Category: Department Updates
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Rogoff serves on Committee on Early Relational Health, publishes on Guatemalan Mayan mother/child collaboration
UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor Barbara Rogoff was selected to serve on the Committee on Early Relational Health of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She published a handbook chapter and an article on changes across generations in Guatemalan Mayan mothers’ collaboration with young children, related to globalization, and their reflections on changes in…
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Fox Tree publishes article on how authority affects social evaluations of negotiation words
Professor Jean E. Fox Tree published “How authority affects social evaluations of negotiation words” in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. This study utilized a mock-Discord approach to investigate the impact of word choice on ascribed personality and its variation by expertise. For example, words like “clearly” and “obviously” made peers, TAs, and faculty appear less…
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Ph.D. candidate Matt Evans wins 2025 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society
Professor Nicolas Davidenko’s Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. candidate Matt Evans recently won the 2025 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society for his research paper titled “Absolute pitch in involuntary musical imagery.” Evans worked with Psychology Professor Nicolas Davidenko and undergraduate research assistant Pablo Gaeta to study “earworms,” the types of songs that get stuck in…
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Rogoff wins two lifetime awards and publishes article on her theoretical approach
Distinguished Professor Barbara Rogoff received two Lifetime Achievement Awards this spring: The Lifetime Contribution to Cultural Historical Research Award from the American Educational Research Association‘s (AERA) Cultural Historical Research Special Interest Group, and the Raymond Buriel Distinguished Leadership Award from the Society for Research in Child Development‘s (SRCD) Latinx Caucus. Rogoff is an internationally acclaimed…
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Hammack awarded grant from American Psychological Association to publish book on gender, sexuality, and relationships
In winter 2025, Professor Phil Hammack was awarded a small grant from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association (the Society for General Psychology) to support the completion of his forthcoming book, “Radical Authenticity: The Twenty-First Century Revolution in Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships” (contracted with Oxford University Press’ trade division). The book blends a review of…