Administrative Updates & Announcements
Central Office Key Request Procedure Change
The key request form is now online! Students, staff, and faculty can
complete and submit the key request form via the Department of
Psychology Intranet. The form can be found at here.
To use the electronic form, an x.500 is required. If anyone is
requesting a key but does not have an x.500, they will need to complete a
paper form. The paper forms will continue to be located in the Central
Office (N218).
Supervisors Please Note: Every day the Central Office will look at
the key requests submitted and email the corresponding supervisors for
approval. Supervisors will only receive one email per day, so please
respond promptly. If the Central Office does not receive a response
within two business days, they will send another approval request.
If for any reason you will be unable to respond to the approval
request emails for an extended period of time, please contact the
Central Office to work out a solution.
Awards & Accomplishments
Professor Christopher Federico in the news...
"Gov't Shutdown Science: Why Human Nature Is to Blame"
Christopher Federico explains, "People are less likely to compromise and
bend when they think that fundamental moral concerns are at stake."
(Yahoo! News)
Congratulations to Social Psychology area graduate student Patrick Dwyer
(advisor - Professor Mark Snyder) who is the recipient of a Greater
Good Science Center Dissertation Research Award in the amount of $10,000
for his project, "Gratitude as Persuasion: Understanding When and Why
Gratitude Expressions Facilitate and Inhibit Compliance." This
Dissertation Research Award program is part of a larger project at UC
Berkeley, Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude, funded by a
grant from the John Templeton Foundation. More information about
Patrick's research can be found at here.
Graduated
Congratulations to our September 2013 Ph.D. graduates!
Tiana Bochsler
Area: CAB
Advisor: Gordon Legge
Dissertation Title: Perceiving Properties of Indoor Layouts with Impaired Vision
Sandra Shallcross
Area: Counseling
Advisors: Patricia Frazier and Jeffry Simpson
Dissertation Title: Social Support Mediates the Relation between
Attachment and Responses to Potentially Traumatic Events
Kara Simon
Area: I/O
Advisor: Paul Sackett
Dissertation Title: Team Intelligence and Team Personality Predicting Team Performance
Upcoming Events
Office for Conflict Resolution
Departmental Cultures:
Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Turning Challenges into Opportunities
November 15, 2013 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
University Campus Club / Rooms A,B,C
University Campus Club / Rooms A,B,C
How do we create departments that are stimulating, productive, and respectful workplaces?
Celebrating twenty years addressing faculty and staff
employment concerns with respect and skill, the University's Office for
Conflict Resolution presents a special program focused on practices and
strategies that distinguish thriving departments. Following opening
remarks by President Eric Kaler, the program offers a panel discussion
and audience participation.
Representing departmental, college-wide, and central administrative perspectives, our panelists are:
- Katrice Albert, Ph.D., Vice President, Office for Equity and Diversity
- Eugene Borgida, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology & Law, former Department Chair and CLA Associate
- Dean Nancy Raymond, M.D., Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Medical School, and Professor of Psychiatry
Join us to learn more about practical, straightforward
strategies to promote engaged, productive environments for research and
teaching. Attention will be given to customizing practices for academic
cultures across the University. While designed for faculty and chairs,
the program is open to all and will be live streamed.
Lunch will be provided. To RSVP, please email ocr@umn.edu
and inform us of any food allergy, dietary, or other special needs.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Office for Equity
and Diversity, the Office of Human Resources, and the Student
Conflict Resolution Center.
Visiting Scholars
Marion David, graduate student at the University of
Lyon in France, has been invited by Professor Andrew Oxenham to visit
our Department from December 2013 - May 2014. Ms. David will be
participating collaboratively with department researchers in the areas
of human auditory perception and neuroscience with particular emphasis
on auditory scene analysis.
