USC Dornsife News

As 2016 president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Wendy Wood will move toward applying social psychology to social policy.

Despite accepted lore, women’s mate preferences don’t shift according to fertility and menstrual cycle, finds a study led by Wendy Wood of psychology and business.

USC opens a Census Research Data Center on the University Park campus, one of only 16 locations in the U.S. where approved researchers can access non-public Census Bureau data.

As the inaugural speaker of the USC Dornsife Sustainability Task Force’s Distinguished Lecture Series, renowned ecologist William Schlesinger warns against the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” threatening a sustainable future.

Launched recently by Dean Steve Kay, the USC Dornsife Sustainability Task Force takes on questions affecting people and the environment.

Under the auspices of USC Dornsife 2020, 10 doctoral students presented summer research projects in social neuroscience at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island.

Led by USC Dornsife’s Wendy Wood and David Neal, a former assistant psychology professor in USC Dornsife, a new study shows that people under stress often default to positive habits.

What women and men look for in a mate is becoming more and more similar, Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, said during a recent Barbra Streisand Professor Lecture Series event.

Incoming dean Steve Kay announces key appointments and changes to the dean’s cabinet including three academic domain vice deans and USC Dornsife’s first vice dean for institutional affairs, Dani Byrd.