UMN Psychology

09/02/2026

The Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) is a tool that measures color-blind racial ideology. UMN Psychologists Alex Ajayi, Jesus Delgado, and Moin Syed examined its accuracy across diverse race and gender demographics to determine if it's as valuable a tool as its widespread adoption may suggest.

UMN Psychology’s Alex Ajayi, Jesus Delgado, and Moin Syed evaluate the precision and usefulness of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS).

09/01/2026

Minutes of audio instead of hours in a clinic. A new study led by Whitney Ringwald reveals that AI can accurately assess psychopathology from brief open-ended narratives, signaling a potential revolution in mental health care. https://buff.ly/bWfcXcy

A few minutes of conversation may be all it takes. Whitney Ringwald explores how LLMs can power low-burden, scalable mental health assessment.

08/31/2026

Speaking as part of the "Beyond Monolithic Blackness" session at APA 2026, alumna Vanessa Anyanso presented findings on how the Strong Black Woman schema influences mental health across pan-ethnic groups, highlighting critical variations among Black immigrants. https://buff.ly/jzyhfPh

08/28/2026

In the debut episode of Brainwave on Air, host Holley Locher chats with Andrew Oxenham and Ben Eisenreich about CATSS’s new "See, Hear, MN" mobile unit, a custom-engineered van delivering free hearing and vision screenings to communities across Minnesota. Find out where to catch them next, including the MN State Fair! https://buff.ly/6ayamft

In the first Brainwave on Air episode, experts discuss See, Hear, MN, a mobile unit bringing free hearing and vision screenings across Minnesota.

08/28/2026

Can discrimination speed up the body's internal clock? A new study from faculty member Juan Del Toro’s demonstrates that negative emotional reactions to discrimination are linked to faster biological aging, offering crucial insight into how social inequities physically impact lifelong health.
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Can discrimination speed up the body's internal clock? Juan Del Toro explores how negative emotional reactions to discrimination are linked to faster biological aging.

08/27/2026

Is object location more important for visual cueing vs. the appearance of the object itself? Vanessa Lee, Roger Re*****on, and Mikayla Krech studied the causes of spatial context cueing, challenging prior theories.
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Is object location more important for visual cueing vs. the appearance of the object itself? Vanessa Lee, Roger Re*****on, and Mikayla Krech studied the causes of spatial context cueing, challenging prior theories.

08/26/2026

Understanding diagnostic systems is integral to any work in mental health fields. University of Minnesota Regents Professor Robert Krueger co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Dimensional Models of Psychopathology, in which he explains classic diagnostic systems and the modern dimensional approaches that promise new benefits.
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UMN Psychologist Robert Krueger co-edited the newly published Oxford Handbook of Dimensional Models of Psychopathology

08/25/2026

Sleep and personality traits are often studied together, but adaptive personality traits are commonly considered over maladaptive ones. UMN Psychology faculty member Matt McGue and graduate student Ziyu Ren address this gap by conducting a twin study to examine how sleep health relates to maladaptive personality traits.
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Don’t sleep on this: graduate student Ziyu Ren and Psychology faculty Matt McGue examine how maladaptive personality traits are meaningful predictors of sleep health.

08/24/2026

Our brains don't store visual memories equally. New research from William Gronewald, Vanessa Lee, and Roger Re*****on reveals how retinal size, real-world scale, and visual variety control our Visual Working Memory, and how tapping into these neural quirks can improve the effectiveness of visual design.

Does size really matter when it comes to memory? UMN Psychology’s William Gronewald, Vanessa Lee, and Roger Re*****on test how an object’s size shapes visual working memory.

08/20/2026

The Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota is searching for a new tenure-track assistant professor focused on computational approaches to perception and/or cognition! This full-time position in the Department’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CAB) Training Program will begin in Fall 2027. View the full posting and apply on our website; job opening 375565. https://buff.ly/7awQyLf

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