psychology

UCLA psychologist Keith Holyoak will discuss consciousness, creativity and machine learning during his Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 11.

Psychologists find it isn’t cathartic, but it can strengthen bonds that might pay off in the future.

Mario Peng Lee seeks to improve lives through technology — and help others do the same.

Ihab Shahawi found his passion at UCLA — helping people affected by autism.

Focusing immediately on the benefits of waiting might help people improve their self-control.

“Jorge ... brought joy and light into the lives of everyone he encountered, regardless of how challenging their situations might be.”

Six faculty members and researchers are conducting projects from Botswana to Japan, expanding and deepening the university’s global engagement.

UCLA psychologists found the dynamics of people’s emotions mold otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events.

The faculty members have published research that is cited most often by other scholars in their fields.

UCLA experts and colleagues explain how cultivating meaning and direction helps youth build motivation and resilience.

The award, one of UCLA’s highest honors, paid tribute to Pritzker’s far-ranging philanthropy and service and his remarkable Bruin legacy.

The renowned psychologist was honored, in part, for her “groundbreaking research into mental health and the power of human connection.”

Doctoral candidate Shantée Ayala Rosario explains whether scary entities really can sneak into our dreams on a Halloween night.

“The findings have far-reaching impacts toward creating an anti-racist society and a health care system that treats patients more equitably,” one researcher said.

The professor emeritus was known for his key contribution to windsurfing as well as his predictive theory of happiness.

In a new study, UCLA psychologists confirmed that lower jersey numbers make football players look thinner.

The question remains: Does the technology mimic human reasoning or is it using a fundamentally new cognitive process?

UCLA psychologists find people tend to remember vague assertions in more definitive terms.

Through her award-winning research and mentoring, Gloria Jiyoon Kim has helped light the path for transfer students.

For married Black and Latino couples, interactions with friends, family and colleagues shrank even more drastically at the pandemic’s outset and recovered more slowly.

The UCLA Anderson professor’s new book aims to help people “make tomorrow better today.”

UCLA psychologists suggest that by 25, one’s mode of evaluating the truthfulness of information is pretty much set.

The findings suggest that efforts to encourage vaccination might do well to take advantage of positive feelings between different social groups.

Both tend to judge the co-occurrence of two events as more probable than one event alone. Could mental shortcuts be to blame?

With support from family, the graduate student and advocate has challenged the conversation around mental illness in English and her family’s native tongue.