Administrative
Updates & Announcements
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We are pleased to welcome a new staff member to our
Central Office – Siobhan Swiderski. Siobhan is replacing Marina McCuskey, who
is now working with the Chair’s Office. Stop by when you can, and help us
welcome Siobhan to the Department!
Awards &
Accomplishments
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As part of the "Give to the Max 2016"
campaign, Professor Mark Snyder, McKnight Presidential Chair in
Psychology, was interviewed for Access Minnesota (a program aired on radio
stations across the state) on the psychology of giving and volunteering. Here’s a link to the interview.
Professor Bob Krueger was named a Thomson
Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2016, in the field of Psychiatry/Psychology.
"A Guide to Data Analysis in R
Commander", by Viann Nguyen-Feng and Mark A.
Stellmack is available for free at stellmack.psych.umn.edu. R
Commander is a point-and-click interface to the R programming language that is
comparable in functionality to SPSS. This guide provides instructions for
downloading and installing R Commander and for performing basic statistical
analyses. It is aimed at those who have completed an introductory statistics
course, but it is intended to serve as a general-purpose reference for those
looking to quickly navigate the quirks of R Commander.
Graduated
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Congratulations to our recent Department of
Psychology Ph. D graduate!
Joseph Vitriol
Area: Social
Advisors: Mark Snyder and Eugene Borgida
Dissertation:
The (In)egalitarian Self: On the Motivated Rejection of Implicit Racial Bias