Calling girls ‘fat’ may result in weight gain
Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.
UCLA Life Scientist, Patricia Greenfield, Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, has been elected a 2014 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Climate change a likely culprit in coqui frog’s altered calls, say UCLA biologists
Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher have linked changes in Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades to small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory’s national animal.
UCLA Life Scientists’ Contribution to Breakthrough therapy allows four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord– research developed by UCLA life scientists, V. Reggie Edgerton and Yury Gerasimenko.
Does a junk food diet make you lazy? UCLA psychology study offers answer
A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around.
Schools have limited success in reducing bullying
UCLA Psychology professor, Jaana Juvonen, and co-author Sandra Graham, a UCLA professor of education have conducted the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying and found that K-12 schools’ efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing.
UCLA’s Science and Food Series Returns
Professor Amy Rowat’s Science and Food Series is back with a new lineup, which includes Wylie Dufresne, Ole Mouritsen, Lena Kwak and L.A.’s own Morihiro Onodera.
To be Young, Black, and Male
Recent research by Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA assistant professor of social psychology, and Matthew Jackson, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in social psychology, examines police officers’ attitudes toward African-Americans, particularly their perception of young black boys.
Nobel laureate Randy Schekman to be keynote speaker at UCLA College commencement
Randy Schekman, Nobel laureate, and undergraduate alumnus of UCLA Life Sciences, will be this year’s keynote speaker at UCLA College commencement
Therapy for your marriage — without the therapy
Andrew Christensen, professor of Psychology, is the lead author of a new book: “Reconcilable Differences: Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love — Without Losing Yourself”.