Personality plays a central role in shaping interpersonal dynamics and performance within organizations. While traditional research has focused on ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Mindset and expectations, not just the external environment, shape the 'table of contents' into which our brains organize the day. The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant -- to ...

“Resource allocation” is a term that psychologists use to measure how people prioritize their time and attention. Long before she heard the term, Kajal Schiller understood it as a matter of survival.

The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science aims to contribute to, bring together, and disseminate knowledge from various academic fields on topics fundamental ...

You might have noticed that the seasons don’t quite behave like they used to. In some places, fall and spring seem to fly by, while winter and summer are much longer and feel more intense. This shift ...

Social psychology is an interdisciplinary field that examines how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. It seeks ...

In science, studying human experiences typically requires time, money and—of course—human participants. But as large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 have grown more sophisticated, some in the ...

The field of Human-Computer Interaction in virtual environments represents a dynamic interdisciplinary area where advances in computer science, psychology and design converge to create immersive and ...

As AI is infiltrating every aspect of how we live and work, it increasingly looks or sounds like us. From virtual assistants that can hold conversations with natural intonation to digital avatars that ...