June 2013
CU Psychology and Neuroscience graduate student Mark Travers, Professor Leaf Van Boven, and College Professor of Distinction Chick Judd (all Social), received some popular press in a blog in theNew Yorker for their research published in the journal Political Psychology. This research demonstrated that people assign a higher value to information when told the information is secret as opposed to public. Read the or the original . In addition, the New York Times published an opinion piece by the authors interpreting their data in light of recent events. Read the .
CU Psychology and Neuroscience Distinguished Professor Linda Watkins (Behavioral Neuroscience) was in the popular press in an article about the research study she is conducting with a local veterinarian on the treatment of chronic pain in dogs that has been expanded to include joint disease pain (arthritis, etc.). For more details, read the .