We are happy to announce that Eileen Santos has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight Award for this quarter. Eileen has been a teacher at the Megan E. Daly Infant Development Program (IDP) for 12 years! She is a strong and dedicated teacher who has always worn many hats in the classroom. She…
Please click this news item to see a list of important dates and deadlines for students in Winter 2021. Monday, Jan. 4th: Instruction begins Friday, Jan. 8th: All Psych 195, 196, and 199 contracts due by 4:00pm (No exceptions!) Friday, Jan. 15th: Last day To DROP impacted courses To change Study List (add, drop courses) without fee through…
Culture and human development is my passion. My contributions have included comparative studies across species, ages, cultures, and historical time. Most exciting now: a study of over a half billion social media posts shows a cultural shift during COVID-19 towards concerns, behaviors, and values adaptive in the subsistence ecologies of human evolution. This new online…
Congratulations to Professors Michelle Craske and Steven Reise for making the list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers of 2020! The article is available at the UCLA Newsroom.
A study by Professor Martie Haselton, Graduate Student Benjamin Seitz, and 10 additional scientists, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is being prominently featured on the UCLA Newsroom and is generating substantial news coverage. The researchers found that COVID-19 and America’s response to it are likely to profoundly affect our families, work lives, relationships, and gender roles for years….
Many thanks to Distinguished Professor David Sears for his very important gift to the Department of Psychology. In recognition of David’s extraordinary donation, the graduate student lounge in the renovated Pritzker Hall will be named the David O. Sears Graduate Student Lounge. David has dedicated six decades to teaching and mentoring UCLA students; it is…
We are happy to announce that Christian Herr has been selected to receive the Psychology Staff Spotlight Award for this quarter. Christian works as the Purchasing Specialist in the Financial Services Unit of the Department. Christian started with the Department in February 2020, about a month before the campus transitioned to remote work. That transition brought on many…
Click this news item to review important dates and deadlines for Fall 2020. Monday, Sept. 28th: Quarter begins Thursday, Oct. 1st: Instruction begins Friday, Oct. 9th: All Psych 195, 196, and 199 contracts due by 4:00pm (No exceptions!) Friday, Oct. 16th: Last day To DROP impacted courses To change Study List (add, drop courses) without fee through MyUCLA To enroll…
Dr. Wassum’s research is focused on understanding the neural correlates underlying motivation and decision making and how this information can be harnessed to understand and treat mental illness and substance use disorder. To make good decisions we have to get into the time machine that is our brain and cast ourselves into the future to…
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Vickie Mays for being appointed Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Black Life. Chancellor Block’s full message is available at the UCLA Newsroom.