Scheib's article in Fertility and Sterility receives mention.
Joanna Scheib, associate adjunct professor of psychology, has a new research article in Fertility and Sterility, the leading American journal of reproductive medicine.
Paul Eastwick has been selected as a recipient of the 2017 Janet Taylor Spence Award from APS. This award recognizes transformative early career contributions to psychological science.
University of Oslo and American Psychological Association to recognize Goodman's career contributions.
Gail Goodman, a distinguished professor of psychology, will receive two prestigious honors in 2017 — an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo in Norway and a senior career award from the American Psychological Association for distinguished contributions to psychology in the public interest.
A new study points to a combination of personality, persistence, intelligence and luck as leading to success. Scientists say those same forces are at play at all levels of a discipline — from student to longtime professional.
The European Association of Personality Psychology has awarded Associate Profressor Wiebke Bleidorn with the 2016 Early Achievement Award.
This award is given to a young psychologist whose extraordinary early achievements in personality psychology have already made a significant impact in the field.
This year Ross Thompson, a distinguished professor of psychology, has begun a three-year term as president of the board of directors of Zero to Three.
The national nonprofit is devoted to the healthy development of young children and their families, especially those in economic difficulty, with an annual budget of $40M.
Making music together can deepen social bonds, fostering compassion and empathy among the players. But not everyone is ready, or physically able, to join a drumming circle or even clap along.
Dean Keith Simonton has been selected by the American Psychological Foundation to deliver the Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology at the 2017 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association to be held in Washington DC. He will speak on “Creativity, Automaticity, Irrationality, Fortuity, Fantasy, and Other Contingencies: An Eightfold Response Typology.” Past recipients of this honor include Paul T. Costa, Susan T. Fiske, Diane Halpern, Gregory Kimble, Ellen Langer, Hazel Markus, Bruce McEwen, Wilbert J. McKeachie, Peter Salovey, Martin E. P.
Study: A City's Personality Can Affect Your Self-Esteem
If you’re looking for your ideal place to live, you might want to read the results of a study by Assistant Professor Wiebke Bleidorn on the personalities of cities across the country.
In a key advance, neuroscientists at UC Davis have come up with a way to observe brain activity during natural reading.
Neuroscientists at UC Davis have come up with a way to observe brain activity during natural reading. It’s the first time researchers have been able to study the brain while reading actual texts, instead of individual words, and it’s already helping settle some ideas about just how we read.
The research has potential implications for understanding dyslexia and other reading deficits, Henderson said.
