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Science Says Relationships Fail When These Four Things Happen
Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington discovered four clear indicators of relationship failure.
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'Alexa, are you turning my kid into a jerk?'
Three years after Amazon Echo launched as a frivolous oddity, its maker now plans to put Alexa inside smart phones, refrigerators, vacuums and Ford cars.
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For women in science, the challenges are personal
Considerable attention has been devoted to the difficulties facing women in computer sciences, the problems and the search for solutions extend across the range of STEM fields.
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Portland stabbing: What did we learn about the bystander effect?
Bill Radke speaks with professor Cheryl Kaiser from the psychology department at the University of Washington about the bystander effect.
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8 Ways to Get a Difficult Conversation Back on Track
University of Washington psychologist John Gottman identified behaviors that derail conversations so consistently that he refers to them as “the four horsemen...”
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The 4 Most Common Relationship Problems — and How to Fix Them
Dr. John Gottman provides insight into relationship problems and common fixes.
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Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present
How do we live with the fact that the world we knew is going and, in some cases, already gone?
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A Century of Psychology
Founded 100 years ago with two faculty, the UW Department of Psychology—and the field of psychology—has come a long way.
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Gender Wage Gap Wider in King County Than Elsewhere in Washington State
Although pay equity for women has improved, men are still paid more for the same work. Why is the problem even worse in King County than elsewhere?
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Finding Purpose in Peru
Celeste Marion (BA, 2003) co-founded an innovative school for special education students in Cusco, Peru.
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6-year-old girls already have gendered beliefs about intelligence
UW's Sapna Cheryan asks, “Do we want a society where each gender thinks they are smarter, or do we want one where boys and girls think the genders are equally smart?”
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7 signs your relationship is failing — even if it doesn't feel like it
It can be hard to spot even glaring flaws in your relationship while you're in it. With that in mind, Business Insider rounded up seven science-backed indicators that there might be trouble. -
Study: Did America's growing diversity make voters more xenophobic?
A new study shows that the increasingly large minority populations in the United States may have contributed to Donald Trump's victory.
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Increased Diversity Sparked Voters' Implicit Racial Biases: Study
Allison Skinner, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW is quoted. -
Why Only Humans Know How to Party
Although cognizant of the stones and bones, Robin Dunbar’s “Human Evolution” is concerned with something more consequential: how and why Homo sapiens became what we are.