New study investigates influence of Tylenol on mind wandering
The study, by Sumeet Mutti Jaswal and Dr. Todd Handy, claims that Tylenol can affect a person’s ability to concentrate.
Canada’s newest Vanier scholars includes two of UBC’s own psychology students
Graduate students, Ryan Dwyer and Alexander Terpstra, have received the prestigious 2019 Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship.
UBC researchers collaborate to improve equity in child health
Professors Kiran Soma and Anita DeLongis—and psychology alumna Kim Schmidt—are members of the Social Exposome Cluster, a new research collaboration at UBC.
Understanding word learning in the growing brain
Awarded a new device, psychology researchers hope to shed new light on how toddlers learn words.
Psychology alumnus George Kachkovski is using his psychology experience to begin a career in nursing
We asked George Kachkovski to reflect on his time as a psychology student and how it influenced his career path.
UBC Psychology research examines hormones that make us choose love over sex
Looking for love and looking for sex are two different things, even at the level of human evolutionary biology. Alec Beall, a postdoctoral researcher, has studied the conflict between them. To usher in Valentine’s Day, Beall discusses his research.
People think and behave differently in virtual reality than they do in real life
New UBC Psychology research has found a yawning gap between how people respond psychologically in VR and how they respond in real life.
Have we been asking the right questions about neurogenesis?
An editorial by Dr. Jason Snyder invites researchers to consider new perspectives in how the brain changes across the lifespan
Motivation, decision-making, and telling our stories anyway
Leili Mortazavi had hoped to present her research at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in November 2018, but due to a travel restriction was not able to join her colleagues in the United States to present her work.
New research: Previous motherhood could affect hormone therapy’s ability to prevent memory loss
Researchers have established that the foggy feeling and forgetfulness that many new mothers report during and after pregnancy—known as “mom brain”— is real. But new findings from Dr. Liisa Galea, a professor in UBC’s department of psychology, suggest that the effect of motherhood on the brain appears to last much longer after childbirth than previously believed.