Happy Fourth of July to our psychology and neuroscience community — students, families, faculty, staff, alumni and friends! . Wishing you a safe and fun holiday. 🎆🇺🇸

Fresh laundry, lavender candles, citrus mists — these functional fragrances are designed to calm, energize or ground us. In @Cosmopolitan, Associate Professor Michael Varnum explains how scent links to memory and emotion in the brain.

What if the key to how babies learn is seeing the full picture? . ASU aluma Ye Li and Assistant Professor Viridiana Benitez (@ASULearnDe) created a map showing how vision, movement and language milestones overlap early in life. 🔗 Read more:

RT @AthenaAktipis: Cancer is not an anomaly - it’s a risk inherent in being multicellular. By studying it as broken cooperation, we gain a….

Congrats to Christopher Moore for winning the Philip Mickelson Award for Excellence in Psychology! Endowed by PGA champ and ASU alum Phil Mickelson, this award recognizes top psychology majors like Moore — he excels in the classroom, research labs and on ASU’s club sailing team.

Here’s to all the Sun Devil dads and caregivers — Happy Father’s Day!

Indirect funds from @NIH make research possible — paying for lab space, utilities, IT and more. ASU convened experts in D.C. to unpack the proposed 15% cap and its implications on universities and research nationwide. 🔗

🎉 Celebrating the achievements of grad students Kylee Pitts (winner) & Kinsey Wallace (runner-up), recipients of this year’s Capstone of the Year Award!. Both recently earned their master’s in applied behavior analysis & were recognized for outstanding final projects. #ASUgrad

Congrats to this year’s Samuel Leifheit Service Award winners — Associate Professor Matthew Meier, Financial Manager Jessica Jensen and graduate student Camryn Lizik. Thanks for your exceptional service!

👏 Celebrating Kaitlyn Gomez and Lily Gosar — recipients of the Department of Psychology’s Smith Marshall Scholarship!. Awarded to two students who completed K–12 in Arizona, often while overcoming adversity, this honor recognizes academic excellence and resilience.

Kudos to Chloe Dupouy and Marissa McGirr — winners of the MS in Applied Behavior Analysis Capstone Ambition Award! 👏 Both are recognized for their detailed, well-written creative projects. Congrats, #ASUgrad!

Congratulations to our rising senior Department of Psychology Scholar Award winners! 🏆. Ava Santiago and Aliya Hashim are @barretthonors students engaged in research, teaching assistantships and volunteer opportunities. We’re so proud of your achievements!

The ASU-led Arizona Twin Project works with families to identify factors that influence sleep and the effects of reduced sleep. The findings suggest ways to improve sleep.

Cannabis-related hospital visits rose by 20% in Arizona from 2016 to 2021. Many involved a mental health diagnosis. Associate Professor Madeline Meier discusses the findings:

Congrats to Belal Jamil, recipient of the Doctoral Scholar Award! 🎉 With Assistant Professor Jini Su & the @GEYDLab_ASU, he explores how genetic risk, family dynamics and sociocultural experiences shape mental health & substance use outcomes in adolescents & emerging adults.

Congratulations to rising juniors Diana Espinoza Aguilar and Valentina Gonzalez for winning the Department of Psychology Scholar Award! 🏆. Valentina is also the recipient of the Carlo Cefalu “Spirit of Life” Scholarship.

👏 Shoutout to Jacee Hanon, winner of the MS in Applied Behavior Analysis Scholar Award!. Hanon is applying behavior technology in her practicum and shaping a capstone focused on ABA interventions for bilingual individuals with autism.

Professor Frank Infurna joined @kjzzphoenix for “My So-Called Midlife” to discuss a troubling trend: U.S. Gen Xers are reporting increased loneliness, more depressive symptoms and overall poorer health. Watch now:

Congrats to Matt Oevermann, recipient of the Distinguished Grad Student Achievement Award from ASU’s Faculty Women’s Association!. In the Bimonte-Nelson Lab, he studies how hormones, aging and reproductive experiences affect memory — advancing science to improve women’s health.

Congrats to Galilea Rivero and Brendan Davies, this year’s Dariel Truter Memorial Scholarship recipients in the Department of Psychology. This award honors their academic excellence and leadership. 👏