I have the privilege to be a senior faculty member of West Point’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. In terms of its disciplinary focus, the department is more diverse than most, with ...

Quitting a job. Buying a house. Everyone at some point in their lives will make a risky choice that may have a cascading ...

One hundred years ago, Smith College’s third president, William Allan Neilson, made a pioneering decision to officially establish the study of psychology as a separate entity from the philosophy ...

Last-year psychology majors' research sheds light on the effects of studying abroad on professional and personal development. Every year hundreds of students from SLU-St. Louis and other partnership ...

We often hear about workplace stress affecting frontline police officers, but it is important to understand how different ...

The department offers a BA in Psychology, a co-major and minor in Neuroscience, and a co-major and minor in Art Therapy. Psychology is a versatile major. Our discipline encompasses all of the many ...

A new study analyzing tens of thousands of edited selfies reveals that beauty standards on Chinese social media often favor ...

Focus of teaching and scholarship: I am a clinical psychologist whose research explores the intersection of personality and psychopathology. Most recently, I have been working to elucidate underlying ...

Psychology is a scholarly and scientific discipline which attempts to understand and explain human behavior, and it is an applied profession which attempts to solve psychological problems and fulfill ...

A new article published in the Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that there are definite psychological advantages to adhering to a philosophy of minimalism and voluntary simplicity. “Research ...