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April 4, 2022
Dylan Richardson was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dylan is a first-year graduate student in developmental psychology, advised by Dr. Elif Isbell.
April 4, 2022
UC Merced Psychology program ranked #88 in "Best Psychology Schools" by the US News and World Reports. UC Merced Psychology program now ranks 88 out of 331 psychology programs in the United States, a place roughly at the top 26.5% of the programs in the U.S. See the ranking here...
March 29, 2022
Twelve of UC Merced’s graduate programs and one of its schools are among the best in the country in the U.S. News & World Report 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings, according to results released March 29. “It is exciting to see that our graduate programs continue to gain national recognition;...
March 14, 2022
UC Merced's Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC) and California State University, Stanislaus, are partnering on a large project as part of California Endgame's goal to end tobacco use in the state by 2035. The two universities have been awarded a $1.4 million Smoke and Vape Free Scholars...
March 5, 2022
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018832180/deliberate-ignorance-why-people-choose-not-to-know
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...
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...
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.,...
March 5, 2022
The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development was published, for which Eric Walle is a Co-Editor. This 40-chapter volume provides a multidisciplinary view of emotional development, including researchers from psychology, cognitive science, computer science, sociology, philosophy, anthropology,...
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=...

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