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.

2022 Psychology Department Awards

Bukach Lab Summer Research

Faculty Highlights

Bukach Published
Cindy Bukach, MacEldin Trawick Professor of Psychology, published the article, "Face Processing Still Predicts Reading Ability: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia. A Reply to Gerlach and Starrfelt" in Cortex.
Lowder Published
Matthew Lowder, assistant professor of psychology, published the article "Relative Clause Effects at the Matrix Verb Depend on Type of Intervening Material" in Cognitive Science.
Nonterah Receives Jeffress Trust Grant
Camilla Nonterah, assistant professor of health psychology, received a Jeffress Trust grant for research on access to organ transplants. Read more
Lundberg Published
Kristjen B. Lundberg, assistant professor of social psychology, co-authored the article "Economic Inequality and Socioeconomic Ranking Inform Attitudes Toward Redistribution," published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Lundberg Selected as Mentor
Kristjen Lundberg, assistant professor of social psychology, will mentor student Hyewon Hong for the project, “The Effect of Improving Friendship Quality on Well-Being and Loneliness Amidst Global Pandemics: An Experimental Intervention.” This was awarded through the A&S Research Grants Program.
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.

Psychology Feature Stories

UR Awarded Nearly $250K NIH Grant For Biomedical Research; Funding Will Support 11 Faculty and 70+ Research Students

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Richmond a nearly $250K grant to purchase a high performance computer for biomedical research.

New Netflix Show Features University of Richmond's Driving Rats

The latest showcase of their skills is being featured in a new Netflix series — “The Hidden Lives of Pets” — which was released this week on the streaming platform.

Four University of Richmond Students - the Most at One Time in the Institution's History - Named Goldwater Scholars

Four University of Richmond students have received Goldwater scholarships, the preeminent undergraduate award in science and math. Four Goldwater Scholars in a single year is the most in UR’s history, and it’s the maximum number of awards Goldwater extends at each competing school.

UR Health Psychology Professor Camilla Nonterah Receives Jeffress Trust Grant For Research On Access To Organ Transplants

Camilla Nonterah, assistant professor of health psychology, has been awarded $100,000 from the Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust for her research on barriers in access to organ transplants.

University of Richmond Psychology Professor Camilla Nonterah Awarded $50K Grant From American Society of Transplantation

Psychology professor Camilla Nonterah has received $50,000 in grant funding from the American Society of Transplantation for her research on barriers in access to organ transplants.

Kendall Crispin, '21, and Anna Marston, '22

Students present research on attitudes regarding addiction at national convention

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.

Contact Us

Mailing address:
Department of Psychology
Richmond Hall
114 UR Drive
University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8123
Fax: (804) 287-1905

Chair: Jane Berry

Academic Administrative Coordinator: Karyn Kuhn

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