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P&N Ph.D. Student Jaime Castrellon Wins Best Poster Award for the Second Time at the Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

P&N Ph.D. student Jaime Castrellon was awarded Best Poster at the Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 4-6,... read more »

P&N Faculty Member Elika Bergelson Receives the Early Career Award from the Cognitive Development Society

Friday, October 25, 2019

Congratulations to Elika Bergelson, Crandall Family Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, for receiving the Early Career Award from the... read more »

P&N Professors Receive 2019 Award for Outstanding Postdoc Mentors at Duke

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Drs. Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi of the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience have been named the 2019 Outstanding Postdoc Mentors at... read more »

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Mobile Mindfulness: Delivering mindfulness interventions via technology

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Ethanol and inhibitory synaptic function in the Central nucleus of the amygdala in mice

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Not Quite the Rule, But No Longer the Exception: Multiple Tobacco Product Use and Implications for Treatment, Research, and Regulation

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Research

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 »

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 »

Undergraduate Program

We are now supporting two majors: Psychology and Neuroscience. Consequently, this website is under construction. Feedback welcomed!

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Undergraduate News

Monday, May 13, 2019

Neuroscience Major Julie Uchitel Addresses...

In high school, Julie Uchitel recalls being interested in biology... read more »

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Sera Pekel Selected as Student Speaker for...

Graduating senior Sera Pekel has been selected by faculty... read more »

Friday, May 3, 2019

Julia Nicholas wins 2019 Zener award

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

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Graduate News

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

P&N Ph.D. Student Jaime Castrellon Wins Best Poster Award for the Second Time at the Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Congratulations to P&N's 2019-2020 Graduate Research Grant Award Recipients

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

P&N Person of the Week: Hannah Moshontz

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

P&N and CNAP First Year Festival 2019

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Graduate Program

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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Alumni

Maureen Ritchey

As a P&N student, I had countless opportunities to interact with and learn from faculty at the top of their fields. These informal training experiences were hugely influential in shaping my ideas...

Langley King

I focused on Developmental Psychology as an undergrad, something which has greatly impacted my understanding of current educational inequalities in my everyday work. I still remember my '...

Kassandra Taylor

As an attorney, I find that a background in psychology is extremely helpful in understanding people and their possible motivations. It is also very useful in mediation and negotiation. Of course, the...

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Holly Greenberg

Psychology provided a great foundation from which I built upon. Understanding both the social and cognitive side of behavior enabled me to build a strong career in Organizational Psychology. I work...

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...

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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Juliet Bottorff

My neuroscience classes at Duke completely opened my eyes to academic passion. I came into Duke really not sure what I wanted to major in, but when I found neuroscience, it was the perfect...

Lindsay Tomson

The Tech industry, and Google's particular approach to people, really fostered my interest in Organizational Psychology. I've frequently thought about going back to school to focus more on this topic...

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...

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...

Francesca Kassing

Being part of the psychology program at Duke helped guide my career goals and set me up for success as a graduate student. The diverse coursework offered allowed me to develop a broad range of...

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Jessica Lake

P&N provided me with a strong foundation in experimental psychology and neuroscience. I highly valued the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the department which has allowed me to...

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...

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...

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