Department of Psychology

Like humans, some song sparrows are more effusive than others, at least when it comes to defending their territories.

"I think the sex difference in stereotype strength says something about the extent to which gender stereotypes are established in girls early in life but reinforced pretty continuously thereafter," said Tony Greenwald

Alcohol may not be the social lubricant everyone thinks it is, according to University of Washington health psychologist Jason Kilmer.

In a guest piece, David Barash, professor of psychology, looks at several recent books on evolutionary science that consider reproduction.

UW psychology professor David P. Barash says there's evidence that cooperation may have played just as much of a role in human evolution as war did.

In an op-ed piece, David Barash, professor of psychology, argues that because of biology, mammalian male parents may act in ways that are less than admirable, but human dads can trump nature.

Wall Street Journal columnist Sue Shellenbarger responds to a question about healthy self-esteem in children by suggesting work by John Gottman, professor emeritus of psychology.

In a new book, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Anthony Greenwald, a social psychologist at the University of Washington, and co-author Mahzarin Banaji turn the conventional way people think about prejudice on its head.

President Obama's call for universal preschool in his State of the Union address underlines a national shift in thinking about early childhood education. Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences. is quoted..

Research from the Department of Psychology shows territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals.

Infants as young as 6 months are capable of making predictions based on probability, a higher level of reasoning than is commonly believed possible, researchers have found.

The Bellingham Herald reviews "Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People," by Anthony Greenwald, professor of psychology, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard.

Researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences have found that the anatomy of certain brain areas - the hippocampus and cerebellum - can predict children's language abilities at 1 year of age.

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought.

Liliana Lengua, professor of psychology, is studying the impacts of economic disadvantage and parenting in the development of "effortful control," the ability to regulate one's responses to external stimuli.