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Woman writing her New Year's resolutions

Will you keep your New Year’s resolutions?

A UC Riverside psychologist shares his thoughts on how to make them last

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 6, 2025 | Social Science / Education
Child moving into an MRI scan machine

Minoritized groups face high anxiety when taking part in research experiments

Preadolescent girls used an MRI scanner in UC Riverside-led study

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 1, 2024 | Social Science / Education
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Older adults are more easily distracted

While engaged in a physical task requiring effort, such as driving a car or carrying grocery bags, older adults are more likely than younger adults to be distracted by items irrelevant to the task at hand, a University of California, Riverside, study reports. The study assessed the interaction between physical...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | May 10, 2023 | Social Science / Education
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Boozing while breastfeeding impacts health of newborns

Studies have shown that consuming alcohol during pregnancy can alter the brain and behavioral development of gestating offspring. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and state that there is no known safe level of consumption. What are the consequences, however, of...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | April 19, 2023 | Health
Kalina Michalska and community members

Researcher-community partnership uses collaborative process to yield novel insights

Until recently, psychologist Kalina Michalska had never used community-based participatory research, or CBPR, in her work, but now she can’t imagine not using it. CBPR, which dates to the early 1930s, is an intensive research approach that involves partnerships between researchers and community members throughout the research process, giving communities...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 17, 2023 | Social Science / Education
Celebrity and fans

Celebrity sightings have a built-in contradiction

UC Riverside research helps explain a tradeoff in human behavior

By Iqbal Pittalwala | March 8, 2023 | Social Science / Education
Precrastination

Do you act before you think or think before you act?

UC Riverside psychologists’ experiments explain which choice rules daily life

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 5, 2022 | Social Science / Education

What guides our attention to faces in videos changes with age

UC Riverside study has implications for children’s television and autism spectrum disorder

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 15, 2022 | Social Science / Education

Who benefits from brain training and why?

Joint UC Riverside and UC Irvine study shows “near transfer” predicts “far transfer”

By Iqbal Pittalwala | June 20, 2022 | Social Science / Education, Science / Technology
Crosswalks painted in pride flag rainbow colors in San Francisco's Castro District

Gay migration happens but not always to gay-friendly places, reports new study

Study also shows that straight people prefer to live in places that match their attitudes toward sexuality

By Holly Ober | April 1, 2022 | Social Science / Education
neurons

Psychologist to lead research on Alzheimer’s in Riverside

UC Riverside study is part of a larger landmark study tracking older adults

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 31, 2021 | Health, Social Science / Education
A woman holding a mug that says World's Best Boss

Leader effectiveness may depend on emotional expression

When they don’t express negative emotions, women are seen as more effective leaders than men

By Holly Ober | July 26, 2021 | Social Science / Education
Two happy elderly women

Study of perception and memory in older adults will improve understanding of dementias

UC Riverside scientists will use a $2 million NIH grant to study the brain’s locus coeruleus

By Holly Ober | June 7, 2021 | Science / Technology

Scientists solve long-standing mystery by a whisker

UC Riverside mouse study shows where in the brain sensory input is transformed to movement

By Iqbal Pittalwala | January 29, 2021 | Science / Technology, Social Science / Education

Grant facilitates research on behavioral development and cognitive aging over lifespan

UC Riverside psychologist Chandra Reynolds will lead the five-year research project

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 24, 2020 | Social Science / Education, Health

Diversifying the sciences

UC Riverside’s Khaleel Razak and Frances Sladek receive grants from the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative

By Iqbal Pittalwala | September 2, 2020 | Science / Technology

Genetic background may affect adaptions to aging

UC Riverside-led study evaluated individual differences in DNA methylation across 10 years in two Scandinavian samples of same‐sex aging twins

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 19, 2020 | Science / Technology, Social Science / Education

Psychologist to study how motor development changes infants’ learning experiences

J ohn Franchak has long been interested in how learning a new motor skill, such as sitting or walking, changes how infants interact with their surroundings. He has now been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue this research question. The four-year grant of nearly $755,000 will...

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 31, 2020 | Social Science / Education
paint brushes laying on side dipped in paint

Creating Through Crises

Fifteen UCR faculty members and staff offer tips on keeping a creative spirit in the age of COVID-19

By Jessica Weber | July 28, 2020 | Arts / Culture

Couldn’t socially distance? Blame your working memory

UC Riverside-led study highlights critical role working memory capacity plays in social distancing compliance during early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Iqbal Pittalwala | July 8, 2020 | Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
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