Stock market plunge should incentivize firms to develop a coronavirus cure

The Hill, Mar. 12, 2020 (Opinion)

Why you should stop obsessing about coronavirus news, and how to do it

Los Angeles Times, Mar. 11, 2020

How to respond to the Coronavirus

How to Bay Area, Feb. 21, 2020 (Audio)

The Psychological Cost of Constant Coronavirus Coverage

KCBS, Feb. 21, 2020 (Audio)

UCI to host two-day conference on artificial intelligence

EVENT: The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a two-day conference on “The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI.” Keynote speaker Bruce Sterling, an award-winning science fiction author, and an interdisciplinary and international panel of writers, academics and communicators will tackle an advance in technology that touches […]

Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI professor of psychological science, public health and medicine

UCI study is first to explore veterans’ grief, an overlooked toll of war

Responses to combat deaths, comrade suicides have mental health consequences

UCI-led study deepens understanding of the effects of media exposure to collective trauma

According to a new UCI-led study, it’s not just how much media exposure an individual has to collective trauma but also the graphic quality of what one sees that may make a person more vulnerable to trauma-related mental and physical health problems over time. The team analyzed the results from more than 3,000 anonymous online […]

Anxiety after 2018 false missile alert in Hawaii lingered for days, UCI researchers find

Big data study is first to capture real-time psychological responses to false alarm

Media exposure to mass violence can fuel cycle of distress, 3-year longitudinal study shows

UCI researchers find that it can heighten people’s anxiety about and response to future events

People who watch beheading videos are motivated by fear of terrorism, UCI study finds

Unfortunately, viewing them exacerbates anxiety, according to first-of-its-kind research