The Hastings College Psychology Department is hosting the 2025 Nebraska Psychological Society (NPS) Undergraduate Research Conference on November 8, 2025, in the Morrison-Reeves Science Center on campus.
NPS is a student conference that takes place every other fall to showcase undergraduate student research across the state.
For more information about the conference, visit hastings.edu/2025nps.
The keynote speaker for the conference is Dr. Jeffrey Stevens, director of the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Stevens’ talk, “Is Psychology Going to the Dogs? What Canine Science Can Tell Us About Reliable Research,” will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Hazelrigg Student Union Rooms A&B. The talk is free and open to the public. There is a fee for lunch and the rest of the conference.
Stevens’ is a Susan J. Rosowski Professor in the Department of Psychology at UNL. His research integrates cognitive and evolutionary perspectives to study decision making in humans and other animals. He uses theoretical, experimental and comparative methods to model and empirically investigate the cognitive processes organisms use when making decisions. In addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, he is also a core faculty member of the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior and was founding editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Comparative Psychology.
About the Nebraska Psychological Society
The Nebraska Psychological Society (NPS) is an organization for students and professionals that came into existence in 1993. Its purposes are to promote the scientific study of psychology, to advance teaching, research and service in psychology, and to serve as a forum for academic psychology in the state.
The focus on scientific and academic psychology serves to distinguish NPS from other state psychology organizations whose activities and concerns revolve around issues of clinical practice. NPS holds a stand-alone student research conference every other fall rotating among various Nebraska academic institutions.
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