Nature videos help to calm inmates in solitary confinement

September 1, 2017 Gabriel Popkin of Nature News describes a new study where prisoners in solitary confinement were split into two groups, one of which allowed these prisoners…

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Psychology Department’s Marc Berman wins UChicago App Challenge for ReTUNE, which will improve daily pedestrian experience

August 9, 2017 Professor Berman and former lab manager/incoming doctoral student Kathryn Schertz are among the summer 2017 winners of the UChicago App Challenge, which will allow them…

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Finally, My Case of ‘Chemo Brain’ Is Vindicated

July 12, 2017 Deanna Pai writes in New York Magazine about her experiences with ‘chemo brain,’ which is a set of cognitive deficits resulting from chemotherapy. She references a…

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Save the trees, Md.

23 February, 2017 The lab’s work was recently cited in a Baltimore Sun article by McKay Jenkins about the value of trees in the Chesapeake Bay area. Dr….

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A Scientific Explanation for “Broken Windows”

10 November, 2016 Laura Bliss, a staff writer at The Atlantic’s CityLab, recently wrote an article discussing our new JEP:General manuscript “The Order of Disorder: Deconstructing…

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How our brains process disorder

October 23rd, 2016 Kevin Lewis, a correspondent from The Boston Globe, wrote a summary of our publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General about visual disorder and rule-breaking (

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Why Silicon Valley’s top execs are obsessed with taking walks

October 21st, 2016 Matt McFarland, a writer for CNN Money, interviewed Professor Berman for his article on why executives in Silicon Valley take walks in nature to work through problems,…

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Healthy Trees – Healthy City: A Celebration of National Tree Day

September 21, 2016 The city of Ottawa hosted “Healthy Trees – Healthy City: A Celebration of National Tree Day” on September 21, 2016 in Lansdowne Park, Ottawa. The…

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Natural Capital Symposium

April 4th, 2016 Hosted by the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University, the 2016 Natural Capital Symposium will be a major convening of leaders…

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Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

January 7th 2016 The Virtue, Happiness and the Meaning of Life project is a 28-month project that uses research focused on self-transcendence to advance understanding of the interrelations of…

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