Congrats, Dr. Morgan Taylor!

This fall, Morgan started her position as a postdoctoral research associate at Brandeis University. She works with Dr. Margie Lachman in the Lifespan Lab and analyzes longitudinal data to identify psychosocial and behavioral factors that influence health cognition, and longevity across the lifespan. Congratulations, Dr. Taylor!

Anna Smith featured in article about the 2023 Summer Course Development Grants

Anna participated in the 2023 Summer Course Development Grant Program where she worked with a cohort of faculty and other Ph.D students to develop and redesign summer courses for undergraduate students! Read more about it here.

Joyce Park, Anna Smith, and Dr. Charles Davis receive Lafitte Research Grants

Congratulations to Joyce Park, Anna Smith, and Charles Davis on receiving research grants from the Charles Lafitte Foundation Program. Their project titles are as follows:

Joyce - Authoring as a Learning Strategy

Anna - Spontaneity of Memory Retrieval in Abstract Art Viewing

Charles - When narratives take us to different worlds, do we return changed by the story?

Congratulations, Dr. Emmaline Elissev

Congrats, Emmaline on your new position at RealPage as a UX Researcher! We wish you the best of luck!

Anna Smith accepted into PFF (Preparing Future Faculty)

Congrats to Anna on her acceptance into the Preparing Future Faculty program!

New Publication (and Cover Art) Featured in Applied Cognitive Psychology!

Congratulations to Dr. Emmaline Elissev and Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on a new publication in Applied Cognitive Psychology! Check out Emmaline’s cover design below! The article can be accessed here.

Dr. Marsh named a Psychonomic Society 2023 Mid-Career Award Recipient!

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on receiving the Psychonomic Society 2023 Mid-Career Award!

Congrats, Dr. Sharda Umanath

A big congratulations to lab alumna, Dr. Sharda Umanath, for being named a Psychonomic Society 2023 Early Career Award recipient!

Congratulations, Dr. Brashier

Welcome, Dr. Charles Davis!

Dr. Charles Davis will be joining the Marsh Lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

Charles received his PhD in Psychological Science in 2021 from the Universty of Connecticut, where he worked with Dr. Eiling Yee. Since then, he has held teaching and research positions at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Duke University, and is now a postdoctoral associate in the Marsh Lab at Duke. He received his BA in Psychology from Brock University in Canada.

Charles is interested in semantic memory (what do we know about the meaning of objects like “pine” or concepts like “equity”) and how it is influenced by other systems, like sensation and perception (what it’s like to smell or touch a pine), episodic memory (our specific experiences with equity), and social-linguistic experiences (e.g., how we engage with concepts in media).

Congratulations, Dr. Taylor!

A big congratulations to Dr. Morgan Taylor for successfully defending her dissertation, Flipping the Narrative: Highlighting the Positive Aspects of Healthy Aging! We are so proud of you!

New Publication in Applied Cognitive Psychology

Congratulations, Dr. Eliseev!

Happy Graduation, Kelis & Marley!

Morgan presents at Cognitive Aging Conference

Morgan Awarded a Graduate Grant Award

Congratulations, Dr. Eliseev!

Morgan Presenting at Cognitive Aging Conference

Emmaline awarded Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Drs. Yang, Deffler & Marsh cited in Nature Reviews Psychology

Dr. Marsh & Emmaline mentioned in NBC News Article

Dr. Elizabeth Marsh and graduate student Emmaline Eliseev were quoted in a piece by NBC News titled, The Internet is Tricking Our Brains. Written by reporter David Ingram, Ingram discusses the growing research on the intersection of Google, smartphones, and our memories, which cites Dr. Marsh & Emmaline’s paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences - Externalizing autobiographical memories in the digital age.

You can read the NBC news article here.

You can read Emmaline & Dr. Marsh’s paper here.

Congratulations!

New publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The Marsh Lab heads to Psychonomics 2021

New publication in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Emmaline named one of the of 2021-2022 Bass Digital Education Fellows

New publication in JEP General

Dr. Nadia Brashier accepts position at Purdue University

Dr. Marsh Appointed as Chair

Former Lab Members Earn Tenure

Dr. Elizabeth Marsh Quoted in Science News

Marsh Lab Welcomes Dr. Peter Whitehead!

Happy graduation, Dr. Brenda Yang!

Recent publication in Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Congrats, Morgan Taylor, M.A!

Emmaline gives talk at Duke GRADx

Morgan awarded Graduate Grant Award

Congratulations, Dr. Yang!

Congratulations to graduate student Dr. Brenda Yang on successfully defending her dissertation, Fiction as Autobiography: Characterizing the Phenomenology and Functions of Memories of Narrative Fiction, to her committee!

We are so proud of you, Brenda! Congratulations on this huge milestone!

Emmaline awarded Graduate Grant Award

Graduate student Emmaline Eliseev received a Graduate Student Award for her project Searching and Learning Online. The award is sponsored by the Charles Lafitte Foundation Program for Research in Psychology & Neuroscience.

Congrats, Emmaline!

Congratulations, Dr. Stanley!

Congratulations to graduate student Matthew Stanley on successfully defending his dissertation to his committee!

Matt’s dissertation, titled The Roles of Memory, Morality, and Counterfactual Thinking in Constructing the Self, comprised of several empirically-based mechanisms that help explain how people can believe they are morally good and care deeply about feeling morally good, yet at the same time commit moral transgressions quite frequently.

We are so proud of you, Matt! Congratulations on this huge milestone!

RA Abby Flyer accepts post-grad research position!

Congratulations to research assistant Abby Flyer on accepting a full-time canine cognition research position! Following graduation in May 2021, Abby will be jetting off to the University of Arizona in Tucson to work on a joint project with the Arizona Canine Cognition Center (ACCC) and the LEEP lab (Laboratory for the Evolutionary Endocrinology of Primates).

We asked Abby the following questions:

What will you be doing in this new position?

Broadly, Abby will be working on a joint project between the ACCC and LEEP lab researching human-animal interaction (HAI), focusing on the interaction between dogs and children.

What does the ACCC and LEEP study?

Broadly, the ACCC studies the minds of animals. Their research investigates how the minds of animals are similar and different from the minds of humans, what the processes involved in animal cognitive evolution look like, what the individual differences in animal cognition are, as well as the relationships between humans and dogs. The ACCC is headed by Dr. Evan MacLean, a former Duke alumnus. You can read more about the ACCC here.

The LEEP lab is an endocrinology lab that offers resources to measure endocrine biomarkers noninvasively. Some of their work investigates developmental changes in male and female ring-tailed lemur reproductive hormones, mid-term exam stress in humans, and the effects of environmental degradation on threatened lemur spices. The LEEP Lab is headed by Dr. Stacey Tecot. You can read more about the LEEP lab here.

What are you most excited about?

Abby is most excited about taking the thing she has loved the most during her time as a Duke undergrad— Duke Puppy Kindergarten (DPK), and turning that into a full-time job. Abby has volunteered with DPK all 4 years at Duke and has enjoyed every minute of it. She is passionate about both dogs and research, and this position allows her to combine the two.

Abby was one the first students involved in DPK, which is a part of the Duke Canine Cognition Center (DCCC). The DCCC broadly studies dog cognition. The DCCC believes that we can use knowledge of dog cognition to improve service dog training programs and, more broadly, better understand man’s best friend.

Abby is also excited to be moving somewhere that does not get snow! Abby grew up in New York before moving to North Carolina. She’s ready to put her snow shoveling days behind her!

 What sparked your interest in this position?

The Duke Puppy Kindergarten program was the main reason Abby majored in both Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology. DPK welcomes puppies from Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), an assistance dog non-profit organization in the U.S. The puppies are brought to the DCCC where Dr. Brian Hare and team study the behavior and cognitive development of assistance dogs. These dogs also undergo assistance training while at Duke.

