Featured Profiles
Q & A with Professor Su-hua Wang
January 15, 2016
We sat down with Wang for a Q&A to learn more about her work and about the unique research internship program she offers to psychology majors.
Meet the Psychology Department's newest faculty
November 04, 2015
The Psychology Department now consists of 26 faculty thanks to its three newest hires: Christy Byrd, Audun Dahl and Rebecca Covarrubias.
Craig Haney: A career dedicated to social justice
June 20, 2015
No one has documented the long-term psychological damage of incarceration in the United States more than UC Santa Cruz professor Craig Haney.
Alumna Kris Perry shares how she overturned Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban
October 14, 2014
At a recent event on campus, Perry talks about her leadership in the gay rights movement
Reduce Poverty? Social Barriers Need To Be Removed
October 10, 2014
UCSC psychology professor Heather Bullock sheds light on social obstacles to poverty reduction in a recent UN report.
Youth, empowerment, and social change
May 5, 2013
Participatory action research (PAR), which is a model of research where community members and university-based researchers work collaboratively at all stages in the research process.
How do people learn without being taught?
November 2, 2011
Professor Barbara Rogoff on how people learn by observing and pitching in.
Message from Avril Thorne, Chair
September 6, 2011
Having been at much larger universities and at private colleges, I have found that nothing compares with Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. The students are unusually creative and bold.
