New 'Babies' series on Netflix features UC Merced professor
February 24, 2020
Eric Walle explores why babies who walk have vocabularies that are significantly larger than those who crawl.
Find social media frustrating? Try empathy
February 11, 2020
Many walls are put between us by social media. But we can start breaking them down by putting ourselves in another's shoes.
How to successfully pitch your ideas
January 16, 2020
To successfully pitch ideas to project leaders, base your approach on their identity as an idealist or pragmatist.
Payback or pay back? Children understand revenge before reciprocity, study says
January 9, 2020
Gratitude is not innate in young children but learned (around the age of 7), researcher says.
Brain scans could flag children’s future mental health problems
January 6, 2020
The findings could pave the way for earlier, more effective diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and more.
Have you found meaning in life? Your answer influences your health and well-being
December 11, 2019
A new study examines meaning in life and its relationship with physical, mental and cognitive functioning.
Comedian Maz Jobrani on noticing the good in his life
December 4, 2019
How writing down three good things every day helped the stand-up see the positive in life.
How gratitude can help you bounce back from setbacks
November 26, 2019
It's not just for Thanksgiving — gratitude can help us overcome thought patterns hardwired in our brains.
If dogs could talk
November 26, 2019
How we interact with pit bulls sheds light on the ways we reproduce social inequality, says Katja Guenther.