 When Abby first started volunteering with DPK, she was involved in a lot of husbandry work (i.e., feeding the dogs, walking the dogs, teaching them new commands). She eventually was able to help engage with the cognitive testing of the puppies.

 Wisdom (pictured) was one of the DPK puppies with whom Abby developed an especially close bond. Abby was able to take Wisdom home a few nights each week and care for Wisdom in her dorm during DPK’s pilot testing of their dorm puppy program.

 What inspired you to venture to canine research?

Abby’s motto is: Find the person you know with the coolest job and then find out how to get that job, and she did just that, inspired by the lab coordinators at DPK who brought the project to life. Abby is excited that every day she will be able to wake up, work intimately with dogs, and make personal relationships with students and researchers who share her same interests.

Do you have any dogs at home?

Abby grew up with a beagle named Guinness who has unfortunately since passed away. Secretly, though, she’s also a huge cat person and plans to adopt a kitten when she moves to Arizona!

 In May 2021 Abby will be receiving her B.S in Psychology and a B.A in Evolutionary Anthropology with a concentration in Behavior, Ecology, & Cognition and a minor in English. Abby has been with the Marsh Lab since January of 2019. We wish Abby the best of luck in her future endeavors! Congrats, Abby! We are so proud of you!

New publication in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Congratulations to graduate students Matthew Stanley and Morgan Taylor, as well as PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on their recent publication in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition!

You can read Cultural Identity Changes the Accessibility of Knowledge here.

Congrats!

Emmaline awarded Summer Research Fellowship

Graduate student Emmaline D. Eliseev was awarded a competitive Summer Research Fellowship Award for Third-Year Ph.D. Students and Beyond from the Graduate School!

Congrats, Emmaline!

Judging Truth is on Annual Review’s Most Downloaded of 2020

Drs. Nadia Brashier and Elizabeth Marsh’s review paper Judging Truth is on Annual Review's top 10 most downloaded articles of 2020 in the social sciences!

Judging Truth was published in the Annual Review of Psychology early last year (2020).

Dr. Nadia Brashier is currently completing her postdoctoral position with Dr. Daniel Schacter at Harvard University. You can check out more of Nadia’s most recent work on her website.

You can read Judging Truth here.

Congrats, Drs. Nadia Brashier and Elizabeth Marsh!

Emmaline accepts Bass Digital Education Fellowship

Graduate student Emmaline Drew Eliseev was awarded a 2021-2022 Bass Instructional Fellowship: Digital Education Fellowship!

This fellowship is funded by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowment Fund for the Bass Undergraduate Instructional Program. As a Bass Digital Education Fellow. Emmaline will collaborate with Duke Learning Innovation and Duke faculty on a project to support new approaches to innovative teaching and digital learning. 

Congratulations, Emmaline!

Brenda & colleagues posted a column in Nature

Meet SPEAK - Scientists Promoting Equity and Knowledge.

A group of researchers here at Duke, including graduate student Brenda Yang, created SPEAK: a part discussion / part support group whose mission is to promote a more inclusive and equitable environment in academia.

Read more about SPEAK here.

Stephanie Ng published in Journal of Eating Disorders

Former RA, Stephanie Ng, recently published The Clash of Culture and Cuisine: A qualitative exploration of cultural tensions and attitudes towards food and body in adult Chinese young adult women in the Journal of Eating Disorders.

Stephanie is completing her Masters at Columbia University.

She is also the founder of Body Banter - an organization empowering young people to engage in open conversations about body image and mental health.

Congratulations!

Dr. Zamary accepts position at Epic Games

Former post-doctoral associate Dr. Amanda Zamary accepted a position as a User Experience Analyst with Epic Games!

Congratulations!

New publication in Perspectives on Psychological Science

Check out Dr. Marsh’s new paper, Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Supports for Less-Able Structure Builders, in press at Perspectives on Psychological Science.

You can read it here.

Dr. Marsh elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Marsh, who was recently elected as a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP)!

