Department of Psychology - School of Arts & Sciences

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychology majors investigate emotion, cognition, interpersonal relationships and a range of other phenomena that affect who we are and how we interact with the world.

Bukach Lab Summer Research

Faculty Highlights

Knouse Recognized
Laura Knouse, associate professor of psychology, received the 2020 Distinguished Educator Award for outstanding contributions to excellence in education.
Bukach's Teach Materials Featured
Cindy Bukach, associate professor of psychology, and team created PURSUE teaching materials that were featured in Psychophysiology and the Society for Psychophysiological Research website.
Lowder Published
Matthew Lowder, assistant professor of cognitive psychology, along with two UR students and an alumni (Gwynna Ryan, ’21, Jaclyn Opie, ’21, and Emily Kaminsky, ’19), published “Effects of contrastive focus on lexical predictability during sentence reading: The case of not only…but also constructions” in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Lundberg Published
Kristjen B. Lundberg, an assistant professor of social psychology, along with colleagues at UVA, Duke, and UNC at Chapel Hill, has published an article in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, titled "A Privileged Point of View: Effects of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Naïve Realism and Political Division." The article and more information is available here.
Knouse and Hickman Published
Laura Knouse, associate professor of psychology, and Gill Robinson Hickman, leadership studies professor emerita, published When Leaders Face Personal Crisis (Leadership: Research and Practice) through Routledge.
Bukach Awarded
Cindy Bukach, associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a $719,895 grant from the NSF as part of a $2m project entitled, Collaborative Research: Level II Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related fields Using Electrophysiology.
Berry Published
Jane Berry and colleagues have recently published an article in PLOS ONE: Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory.
Lambert Published
Dr. Kelly Lambert recently published 'Optimizing brain performance: Identifying mechanisms of adaptive neurobiological plasticity' in ScienceDirect.
Burns, Arnold & Bukach Published
Edwin Burns, Taylor Arnold and Cindy Bukach recently published "P-curving the fusiform face area: Meta-analyses support the expertise hypothesis".
Lambert Lab Published
Dr. Kelly Lambert, Molly Kent and Dylan Vavra recently published "Avoiding Beach’s Boojum Effect: Enhancing bench to bedside translation with field to laboratory considerations in optimal animal models".

Psychology Feature Stories

Josh Higdon, '22: Finding Passion Through Research

Alongside University of Richmond’s Assistant Professor of Spanish, David Giancaspro, and Silvia Perez-Cortes, of Rutgers University–Camden, Higdon was the only undergraduate student to present a paper at the conference.

Training Materials Co-Created by University of Richmond Psychology Professor Influence Learning Worldwide

Psychology professor Cindy Bukach is leading a team who recently launched a suite of training materials designed to help faculty across the world teach psychophysiology to undergraduate students.

2020 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention

Students and recent graduates present their research with their faculty mentor at social psychology convention

Student-led Production Premieres This Week

Taking place on artificial turf in the Cousins Studio Theatre in Modlin, four University of Richmond seniors worked to bring Sarah DeLappe’s play, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, to campus through a Productions Studies III capstone project.

UR Psychology Professor Cindy Bukach To Lead Research Team Awarded $2 Million in NSF Grant Funding For STEM Research

Psychology professor Cindy Bukach has been awarded nearly $720,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project focused on preparing undergraduates for research in STEM-related fields.

Research Scientists at University of Richmond Teach Rats to Drive; Results May Inform Future Research Strategies for Mental Health Treatments

A team of researchers at the University of Richmond has taught rats to drive.

Emma Nash, '20

Senior uses creative communication to interact with patients during her World Pediatric Project internship

Dr. Kelly Lambert Spearheads Initiative to Connect Summer Research Communities

Professor of Psychology Kelly Lambert spearheaded an initiative to connect the 2019 summer research communities and further emphasize the importance of undergraduate research.

University of Richmond Faculty Available to Discuss the Moon Landing; July Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic Event

July will mark the 50th anniversary of the United States' Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon in July 1969. University of Richmond has scholars who can share their expertise related to this historic anniversary from a variety of perspectives.

UR Psychology Professor Kelly Lambert Awarded $435K NIH Grant for Research on Behavior Therapy and Emotional Resilience

Kelly Lambert, a University of Richmond psychology professor, has received a more than $435,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award from the National Institutes of Health.

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National Psychology Organizations

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Mailing address:
Department of Psychology
Richmond Hall
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University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8123
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Chair: Laura Knouse

Administrative Coordinator: Karyn Kuhn