Department of Psychology

Research from I-LABS shows how differences in the brains of blind individuals affects their ability to process auditory information.

Nearly 30 years ago, a mathematician and a psychologist teamed up to explore one of life’s enduring mysteries: What makes some marriages happy and some miserable?

Professor of Psychology, Yuichi Shoda, on the nonconscious feelings people hold told their partners. 

Associate Professor of Psychology Kristina Olson has been named one of this year's MacArthur Fellows.

UW Psychology research study finds that practicing mindfulness benefits parents and their children.

Department of Psychology researchers discover toddlers conduct a form of cost-benefit analysis in deciding whether to help someone.

John Gottman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington, weighs in.

Listen to Dennis Donovan, adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of Washington talk about driving in Seattle and Seattle drivers.

UW Psychology professor Joseph Sisneros is part of the team researching how midshipman female fishes' hearing improves during mating season.

Op-ed piece co-authored by Stephanie A. Fryberg, associate professor of American Indian studies and psychology at the University of Washington.

Stephanie A. Fryberg and Megan Bang, professors in the College of Arts & Sciences, address how child-separation policies are not a new phenomenon in the United States.

UW's Marsha Linehan collaborated on this project which "...makes DBT the only treatment for adolescents with replicated evidence that it decreases self-harm."

Professor Yuichi Shoda from the UW Department of Psychology is quoted on his co-authored research.

Eliot Brenowitz, professor of psychology and biology at the University of Washington, and an expert on neurological development in birds weighs in.

Dr. Sheri Mizumori, chair of psychology at the University of Washington, is quoted from her documentary.