You can read more about SEP here.

Marsh Lab attends Psychonomics 2020

Numerous members of the Marsh Lab presented their most recent work at the virtual Psychonomics conference this past week (November, 2020).

Alexandria Stone presented a poster presentation titled “Cheaters Claim they Knew the Answers All Along”, which you can view here.

Emmaline D. Eliseev presented a poster presentation titled “Look It Up” How Online Searching Affect Learning”.

Morgan Taylor presented a poster presentation titled “Preserved Memory for Decisions Across Adulthood”.

Peter Whitehead presented a poster presentation titled “Mind Wandering During Encoding and Implementation of One-Shot Episodic Stimulus-Control Associations”.

Lab alumni were also active at Psychonomics this year:

Nadia Brashier gave a talk titled “When Should You Correct Fake News? Comparing Prebunking, Warning Labels, and Debunking”.

Lisa Fazio won the 2020 Psychonomic Society Early Career Impact Award and gave an invited talk titled “The Effects of Repetition on Belief: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Development”.

Andy Butler gave a talk titled “Motivational Strategies to Engage Learned in Desirable Difficulties”.

Great work!

Lisa Fazio awarded Early Career Impact Award

Lab alumna Lisa Fazio was awarded the 2020 Psychonomic Society Career Impact Award! This prestigious award is presented to early-career scientist who have made major contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior.

Lisa Fazio is currently and Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Vaguely, Dr. Fazio studies how people learn new information and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge.

You can check out her award here and visit her website here.

Recent Marsh Lab paper gains press

Be sure to check out the write-up Research Digest did on “Cheaters claim the knew the answers all long”.

Co-authored by Matthew Stanley, Alexandria Stone, and Dr. Elizabeth Marsh, “Cheaters claim the knew the answers all along” was published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in September 2020.

You can read the write-up in Research Digest here.

You can read the manuscript here.

Brenda accepts job at Instagram!

Graduate student Brenda Yang accepted a position as a User Experience Researcher (UX) at Instagram! Following graduation in May, Brenda will start her new adventure with Instagram starting September 2021.

This past summer Brenda completed a User Experience Research Experience Internship with Facebook.

Congrats, Brenda! We are so proud of you!

New publication in Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition

Congratulations to graduate students Brenda Yang & Matthew Stanley as well as Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on their recent publication in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Mislead Viewers.

Congrats!

New publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review!

Congratulations to Matt Stanley, Alexandria Stone, and PI Elizabeth Marsh on their recent publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 

In their recent paper titled “Cheaters Claim they Knew the Answers All Along,” researchers found consistent correlational evidence across three studies that, for those particular cases in which participants likely cheated, they were more likely to report that they knew the answers all along. Experimentally, they found that participants were more likely to later claim that they knew the answers all along after having the opportunity to cheat to find the correct answers—relative to exposure to the correct answers without the opportunity to cheat. These findings provide new insights into relationships between memory, metacognition, and the self-concept. 

You can read the manuscript here.

Congrats! 

Marsh Lab alumna Dr. Sharda Umanath receives NSF grant and NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program award!

Congratulations to Marsh Lab alumna Dr. Sharda Umanath on receiving a $700,00 NSF grant to study memory blips! With this 5 year project, Sharda plans to empirically define what she coins the “zone of proximal retrieval” - where inaccessible knowledge resides but can be brought to memory.

You can read more about Sharda’s work here.

Earlier this year Sharda also received the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program award!

Congratulations, Sharda!

Marsh Lab welcomes Kelis!

Undergraduate student Kelis Johnson joined the Marsh Lab this summer!

Kelis Johnson is a junior double majoring in psychology and philosophy with a certificate in Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics. She is interested in studying how memory affects personal identity and decision-making as it relates to applications in education and law.

Welcome, Kelis!

