Duke Psychology & Neuroscience

P&N Person of the Week: Dalina Mayes

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

P&N has a new staff assistant in Soc-Psych 017B, Dalina Mayes, who started working in the department on November 19th. At Duke, Ms. Mayes will be... read more »

Elika Bergelson Receives DIBS Research Incubator Award

Monday, December 10, 2018

Congratulations to P&N's Elika Bergelson for receiving a 2018-2019 Research Incubator Award from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The... read more »

Alisa Bedrov Receives 2018-2019 Jerome S. Bruner Award

Friday, November 16, 2018

The Duke Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is pleased to announce that Duke senior Alisa Bedrov is this year's winner of... read more »

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Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists...

November 5, 2018

The Duke Identity and Diversity Lab... read more »

P&N Graduate Students and Postdocs Receive...

October 30, 2018

Psychology & Neuroscience is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the... read more »

Moral Reasoning: Why it's hard to change...

August 4, 2018

What makes it so difficult to change our minds about moral issues, despite new... read more »

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Adolescent...

June 25, 2018

Professor John Curry has recorded a DVD, ... read more »

2018 Summer Vertical Integration Program, May 15-...

May 16, 2018

This week P&N kicked off their summer Vertical Integration program (VIP).... read more »

The Eardrums Move When the Eyes Move

January 23, 2018

Duke Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience Jennifer Groh and a team of... read more »

Babies Understand When Words are Related

November 21, 2017

A new study by lead author Elika Bergelson is being reported in a number of... read more »

Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness

July 19, 2017

Sooner or later, almost everyone has an experience that could be diagnosed as a... read more »

Children understand cooperative concepts earlier...

May 25, 2017

The ability to engage in joint actions is a critical step toward becoming a... read more »

Is "Abnormal Psychology" Really all...

April 17, 2017

P&N Clinical Graduate Student Jonathan Schaefer recently wrote a blog post... read more »

Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

April 3, 2017

For P&N doctoral students, the Major Area Paper (MAP) is the first major... read more »

P&N researchers pinpoint brain structure that...

January 27, 2017

New research from the Tobias Egner Lab ... read more »

Makeba Wilbourn honored by President Obama,...

January 11, 2017

Congratulations to P&N's Makeba Wilbourn, who has received the Presidential... read more »

Tomasello Study a Top Breakthrough of 2016

December 30, 2016

Congratulations to P&N Professor Mike Tomasello and his colleagues, whose... read more »

Matt Scult: Emotion Regulation, Mathmatical...

December 7, 2016

Data from a recent P&N brain imaging study found that subjects who had a... read more »

Mapping Emotions in the Brain

October 13, 2016

Work by P&N's Kevin LaBar and colleagues is featured as... read more »

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Duke’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience has five graduate training areas:

Clinical Psychology
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Systems and Integrative Neuroscience

Students apply to and are admitted to a specific training program. Only primary faculty (with appointments to Duke's graduate faculty) and joint graduate training faculty can admit students to the training area(s) they are affiliated with.

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Amrita Dixit

After Duke, I've been working in consulting and marketing strategy. Despite not going into medicine nor research, being a Neuroscience graduate has still had a profound impact on my career. Having a...

Aleisha Khan

Duke's Psychology and Neuroscience department, and the Neuroscience major, in particular, provided me with a multidisciplinary education that not only provided me with a solid background in the...

Seth Disner

There is no chance I’d be where I am now without my experiences at Duke. My concentration was in Cognitive Psychology, but that focus fed off my other courses in biological and abnormal psychology,...

Megan Kuhfeld

I got great research experience and practice with academic writing in the Psych department in Duke. Getting hands-on research experience at Duke was very useful in applying for jobs after undergrad....

Chloe DiPasquale

Psychology has given me the tools to analyze a situation and understand the actors involved. Psych allows me to have a better understanding of human behavior and motivation. What advice would you...

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Sara Gates

The best thing about P&N is that it will be relevant to any career path you may choose. Duke taught me various explanations as to why people may do what they do and how people can be influenced...

Lisa Fazio

My training and experiences at Duke have been invaluable in preparing me for my career. Beth Marsh was an amazing mentor and gave me the tools and experience I needed to conduct independent research...

Rebecca Thurston

Duke provided an exceptional foundation for my career. I gained a very strong training in cardiovascular physiology and behavioral medicine under the mentorship of James Blumenthal and Andrew...

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Ada Aka

Being a Duke Psychology major sparked my interest for research, helped me build a solid foundation on theoretical knowledge and allowed me to develop skills such as critical thinking and...

Stephen Allan

It has taught me to realistically understand human behavior, how to think critically, and how to consider every variable in a given situation--even ones that may not necessarily seem to correlate...

Zohair Zaidi

As someone with a strong interest in research, I found that the degree offered many courses that gave me great exposure to the research in the field, how to read scientific literature, and allowed me...

Carolyn Jones

I was lucky to work as an undergraduate research assistant in a couple of Psychology & Neuroscience department research labs despite the fact that Psychology was a second major...

Upasana Chandra

The Neuroscience program at Duke is interdisciplinary, and I had the opportunity to take classes from a wide variety of fields (including neurolinguistics, functional neuroimaging, and neurobiology,...

Charles Jonassaint

As the eldest child of immigrant parents, I wanted to be the first in my family to graduate from college. But I lacked direction and by my senior year of high school I had lost sight of my goals. I...

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Hayden Finch

Going to Duke, I was able to conduct original research that led to a first-author publication. This is an experience most people don't get until graduate school (or even after) and made me much more...

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