Dr. Yanhong Liu, assistant professor of counseling and human services at Syracuse University, presented an empowering talk on adoption at SUNY New Paltz on April 11. The presentation, which was well attended by faculty and students across counseling and psychology, was entitled “Adoption as a Specialty Area of Counseling: Reality, Themes, and … Continue reading
For the third year in a row, members of the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab held a symposium related to evolution for the Hudson Valley Humanists as part of the Humanists’ celebration of Darwin Day at the New Paltz Community Center. Darwin Day is an international secular holiday held on … Continue reading
The SUNY New Paltz Department of Psychology invites you to participate in P.S. I Love You Day by wearing purple on Friday, Feb. 8 to bring awareness to suicide prevention. Here’s the description of it from the P.S. I Love You Day website: P.S. I Love You Day is held every second Friday of February, making it … Continue reading
The Student of Excellence Award Ceremony for Fall 2018 will be held on December 13 at 5 PM in Wooster 360. All members of the psychology department community are invited. Please join us.
From Psychology to Language and Back: The Role of Intentions in Utterance Comprehension Ira Noveck (Institut des Sciences Cognitives- Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France) November 19, 2018 (5:00 PM, LC 104) Paul Grice famously made a distinction between sentence meaning (the properties of a sentence assigned to it by the grammar) and speaker’s meaning (what the … Continue reading
The Cognitive Science Colloquium Series is proud to present a Valedictory Lecture by retiring professor of psychology, Dr. Alison Nash. Downloadable poster available here. Title Men Hunt and Women Nest: Challenging Claims about intrinsic gender differences Time and Place Monday, May 7, 2018 5:00 pm, Science Hall 181 Summary: Scientific claims about intrinsic gender … Continue reading
Productive Struggle: Using Cognitive Science to Enhance Learning Nate Kornell (Williams College) March 13, 2018 March 27, 2018 (rescheduled due to snow) 5:00 pm, LC 102 CSB Auditorium Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, 2017-2018 If you want to perform well tomorrow, you should make things hard on yourself today; as Frederick Douglass said, “without … Continue reading
On Sunday, February 4, 2018, the SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology lab, directed by psychology faculty member, Glenn Geher, presented a symposium on the evolutionary origins of beauty and art. Presentations were given by Glenn along with six students from the lab. These students included two undergraduate psychology majors (Alec … Continue reading
The Student of Excellence Award Ceremony for Fall 2017 will be held on Dec 7 in Wooster 360. All members of the psych department community are invited!
American Red Cross of the Mid-Hudson Valley Panel Discussion with Disaster Relief Workers Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 Location: State University of New York at New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive Lecture Center Room 100 New Paltz, NY 12561 Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Individuals attending may park in the … Continue reading
