Defining Leadership through the lens of Sympathetic Intelligence: Emotion, intention, transparency, empathy Lindsay Jacobs, Lauren Dilorenzo, and Jim Stellar Many coaching podcasts and articles on leadership are currently circulating and we find ourselves fascinated by them, the topic of leadership, … Continued
Early Childhood Development of Autism: The Brain, connections to Anxiety and Gender Differences, and the Application to Learning from Experience Natalia Baron UA’26 and Jim Stellar Early childhood is a vital time for psychological development. From the time of birth … Continued
Going to Graduate School in my own University Christina Testa UA’23 and Jim Stellar Christina and I met while she was an undergraduate and I had the chance to write her a successful graduate admission letter (she got in) to … Continued
Using mentoring to increase academic performance Helena Horvat UA’23 and Jim Stellar We recently wrote a blog post about how mentoring might develop between a student and a faculty member and how that could be productive in terms of a … Continued
From University at Albany to Teachers College Columbia in one jump Emma Langsford UA23 and Jim Stellar I met Emma as a senior in a psychology class where I gave a guest lecture. She had questions that turned out to … Continued
The experience of applying new knowledge to your usual routine Rachel Orenstein UA’24 and Jim Stellar This is an unusual title for a blog that you developed. Let’s take a moment to expand on what it means. After all, the … Continued
Productivity in career choice from a mentoring relationship Helena Horvat UC’23 and Jim Stellar The goal of this blog post is to discuss how a mentoring relationship can develop between a faculty member and an undergraduate student and how that … Continued
The Orbital Frontal Cortex: Reward, Value, and Decision-Making Onoseta Momodu UA‘24 and Jim Stellar Building on the last blog on the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, we continue here with the orbital frontal cortex (OFC), which also represents limbic processes, but … Continued
Limbic interactions of the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex By Vanessa NyBlom and Jim Stellar The modern understanding of how the neocortex supports cognition is that the 6-layered neocortex builds internal models of the world from input, rather than simply passively … Continued
Indecisiveness, Emotion, and Decisions Christina Cheng and Jim Stellar Indecisiveness buries itself within daily life. I’ve found that it has become more heightened especially as I get older, and the decisions I make become more significant. Indecisiveness presents itself differently … Continued