Department of Psychology at Georgia State University

03/11/2026

The Psychology Practicum Fair yesterday was a success! Over 150 students attended and had the opportunity to interact with 13 research labs and internship sites, as well as win some GSU Psychology swag! Thank you to everyone who helped make it a success! If you are interested in finding out more about the Practicum Program, please visit: https://t.gsu.edu/40pQBGQ

02/02/2026

New research from Şeyda Özçalışkan and her colleagues shows that screens offer an equally efficient platform for educational content as in-person instruction across modality types to young learners. https://t.gsu.edu/4kedYvN

11/20/2025

Congratulations to Noel Kuebrich for winning the First Place Poster Award at the Georgia State University Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference!

09/09/2025

New research from the lab of Dr. Şeyda Özçalışkan shows that universal and language-specific forces jointly shape the way we structure and talk about abstract concepts in different languages.
https://t.gsu.edu/486HIGU

08/25/2025

New research by Dr. Şeyda Özçalışkan shows that crosslinguistic variation influences the timing but not the trajectory of children’s grasp of spatial metaphors for time.
https://t.gsu.edu/4oNRjbF

08/22/2025

New research by Dr. Şeyda Özçalışkan shows that gesture and speech form a tightly integrated system in the expression of abstract concepts as they do for the expression of physical events at an early age.
https://t.gsu.edu/3Jpb2hP

05/06/2025

Dr. John Horgan received the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for his dedicated work directing the Violent Extremism Research Group. Dr. Horgan has a strong and enduring commitment to applying his extraordinary abilities and expertise to further the interests of U.S. National Security.

The FBI established this award to publicly acknowledge the achievements of those working to make a difference in their communities through the promotion of education and the prevention of crime and violence. Each year, one person or organization from each of the FBI’s 55 field offices is chosen to receive this prestigious award.

"Dr. Horgan has not only been a trusted collaborator with the FBI, but his research has also been instrumental in deepening our understanding of extremist psychology, thereby enhancing the safety of our communities,” said Paul Brown, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.

04/14/2025

Drs. Eyal Aharoni (Psychology) & Eddy Nahmias (Philosophy) earned a Brains and Behavior Seed Grant to examine the impact of AI-assistance on emergency medical triage performance. They will do this using a simulation game.

03/10/2025

New research from Stephanie Baumann, Lee Branum-Martin & Seyda Özçalışkan shows that there is lack of systematicity in the use of speech and gesture by characters in children’s cartoons in the US, along with a continuation of the male bias. https://t.gsu.edu/3F6Qqsy?utm_source=&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=

12/16/2024

Psychology student José Jarquin was awarded the Maximizing Access to Research Career (MARC) Assistantship funded by the NIH in 2022. The program helps prepare students from underrepresented groups for careers in biomedical research. Full story here:

Georgia State neuroscience and psychology graduate José Jarquin's (B.S. '24, B.S. '24) curiosity about the workings of the human brain has led him to a research career.

10/24/2024

Dr. Page Anderson was awarded a Clinicians Leading Ingenuity in AI Quality (CLINAQ) fellowship by the National Institutes of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) Consortium for her project: Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify the People and Places Likely to Benefit from Digital Health Interventions.