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Positive Psychology Center Research

Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, the mission of the Penn Positive Psychology Center is research, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology, resilience and grit. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the factors that enable people to thrive. This field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Seligman Martin

An Interdisciplinary Project Featuring Python

Long-term project related to compiling data from various academic papers into a massive database.

Carton Andrew

Sociolinguistics in the lab

How do social factors influence speech production and perception?

Tamminga Meredith

Solar Development on Farmland

How can solar development on farmland produce both food and electricity?

Daniels Thomas

Language Development & Processing

My research is about language and thought, and the relation between the two. My students and I take a cognitive science approach to these topics by asking what sorts of mental computations and representations support human understanding of the world and human linguistic communication.

Trueswell John

Memory and Preference

Work on a project that inolves judgment and decision making, plus computational and mathematical modeling of cognition.

Psychology and Religion

Develop your own research project relating to psychology, religion, and/or morality.

Bermant Gordon

Development and evaluation of decision support interventions for adolescents and young adults newly diagnosed with cancer

We aim to improve health equity and cancer outcomes for adolescents and young adults with cancer and their families through research that tests interventions to increase engagement in cancer-related decision-making, improve family management of cancer treatment demands, and enhance targeted psychosocial care for all patients/families.

Barakat Lamia
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