Jason Okonofua has been awarded a 2017 Cialdini Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Jason, along with co-authors David Paunesku and Gregory Walton will be awarded the prize... Read more
Like trick-or-treaters sorting their Halloween candy haul, fox squirrels apparently organize their stashes of nuts by variety, quality and possibly even preference, according to new UC Berkeley... Read more
The Block Award is SPSP's senior career award for research accomplishment in personality psychology. It was named for Jack Block, who was known for his analytic and theoretical sophistication and... Read more
Higher levels of education are tied to later ages of peak cognitive functioning, according to new research published today in the journal PLoS One. The study, led by UC Berkeley researchers, examined... Read more
“Few 20th-century, research-based psychological constructs have become so widely recognized that dictionaries date their etymology to around the time when they were coined in a professional... Read more
Congradulations to Fei Xu who has been elected as a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society. This is a high honor that reflects her impact on the Cognitive Science community.Read more
The book translates research into action in an understandable way, and it will have insights for many people, young and old. What are the five steps? Step number one is “Get Started” and that is what... Read more
The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute announces the selection of Markita Landry and collaborators Linda Wilbrecht, Marla Feller, and Jose Carmena as the recipients of the 2017 Radical Ideas in Brain... Read more
Patients with dementia may actually die sooner if their family caregivers are mentally stressed, according to a new UC Berkeley study. From 2007 until 2016, UC Berkeley researchers tracked the... Read more
The department congratulates Qing Zhou on her thesis, "Parenting Practices of Contemporary Indigenous Families in Taiwan: Influences by Socio-Cultural Factors and Impacts on Children’s Early Academic... Read more