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New IO Faculty Member's Article Published in Journal of Applied Psychology

Louis Hickman, Ph.D., recently had an article published in Journal of Applied Psychology. The article titled, "Automated Video Interview Personality Assessments: Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability Investigations"  was highlighted in a recent post, "Using Computers to Assess Video Interviews: Does it Work?" 

Dr. Hickman has recently joined Virginia Tech as a IO faculty member. Prior to Virginia Tech, Dr. Hickman

Undergraduate Psychology Student Awarded 2022 American Psychological Association's Division 50 Student Poster Award

Psychology undergraduate student Lauren Meier has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association's Division 50 (Addiction Psychology) Student Poster Award for her poster, "Proximal Relations between LGBTQ+ Students' Alcohol Use and Cyber Abuse: The Role of Discrimination." Congratulations, Lauren!

Undergraduate Research Assistant Presents Poster at Summer Symposium

Department of Psychology undergraduate research assistant Emma Larkin recently presented a poster at Virginia Tech's Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Symposium. The Dennis Dean Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium is a symposium where undergraduates across Virginia Tech present on research that they have been conducting. Emma’s research this summer was on how agreement among parents, adolescents, and clinicians may

Industrial-Organizational Psychology Graduate Student Works to Better Workplace Inclusivity through DEI Projects

Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate student Kelsi Cornett is currently working on two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion projects. The first project investigates weight-based discrimination by using a large data set collected from LinkedIn and a pre-trained CNN model to investigate the relationship among BMI, race, and gender and upward mobility. The second project uses natural language processing (NLP) to detect

VT Autism Clinic and Center for Autism Research offering Mobile Autism Clinic Services This Summer

The VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is excited to offer Mobile Autism Clinic services this summer. Our graduate student clinicians are enjoying their training experience with the families referred by our partners - Mount Rogers Community Services and the Child Study Center

Currently, our schedule is filled! 

We are very grateful to our sponsors at the Washington Group Special Care Planning Team and CA

Psychology faculty members receive College of Science Outstanding Mentor of the Year award

Dr. Pearl Chiu and Dr. Brooks King-Casas have received the Virginia Tech Graduate School 2021-2022 College of Science Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award. This award recognizes faculty members who mentor graduate students for their role in supporting, encouraging, and promoting a positive and inclusive scholarly and teaching environment, and for contributing to professional and personal development of graduate students

A Community-Based Approach to Developing a Brief Couples Intervention for Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence

Dr. Meagan Brem's proposal, “A Community-Based Approach to Developing a Brief Couples Intervention for Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence,” was selected for funding by Virginia Tech's Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. The grant is called the Pathways to Peace Project Grant, see below more details about this proposal.

Dr. Lee Cooper and his team receive funding from the iTHRIVE Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTC) Program

Congratulations to Dr. Lee Cooper and his graduate student team (Alyssa Gatto, Hayoung Ko, and Sydney Jones) for receiving approval for funding ($50,000) from the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIVE) Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTC) Program.

The proposal entitled “A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Telepsychiatry with a Randomized Waitlist Control Utilizing Patient

Fear of Bees (Melissophobia): Symptoms, Treatments, & How to Cope

Choosing Therapy just recently published an article on Melissophobia that contains unbiased information regarding what the fear of bees actually is, and what it might look like and includes exclusive insights of expert Dr. Thomas Ollendick.

The fear of bees, also known as melissophobia or apiphobia, is a severe and intense terror brought on by not only bees themselves but images of them and even the mere thought of

Jennifer Bertollo has been selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation's COGDOP Graduate Student Research Scholarship

Congratulations to the VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research's PANDA lab graduate student clinician, Jennifer Bertollo! Jennifer has been selected to receive the American Psychological Foundation's COGDOP Graduate Student Research Scholarship. This will help to fund her dissertation project on validating a remote, caregiver-facilitated autism observation measure and to create corresponding training materials for