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April 19, 2013

Jacoby wins Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to experimental psychology

The Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) has awarded its 2013 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry L. Jacoby, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and a professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Citing “ his imaginative investigations of unconscious influences on memory, the nature of memory attributions and the effects of cognitive aging on memory,” the society presented Jacoby with the award at its annual banquet March 30 at Brown University in Providence, R.I.

Founded in 1904, the society is an honorary elected group of about 200 psychologists. The Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award is given to senior individuals with outstanding records of sustained contribution to experimental psychology.

March 29, 2013

Know thyself: How mindfulness can improve self-knowledge

 

Mindfulness — paying attention to one’s current experience in a nonjudgmental way — might help us to learn 

more about our own personalities, new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests.

The motivation to see ourselves in a desirable way is one of the main obstacles to self-knowledge, suggests study author Erika Carlson, an Arts & Sciences doctoral student in psychology.