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A live conversation about stress and resilience during COVID-19 will be streamed on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube on Thursday, September 10 at 11:00 am Pacific Time. Paul Hastings is a professor of psychology and a faculty member at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. He is currently running two surveys of personal and social responses to the pandemic.

Professor Goodman received a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant to study trust in governmental authorities and adherence to COVID-19 directives among low-income adults with childhood maltreatment histories. The project will study how various factors influence political trust and how that relates to observance of governmental instructions during the pandemic, particularly among adults with a history of child maltreatment.

Dr. Steve Luck, a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and past director of the Center for Mind and Brain, and Dr. Victoria Cross, Associate Professor in the Psychology Department, played a major role in transitioning our campus to remote learning during the spring quarter.

Professor George Mangun, cognitive neuroscientist in the Psychology Department and Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis, was quoted in Science magazine regarding his leading role in organizing the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Meeting virtually.

Online teaching presents unique challenges for students and professors alike. Professor Steve Luck was interviewed by a local ABC News station to discuss these challenges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_BD6IrS0k . Professor Luck leads the Laboratory for Basic and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Davis.

Professor Hostinar discusses potential negative implications of the Corona crisis for teenagers' social and personal development on CNN.

Professor Hastings' laboratory explores the factors contributing to youths' social and emotional development. This research improves our understanding of developmental trajectories of compassion and social competence, as well as aspects of maladaptive functioning, like aggression and anxiety.

Tamara Swaab has been appointed the incoming Editor-in-Chief for the journal Cognition, effective January 1, 2020. Dr. Swaab looks forward to upholding the high standards that have made Cognition a leading international journal in studies of the human mind, and supporting the community in advancing open access in scientific reporting.

Assistant Professor Erie Boorman earned an R56 NIH grant to study the first neural model of model-based credit assignment. How the brain forms, tunes, and uses predictive models that specify the causal links between stimuli in the environment, our choices, and their outcomes is a fundamental question in Psychology and Neuroscience.

Dr. Bleidorn is director of the Personality Change Lab at the University of California, Davis, and a 2019 recipient of APA’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

This honor is awarded to "APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.

As school begins, parents and teachers seek advice on helping teenagers remember information and keep track of their possessions.

Dean K. Simonton received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from Mensa. This award honors Simonton's illustrious career and his more than 550 publications including books, chapters, and articles that explore genius, creativity, leadership, talent, and aesthetics.

Psychology faculty members Alison Ledgerwood, Charan Ranganath, and Andy Todd have just been named Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.

Alison Ledgerwood is a social psychologist, professor, and a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Davis.