Synapses: News Stories about the Department

Rogers Hall has been renovated and is now part of the Integrated Science Center. The labs are working, even as unpacking continues.

W&M students present their research at the L. Starling Reid Undergraduate Psychology Conference

Fear and other negative emotions make your world completely different. But don't worry--it happens to everybody.

With a few snips, a small group of scientists and leaders at William and Mary cut through a gold ribbon at the Integrated Science Center Thursday night, beginning a new era of research at the College.

A psychology class discovers that you have to go outside to get a full understanding of the complex electrochemical process that makes neurons fire.

Students apply the behavior modification techniques they learn in the first half of the semester on themselves, while meticulously recording their progress.

Lucky research subjects were brought into a room, shown a delectable chocolate cake, and told that at the end of the session they would have a chance to eat it. Now this is our kind of research!

Emotion and motion: Dillon Niederhut works with Jeanine Stefanucci, assistant professor of psychology, to study the effects of emotion on perception of motion.

When Diana Morelen arrived at W&M, she fully expected to become a marketing major.

Professor Harvey Langholtz has researched and published in the field of the "psychology of peacekeeping."

Optical illusions can be deceiving, but are we just fooling ourselves?

Researchers in the Psychology Department are preparing to conduct experiments to measure the brain's response to certain kinds of stimuli.