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Interested in learning more about the research happening in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and how you can get involved? Many faculty members in the department run specialized research labs focused on their areas of expertise. With over 50,000 research citations across the department's faculty members, there is a wide array of research topics. For a full list of faculty research labs and the areas they study, see below.

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Recent Research News

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Senior Jeslyn Brouwers Receives 2024-2025 Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
January 8, 2025
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Senior Cai Liu Receives 2023-2024 Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
December 18, 2023
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It Takes a Village: "Tuko Pamoja" Two-Tiered Approach to Family Intervention
August 21, 2023
This One Simple Brain Hack Might Boost Learning and Improve Mental Health
This One Simple Brain Hack Might Boost Learning and Improve Mental Health
July 25, 2023
Getting Curious
Postdoctoral Associate Meltem Yucel Answers: Why Do We Gossip?
June 8, 2023
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Two Undergraduate Researchers Receive Highest Honor from Department
May 1, 2023
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Misophonia: how ‘sound rage’ destroys relationships and forces people to move home
February 9, 2023
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Research Enables Undergraduate Students to Move From Absorbing Knowledge to Creating It
December 9, 2022
2020-2021 Charles Lafitte Impact Report
Department releases 2020-2021 Charles Lafitte Foundation special funding report
September 7, 2021
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Yin Lab discovers new ‘super-direct’ functional pathway in the brain
February 22, 2021
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Neuroscience extension to Duke STAR program funded by Biogen Foundation
January 11, 2021
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New study from Hariri Lab casts doubt on links between personality and brain structure
December 9, 2020

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Lessons in Research

Goals can differ in some fundamental ways, as can our reactions when we achieve them or fail to achieve them. Duke Psychology & Neuroscience Professor Angie Vieth dives into the effects our goals​ can have on our emotions​.
We tend to think of stress as a bad thing that affects our health and well-being. But is that always the case? Duke Psychology & Neuroscience Professor Bridgette Hard says that the way we think about stress makes a huge difference in how stress affects us.
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