Bryan L. Sykes, associate professor of criminology, law and society, comments on the economic slowdown and the national dialogue about money in the Los Angeles Times.

Assistant professors in psychological science awarded grants to support research, scholarly work

July, 2020

Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychological science, offered her expertise in a BBC article. An excerpt:

“We’re living, in effect, in a big anger incubator,” said Raymond Novaco, psychological science professor in the Washington Post.

Unique multi-strategy approach will identify evidence-based reduction, prevention policies

Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science, talks about the Orange County Young Adult Court and its first graduation in the Orange County Register. An excerpt:

UCI’s Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science, helped launch the program in 2018 after receiving a $780,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice. Now she hopes to keep it going with another cash infusion.

“When there's an absence of consistent messaging from authorities, many rumors and conspiracy theories can fill the void, and that makes it very difficult for people to figure out what it is that they should do,” says Roxane Cohen Silver, a UC Irvine professor of psychological science in National Geographic.

“Anxiety is contagious, but so is compassion,” says Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychological science 

Comparing fingerprints lifted from crime scenes with prints in law enforcement databases has helped to exonerate wrongly convicted people. But only four states currently give defendants the right to have this done.