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UC Merced Psychology Program Ranked #88 in "Best Psychology Schools" by the US News and World Reports

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...

Dylan Richardson was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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.

UC Merced Grad Programs See Uptick in U.S. News Rankings

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;...

UC Merced, Stanislaus State Awarded $1.4 Million to Help Snuff Out Tobacco Use

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...

The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development was published, for which Eric Walle is a Co-Editor

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,...

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=...

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...

Article Published by Adi Fish, based on the Growing Up in New Zealand project.

March 5, 2022
Article Published by Adi Fish, based on the Growing Up in New Zealand project. Fish-Williamson, A., Hahn-Holbrook, J., Hobbs, M., Wallander J., & Morton, S.M.B. (in press). Prenatal antibiotic exposure in pregnancy and early child socioemotional development. JCPP Advances

Martin Hagger published an article in Health Psychology

March 5, 2022
Martin Hagger published an article in Health Psychology (Impact Factor = 4.267). The article is a meta-analysis of research on a seldom tested hypothesis of the theory of planned behavior. The article is co-authored with long-time collaboratorand and UC Merced HSRI member Dr. Kyra Hamilton (...

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

March 5, 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 missing data on newly developed model...

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