Awards
Ellie Gottesman
Congratulations to Ellie Gottesman for receiving the Dornsife Scholar Award. She is a participant in the Psychology Honors program working with Henrike Moll. The Dornsife Scholar Program, grants a few graduating seniors with $10,000 to be put toward graduate school costs. The award emphasizes impactful research and positive human impact on a global scale. More information about the award can be found here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-scholars-program/.
Laura Fenton
Congratulations to Laura Fenton for receiving the Gold Family Fellowship Award in the amount of $5,000. This is awarded to a limited number of PhD candidates for research related to their dissertation. Gold Family Fellows are chosen on the basis of extraordinary academic promise.
Ian Anderson
Congratulations to Ian Anderson for receiving the USC Dornsife’s 2023 Communicator of the Year Award. This award honors scholars who contribute significant time and effort to meaningfully improve the public’s understanding of issues, influence policy, and/or raise the level of public discourse around research and scholarship conducted at Dornsife.
Asaf Mazar
Asaf Mazar won the best student led paper in 2022 SPSP Student Publication Award for his paper: The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence.
Dr. Iony Ezawa
Dr. Iony Ezawa on received the very prestigious Marna Barrett Award for Excellence in Psychotherapy at the Society for Psychotherapy Research Annual Meeting held in Dublin, Ireland in the summer of 2023.
Dr. Henny Moll
Congratulations to Henny Moll on receiving the 2023 American Psychological Foundation (APF) Joseph B. Gittler Award. This award is to recognize psychologists who are making and will continue to make scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
Katie Galbraith
Congratulations to Katie Galbraith on receiving the APA Dissertation Research Award for 2023. This is a prestigious award that Katie received in recognition of her promising contribution to psychological science. Katie is from the Clinical Area, and she worked with Stan Huey.
USC Psychology in the News
Drew Gorenz
Drew Gorenz was interviewed on ABC Australia about a conference talk presenting his research into the humor of ChatGPT. Learn More: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/how-funny-is-chatgpt-/103747152
Dr. Joe Arvai
Please join us in congratulating Joe Arvai on his lead story in The Conversation: What happens when AI decides for you. It is a great and engaging article that addresses a very timely topic.
Dr. Darby Saxbe
Check out Darby Saxbe’s Op-Ed out in the New York Times! She wrote about teen mental health treatment and the iatrogenic effects of some programs.
Dr. Antonio Damasio and Dr. Hanna Damasio
Hanna and Antonio Damasio were featured in a Q&A in Neuron. They discuss the value of single case studies for neuroscience, consciousness research and the limits of AI, and the fascinating relationship between creativity and the brain.
Dr. Morteza Dehghani
Morteza Dehghani’s group whose work has been cited in the new roadmap for future research on Information Integrity, recently released by the White House. The link is below, and the cited paper is (Mooijman, M., Hoover, J., Lin, Y., Ji, H., & Dehghani, M. (2018). Moralization in social networks and the emergence of violence during protests. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(6), 389-396.)
Dr. Antonio Damasio and Dr. Norbert Schwarz
Dr. Antonio Damasio and Dr. Norbert Schwarz were named by Research.com in the “Top 200 Best Scientists” in the field of Psychology, worldwide.
Dr. Daphna Oyserman
Dr. Daphna Oyserman has been elected to the German National Academy of Science, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher — Leopoldina (founded in 1652, which makes it the oldest learned society in continuous operation).