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Baby Formula Shortages and COVID-19 Led to Risky Feeding Practices, Study Suggests

May 23, 2022
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the majority of parents struggling to find baby formula have resorted to dangerous feeding practices for their infants, which could negatively impact the health of their young children, according to a new study conducted by the UC Merced Lactation Attachment...

Ihnwhi Heo has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the Graduate Student Opportunity Program

May 7, 2022
Ihnwhi Heo has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the Graduate Student Opportunity Program. Congratulations to Ihnwhi and his advisors Sarah and Fan! The Graduate Student Opportunity Program (GSOP) forms an important link in the continuum of support for academically promising graduate...

PsySci Honors Poster Presentation

May 7, 2022
The 2nd cohort of students in the Psychological Sciences Honors Program presented their research findings at our annual poster session. The poster session was well-attended by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Everyone agreed that our honors students did an excellent job of...

Psychology hosted its annual 1st year PhD student presentations

May 5, 2022

Sarah Depaoli published an article in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal

April 27, 2022
Sarah Depaoli published an article in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. This work comprised a portion of Sonja Winter's dissertation, who is now a postdoctoral scholar at University of Missouri. The article examines the impact of Bayesian prior specification on newly...

Martin Hagger published an article in Behavior Research and Therapy

April 27, 2022
Martin Hagger published an article in Behavior Research and Therapy (IF = 4.473) reviewing the contribution of psycholological theory to predict, understand, and change COVID-19 preventive behaviors (e.g., vaccination, physical distancing, face-mask wearing). Published with collaborator, HSRI...

Sarah Depaoli published an article in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal

April 27, 2022
Sarah Depaoli published an article in Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. This work was from Marieke Visser's CP. The article presents method for detecting and handling local dependence in latent class modeling. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NEGNZV5UMJQQQJ7BTZQE/...

Martin Hagger invited to submit an article to Annual Review of Psychology

April 27, 2022
Martin Hagger invited to submit an article to Annual Review of Psychology (IF = 24.14) on Psychological Determinants of Health Behaviors for Volume 76 of the journal in 2023-2024. Annual Review of Psychology is a leading review journal in psychology in publication since 1950, and covers the...

Martin Hagger was awarded a research grant of €130,000 from the Finland Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture

April 27, 2022
Martin Hagger was awarded a research grant of €130,000 from the Finland Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture for a collaborative theory-based intervention to promote physical activity among sedentary parents and their children (ProAct). Dr. Hagger is the Lead Principal Investigator in...

Haiyan Liu and Sarah Depaoli published a paper with their graduate student, Lydia Marvin

April 27, 2022
Haiyan Liu and Sarah Depaoli published a paper with their graduate student, Lydia Marvin on the performance of the deviance information criterion for detecting the correct model in Bayesian structural equation modeling. Many pitfalls of this popular index are detailed, as well as potential...

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