Research Archives - Page 8 of 11 - Department of Psychological Sciences

Jessica Salley awarded 2020-2021 Freedman Fellows Student Grant

October 21, 2020

Jessica Salley is a doctoral candidate in the Communication Sciences program in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Her research investigates the long-term impacts of childhood brain injury on academic and social participation, particularly for individuals in high-risk groups. This project will use virtual reality to create a simulated...

Stacy Williams elected fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

October 19, 2020

Case Western Reserve University faculty member Stacy Williams was elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Williams also is COO of a leading online continuing education company, and founder and CEO of Simucase, an online simulation learning platform. ASHA fellowship is one of the highest honors the organization bestows...

Research on suicidal thoughts

October 28, 2020

James Overholser, a professor Department of Psychological Sciences at the College of Arts and Sciences, said that passive suicidal ideation is characterized by thinking about dying or a desire to be dead, without actively making a specific plan to carry out those thoughts. https://uk.style.yahoo.com/had-passive-suicidal-ideation-everyone-061217252.html?guccounter=1

Congratulations to Silvia Hernandez, HaPI Measurement Scholarship Recipient!

September 17, 2020

Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) announced the two recipients of the 2020 HaPI Measurement Scholarship. Each scholarship provides a $500 award to a U.S.-based graduate student in the field of health or psychosocial science (e.g., psychology, counseling, sociology, social work, nursing, public health) who is in their 2nd year or...

Psychology researchers recruiting 7th through 12th graders to participate in paid video-platform creativity study!

July 30, 2020

Case Western Reserve University faculty member, Dr. Sandra Russ, PhD, and her graduate student, Alexis Lee, MA, in the Department of Psychological Sciences are seeking pre-adolescents and adolescents to take part in a research initiative looking at aspects of creativity. WHO? Young people in grades 7th through 12th both...

When playtime and COVID collide

July 24, 2020

The New York Times: Sandra Russ, Distinguished University Professor and the Louis D. Beaumont University Professor, discussed how children are incorporating COVID-19 in their pretend play. She said studies have shown children in pediatric hospitals who incorporate their experience into play—by performing “surgery” on their stuffed animals, for example—experience...

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