Department of Psychology

Erin walked into the fall career fair her senior year — and walked away with a job at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She visited the FBI’s booth, secured an interview for the next day, and was promptly offered an entry-level position. “My job hunt was very easy because of that one choice,” she said. “I just went to the career fair, and that was it — that was how it all started.”  Now an analyst, Erin has connected to a network of Notre Dame alumni at the FBI — and said graduates from every major are valuable to the bureau.

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Kristin Valentino, the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families Associate Professor of Psychology, has been named the director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families beginning July 1, 2019. Julie Braungart-Rieker, Mary Hesburgh Flaherty and James F. Flaherty III College Chair and Professor of Psychology, served in this role from 2008-2019 and is stepping down in preparation to become the chair of the Department of Psychology in the fall of 2020.…

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Student engagement has long been recognized as key to academic success. Most research, however, has focused on engagement generally, across the school setting. Quantitative psychologist Ying “Alison” Cheng is working to better understand the link between student engagement and learning outcomes in a specific course — and how adaptive testing can help.

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