Spring forward? Is Daylight Saving Time worth it?
Daylight Savings Time causes an initial hazard, but there is “a life-saving benefit,” says UBC Psychology Professor Stanley Coren.
Gambling research pioneer to lead new centre at UBC
Leading gambling psychologist Luke Clark will join the University of British Columbia’s Dept. of Psychology as inaugural director of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC to advance research and understanding of problem gambling behaviours. Clark, who led the UK’s largest study of pathological gamblers, will lead the academic and operational activities of the Centre beginning July 1, 2014. […]
From Uganda to UBC, and back
Sunaina Assanand’s drive to transform how her psychology students learn led her back to Uganda, four decades after her family’s exile. Sunaina Assanand was a young child when her family was forced to flee Uganda in 1972. Four decades later, the UBC instructor returned to her homeland to teach a powerful new psychology course with […]