Tag: psychology
UCR professor and student find the upside to worrying
On Friday, Feb. 21, UCR Psychology Professor Kate Sweeny and fourth-year psychology graduate student Mike Dooley published a review study on the benefits to...
A Word of Advice From … Assistant Professor Cecilia Cheung
In July of 2016, UCR assistant professor Cecilia Cheung, Ph. D, was awarded the American Psychological Association’s 2016 Early Career Research Grant in Developmental...
UCR Graduate School of Education awarded grant to study psychometry
UCR’s Graduate School of Education (GSOE) was recently awarded $885,834 as part of the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program that...
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Psychology professor finds that children learn better from “clever” characters
UCR Psychology Professor Rebekah Richert was one of the researchers involved in a study that...
Stress coping mechanisms may be ineffective
On October 12, the psychology journal, “Emotion” published associate psychology professor Kate Sweeny’s newest research on stress. Sweeny and her research team have been...
The Science Behind Happiness
I came to an immediate halt upon passing through the welcoming doors of Hub 302 on a Thursday afternoon after distractedly bumping into many...
NSF Grant to answer what the world does during the evening
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant totaling $454,866 for the continuation of a project led by UCR Professor of Psychology,...
Ape face study refutes popular “use it, or lose it” misconception
Assistant Professor of Psychology Rachel Wu's research investigating perceptual narrowing at the neural level disproves the prevalent idea that we lose certain abilities from...
The Lab: UCR psychologist receives $2.7 million in federal funding
UCR psychologist Sara Mednick and her team of researchers have received about $2.7 million in federal funding for her research on sleep and its...
UCR research shows positive link between child rearing and happiness
A series of studies conducted by researchers from UC Riverside, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia have found that parenting is associated...