Dr. Cassandra L. Hendrix in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Recent alum Dr. Ashley Prichard in the Journal of Comparative Neurology Volume 529, Issue 11, Pages 2987-2994

Recent alum Dr. Ryan J. Brady in Animal Cognition 24, 777–785 (2021)

By recent alumni Dr. Jay W. Schwartz and Dr. Jonathan W.M. Engelberg. Published in Animal Behavior and Cognition, 7(2), 192-213.