Psychology Department
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| Bellevue College Names Leslie Heizer Newquist Dean of Health Sciences, Education & Wellness Institute | Bellevue College has named Leslie Heizer Newquist as Dean of the Health Sciences, Education, and Wellness Institute (HSEWI). Newquist had been serving as Interim Dean of HSEWI since fall 2013; between fall 2011 and 2013, she worked tirelessly to develop and establish several of the applied… |
2014-04-01 | |
| Enhance your brain through music at April 7 talk | 2014-04-01 | ||
| Cyberbullying focus of special city hall talk | Cyberbullying has become a big problem for kids and their parents. Western Washington University psychology professor David Sattler says there are emotional, psychological, behavioral, and even legal consequences for the bullies and victims. |
2014-03-12 | |
| Bellingham cyberbullying talk to be aired live, streamed online | A talk about cyberbullying has received so much community interest that it will be available online and broadcast live Wednesday, March 12. Western Washington University psychology professor David Sattler will talk about how to keep children safe from cyberbullying in a free presentation… |
2014-03-12 | |
| The devil's earworm made me do it | I hate to sound all hard-core, fundamentalist, evangelical religious, but it just may be true that music is the instrument of the devil. And if that’s the case, the music website Pandora.com is the devil’s stomping grounds, and the earworm — aka the song stuck in your head — is his… |
2014-02-03 | |
| Psychology professor to speak about issue of drug tolerance | 2014-01-28 | ||
| How Military Services Impacts Returning Veterans | More than 200,000 individuals leave military service each year and face the challenges of readjusting to civilian life. Sociologist Jay Teachman and his colleagues at Western Washington Universitystudy the employment, health and family lives of veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War and the… |
2014-01-28 | |
| WWU professor to study psychological impact of typhoon in Philippines | An interesting story from Western Washington University about one of its professors: "When Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, devastated the Philippines last November, it literally tore apart communities and challenged the country's ability to… |
2014-01-27 | |
| Forget to Remember | You must not remember this. Indeed, it may be key to having a healthy brain. Our gray matter evolved to forget things; otherwise we’d have the images of every face we saw on the subway rattling around our head all day long. Yet we’re building computers with the capacity to remember everything.… |
2014-01-23 | |
| Professor researches typhoon's psychological effects | 2014-01-06 |