Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

Two UC Berkeley Department of Psychology researchers recently published a commentary that provided insights into the way we understand and define gender.

The paper was titled "Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural" and published in Nature Human Behaviour. In it, Berkeley Psychology professors Steven T. Piantadosi and...

UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor James Holston and Public Health immunologist Dr. Josefina Coloma have been awarded a $3.1 million, 5-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National Institutes of Health to combate dengue virus in Peru.

The grant will fund “Proyecto Tariki”, a research initiative developed...

Researchers led by a University of California, Berkeley, comparative psychologist have found that great apes and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, can recognize groupmates they haven't seen in over two decades —...

A research collaboration between UC Berkeley Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Steve Piantadosi and Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Professor Jessica Cantlon recently led to a rethinking of what makes human intelligence unique.

In a paper published on April 2 in Nature Reviews Psychology, they argue that the distinguishing feature of human intelligence is our ability to process and share vast amounts of information. This work argues against prevailing “silver bullet” theories, which had previously maintained...