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Cynthia Willis-Esqueda

Attitudes about violence predict domestic interventions

April 10, 2017

Society & Culture

Equation makes it harder to 'outsmart' concussion tests

February 21, 2017

Science & Technology

Visitors watch the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C. Nebraska's Mario Scalora assisted with threat assessment during the event.

Scalora lends threat expertise to inauguration

January 30, 2017

Society & Culture

Doctoral student Molly Franz (left), pictured here with adviser psychology professor David DiLillo and senior research associate Jessica Calvi, has been awarded an National Institutes of Health grant that allows her to use saliva samples to measure how stress affects some mothers’ interactions with their children. Jessica Calvi, a senior research associate with Nebraska’s Salivary Bioscience Lab, will test the samples for the presence of the stress hormone cortisol.

Saliva gives researchers new tools to understand behavior

January 26, 2017

Science & Technology

Powers of perception may explain evolutionary riddle

January 9, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Inaugural Teaching Academy fellows announced

December 9, 2016

Chimpanzees interact in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. A recent study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers suggests that humans and chimps exhibit nearly identical patterns in how they interact socially and remember things in their environment.

Study: Humans, chimps share cognitive connection

September 8, 2016

Society & Culture

Mike Dodd (right), associate professor of psychology, and Matt Johnson, assistant professor of psychology, are overseeing Nebraska's part of a $6 million project to enhance cognitive neuroscience research. They join faculty from Delaware and Nevada to form the Lincoln-Reno-Newark Coalition.

$6M grant will build neuroscience brain trust

August 22, 2016

Society & Culture

Cynthia Willis-Esqueda and Stephane Shepherd

Researchers connect to tackle bias in legal tools

August 10, 2016

Society & Culture

Study shows racial attitudes play role in police reform support

July 26, 2016

Society & Culture

Study finds link between kids’ sleep habits, mental health

June 23, 2016

Society & Culture

Mario Scalora

Scalora to direct Public Policy Center

June 2, 2016

Society & Culture