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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
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What factors influence alignment btw infant eye-gaze & parental report measures of early vocab? The excellent Haley Weaver & I found that parental confidence & mutual exclusivity effects (distractor knowledge) impact alignment btw these "gold standard" tasks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What factors influence alignment btw infant eye-gaze & parental report measures of early vocab? The excellent Haley Weaver & I found that parental confidence & mutual exclusivity effects (distractor knowledge) impact alignment btw these "gold standard" tasks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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It's so important to recognize that October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Research demonstrates this is such a prevalent occurrence, and it's one of the core areas of study in our REACH lab. Check out our website to see some of our work on this significant topic: reachlab.psych.wisc.edu
REACH Lab
About Us The REACH Lab, directed by Dr. Kathryn Howell, studies the pathways that lead to risk and resilience among families and children who have experienced potentially traumatic events, such as int...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's so important to recognize that October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Research demonstrates this is such a prevalent occurrence, and it's one of the core areas of study in our REACH lab. Check out our website to see some of our work on this significant topic: reachlab.psych.wisc.edu
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Our latest work on ancestral diversity and cultural evolution is out. Co-authored with Sophie Wohltjen. For a special issue of CRESP on Historical Psychology edited by Josh Jackson and @mohammadatari.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Our latest work on ancestral diversity and cultural evolution is out. Co-authored with Sophie Wohltjen. For a special issue of CRESP on Historical Psychology edited by Josh Jackson and @mohammadatari.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @affectscience.bsky.social
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👏 Congratulations to Professor @jennysaffran.bsky.social and Assistant Professor @sarabchadwick.bsky.social, recipients of this year's Distinguished Honors Faculty Awards!
Read more about these remarkable educators and research mentors at psych.wisc.edu/news/chadwic...
Read more about these remarkable educators and research mentors at psych.wisc.edu/news/chadwic...
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
👏 Congratulations to Professor @jennysaffran.bsky.social and Assistant Professor @sarabchadwick.bsky.social, recipients of this year's Distinguished Honors Faculty Awards!
Read more about these remarkable educators and research mentors at psych.wisc.edu/news/chadwic...
Read more about these remarkable educators and research mentors at psych.wisc.edu/news/chadwic...
Congratulations to Sara Chadwick, assistant professor in both @uwmadisongws.bsky.social and @uwpsych.bsky.social, on receiving a distinguished honors faculty award! 👏
Very touched that my students submitted for me to get this UW-Madison Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!! Love to feel that teaching on gender & sexuality topics matters to & inspires our undergrads!
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to Sara Chadwick, assistant professor in both @uwmadisongws.bsky.social and @uwpsych.bsky.social, on receiving a distinguished honors faculty award! 👏
@uwpsych.bsky.social is proud to be ranked #19 overall and #8 among public universities in the 2025-2026 U.S. News and World Report’s Best Psychology Undergraduate Programs. This Top 20 ranking underscores our reputation as a leader in teaching and research. #OnWisconsin
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September 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@uwpsych.bsky.social is proud to be ranked #19 overall and #8 among public universities in the 2025-2026 U.S. News and World Report’s Best Psychology Undergraduate Programs. This Top 20 ranking underscores our reputation as a leader in teaching and research. #OnWisconsin
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor João Guassi Moreira who was awarded a 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant! Stay current with his work at cdnlab.psych.wisc.edu/CDNlab/
September 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations to Assistant Professor João Guassi Moreira who was awarded a 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant! Stay current with his work at cdnlab.psych.wisc.edu/CDNlab/
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I’m happy to announce that my paper in PPS is now published! My former grad student and I found that financial incentives work short-term but usually fail for long-term behavior change. Read it here: psych.wisc.edu/Brauer/Braue...
And find the permalink here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
And find the permalink here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives - Sophia Winkler-Schor, Markus Brauer, 2025
Financial incentives are widely used to get people to adopt desirable behaviors. Many small landholders in developing countries, for example, receive multiyear ...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’m happy to announce that my paper in PPS is now published! My former grad student and I found that financial incentives work short-term but usually fail for long-term behavior change. Read it here: psych.wisc.edu/Brauer/Braue...
And find the permalink here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
And find the permalink here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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So fun to talk about talking on the Talk Nerdy podcast! We talked science communication, adults' talking to and writing for boys vs. girls, talking and learning in school, and more. www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/mary...
More Than Words w/ Maryellen MacDonald
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by psycholinguist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, Dr. Maryellen MacDonald. They discuss...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So fun to talk about talking on the Talk Nerdy podcast! We talked science communication, adults' talking to and writing for boys vs. girls, talking and learning in school, and more. www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/mary...
Way to go, @bendouglas.bsky.social!
@bendouglas.bsky.social had a super successful dissertation defense on Monday!! A great but bittersweet moment, as he leaves for Ohio Wesleyan soon #DrDouglas
July 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Way to go, @bendouglas.bsky.social!
