Duke Psychology & Neuroscience

Irwin Kremen, Duke Professor of Psychology and Internationally Acclaimed Artist, Dies at 94

Monday, February 10, 2020

Irwin Kremen, PhD, a Duke Professor of Psychology, rose to international acclaim as a collagist, sculpture artist, and painter. Kremen died Feb. 5,... read more »

Duke Hosts Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group

Friday, February 7, 2020

UPDATE as of March 11, 2020: To minimize potential health risks amid COVID-19 concerns, Duke University has cancelled all Duke-sponsored in-person... read more »

Duke Flags Lowered in Honor of P&N Professor Warren Meck

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Warren Meck, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, who studied how humans perceive time, died on January 21, 2020. Read the full article... read more »

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Duke Hosts Annual Meeting of the North Carolina...

February 7, 2020

UPDATE as of March 11, 2020: To minimize potential health risks amid COVID-19... read more »

P&N Professors Caspi & Moffitt, and Duke...

January 22, 2020

P&N Professors Avshalom Caspi & Terrie Moffitt, and Duke Postdocs Leah... read more »

P&N Graduate Student and Professor Co-Author...

January 20, 2020

P&N graduate student Matthew Bachman and Professor Scott Huettel publish... read more »

P&N Faculty Member Gregory Samanez-Larkin...

October 10, 2019

Gregory... read more »

2019-2020 P&N Faculty Seed Grant Recipients

11 P&N Faculty Members Selected for 2019-2020...

September 10, 2019

11 faculty members from the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience have... read more »

Julia Nicholas wins 2019 Zener award

May 3, 2019

Congratulations to Julia Nicholas, winner of the 2019 Karl E. Zener Award. This... read more »

Duke Digital Health Moves to Sociology-Psychology...

February 12, 2019

The Duke Global Digital Health Science Center (Duke Digital Health), which is... read more »

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 »

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Our Graduate Training Areas

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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Monica Regina (Coelho) Favre

It gave tools to think and adapt to find solutions in an ever changing world. Amazing role models, amazing experience in lab complimentary to course work, and the possibility to explore other fields...

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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...

Erika Patall

The training I received at Duke is irreplaceable. I don’t believe I could have had a better primary mentor than Harris Cooper. Harris is a brilliant researcher and was an amazing teacher, role model...

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...

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,...

Stephanie Gandelman

Because of the rapidly evolving nature of neuroscience, my Neuroscience education taught me to stay current with the literature, assess for holes in our collective understanding of a topic, and find...

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Laura Thomas

I consider the scientific communication skills I learned at Duke to be invaluable. Giving so many talks/brownbags/lectures prepared me immensely for not only job talks, but lab meetings, as well as...

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...

Erica Figueroa

Being a graduate of the Psychology and Neuroscience department at Duke greatly helped me achieve professional success. What I learned about human interactions during my coursework helped me to be a...

Loree Lipstein

I've spent my career working in the nonprofit sector, mostly as a fundraiser. After graduating from Fuqua in 2015, I launched my own nonprofit fundraising consulting firm. In all my fundraising roles...

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...

Allison Milam

My psychology courses at Duke, with a focus in child development, provided a foundation for understanding psychological development and mental health. After going to graduate school, I now use this...

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...

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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Misty Maddox

My interest in Psychology is rooted in consumer psychology and the question of why we buy what we buy. My degree helps me not only in my career, but in nearly every aspect of my life. A highlight of...

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