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51���� Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years’ worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.

April Bailey ’14 began studying gender and power dynamics at 51����, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled “Picture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,” […]

Some students adjust to college easily and naturally, while others struggle and even falter. A new online non-credit “course,” comprised of 13 short videos made by 51���� faculty, is designed to minimize the mystery about what it takes to succeed. The series also includes many student-produced video responses featuring current students and alumni.

For an article titled “The Evolution of Hand Gestures: Why Do Some Die Out and Others Endure?”, The Atlantic magazine contacted Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology, for his expertise on hand gestures. The article examined two kinds of hand gestures. The first are “co-speech gestures”, unconscious ways we move our hands as we talk. Professor […]

When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees’ abilities, he turned to a 51���� faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by 51���� Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two 51���� undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]

It was billed as a humanities colloquium, but there was a whole lot of science going on. That’s because Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Yukari Hirata, associate professor of Japanese, were presenting the results of their neurolinguistic research, and their official sponsor was the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Study in […]