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Laurel Gabard-Durnam is smiling with her hands clasped while seated for a portrait. She has brown hair and glasses.
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Northeastern University professor honored with prestigious American Psychological Association award

‘Facing Distortion: Impact of Spatial Distortions on Upright and Inverted Face Identification’

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Society & Culture

 Why Annabelle, Chucky and dolls in general creep us out

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University News

Precise maps of the brain’s deepest corners are made possible through tools developed by these Northeastern researchers

‘Inglorious Sufferers: Motivational Factors and Moral Foundations Shape Compassionate and Helping Reactions Toward Suffering Norm Transgressors’

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‘What Makes a Theory of Consciousness Unscientific?’

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‘Age-Related Changes in Mesopic Reading Vision Across Adulthood’

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‘Affective Abstraction Predicts Variation in Alexithymia, Depression, and Autism Spectrum Quotient’

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‘Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes’

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‘Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship…’

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Science & Technology

Is all learning ‘incidental’? Northeastern professor says that we ‘trick’ our brains into learning

Book cover of 'A Phenomenology of the Alien' in front of an atmospheric, blurred landscape with trees.
Society & Culture

This psychologist says we need to be more comfortable with not knowing the answer in therapy