Join us in congratulating professors @marthaalibali.bsky.social and Kate Walsh, recipients of fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Alibali received a @warfnews.bsky.social Named Professorship & Walsh received an H.I. Romnes Fellowship.
Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌
Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Join us in congratulating professors @marthaalibali.bsky.social and Kate Walsh, recipients of fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Alibali received a @warfnews.bsky.social Named Professorship & Walsh received an H.I. Romnes Fellowship.
Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌
Read more at go.wisc.edu/vlg0tn 🙌
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Thrilled to announce that my book MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/Penguin Random House) is out! It explains why language production has huge positive effects on talkers: attention, emotion regulation, exec function & more. Accessible science for general audiences! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046...
More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonald, PhD: 9780593545270 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thrilled to announce that my book MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/Penguin Random House) is out! It explains why language production has huge positive effects on talkers: attention, emotion regulation, exec function & more. Accessible science for general audiences! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046...
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Grateful to WARF for their continued support of science @ UW-Madison and looking forward to clamping some dopamine!
Congratulations to the @uwmadison.bsky.social researchers – Larissa Albantakis, @mohebial.bsky.social and Vatsan Raman – who received a Neurotechnology Challenge Grant from #WARFAccelerator & Nexus NeuroTech Ventures to drive innovation in brain health! #WisconsinInnovates
Fueling the future of brain health
WARF and Nexus NeuroTech Ventures have awarded $100,000 in development funding to three innovative research projects aimed at transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Grateful to WARF for their continued support of science @ UW-Madison and looking forward to clamping some dopamine!
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Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!
How do children figure out what new words mean? This study shows that preschoolers use the locations in which they encounter new labels/objects (e.g. in the kitchen or outside) to infer information about them (e.g., if they can be eaten vs. thrown).
May 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!
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Last lab social of the semester at the Terrace yesterday! Our lab has mostly seniors this year, so we have a lot of RAs to say goodbye to. Wishing them the best!
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last lab social of the semester at the Terrace yesterday! Our lab has mostly seniors this year, so we have a lot of RAs to say goodbye to. Wishing them the best!
Thrilled to celebrate the election of our own Patricia Devine and Mark Seidenberg to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Congratulations to political philosopher Harry Brighouse, social psychologist Patricia Devine, political scientist Lisa Martin and cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg — UW–Madison's newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Four UW–Madison professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The UW–Madison inductees are political philosopher Harry Brighouse, social psychologist Patricia Devine, political scientist Lisa Martin and cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thrilled to celebrate the election of our own Patricia Devine and Mark Seidenberg to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
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Had the wonderful opportunity to give my talk entitled "Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good" at UW-Parkside's Community Partnership Celebration! Thank you to all who came and made the event a success! 🎉
April 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Had the wonderful opportunity to give my talk entitled "Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good" at UW-Parkside's Community Partnership Celebration! Thank you to all who came and made the event a success! 🎉
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U of Wisconsin alumni & friends: today is "Day of the Badger"--a day to raise money to support our department & our students. If we reach 150 donors to the Dept of Psych, we unlock a big additional gift! Please support if you can! (any dollar amount, $5 is great!)
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Psychology | Day of the Badger
Students in the Department of Psychology are tomorrow’s change makers, shaping the future of mental health care, providing valuable psychological insights in legal settings, and driving innovation in ...
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April 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
U of Wisconsin alumni & friends: today is "Day of the Badger"--a day to raise money to support our department & our students. If we reach 150 donors to the Dept of Psych, we unlock a big additional gift! Please support if you can! (any dollar amount, $5 is great!)
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/psy...
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/psy...
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Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context
Excited to share that I just published my first ever first-author paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology in the Marler Lab. We found that oxytocin may impair wound healing when animals are isolated.
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Oxytocin impairs wound-healing during social isolation but not social living
Social isolation hampers immune system function, and the biological mechanisms driving this effect remain understudied. We hypothesized that oxytocin …
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April 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context
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John McWhorter discusses a creole named Kriol today, and also gives a shout out to my book! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...
March 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
John McWhorter discusses a creole named Kriol today, and also gives a shout out to my book! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...
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📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)
March 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)
Delighted to share that our own @nickbuttrick.bsky.social has been named an APS Rising Star, a designation recognizing "researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions." Congrats, Dr. Buttrick!
Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
March 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Delighted to share that our own @nickbuttrick.bsky.social has been named an APS Rising Star, a designation recognizing "researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions." Congrats, Dr. Buttrick!
Great work, Brauer Group Lab members!
So proud of all of my RAs and collaborators for their amazing work at SPSP! 🎉 Here are some snapshots of a few of my RAs as well as my grad student @bendouglas.bsky.social and lab manager @kamila-redd18.bsky.social presenting their work at #SPSP2025.
February 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Great work, Brauer Group Lab members!
We cannot wait for this! Congrats, @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social!
My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We cannot wait for this! Congrats, @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social!