Parents' Role in Homesickness

A study finds that greater parental anxiety about sending children to camp was associated with higher levels of homesickness. Growing up at Camp Talooli, a summer camp for children operated by her parents, Kelly Peneston '10 never faced the separation from home and family that part-time campers did. She did, however, witness numerous drop-offs and the different ways families handled the separatio...  More >>

HWS Attends Cross-Cultural Conference

Taylor Amico '15, Brandon Campbell '13, Rachel Hadley '13 and Jillian Kuhn '13 recently gained invaluable experience presenting their scholarly work when they joined Assistant Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown last month for a trip to the 2013 Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) in Mobile, Ala. Along with Ashdown, Hadley and Campbell authored, "Perceptions of Intersec...  More >>

The Alzheimer's + Aesthetics Connection

Assistant Professor of Psychology Daniel Graham spreads out eight images on the desk in front of him - sweeping vistas, secluded forests, a stone bridge - images of varying landscapes. These photographs, used in a recent study completed by Graham and his colleagues and published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, are key to a rather puzzling - and amazing - discovery: despite hav...  More >>