Psychology News — Psychology

Cam Hostinar receives SRCD Early Career Award

Wiebke Bleidorn named Chancellor's Fellow for 2018-19

The Chancellor's Fellows Program honors the achievements of outstanding faculty members early in their careers.

Fernanda Ferreira named Fellow of Cognitive Science Society

Leigh Smith's article on microbes and the mind featured in APA Observer

Ron Mangun and colleagues publish new edition of "Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind"

Dean Simonton on Freakonomics Radio

Ron Mangun receives NIH grant to study attention-related microstructures in the human brain

Rick Robins receives NIH grant to continue California Families Project

Richard Robins cited in Science Magazine and Scientific American

Dr. Gail Goodman on eyewitness memory for traumatic events

Op-ed piece for "The Hill"

Charan Ranganath Time Magazine Interview

Dr. Ranganath was interviewed by Time Magazine in relation to the memory aspects of Dr. Blasey Ford's testimony.

Phil Shaver is the 2019 Annual Convention Legacy Honoree of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Interview with Brian Wiltgen on KWMR

New research by Brian Wiltgen shows that experience changes the way our neurons become plastic

New research by Paul Eastwick shows that long-term and short-term relationships are initially indistinguishable

Gail Goodman elected as a new member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

New research by Halle Dimsdale-Zucker featured in the California Aggie

Chris Hopwood receives 2018 Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology

Olivia Atherton receives 2017 SPSP Heritage Dissertation Award

Eliza Bliss-Moreau receives 2018 APA Distinguished Early Career Award

Pickett Named Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity and Inclusion

Alison Ledgerwood named 2017-2018 Chancellor's Fellow

Petr Janata: In the Groove

Cognitive neuroscientist studies the psychology of music.

Rick Robins named new Associate Editor at PSPR

Rick Robins will start his term as Associate Editor at Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) in January 2018. PSPR is the premiere outlet for original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles in all areas of personality and social psychology.

Chris Hopwood and Wiebke Bleidorn receive Animal Advocacy Research Fund grant

The Animal Advocacy Research Fund grant awarded funding to Chris Hopwood and Wiebke Bleidorn to study motives for ethical eating.The purpose of this project is to develop a model of individual and group differences in motives for ethical eating so that animal advocacy groups can tailor campaigns and maximize their impact on groups and individuals with different motives for plant-based diets.

Brian Wiltgen receives NIH grant to study parallel learning systems in the hippocampus

Simine Vazire receives 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science

Eliza Bliss-Moreau receives Murray B Gardner Junior Faculty Fellowship

Visual Attention Drawn to Meaning, Not What Stands Out

Findings by Professor John Henderson Overturn Widely Held Ideas of Visual Attention

Oxytocin Turns Up the Volume of Your Social Environment

Before you shop for the “cuddle” hormone oxytocin to relieve stress and enhance your social life, read this: A new study from behavioral neuroscientists Natalia Duque-Wilckens and Brian Trainor suggests that, sometimes, blocking the action of oxytocin in the brain may be a better option.