Faculty Opening in the Social Program


NYU Psychology in the News:

• Elizabeth Phelps in the Washington Square News on the motives behind eBay overbidding
  
  
• Research by Madeline Heilman is highlighted on ABC News
  
  
• Professor Gary Marcus on nature of human memory, in The New York Times Sunday Magazine

• David Amodio, John Jost and Elizabeth Phelps present on The Neuroscience of Elections and Human Decision-Making at the New York Academy of Sciences
  
  
• Gary Marcus discusses 'survival of the fittest' in the Wall Street Journal

Congratulations to Liina Pylkkanen on her receipt of a Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences for her project entitled "Neural Mechanisms of Combinatoric Semantics."

Congratulations to David Amodio who will be receiving the 2009 SAGE Young Scholars Award for Personality and Social Psychology from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Phelps who has been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  Founded in 1904, the object of the Society is "to advance psychology by arranging informal conferences on experimental psychology." Being invited to join is considered a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field

Congratulations to BOTH Lila Davachi and Clay Curtis who have been named
this year's recipients of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's Young
Investigator Award.

Alec Marantz has won the Samuel Williamson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of biomagnetic research.

Laurence T Maloney has won the Humboldt Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany given to outstanding scientists and scholars from all disciplines from abroad whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge acheivements in future.

Tessa West joins Psychology Faculty

Tessa West joins us from the University of Connecticut, where she recently completed her Ph.D. in social psychology under the direction of David Kenny.  West studies processes related to interpersonal perception, including the role of meta-perceptions; racial, gender and other intergroup information; and threat as it relates to accuracy and bias.  She also studies deception in dyadic relationships, and methods for informative analysis of complex relationship data.


Ilke Oztekin, of our Cognition & Perception Program, has been awarded a 2007-2008 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.

Cheryl Wakslak, of our Social Program, has been awarded a 2007-2008 June Frier Esserman Fellowship.

Student awards.

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