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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...

Martin Hagger was awarded the Paper of the Year Award in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

March 5, 2022
Martin Hagger was awarded the Paper of the Year Award in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (Impact Factor = 4.221) for an article testing his trans-contextual model in the context of sport injury. The award-winning article was co-authored with his former doctoral advisee,...

Jennifer Howell will be awarded an Early Career award from the Health Decision-Making Special-Interest Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) on April 8, 2022 at the annual meeting of SBM

March 5, 2022
Jennifer Howell will be awarded an Early Career award from the Health Decision-Making Special-Interest Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) on April 8, 2022 at the annual meeting of SBM

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...

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...

Jennifer Howell discussed her work on information avoidance with Radio New Zealand on the program Sunday Morning

March 5, 2022
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018832180/deliberate-ignorance-why-people-choose-not-to-know

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...

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-...

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