http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu Woo Psyc Department Happenings... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:42:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello Seniors: The psychology department faculty would like to celebrate with you and honor you for all of your hard work and achievements at The ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/04/30/another-psyc-party/ Psych Club will be hosting a celebration for the seniors this Wednesday at 4 pm in the 1st floor lounge of Morgan Hall- snacks provided. All are welcome to join the festivities!! http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/03/26/psyc-senior-is-celebration/ Researchers at University of Lübeck and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany delivered a pleasant scent (roses) while subjects were learning the location of matched card pairs (remember the game "Memory"?). They then delivered the scent again while the subjects were in slow wave sleep. The ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/03/12/sweet-smelling-sleep-enhances-memory/ It's time to start putting the finishing touches on that I.S. project. This is just a reminder that The College prohibits the use of The College Seal on any departmental documents (including I. S. manuscripts) without express written permission etc. Apparently, a while back, someone thought it looked nice ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/03/07/dont-use-the-seal/ Okay, this is just a little scary. Apparently, some enterprising researchers in Berlin have determined how to predict someone's intention to do high-level cognitive processes such as addition or subtraction by scanning their brain. So yes, I think we can safely say that technology has now allowed psychologists ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/03/06/using-fmri-to-predict-intentions/ No, really...seeing the color red has recently been shown to cause poorer test performance because of its association with errors and mistakes. Sound like a flimsy finding appearing in a cheesy journal? Not so.  The study appears in the February issue of the prestigious Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Careful ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/03/03/seeing-red-impairs-test-performance/ "We need to stop endlessly repeating 'You're special' and having children repeat that back. Kids are self-centered enough already." No, these are not the words of Dr. Casey, (not an exact quote anyway). Rather, the quote comes from Psychologist Jean Twenge of San Diego State University. AP writer DAVID CRARY reports ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/02/28/college-students-are-more-narcisistic/ The Cleveland Indians spring training baseball schedule begins tomorrow! What does baseball have to do with Psychology you ask? Lots, and it's not just the "sports psychologist" connection. Sure, many teams employ psychologists to improve team or individual performance. But, baseball and psychology also intersect in visual ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/02/28/play-ball/ Or, in your 8-track player (as the case may be). This question was recently posed to the Psyc faculty and received the following responses... Casey: It's probably not surprising but I don't own an iPod, or any kind of music making machine for that matter. I really don't care that much ... http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/02/26/hey-professor-whats-in-your-ipod/ Did you know that the department has a page of summer internship opportunities?  Check it out!  Maybe you can do something fun and interesting this summer to advance your education and career. Oh yeah, did we mention you get paid? http://woosterpsyc.blogs.wooster.edu/2007/02/26/summer-internship-opportunities/