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Check out a recent publication from the Mangun lab! They investigated how a person's brain interprets what the eyes see by analyzing electrical brain activity with machine-learning methods.
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The Stolzenberg lab has a new paper out in Nature communications! They report on the relationship between magic mushrooms and postpartum depression.
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Egocentrism might be the silent culprit blocking meaningful connections in your life. 😬 New research from Andy Todd sheds light on how it impacts relationships—time to break out of the ‘me’ bubble! 🧠 #SocialPyschology #Egocentrism #UCdavis lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
Our very own Rick Robins received the prestigious @spspnews.bsky.social 2025 Block Award in recognition of the many accomplishments throughout his career. Several other members of our Social-Personality Area also received honors and awards from SPSP.
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Stuck in the procrastination loop? 🌀 A new study by Yuko Munakata shares two ways to break free and finally get started on your projects. Time to stop putting it off! ⏰ #Research #Psychology #Procrastination #Science #UCdavis lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past ...
Egocentrism is a way we go about understanding what others know, think and feel. As can be the case with holiday gifts, our assumptions might be completely wrong. Research from psychology provides ins...
Check out our new 100-page “Stress in Childhood” book with Cambridge University Press (the fundamentals about stress in childhood presented in an accessible manner), free to download as a pdf for 2 weeks!
Great visit from former @ucdavispsych.bsky.social grad student Dr. Alexis Williams to talk about careers in science communication
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New online!🌟 Our book, Stress in Childhood, is now published online and can be downloaded for free over the next two weeks (until November 24th): www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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just out @natcomms.nature.com
Reporting longitudinal evidence that early goal-directed visual exploration in 2-year-olds predicts emergence of metamemory (i.e., introspection on memory accuracy) one year later.
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Richard Robins is among the 2025 honorees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the world’s largest association of social and personality psychologists.
New research in psychology describes some of the factors that contribute to procrastination in both children and adults. Learn some tips on how we can build the motivation to get started on that last-...
Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - Stress in Childhood
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Nature Communications - Infants and toddlers respond to uncertain situations by seeking information. Here, the authors show that 2-year-olds’ information seeking indicated by visual...
