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
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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...
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...
March 5, 2022
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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.,...
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...
December 28, 2021
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling 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...
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...
