Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media
This Time magazine article about kids and social media referenced a 2006 study at UCLA by Barbara Knowlton, UCLA professor of psychology, and her colleague, Russell Poldrack, now at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nanodiamonds Fight Cancer
Fuyu Tamanoi, UCLA professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and director of the signal transduction and therapeutics program at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was quoted Monday in a Chemical and Engineering News article about the use of diamond-like nanostructures in chemotherapy drug delivery.
White House Anti-Bullying Conference: Don’t Sit Back, Speak Up
Jaana Juvonen UCLA professor of developmental psychology, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about an anti-bullying conference at the White House.
Female GIs struggle with higher rate of divorce
Benjamin Karney, UCLA associate professor of psychology, is quoted today in this article about research showing that married women in the military are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to get divorced.
Body language: Anger read as masculine
United Press International reported Sunday on a study led by Kerri Johnson, UCLA assistant professor of communication studies and psychology, that found that body language is more likely to be judged as masculine when it seems to convey anger and as feminine when is seems to convey sadness.