Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…

Todd L. Jennings, Yen-Ling Chen, Bailey M. Way, and Shane Kraus (all Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Associations between online dating platform use and mental and sexual health among a mixed sexuality college student sample," in Computer in Human Behavior. 

Stephen Benning and Edward Smith (both Psychology) published an article about how to register scientific studies in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. They argue that doing so increases the transparency of the research process and makes the outcomes of studies more trustworthy by reducing the dependence of data analytic…

Stephen Benning (Psychology) was elected treasurer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP). SSSP is the international society devoted to research on the personality disorder of psychopathy, which represents a tremendous financial and interpersonal cost to the world at large. He remains the society's historian and was its…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and Texas Tech colleagues recently published a paper, "Further Understanding the Correlations Between Sexting and Mental Health: Considerations for Sex and Sexual Identity," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 

Patricia Heisser Metoyer, Ph.D., (Psychology, African American and African Diaspora and Interdisciplinary Studies) was invited by Sage Publications to review the seminal text African American Psychology: From Africa to America, Fourth Edition, a comprehensive coverage of African American psychology by Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison. The…

Nathan C. Higgins, Alexandra N. Scurry, Fang Jiang, David F. Little, Claude Alain, Mounya Elhilali, and Joel S. Snyder published a paper titled, "Adaptation in the sensory cortex drives bistable switching during auditory stream segregation," in Neuroscience of Consciousness. Dr. Higgins and Dr. Little were post-doctoral fellows at UNLV, and…

Patricia A. Heisser-Metoyer, Ph.D., (Psychology; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies; African America and African Diaspora program), was selected to participate in The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans events in 2023. The initiative was created to strengthen…

Renato (Rainier) M. Liboro (Psychology) recently published a book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy (Psychology series) titled, "Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Responsibility: Responding to an Inherent Call to Address the Needs of Queer and Trans Folx in Music Therapy." From the perspective of standpoint theory,…

Rakshitha Mohankumar and Brenna Renn (both Psychology) published an op-ed piece, "Boosting the Mental/Behavioral Health Infrastructure to Prevent Elder Suicide," for Generations Today, a bimonthly digital publication of the American Society on Aging. They highlight pervasive ageism and lack of training as barriers to better suicide prevention in…

Amanda Mraz and Brenna Renn (both Psychology) published an article titled, "Perspectives of Nonspecialists Delivering a Brief Depression Treatment in the United States: A Qualitative Investigation," in the journal BMC Psychiatry. Their coauthor Grace Woodard is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Miami. Renn''s…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) has been elected to the executive board of the American Psychological Association's Society of Clinical Geropsychology. The society's mission is to advance the field of professional clinical geropsychology through the scientific study of mental health of older adults, delivery of culturally sensitive …