News doesn’t just inform; it affects how we feel. What are the psychological trade-offs of consuming news on social media?

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 at the Arlington Theatre ...

Thomas F. Pettigrew taught at UC Santa Cruz from 1979 to 1994 and is a leader in Intergroup Contact Theory. Photo: UCSC Special Collections and Archives Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology ...

Social psychologist and dating expert Dr. Sarah Hensley chatted about her career and being a part of the digital age. Dr. Sarah Hensley. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Sarah Hensley. Dr. Sarah Hensley. Photo ...

Boardwalks figure in both his home town Revere, Mass. and his current town Santa Cruz. Elliot Aronson will talk about his book at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 30 at the Capitola Book Café. Elliot ...

We like to think that posting strong words on social media counts as activism. But the strongest form of activism right now ...

Here’s what modern research reveals about why your inner promises so often fall by the wayside while your word to others ...

Social discomfort is so universal that social psychologists like me have made careers out of studying it. We can find it almost anywhere, like in salary negotiations or small talk conversations that ...

Social discomfort is so universal that social psychologists like me have made careers out of studying it. We can find it almost anywhere, like in salary negotiations or small talk conversations that ...