'UK at the Half' Features Kentucky Professor of the Year
Listen to a brief podcast recognizing psychology professor Jonathan Golding, who was recently named Kentucky Professor of the Year.
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Psychology's Golding Named 2011 Professor of the Year: UK at the Half with Carl Nathe
Carl Nathe, host of UK at the Half, a segment that airs during each UK football game, interviewed Jonathan Golding about his recent award: 2011's Professor of the Year. Given by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Golding was among 300 of the nation's top professors considered for the award. UKnow has the full story.
UK Psychology Professor Gives Thanks in NY Times Piece
UK psychology Professor Nathan DeWall's study on gratitude and aggression is featured in today's NY Times.
Psychology's Golding Selected Professor of the Year
UK psychology Professor Jonathan Golding has been named the 2011 Kentucky Professor of the Year.
UK's Clinical Psychology Program Ranked No. 1: UK at the Half with Carl Nathe
Carl Nathe recently interviewed some of our distinguished facutly from the Department of Psychology for his UK at the Half segment, which airs during each UK football game. He spoke with Professor Greg Smith, director of clinical training and head of UK's doctoral program in Psychology about the recent productivity studies of North American universities.
UK Psychologist Nathan DeWall featured in Psychology Today
Close, intimate relationships are an essential part of human existence. And obviously, when a partner cheats, it isn't exactly going to brighten your day. New research by Nathan DeWall and colleagues explored the role of attachment style in cheating behavior and attitudes. Read the full article.
Gratitude as an Antidote to Aggression
Grateful people aren't just kinder people, according to UK psychology professor Nathan DeWall's research; they are also less aggressive.
Off DeWall: What Relationship Do You Mean?
Most of my posts and thoughts focus on relationships and, more broadly, social connections. I often treat social connections as these simplistic things that govern thought, emotion, and behavior. But social connections have many different flavors. Your relationship to your parents gives you something different than what you get from your best friend, your professors, or your local Starbucks barista. Each relationship partner also gets something different from you. In a keynote address by the eminent cultural psychology, Michael Harris Bond challenged me to think differently about how people relate to each other.
Michael shoots out of any crowd in Asia. At a lean 6’5”, he towers over most people here. He has a bald, shiny head that emits a ray of light if the spotlight catches it at the correct angle. Just before he started speaking, he donned a white floppy hat (a la Gilligan’s Island). Maybe it’s his trademark.
Off DeWall: Are Narcissists Everywhere?
Have you ever known someone who loved himself? I’m not talking about the usual positive self-feelings people have. I’m talking about the guy who has a literal addiction to fame, constantly self-promotes, feels entitled to special treatment, and needs to have everyone gawk at how good looking he is. We all know people like this. They’re what we psychologists call narcissists. Narcissism is on the rise in the United States. American have never loved themselves more than they do now. But is this boost in narcissism isolated to Americans? Today, I learned that narcissism isn’t limited to Americans.
Off DeWall: A Tale of Two City Blocks
Opulence and squalor usually seem worlds apart. Country clubs usually don’t border low-income housing, designer clothing stores purposefully keep access to their goods limited to only a certain clientele (if you haven’t seen the movie Pretty Woman, watch it and you’ll get the reference), and the checking accounts that most people take for granted are a privilege offered only to people who have quality credit. Yet, I just experienced an exception to this rule.
I just landed in Kunming, which is a town in southwestern China. My hosts Xinyue Zhou, Ding-guo Gua, and I flew here to attend the biennial Asian Association of Social Psychology conference. (We’re usually in a town called Guangzhou, which is located in south central China.)