Podcast
Interview
Published December 4, 2024
Emotion, Race, and Gender: Interview with Gold Okafor
Listen to our interview with Gold Okafor, a PhD candidate in social and personality psychology at UC Berkeley who investigates racial and gender disparities through emotion. The interview focuses on Okafor's paper, "Measuring Mindfulness in Black Americans: A Psychometric Validation of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire," as well as other research topics.
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Published September 22, 2015
Robin T. Lakoff: “What’s Up With Upspeak?”
The linguistic phenomenon known as “upspeak” has long been linked to a broader pattern of gender relations, thanks to the work of UC Berkeley’s Robin T. Lakoff, Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics.
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Article
Published August 15, 2015
Manisha Anantharaman: “It’s Not Easy Being Green”
For India’s growing middle class, recycling is as much about creating identity as being environmentally conscientious.
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Published July 7, 2015
Hacking Measurement
A Social Science Matrix research seminar on "Technology for Measurement" is dedicated to developing new solutions for gathering social data from a variety of sources.
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Published July 7, 2015
Taming Animal Spirits
A pair of researchers from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy organized a Matrix seminar to explore what neuroscience can tell us about asset price bubbles and other irrational economic behavior.
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Article
Published July 1, 2015
Hooked On A Feeling
How we control our feelings has a major impact on our mental health, according to research from UC Berkeley's Emotion and Emotion Regulation Laboratory.
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Article
Published July 1, 2015
Speech on the Brain
A UCSF neuroscientist and UC Berkeley linguist team up for leading-edge research that could one day help give speech back to stroke victims and people with paralyses.
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