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MythBusters: Highlighting helps me study
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@B.F.SkinnyMan: Why B.F. Skinner Would Love Food Snapchats and Instagram Fitness Culture
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No such thing as a “positive” stereotype: Consequences of the Model Minority Myth
While Asian Americans are typically depicted as intelligent, high-achieving, and law-abiding, such stereotypes may not be as innocuous as you think. The Model Minority Myth has several consequences for the mental health, academic achievement, and institutional support (e.g., school and governmental programs) available to this population.
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Chronotype and Adolescence: Why being an “evening person” as a teenager is disadvantageous
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PIA at Explore Your Universe!
“I don’t believe my brain!” Guests of all ages were shocked by the tricks their brains played on them during PIA’s Psychology and the Brain exhibition at UCLA’s 9th annual Explore Your Universe (EYU) science festival. The event brought in over 7,000 Los Angeles community members eager to see science come to life through hands-on…
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Social Cognition and Language
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MythBusters: Big Words Make You Sound Smart!
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Understanding Cellular Aging
In my last article, I talked about epigenetics and how we can measure epigenetic changes (read here if you missed it). Now we’re moving on to the good stuff—how we assess epigenetic aging and what it means for biological and psychological research. Many Different Clocks With about 20,000 protein-coding genes, there is a big…
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How the Brain Makes Sure You Don’t Miss Lunch-dates. (Hint: Use Smartphones)
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Do Our Cells Age as Quickly as We Do?
Measuring Chronological Age Aging is something that we all experience, but that we still struggle to understand. We know that aging is natural and allows us to mature, and is ultimately related to natural mortality. Many researchers have sought to develop a measure for aging in our cells. A measure of aging can help us…