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Good News From University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Congratulations to two alumni from our Clinical Psychology PhD program who were promoted in the Psychology Department at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette! Dr. Mike McDermott was recently awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Dr. McDermott was a graduate student in Dr. Todd Smitherman’s lab and graduated in 2015. He currently directs the Health, Emotion, […]


Dr. Alan Gross Awarded the Distinguished Professor Award


Psychology study finds people prefer adding tasks, items when making changes

Read more about this new article by clicking the following link: https://libarts.olemiss.edu/overlooking-subtraction/


Congratulations to Our Graduating Seniors!

Congratulations to our graduating seniors who are going on to many different exciting future adventures! Here are a few of the exciting things they have coming up: Jeremiah Andrews will be attending the University of Southern Mississippi to earn a master’s in counseling psychology Selah Hall will be attending UMMC School of Medicine to earn […]


New Alumni Publication

Congratulations to Alumni Emmie Hebert on the recent publication of her dissertation! Hebert, E.R., Flynn, M. K., Wilson, K. G., & Kellum, K. K. (2021).  Values intervention as an establishing operation for approach in the presence of aversive stimuli, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 20, 144-154.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2021.04.001.    


TED talks – psychology represents!

Two clinical psychology graduate students, Marci Weber and Elijah Mudryk, will be giving Ted talks at the Ford Center on March 9th, 2021. Marci’s talk is titled “Harnessing Meaning in Life: Collective Efficacy for Pandemic Resilience.” Elijah will be presenting a talk entitled “You Are Not Your Worst Day: Voices of Diverse Resilience.” Both of […]