News
Department recruits four new faculty members
The Department of Psychology will add four new members to its faculty beginning this summer.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett's study on differences in perceiving emotions expressed by the two sexes appears in Newsweek.
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Graduate student Shannon Snapp reports on why some adolescent girls have more negative self-evaluations of competence and body image.
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Research Spotlight
Memory and Perception Lab
Asst. Prof. Scott Slotnick's lab uses techniques in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to answer three primary questions: How detailed are memories? How are memories constructed? How does attention modulate processing?
Psychology Interactive
Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
AUDIO FROM BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARIES
Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones.
Front Row: Noam Chomsky
VIDEO FROM BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE
Chomsky discusses American politics before a standing-room-only crowd.
The Interview: Mozart for optimists
AUDIO FROM @BC
There’s no proof that exposure to the arts raises kids’ test scores, says psychology professor Ellen Winner.
Emotion Review
Edited by James A. Russell and Lisa Feldman Barrett, Emotion Review is a new, fully peer reviewed, scholarly journal produced by the Boston College Psychology Department and published by SAGE in association with the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE).
For a FREE online subscription, visit: http://emr.sagepub.com
Gene Heyman's book, Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, published by Harvard University Press, argues that addiction is voluntary, not compulsory. 
Elizabeth Kensinger's new book,