Marsh Lab joins Twitter

Follow the Marsh Lab on Twitter @LabMarsh

Arts & Sciences Faculty Grant awarded

Congratulations to Dr. Marsh on receiving a Faculty Grant from Arts & Sciences! This grant will fund research with graduate student Matt Stanley and Professor Aaron Kay (Fuqua) to explore whether the psychological motivation to see the world is structured, ordered, and understandable predicts people’s continued use of misinformation.

Lafitte Grant awarded to Brenda & Will

Congratulations to graduate student Brenda Yang and post-doctoral associate Will Crozier for receiving a grant sponsored by the Charles Lafitte Foundation for COVID-19 research.

Graphs are a crucial element of COVID-19 mass media communications. However, graphs are not neutral messengers, and people are not neutral receivers of information. We propose two timely studies to (1) investigate how people comprehend COVID-19 graphs and (2) how people’s pre-existing beliefs shape the conclusions they draw from graphs. This work brings much-needed insight to guide scientific communication e.g., how a representative sample of Americans understand logarithmic scales, common in COVID-19 visualizations. Our proposed work also utilizes the present moment as a crucial window to explore how motivated reasoning affects graphs—a novel, interdisciplinary, and fiercely relevant topic.

Congrats, Brenda & Will!

Brenda awarded Fellowship

Graduate student Brenda Yang was selected as a fellow in the Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) for 2020/2021. This fellowship supports dissertation year students who are applying innovative methodologies and using interdisciplinary approaches in their work.

Congrats, Brenda!

Brenda receives PEO Scholar Award

Congratulations to graduate student Brenda Yang on receiving a P.E.O Scholar Award!

“Brenda Yang, a Ph.D. student in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter AJ of Cary, NC.

Brenda is a 2012 graduate of the University of Southern California, where she graduated as Outstanding Student of the Year from the Neuroscience Program and was an inaugural recipient of the Dornsife Scholar award, among other honors. She worked as a high school science teacher in northeast LA before graduate school.

The P.E.O. Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university. Scholar Awards recipients are a select group of women chosen for their high level of academic achievement and their potential for having a positive impact on society.

The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to supporting higher education for women. There are approximately 6,000 local chapters in the United States and Canada with nearly a quarter of a million active members.

Supporting Women…Changing the World”

Congrats, Brenda!

Morgan receives Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP

The Marsh Lab would like to congratulate graduate student Morgan Taylor on receiving an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Congrats, Morgan!

Dr. Marsh appointed as Chair

The Marsh Lab would like to congratulate PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh, who will serve a three-year term as Chair of the Psychology & Neuroscience Department here at Duke University effective July 2021. Beth will be on a one-year research leave beginning July 2020, but will continue to serve as Associate Chair.

Congrats, Beth!

Amanda receives Gorilla Grant

Post-doc associate Dr. Amanda Zamary was awarded the 2019 Gorilla Grant! She was one of 27 recipients.

“The purpose of my research is twofold: (1) to identify effective techniques for enhancing learning and (2) understand when and how metacognition influences learning. The Gorilla Grant will help fund a new line of research in my research program, which aims to evaluate the extent to which ease of processing (i.e., fluency) is used as a proxy when learners make judgments about how well they are learning categories (e.g., species of birds, such as warblers, grosbeaks, and jays).” - Amanda

Click here to see all recipients.

Congrats, Amanda!

New publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Congratulations to graduate student Matt Stanley and PI Elizabeth Marsh on their most recent publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General: Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality.

Emmaline awarded Fellowship

Congratulations to graduate student Emmaline D. Eliseev on being awarded a competitive Summer Research Fellowship Award from the Graduate School!

Learn more about the research fellowship here.

Brenda wins 2020 Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching

The Marsh Lab would like to congratulate graduate student Brenda Yang on winning the 2020 Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Teaching!

Brenda is one of only 3 recipients who was awarded for her exemplary teaching.

To learn more about the award, please click here.

Congratulations, Brenda!

Brenda awarded Felllowship

Congratulations to graduate student Brenda Yang on receiving a Bass Instructional Fellowship!

