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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · 6d

👏 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...

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to Sara Chadwick, assistant professor in both @uwmadisongws.bsky.social and @uwpsych.bsky.social, on receiving a distinguished honors faculty award! 👏

Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

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!

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · 15d

@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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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · 28d

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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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · Sep 4

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/...

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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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Jul 24

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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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Jul 2

Way to go, @bendouglas.bsky.social!

Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · Jul 2

@bendouglas.bsky.social had a super successful dissertation defense on Monday!! A great but bittersweet moment, as he leaves for Ohio Wesleyan soon #DrDouglas

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Jun 25

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 🙌

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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · May 29

Grateful to WARF for their continued support of science @ UW-Madison and looking forward to clamping some dopamine!

WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · May 28

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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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · May 3

Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!

Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · May 3

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).

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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · May 5

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!

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thrilled to celebrate the election of our own Patricia Devine and Mark Seidenberg to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · Apr 14

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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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · Apr 9

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...

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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Catherine Marler @cmarler.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congratulations to Emma Hammond! Excellent paper on negative effects of oxytocin on wound healing…..but it depends on social context

emmahammond.bsky.social @emmahammond.bsky.social · Apr 2

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.
@cmarler.bsky.social
@patrickmonari.bsky.social

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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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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Mar 20

John McWhorter discusses a creole named Kriol today, and also gives a shout out to my book! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...

Screenshot from John McWhorter's NYTimes column March 20, 2025, mentioning Maryellen MacDonald's book. Text here:
Incidentally, on the marvels of speaking, there is a neat new book on the horizon teaching us how talking develops kids’ minds, how it should be more central to education than just listening quietly, how it can help us organize our thoughts and calm ourselves down, and even hold off dementia. In Maryellen MacDonald’s “More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World,” you get the sense of casual speech as awesome that I was just trying to get across.

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Mar 18

We can't wait to have you here!

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Pearl Han Li @pearlhanli.bsky.social · Mar 11

📣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)

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Mar 4

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!

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Feb 26

Great work, Brauer Group Lab members!

Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · Feb 26

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.

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · Feb 24

We cannot wait for this! Congrats, @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social!

Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Feb 24

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/

Image of cover of forthcoming More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World, by Maryellen MacDonald

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Maryellen MacDonald @maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'm giving a talk with Mark Seidenberg at Planet Word Museum on March 1. We haven't done a joint talk in over 30 years! My part aims to bring insights from psycholinguistic research to children's reading instruction. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...

Eyes on Reading: What’s Next in the Science of Reading — Planet Word Museum

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from Dr. Mark Seidenberg and Dr. Maryellen MacDonald, two of the world’s leading scientists in reading and language research, as they join Planet…

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UW-Madison CDHA @cdhauw.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔖New #publication in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease from CDHA affiliates Diane Gooding (@uwpsych.bsky.social), Megan Zuelsdorff & colleagues
➡️"Perceptions about preclinical Alzheimer's disease biomarker collection procedure influences willingness to participate" doi.org/10.1177/1387...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · Feb 6

Teaching psychology for the first time and loving every minute of it! Folks in the class are awesome 😎

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