Psychology and Social Behavior
The Department of Psychology and Social Behavior (PSB) at UCI offers exciting and innovative programs of study at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our 25 faculty members are prominent scholars whose specialties include developmental, social, personality, health, psychology and law, biological, clinical, cultural, community, environmental, and ecological psychology. The faculty are united by an overarching interest in understanding the origins of human behavior as it develops across the life course and in diverse sociocultural contexts. The faculty also share a strong commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and to research that has the potential for application to important societal problems.
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ranks
The Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
at the University of California, Irvine
6th under
Psychology, various - 2007
and 10th under
Human Development and Family Studies, General - 2007
Upcoming Events
PSB COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Lindsey Bloor, Ph.D.
"Cultural Aspects and Ambivalence in Social Support and Reactivity"
Monday October 6th
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I Room 112
Eden Epstein (UC Irvine)
"Psychophysiological Aspects of Self-Regulation:
Affect, Attention, and the Cardiovascular Response to Stress"
Monday October 13th
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I Room 112
Faculty News
OCTOBER 2008
Chuansheng Chen has been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation for his work entitled: Collaborative Research: Learning to Read a Second Language: Neural Basis and Individual Variations.
Larry Jamner has been awarded funding from Yale University for his work entitled: T-Wave Alternans in Daily Life.
Psychology and Social Behavior welcomes Angela Lukowski. Angela received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with a formal minor in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota in January 2007. The goal of her research is to establish relations among neurodevelopment, memory, and executive function in infants and children undergoing normative developmental trajectories as well as in those with neurodevelopmental insults known to affect the hippocampus and dopamine system.
Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, will deliver the 2009 John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February. The lecture honors prominent behavioral scientists from around the world. Past recipients include Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Loftus studies the malleability of human memory and applies her research to the legal field.
Jodi Quas has been selected as the American Psychological Foundation's 2008 Robert I Franz Memorial Award winner. This award is intended to recognize and encourage promising young investigators in psychology.
Kitty Calavita and Dan Stokols have been named UCI Chancellor's Professors. The title recognizes scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievement makes them of exceptional value to the university.
Dan Stokols, Chancellor's Professor of Social Ecology, co-edited a special issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on the Science of Team Science. The issue is aimed at understanding and enhancing the results of collaborative research and training programs. Complex problems like global warming, AIDS, cancer, food security and terrorism require greater collaboration among scientists trained in different fields.
In August, Bill Thompson gave the keynote address Painting the Target around the Arrow: Misleading DNA Statistic, at the International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Current and Former Student News
OCTOBER 2008
PSB welcomes the 2008 Cohort: Nicole Basehore, Jordan Bechtold, David Busse, Cory Clarke, Steven Frenda, Kristen Gamble, Vanessa Juth, Hannah Kang, Rebecca Nichols, Christina Pedram, Michael Russell, Ian Tingen, and Marina White.
PSB graduate student Kristin August received the Proposed Doctoral Research Award from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association and the Retirement Research Foundation. Her award was announced in August at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Boston.
Gary Germo, a lecturer for PSB, is a winner of a SPSSI's Grants-in-Aid for fall 2008 for his project entitled: HPA Functioning Among At-Risk Young Adults: The Role of Maltreatment, Current Stressful Life Events, and Attachment Styles.
Rachel Lucas-Thompson, PSB graduate student, is a winner of a SPSSI's Grants-in-Aid for spring 2008 for her project entitled: Interparental Conflict and Adolescent Physiological Functioning and Health.
Gloria Luong, PSB graduate student, was awarded the American Psychological Association Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) Award for Proposed Master's Research in August. She was also selected to serve as the Chair of the American Psychological Association Science Student Council for the upcoming year.
Jennifer Miner and Alison Clarke-Stewart published an article last May in Developmental Psychology, based on her Master's thesis, called The Trajectories of Externalizing Behavior from Age 2 to Age 9: Relations with Gender, Temperament, Ethnicity, Parenting, and Rater.
Recent Ph.D.'s
Doctor Judith Anderson
The Role of Psychological State and Biological Context on Neuroendocrine Stress Response Regulation: A Study of Women of Child Bearing Age
Doctor Marnie Brow
The Role of Personality Following the September 11th Terrorist Attacks: Big Five Trait Combinations and Interactions in Explaining Distress and Coping
Doctor Nathalie Carrick
Fairies are Real but Witches aren't: Children's Evaluations of Emotional Fantasy
Doctor Esther Chang
Shared Agency between Older Youth and Parents: Ethnic Differences and Similarities
Doctor Jennifer Eno-Louden
Effect of Stigma of Mental Disorder and Substance Abuse on Probation Officers' Case Management Decisions
Doctor Gary Germo
Early Adversity and Current Stressors on Adolescents' and Young Adults' Morning Cortisol Levels: The Moderating Role of Attachment Style
Doctor Meret Keller
A Contextual Approach to Understanding the Relations between Family Sleep Arrangements and Young Children's Socio-Emotional Well-Being
Doctor Pamela King
Understanding Adolescents' Motivation for Physical Activity: Utility of the Self-Determination Theory
Doctor Heather Lench
The Relation of Approach Avoidance Goals to Persistence, Affective Judgments and Health
Doctor Lindsay Malloy
Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children's Evaluations of disclosing an Adult's Wrongdoing
Doctor Jennifer Piazza
Living with Chronic Health Conditions and Functional Disability: Age Differences in Affective Well-Being
Doctor Huy Vu
Acculturation, Intergenerational Conflict and Support, and Psychological Well-Being
Doctor Allison Wallin
The Influence of Parent-Child Attachment on Children's Stress Responses
Doctor Thomas Wicke
Community Response to Trauma: An Ecological Analysis of How Community is Affected by Social Disaster in Laramie, Wyoming and Jasper, Texas
