Ellen Greenberger was highlighted in an article in the New York Times on February 18th, 2009 for research with co-authors Jared Lessard, Chuansheng Chen, and Susan P. Farruggia on the topic on Students' Sense of Entitlement: i.e., expectations for good grades for modest effort. The sense of entitlement could be related to increased parental pressure, competition among peers and family members, and a heightened sense of achievement anxiety. This was the most emailed article from the Times in the preceding week.
Beth Loftus delivered the 2009 John McGovern award lecture in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February. First delivered in 1990, the John McGovern Lecture honors prominent behavioral scientists from around the world.
Sal Maddi's research team is publishing its findings showing that UCI undergraduates who go through the hardiness training course (now P140H) increase not only in their hardiness levels at the end of the course, but also in their GPAs at graduation. The reference is: Maddi, S.R. Harvey, R.H., Khoshaba, D.M., Fazel, M., & Resurrecccion, N. (2009), Hardiness facilitates performance in college; Journal of Positive Psychology, in press.