The Bass Instructional Fellowship is a competitive teaching award funded by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowment fund for the Bass Undergraduate Instructional Program.

Learn more about the Bass Instructional Fellowships here.

Congrats, Brenda!

Brenda awarded internship at Facebook

Congratulations to graduate student Brenda Yang on accepting a User Experience Research Internship at Facebook!

This upcoming summer (2020) Brenda will be packing her bags and jetting off to New York City to join Facebook’s Design & User Experience Team.

Congratulations, Brenda!

Marsh Lab Welcomes 3 new Undergraduate Research Assistants!

This Fall (2019) the Marsh Lab is welcoming 3 new undergraduate research assistants to the lab!

Marley Storch is a sophomore intending to major in Psychology and to minor in Biology. She is interested in memory, development, and evolution, and how the combination of such mechanisms can be applied to research to promote productive learning. Marley also works closely with postdoctoral associate Amanda Zamary.

Autumn Blamoville is a junior at Duke, working on a Program II degree on Integrative Arts and Health. Autumn is excited to be joining the Marsh Lab, she will be working with graduate student, Emmaline Drew Eliseev, on current lab projects. She has always been interested in how memory works and how one can improve their memorization skills through learning. Autumn is thrilled to begin her work with the team, be a great team member, and learn so much more in the process through her time in the lab.

Shenyang Huang is a senior double majoring in Neuroscience and Mathematics. He is interested in memory, causal reasoning, mathematical cognition, and philosophy. In the Marsh Lab, Shenyang works closely with Matt Stanley on people’s moral cognition

Allie receives Germinator Award

Congratulations to graduate student Allie Sinclair for being awarded the 2019 Germinator Award given by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS).

With this award, Allie, Dr. Alison Adcock, Dr. Elizabeth Marsh, and Dr. Samanez-Larkin will be researching ways to encourage and support learning from error. You can read more about their upcoming research here.

Congrats, Allie!

Hannah elected to SIPS

The Marsh Lab wants to congratulate graduate student Hannah Moshontz for being selected to serve on the executive Committee for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).

The SIPS organization strives to improve the methods and practices in psychological science. Starting in January 2020 Hannah will serve three years on the SIPS executive board making strides toward improving psychological science.

You can read more about SIPS and their mission here.

Congrats, Hannah!

Marsh Lab Graduate Students Win Graduate Grant Awards

The following Marsh Lab graduate students won Graduate Grant Awards sponsored by the Charles Lafitte Foundation Program for Research in Psychology & Neuroscience:

Matt Stanley: “Structure-Seeking as a Psychological Determinant of Moral Principle Endorsement”

Emmaline Drew Eliseev: “Searching for Answers: Implications for Metacognition”

Brenda Yang: “Novel features of narrative fiction”

Morgan Taylor: “Reasoning about Others’ Knowledge in Younger and Older Adulthood”.

Congratulations, Marsh Lab!

Marsh Lab’s newest publication gains press

A writer for The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest published a write up on one of the Marsh Lab’s recent publications: An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth.

You can check out the article here.

While the publication is in press and will not be available in Cognition until January 2020, you can read a full text of the publication here.

Congrats!

Marsh Lab Welcomes post-doc Dr. Amanda Zamary

New publication in Cognition

Congratulations to former lab alumna Dr. Nadia Brashier, current graduate student Emmaline D. Eliseev, and PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on their latest publication in Cognition - An Initial Accuracy Focus Prevents Illusory Truth.

You can read their publication here.

Brenda receives teaching position

Congratulations to graduate student Brenda Yang on landing a teaching position at Elon University!

This upcoming fall semester (2019) Brenda will be teaching Cognitive Science.

Congrats, Brenda! We are so proud of you!

New publication in the Annual Review of Psychology

The Marsh Lab congratulates lab alumna Dr. Nadia Brashier & PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh on their recent publication in the Annual Review of Psychology - Judging Truth.

You can read their work here.

Congratulations!

