10:08 AM ETprintRENTON, Wash. -- When Angela Duckworth returned to Philadelphia last May, friends and colleagues wanted to know who she had met during her visit to the Seattle Seahawks' practice facility.Russell Wilson? Marshawn Lynch? Richard Sherman?Unfortunately, Duckworth wasn't quite sure how to answer."I didn’t even know who the quarterback was," she said.A professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and MacArthur Fellow, Duckworth does know coach Pete Carroll. A few years ago, he reached out to learn more about an idea she is an expert on: grit.Seahawks coach Pete Carroll >>>

Palace, crown, queen, prince, rule, England, George, throne, leader, chess, monarch, royal. Believe it or not, this list of words can play a trick on a person’s memory. Professor Dawn McBride, Department of Psychology There are numerous studies that support how the memory plays tricks and influences decisions that can potentially have long-term effects. Professor of Psychology Dawn McBride has conducted years of research on why the memory works the way it does and the causes of false memory. She began researching the Deese–Roediger–McDermott >>>