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Elif Isbell published an article in Developmental Psychobiology

March 5, 2022
Elif Isbell published an article in Developmental Psychobiology (3.04). This article examines how methodological choices affected the data quality of neural assessments, specifically event-related potentials (ERPs), in a large sample of kindergarteners (N=170) whose data were collected in public...

Eric Walle authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development

March 5, 2022
Eric Walle authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. The chapter discusses the importance for research on emotional development to incorporate findings from the study of cognitive development. The chapter was co-authored by UC Merced PhD graduates Lukas Lopez (University...

Martin Hagger published an article in Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being

March 5, 2022
Martin Hagger published an article in Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being (Impact Factor = 3.569). The article identifies correlates of COVID-19 booster vaccine intentions, including social cognition constructs (e.g., attitudes, norms, self-efficacy) and socio-political variables (e.g.,...

Alexandra Main published an article in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology

March 5, 2022
Alexandra Main published an article in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (Impact Factor = 3.19). The article is a study of parental empathic accuracy during conflict discussions in parent-adolescent dyads in which the adolescent has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and how empathic accuracy...

Eric Walle authored the introductory chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development.

March 5, 2022
Eric Walle authored the introductory chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. The chapter describes principles for the scholarly inquire into emotion, development, and emotional development. The chapter was co-authored by Daniel Dukes (University of Frobourg, Swiss) and Andrea...

New Article Published by Ashley Baker based on Healthy Passages data

March 5, 2022
Dissertation completed by Ashley Baker based on Healthy Passages data Baker, A.C., Wallander, J.L., Elliot, M.N., & Schuster, M.A. 2022). Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: A structural model with socioecological connectedness, bullying victimization, and depression. Child...

Sarah Depaoli and Haiyan Liu co-edited an E-book on using informative priors in the context of Bayesian estimation.

March 5, 2022
Sarah Depaoli and Haiyan Liu co-edited an E-book on using informative priors in the context of Bayesian estimation. https://books.google.com/books?id=USRcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=doi:+10.3389/978-2-88974-214-1&source=bl&ots=phMggMLod7&sig=...

Workshops Train Researchers in the Art of Getting Grants

January 11, 2022
It’s one thing to push the frontiers of discovery through research into complex subjects. It’s quite another to align your work with the funding priorities of numerous federal programs, especially when seeking center-level funding to continue that research. Enter UC Merced’s Office of Research and...

Dr. Sarah Depaoli published a new book entitled Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

December 28, 2021
This book offers researchers a systematic and accessible introduction to using a Bayesian framework in structural equation modeling (SEM). Stand-alone chapters on each SEM model clearly explain the Bayesian form of the model and walk the reader through implementation. Engaging worked-...

Interaction of Faces, Postures and Scenes Affect Emotion Perception, Study Shows

November 9, 2021
What happens if you take a person's happy face, put it on an angry-looking body and place that in front of a disgusting scene? What do people see? What emotion do people perceive when you mix and match these different cues? These are some of the questions Department of Psychological Sciences...

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