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Important Winter 2022 Dates

Monday, Jan. 3rd: Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 3rd: Instruction begins Friday, Jan. 7th: All Psych 195, 196, and 199 contracts due by 4:00pm (No exceptions!) Friday, Jan. 14th: Last day Monday, Jan. 17th: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday; Campus closed Friday, Jan. 21st: Last day Friday, Jan. 28th: Last day Friday, Feb. 18th: Last day to drop non-impacted courses with per-class fee and…

Prof. Tiffany Brannon Receives 2021 Michele Alexander Early Career Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tiffany Brannon for being selected as the recipient of the 2021 Michele Alexander Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Inspired in memory of Dr. Michele Alexander, this competitive and prestigious award was established in 2005 to recognize early career excellence in scholarship as…

Psychology Staff Spotlight Award – Susie Caruso

We are happy to announce that Susie Caruso, our Chair’s Office Analyst, has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight award for this quarter for her exceptional work in the Department. Susie re-joined Psychology in June of 2020. We were so thankful to have her amazing organizational, analytical, and writing skills back! Susie’s phenomenal efforts…

UCLA Winter Closure 2021

UCLA will close between Saturday, December 18, 2021, and Sunday, January 2, 2022, and will reopen on Monday, January 3, 2022. All Psychology offices, including the Undergraduate Advising Office will also be closed during this time and staff will be unavailable. We will reopen on Monday, January 3, 2022 and begin responding to messages received during…

UCLA Psychology Presents: The Science of Relationships: How We Connect, and Why It Matters

UCLA Psychology Presents: The Science of Relationships: How We Connect, and Why It Matters Welcome remarks and moderatorAnnette Stanton, Ph.D., Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology FeaturingBenjamin Karney, Ph.D., Professor, Department of PsychologyCarolyn Parkinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of PsychologyRena Repetti, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology Wednesday, December 1, 2021Live Streamed via Zoom As…

APA Early Graduate Student Researcher Award Recipient

Congratulations to Jordan Parker (Health Area) on being selected as a recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) 2021 Early Graduate Student Researcher Award. This award program recognizes students for conducting outstanding research early in their graduate training.

National General Directorate for Policies in Health Research Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Liz Bocanegra (Clinical Area) for being awarded an honorable mention from Mexico’s National General Directorate for Policies in Health Research 2021 Convention for an article she co-authored titled “Incidence and recurrence of depression from adolescence to early adulthood: A longitudinal follow-up of the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey.”

UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute Graduate Fellowship Recipients

Congratulations to Brittany Drake (Clinical Area), Laura Hazlett (Social Area), Lee Lazar (Social Area), Kristen Lee (Health Area), Sophia Pashtunyar (Developmental Area) and Sara Schiff (Clinical Area), who received the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute Graduate Fellowship. The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to research, education, and practice of kindness. The fellowship will provide support to enhance…

Three Professors Included on Clarivate Analytics List of Most Highly Cited Researchers

Congratulations to Profs. Carrie Bearden, Michelle Craske, and Steve Reise for being included on Clarivate Analytics list of the most highly cited researchers. The researchers on the list rank in the top 1% in their fields, based on their widely cited studies. The 2021 list was produced using research citations from January 2010 to December 2020….

Article by Prof. Paul Abramson Receives Media Attention

An article by Research Professor Paul Abramson and undergraduate psychology major Sienna Bland-Abramson, titled “Racial Animus, Police Corruption, and a Wrongful Conviction of Murder: Complex PTSD and the Vestiges of Anguish,” is being featured by the UCLA Newsroom. The case involved a wrongfully convicted young Black man who was incarcerated in Northern California maximum security…