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Feb 13
Did you know experiencing awe can boost your happiness? @BerkeleyPsych Prof. Dacher Keltner joined @Oprah on her podcast to discuss this idea in his new book “Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.” Watch here: bit.ly/3MoAm9m
ALT Screenshot from The Oprah Podcast on YouTube
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8 Sep 2025
I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at @TEDxNewEngland last Fall!
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
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11 Sep 2025
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Excited to share our new paper in @ScienceAdvances ! We report a novel phenomenon in motor control: your current movement is repelled away from your previous one. Modeling suggests this repulsion reflects efficient coding in motor planning.
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28 Sep 2025
Excited to share that our paper "Continuous affect tracking reveals that overestimation during the recollection of affect is idiosyncratic and stable" is out now in @ARVOJOV !
doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.11.14
A short thread on the findings below 👇🏽📷(1/7)
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🤩 Congratulations to Dacher Keltner, @UCBerkeley psychologist, who recently received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science 🏆 Read more >> bit.ly/4nPcrwR
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ALT Video screenshot from Professor Keltner's Academic Review video about contributing to Pixar's Inside Out.
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18 Sep 2025
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📷 Berkeley Psychology grad students are breaking new ground—exploring treatments for anxiety & depression, decision-making, and building inclusive communities.
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16 Sep 2025
📷 Tomorrow kicks off Oski’s 84th Birthday celebration!
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2 Sep 2025
Mental health treatments often fall short because of 2 simple reasons: our memories are flawed forming new habits is hard. @BerkeleyPsych Prof. Allison Harvey suggests that small changes, like text reminders, could improve patient outcomes. Learn more: bit.ly/4mGMmj4
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9 Aug 2025
Berkeley Psych is hiring! **TWO** tenure-track assistant professor positions are now open, focused on:
(1) Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
(2) Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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UCBerkeley Psychology retweeted
15 May 2025
Congratulations to @BerkeleyPsych Prof. @AlisonGopnik on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences (@theNASciences) for her research on how children make sense of the world around them! Learn more: bit.ly/42MMOVX
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29 Apr 2025
I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today!
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1 May 2025
Incoming @BerkeleyPsych Prof. Jasmin Brooks Stephens (@DrJBStephens) made the @ForbesUnder30 list for her achievements in healthcare. Learn more about her transformative research on the mental health of Black adults youth: bit.ly/4jLdUSW
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13 Mar 2025
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#CalBigGive is live! Donate to support graduate students like Karthikeya Kaushik (@KarthikeyaKaus1). Karthikeya uses computational techniques to understand how people learn and represent complex concepts, bridging the gap between psychology and neuroscience.
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#CalBigGive starts NOW! Donate to help support graduate students like Lindsey (Lou) Deringer! Lou's research aims to explore how self-transcendent emotions and experiences of visual art may help to cultivate social connection. givingday.berkeley.edu/givin…
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UCBerkeley Psychology retweeted
16 Jan 2025
(1/2) A new bipolar disorder study led by @berkeleypsych @UCBerkeleyNeuro Prof. Lance Kriegsfeld was awarded a $4.5 million grant from BD². The study examines how disruption of the body’s circadian rhythms affects people with bipolar disorder. Read more: bit.ly/3DLdqwu
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