Department of Psychology News

Findings from the research show that friends don't fully compensate for poor-quality relationships with parents.

Poor sleep quality is associated with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias from early stages.

Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychology, Monica Rosselli, Ph.D., was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Neuropsychology Award by the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society (HNS). This award honors...

The study provides a lens into the magnitude and nature of differences not just between the two networks, but also of a volatile and divided time in American social and political life.

For the longitudinal mixed study, researchers will recruit and enroll 750 older drivers, establish their baseline cognitive function and driving behavior profiles and repeat the testing every three months for three years...

U.S.-born children who live in Spanish-speaking homes and who also are exposed to English from infancy tend to become English dominant by age 5.

Florida Atlantic University has announced the winners of the 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition organized by the Graduate College.

About 580,000 people aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease in Florida and that number is expected to soar to 720,000 by 2025.

In the current social climate of the world, internalizing conditions like anxiety and depression are becoming increasingly common in children and adolescents. Meanwhile, the availability and accessibility of computer and...

Infants of depressed and breastfeeding mothers showed neither behavioral nor brain development dysregulation previously found in infants of depressed mothers.