psychological science

Elizabeth Cauffman’s research on adolescent development has influenced public policy on youth offenders.

Health benefits of expressive writing do not apply equally across all cultures, study finds.

Study shows mother’s work status is not associated with children’s achievement or behavior.

UC Irvine psychologist Karen Rook can trace her interest in how loneliness affects the elderly to her childhood, when she saw a much-loved, once-robust grandmother decline markedly after losing her husband. Unable to manage the family farm on her own, her grandmother moved into an apartment. After breaking her hip in a fall, she ended […]

UCI-led team of social scientists assesses post-disaster community resilience.

Professor Salvatore R. Maddi has changed the way many view stress. Not only is it an unavoidable part of life, he argues, it can be good for us.

Psychologist Salvatore R. Maddi remembers when one of his graduate students at the University of Chicago showed him an article in Family Circle that warned, “Stress can kill you, so you need to stay away from it.” That was a popular theory in the 1970s, but Maddi was skeptical. He’d already done studies indicating that stress could […]

Study co-authored by UCI’s Elizabeth Loftus finds lawyers overly optimistic about case outcomes.

Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI expert on trauma and coping, advises leaders of quake-stricken country on ways to promote psychological recovery.

UCI’s Susan Turk Charles attributes study finding to seniors’ ability to better regulate emotion.