Feeling happy is good for everyone’s health, but sharing everyday happiness with a life partner brings even greater health benefits, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.
Richard Robins is among the 2025 honorees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the world’s largest association of social and personality psychologists.
New research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain found that increasing representation from historically disadvantaged groups in local governments in India improved infant mortality, mother’s pre-natal doctor’s visits and tetanus vaccinations.
In a first-of-its-kind study appearing in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team from the university’s Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics (IPN) dosed mouse mothers with psilocybin and found that the drug amplified anxiety and depressive-like symptoms associated with perinatal mood disorders — mental health conditions that can arise during or after pregnancy.
The Big Five inventory of personality traits is the only scientifically supported model of human personality endorsed by scientists and scientific societies. Take this test to get your scores on the Big Five and learn what they mean about your personality.
New research in psychology finds that our personalities actually change from moment to moment, and that the people closest to us are more likely than we are to notice. The study combined frequent self-reported Big Five inventories with ratings from participants’ friends and family to build a holistic understanding of people’s personalities in everyday life.
A new study in psychology finds that combining words that label objects, such as “bear,” with spatial words such as “here” or “there” captures infants’ attention for longer than using those types of words alone or using other words that are neither labels nor spatial. Adding gestures, such as pointing, holds babies’ attention the longest.
The California Families Project is the most comprehensive long-term study of Latino families in the U.S. It has built an unparalleled dataset that researchers at UC Davis and other leading universities around the world use to study the complexity of challenges facing Mexican-origin families in California.
New research from the University of California, Davis, has found that toddlers who tend to look more closely at and compare paired images during a memory task are more aware of the accuracy of their own memories a year later. This finding connects the earliest process of seeking information with the developing ability to judge the accuracy of memories.
What is the secret to happiness? A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that happiness can come from either within or from external influences, from both, or neither — and which is true differs across people.