MARSH LAB HEADS TO SARMAC
(2019, JUNE)

Members of the Marsh Lab headed to the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts for the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition research conference!

Dr. Elizabeth Marsh was a discussant in a symposium called, "Reducing the Spread of Misinformation via Applied Cognitive Science". This symposium featured talks by Elise Fenn, Kathy Pezdek, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Madeline Jalbert. 

Graduate student Brenda Yang gave a talk titled, “Judgments of deceptive visualizations”.

Graduate student Allie Sinclair also gave a talk titled, "Surprise drives episodic memory updating and distortion".

Graduate student Emmaline Eliseev gave a poster presentation titled, "Just Google It: How Online Search Affects Metacognition and Learning"

Duke Law postdoctoral researcher and Marsh lab researcher Will Crozier also gave a talk titled, “Filling in the Blanks: Memory for Ambiguous Body Worn Camera Footage.”

Congrats on all your hard work!

New publication in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition

This past March (2019) PI Dr. Beth Marsh and collaborator Dr. Suparna Rajaram published an invited target article in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition titled, “The Digital Expansion of the Mind: Implications of Internet Usage for Memory and Cognition”. In this journal article Beth and Suparana discuss various properties of the internet and how they pertain to human cognition. Considering how many individuals rely on the internet to post information, seek information, and share information, Beth and Suparna urge future researchers to consider how internet usage may affect many different aspects of cognition.

Seven different research articles were written as commentary to Beth and Suparana’s target article.

• Expanding Cognition: A Brief Consideration of Technological Advances over the past 400 Years

• The Digital Expansion of the Mind Gone Wrong in Education

• The Individual Mind in the Active Construction of its Digital Niche

• Thoughts on the Digital Expansion of the Mind and the Effects of Using Internet for Memory and Cognition

• The Digital Expansion of the Mind: Implications of Internet Usage for Memory and Cognition

• Examining the Implications of the Internet Usage for Memory and Cognition: Prospects and Promise

• The Human-Machine Extended Organism: New Roles and Responsibilities of Human Cognition in a Digital Ecology

In their reply article, “Cognition in the Internet Age: What are the Important Questions?”, Beth and Suparna pose five critical questions pertaining to future research direction in this field.

Congrats on your hard work!

Congratulations, Beth, Emmaline & Hannah!

With so many deadlines quickly approaching and writing that needed to be done, the Women’s Support Network in Psychology and Neuroscience here at Duke University decided to form a writing group by bringing together junior scientists off campus for a day of writing and community-building. Due to overwhelming positive feedback and through the discussion of the many benefits of the writing group, the writing group hosted six more writing days throughout the remainder of the semester. Women from the group said that the writing group not only promoted community-building and support, but it also encouraged productivity, motivation and networking.

Ph.D students Christina Bejjani, Emmaline Eliseev, and Hannah Moshontz wrote about their experience and the value of the writing group and further encourage other departments to also form writing groups. This piece was published by The Graduate School at Duke University and can be read here.

Abby & Ceren inducted into Psi Chi

The Marsh Lab wants to congratulate undergraduate research assistants Abby Flyer & Ceren Ebrem on their induction into the prestigious Psi Chi International Honors Society in Psychology!

We are so proud of all of your hard work!

Marsh lab members awarded Lafitte Grant

Graduate students Emmaline Eliseev, Morgan Taylor, and Brenda Yang as well as undergraduate research assistant Abby Flyer all won travel awards sponsored by the Charles Lafitte Foundation for research in Psychology & Neuroscience to attend the Society of Applied Memory and Cognition Research Conference this upcoming June (2019).

Congratulations!

New publication in Current Directions in Psychological Science

PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh and Marsh Lab alum Lisa Fazio just published a peer-reviewed journal article tittled, Retrieval-Based Learning in Children in Current Direction in Psychological Science!

Retrieval-Based Learning in Children is a review of the current literature supporting evidence for the benefits of retrieval-based learning for children in preschool, elementary school, and even infancy.

Congratulations!

