Research & Innovation

A groundbreaking study led by UC Berkeley Psychology Postdoctoral Research Fellow Aakash Chowkase showed the official number of COVID-19 deaths in Pune, India may be significantly underreported.

Published in Nature's Scientific Reports on May 6th, 2024, the research estimates that from March 2020 to December 2021, Pune...

UC Berkeley psychology professor Alison Gopnik studies how children learn. She also studies artificial intelligence systems. That might sound counterintuitive, but as she explains in this video about her work for UC Berkeley News, there’s much overlap between what we are learning about how babies explore the world and how we might create better AI systems.

“Even very young children are the best learners, and they do it in record time and with very little teaching,” says Gopnik. “So the question is, how do they manage...

In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution: Expose young children to more misinformation online — not less.

Doing so in limited circumstances, and with careful oversight and education, can help children gain the tools they’ll need to sort fact from fiction online, said Evan Orticio, a Ph.D. student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Psychology and lead author of...

The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll is a go-to source for cutting-edge, non-partisan insights into California's public opinion. As the oldest public policy research center in the state, IGS tackles the most pressing issues, from immigration to abortion, that are shaping America today.

The IGS Poll was founded by Dr. Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, in 2011 and has since been expanded by Mark DiCamillo, Director of the IGS Poll. It was created to identify issues that extend across party lines,...