Psychology professor's new research explores facial expressions as tools for social influence
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UCSB’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind blurs the boundaries between disciplines to illuminate the mind
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UCSB psychologists studying empathy in couples find compassion is key; understanding alone isn’t enough
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Researchers from UCSB and NASA team up to study monitoring failures in the cockpit — even among experienced pilots
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Social psychologist Bella DePaulo documents evolving modern movement away from nuclear-family households.
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Michael Gazzaniga, director of UC Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind and a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has been named a 2015 William...
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Though humans generally have a tendency to look at a region just below the eyes and above the nose toward the midline when first identifying another person, a small subset of people tend to look further down –– at the tip of the nose, for...
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In the animal world, it's pretty easy to predict who will come out on top when, say, a pair of lions go head to head over food or an attractive female.
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Study by UCSB Anthropologists Suggests ‘Universal' Personality Traits May Not Be Universal After All
For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits –– or slight variations of these five –– are a universal feature of human psychology.
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Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, UC Santa Barbara professors of psychology and anthropology, respectively, and co-directors of the campus's Center for Evolutionary Psychology, will give UCSB's 2012 Faculty Research Lecture on Wednesday, November 28...
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Two psychologists at UC Santa Barbara have provided a new twist on the old adage that people are products of both nature and nurture, in introducing a framework for understanding how these influences interact.
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Imagine you're dining at a restaurant in a city you're visiting for the first –– and, most likely the last –– time.
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There's not much consensus in personality psychology about why people differ in traits such as extraversion and introversion.
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New research by scholars at UC Santa Barbara indicates that the uncanny human ability to detect cheaters reflects the operation of a reasoning system that evolved for that narrow purpose, and cannot be explained by more general abilities to...
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A psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara is one of 13 innovative researchers from across the country who were named today by the National Institutes of Health as recipients of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award for...
