psychological science

Responses to combat deaths, comrade suicides have mental health consequences

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 […]

Jodi Quas, UCI professor of psychological science, has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve protocols for law enforcement officers when questioning adolescent sex trafficking victims. She and Thomas D. Lyon, the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at USC, will examine several hundred interview […]

Study of 400 teens finds little evidence linking excessive smartphone use and mental health outcomes

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

Study explores alternative to blood draws in monitoring patients’ lithium levels

Young children tend to respond to questions of choice with option presented last

Stephen Schueller, assistant professor of psychological science, has been awarded a three-year, $680,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop and evaluate a crowdsourced anxiety and depression intervention platform. Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining input from large numbers of people via the internet. The project will increase understanding of various problems […]

Negative, positive political rhetoric about immigration affects well-being of targets

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