Emmaline awarded her M.A

The Marsh Lab would like celebrate graduate student Emmaline Eliseev on successfully defending her Major Area Paper (MAP) and receiving her Masters!

Emmaline’s MAP, titled Externalizing Autobiographical Memories in the Digital Age, explored the cogntive consequences of creating external records of personal life experiences (e.g., photos, diaries, social media,etc.), and how this might be changing the Digital Age.

Congrats, Emmaline! We are so proud of you!

Morgan adventures to Switzerland!

This summer (2019) graduate student Morgan Taylor will be traveling to Switzerland to attend the Swiss Graduate School for Cognition, Learning and Memory. The theme of this year’s summer program is, Dealing with Uncertainty: Decision-Making and Memory Processes’. Morgan will have the wonderful opportunity of hearing from top cognitive scientist, such as, Dr. Simona Ghetti, Dr. Christopher Hertzog, Dr. Benedetto de Martino and Dr. Celine Souchay. During the program Morgan will also have the opportunity to participate in scientific discussions, peer-review sessions, PhD presentations, and networking.

Morgan also won a travel award from the Jacobs Foundation to help fund her adventure.

Congrats, Morgan!

Learn more about the Swiss Graduate School for cognition, Learning and Memory here.

Congratulations, Allie & Eric!

The Marsh Lab would like to congratulate graduate student Allie Sinclair on receiving a graduate research fellowship award from the National Science Foundation!

The Marsh Lab would also like to congratulate graduate student Eric Juarez on receiving a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention!

Congrats, Allie & Eric!

Marsh Lab congratulates Stephanie Ng on her acceptance to Columbia University!

The Marsh Lab would like to congratulate undergraduate research assistant Stephanie Ng on her acceptance into Columbia University! Following graduation this upcoming May (2019), Stephanie will be heading to Columbia University to pursue a Masters in Psychology with the Education program within the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology of Teachers College at Columbia University. 

For her senior honors thesis, Steph explored how the conflicting expectations of Chinese eating norms and ideal body image standards may contribute to the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in Chinese adolescent women. Through pursuing the Global Mental Health and Trauma concentration in the Psych in Ed program at Columbia, Steph hopes to build upon these findings and to continue exploring her research interests of body image issues in Chinese women. Eventually, she hopes to translate her research findings into evidence-based, culturally sensitive interventions and treatments for Chinese women, and to practice as a clinical psychologist in her hometown of Hong Kong. 

“I am so thankful to my family at the Marsh lab for keeping me excited and passionate about research in the field of psychology, and for all of the unconditional support that they have always given me!” ~ Stephanie Ng

Congratulations, Steph! We are so proud of you!

Matt awarded M.A

Earlier this month (March, 2019) graduate student Matt Stanley successfully defended is Major Area Paper (MAP) to his committee!

Congratulations, Matt! We are so proud of you!

Marsh Lab celebrates 3 New Publications

Graduate students Brenda Yang & Matt Stanley along with PI Dr. Elizabeth Marsh recently published a paper in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition titled - When the Impossible Becomes Possible: Fluency Overrides Qualifying Information in Assessing Truth. Congrats!

PI Beth Marsh collaborated with Dr. Suparna Rajaram from Stony Brook University to publish two articles to the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - The Digital Expansion of the Mind: Implications of Internet Usage for Memory and Cognition & Cognition In the Internet Age: What Are The Important Questions?. Congrats!

Marsh Lab Welcomes Lab Manager, Alexandria Stone (February 2019)

Alexandria Stone comes to Duke University from UNC Charlotte, where she received her BS in Psychology and a BA in Sociology. During her time at UNC Charlotte, Alexandria successfully completed an undergraduate honors thesis investigating how caffeine can influence both positive and negative emotional response in individuals who display symptoms of alexithymia and depression.

Alexandria is excited to gain more critical research experience in the field of psychological research before hopefully attending graduate school to pursue a Ph. D in Clinical Psychology.

Welcome, Alex!