Duke Psychology & Neuroscience

Bilbo, Bergelson Receive Bass Connections Professorships

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Congratulations to P&N's Staci Bilbo and Elika Bergelson, who have received Bass Connections professorships. They are among seven Duke professors... read more »

P&N Person of the Week: John Blackshear

Monday, November 5, 2018

The Prince of Duke, Psychological Past and Present John Blackshear lives on East Campus as a Faculty in Residence in Trinity Dorm,... read more »

Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists Conference Reflections

Monday, November 5, 2018

The Duke Identity and Diversity Lab, led by Dr. Sarah Gaither, had an amazing showing with other Duke P&N members at the Society of Southeastern... 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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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

Laura Christine Anderson

My experiences at Duke highly influenced where I am today. In particular, my experiences working with Dr. Makeba Wilbourn in the Wilbourn Infant Lab at Duke (WILD) taught me how to think as a...

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Katya Fernandez

Being a Psychology graduate from Duke played a pivotal role in shaping my professional success. As an undergraduate psych major, I was able to engage in a variety of research-related activities...

Ryan Knowles

I used my Psychology degree and knowledge of consumer patterns/behavior to jump into marketing and sales roles in the CPG world (Chiquita Brands & then P&G). My experience in CPG with well...

Elizabeth Ginalis

Studying neuroscience at Duke has strengthened my deep interest in the brain, its functions, and its disorders. The clinical application of neuroscience is significant and continues to grow. My...

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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...

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...

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 '...

Tsu-Yin Chang

Being a Psychology graduate from Duke has definitely shaped my professional success. The top-notch training I received, starting from my first semester as a freshman, helped me define my own...

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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Morris Roseman

My Duke education was part of a nationwide movement that was the birth of the doctoral education of clinical psychologists. We five students in the 1946 Duke VA program were aware that we were at the...

Rebecca Sheehan

I didn't have a career path chosen when I walked onto campus Freshman year - nor when I declared I would major in Psychology. I just knew that I had a keen interest in understanding human behavior -...

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...

Erin Radley

In my role as a Merchant at Abercrombie & Fitch, I work with a wide array of cross-functional partners every day. When interacting with different people, it is important to understand group...

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...

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...

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