The National Science Foundation has just awarded a $174,000 research grant to psychologist Emorie Beck to study procrastination among students in the STEM fields. The study is part of a four-university collaboration that will develop new tools that can benefit all students.
From creating personalized maps of Alzheimer’s risk and designing next-generation cancer therapeutics to advancing AI-driven materials discovery and recovering nitrogen contaminants from water resources, the five projects that received this year’s Incentives for Large Grant Awards from the College of Letters and Science exemplify how UC Davis research is transforming science and society.
Emorie Beck, Ariel Mosley and Tomiko Yoneda were named among this year’s Rising Stars by the Association for Psychological Science for their publications, discoveries and the potentially broad impact of their work.
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.
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.
People with personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion and positive affect are less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those with neuroticism and negative affect, according to a new analysis by researchers at the UC Davis and Northwestern University.
