Professors of teaching at UC Davis and across the UC System were critical during the unexpected crisis of the pandemic, and now they are helping to shape the way departments face the challenges of educating a growing—and changing—undergraduate population.
Psychologist and neuroscientist Charan Ranganath’s bestselling new book, "Why We Remember," combines the latest research from his field with his own personal experiences to share how memory actually works and the role it plays in our daily lives.
A research team led from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that adolescent girls
who have a stronger tendency to ruminate show different patterns of brain activity when
faced with social rejection.
L&S psychology major Jeevan Mann is already working to help others with his rare genetic condition that has made completing his studies a battle. He graduates this fall having also established a charitable organization and studied for a career as a medical researcher and clinician.
People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Davis and Northwestern University
New research has found that testosterone is the key hormone that drives gender-based differences in responses to social stress. The UC Davis study encompassed six separate experiments with mice to isolate what changes in the brain drive these differences between males and females.
Psychologist Ross Thompson’s new book, “The Brain Development Revolution: Science, the
Media, and Public Policy” tells the story of the 1997 “I Am Your Child” campaign with an
incisive analysis spanning how the campaign captured everyone’s attention, the backlash from
scientists and the continuing reverberations today.
Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton would have studied chemistry if not for an introductory textbook that would define his 50-year career studying greatness. Simonton will receive the 2024 Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award for his work.
Students from across the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis shared their research on some of California’s most pressing policy issues in a fast-paced poster session during this summer’s UC Center Sacramento Undergraduate Research Showcase.
Encouraging Latinx adolescents of Mexican origin to embrace their ethnic pride, cultural values, and connections to their cultural community contributes to positive development and better adjustment during adolescence, a new University of California, Davis, psychology study suggests.
“We found evidence suggesting that increasing ethnic pride and connection to cultural values may significantly improve psychological well-being for Mexican-origin adolescents,” said Lisa Johnson, lead author and doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain.