SANS 2025: New Research Reveals Why Negative News Headlines Get Clicked

April 21, 2025 Why does bad news grab (an keep!) our attention? New research from the Cognitive Communication Science Lab at UC Davis sheds light on how emotionally charged news headlines influence the way we make decisions. At the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS), Dr. Richard Huskey...

We’re at ICA 2024!

June 12, 2024 The lab is excited to share three presentations at ICA24 this year. Hope to see you there! Does Cleft Repair Surgery Restore Normal Visual and Neural Responses to Infant Faces?Rachael L. Kee; Kelly J. Jantzen; Amanda Hahn What to Read Next: Reward Generalization, Exploration, and Foraging Shape Sequential Media SelectionJason...

LAB END OF THE YEAR PARTY, SPRING 2024

June 4, 2024 The Lab (clockwise from bottom left: Valerie Klein, Richard Huskey, Allyson Snyder, Ali Mehdizadeh, Sophia Sarieva, Rachael Kee, Raymond Kang, Wenjun Liu, Xiaobei Chen, Jason Gong) celebrated the end of the 2023 - 2024 academic year at Tres Hermanas. We had a lot to celebrate! Jason earned his PhD in...