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.
Jimmy Calanchini was awarded a UC Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship for this academic year. His dissertation research-- Angry Expressions Induce Extensive Processing of Persuasive Appeals--has already been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Phil Shaver has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm. The award will be presented in September 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Why do we remember some events, places and things, but not others? Our brains prioritize rewarding memories over others, and reinforce them by replaying them when we are at rest, according to new research published Feb.
Wiebke Bleidorn won a 2016 SAGE Young Scholar Award. The SAGE Young Scholars Awards recognize outstanding young researchers in personality and social psychology.
The results of a study of the self-esteem gender gap around the world might surprise you.
Assistant Professor Wiebke Bleidorn found that the confidence gap between men and women is smallest in developing nations that rank low in gender equality.
Bleidorn and her colleagues analyzed survey data from over 985,000 men and women ages 16–45 from 48 countries — the first systematic cross-cultural examination of gender and age effects on self-esteem.
The journal "Neuron" recently chose its 12 best articles of 2014–15. Two were by memory researchers in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience.
A report co-authored by Associate Professor Brian Wiltgen and an article by Professor Charan Ranganath and colleagues were reprinted in the annual "Best of Neuron" series.
"Neuron" editors, in a forward, said the articles were among the journal’s most downloaded articles of the year and span “the most exciting research of last year.”
