Author Archives: Elliot Berkman
DeStasio wins prestigious NSF award!
Congratulations to Krista DeStasio on earning a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award! The GRFP is awarded to highly promising doctoral candidates in many scientific fields, and fully funds three years of graduate school. Congrats, Krista, on this … Continue reading
Effects of stress on inhibitory control
Check out our new paper, led by grad student Leslie Roos, on the effects of acute stress on inhibitory control performance! The abstract is below: Identifying environmental influences on inhibitory control (IC) may help promote positive behavioral and social adjustment. … Continue reading
Berkman Wins Early Career Award in Health Psychology
We have some great news! Professor Elliot Berkman received the 2017 Early Career Award from the Social Personality & Health Network for his work integrating social and personality psychology and health behavior research. Congrats, Dr. Berkman! The award was announced at the … Continue reading
Text messaging to help smokers quit: Does personalization matter?
This is a guest post by Krista DeStasio about her recent paper, published in the Journal of Smoking Cessation. Changing habits and behaviors is hard. We can all think of a time that we set a goal – cutting down on … Continue reading
Calcott wins APA award!
Good news! Graduate student Rebecca Calcott has been awarded a Dissertation Research Award from the American Psychological Association to support her project, “Cognitive Control: A Bridge Between Neurotransmitters and Real-World Behavior.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
How mindfulness changes parenting
Here is a guest post by Lisa May about her recent paper, published in the journal Mindfulness. Relationship between parents and their adolescent children are notoriously rocky. Nonetheless, research shows that a warm, caring parent-child bond can protect kids from problems … Continue reading
Hear Elliot on Self-control and Poverty on The Academic Minute
Listen to Elliot discuss his blog post about the effect of poverty on self-control over at The Academic Minute.
Center for Translational Neuroscience Launches!
We are proud to announce the formation of the new Center for Translational Neuroscience within the Prevention Science Institute at the UO. Check out the mission statement: The mission of the CTN is to translate knowledge from basic neuroscience and … Continue reading
See our work at SANS in New York!
Elliot and other SANlabbers will be presenting new work at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) conference, April 28-30 in New York!
Interview with Elliot on the neuroscience of self-control
Check out Elliot’s interview about self-control and the role of neuroscience in understanding it on BlackBoxPhD!