The research of Professors of Psychology Mark Carrier and Larry Rosen, and Chair and Professor of Communications Nancy Cheever on people’s addiction to technology, particularly smartphones and social media, continues to attract media attention. Veteran journalist Katie Couric interviewed the professors for an episode of her new series on National Geographic Channel called “America Inside Out with Katie Couric.” Couric visited campus in November 2017 with electronic dance music DJ and social media celebrity Steve Aoki to talk with the professors about their recent research on the connection between smart phone use and brain anxiety and concentration levels. Cheever and Carrier ... Read More
Psychology
Campus to Host Group Relations Conference
(Carson, CA) – California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will host an experiential three-day group relations conference March 16-18 that enables students and South Bay businesses and community members to learn about the conscious and unconscious dynamics of how groups organize and interact with each other. The 2nd annual Leadership and Creative Expression: A Transformation Context for Exploring Boundaries, Authority, Role and Task conference is coordinated through Grex, a nonprofit that specializes in leadership and group dynamics training and education. WHEN: 3-9 p.m. Friday, March, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, March 18 WHERE: California State ... Read More
Four Marital and Family Therapy Students Awarded Highly Competitive Stipends
Four California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) students have been awarded highly competitive California MFT stipends, which provide financial support for their continuing educational pursuits as well as one-year paid employment and training. Funded by California’s Mental Health Services Act and administered by the MFT Consortium of California and Greater Los Angeles, the program awards 118 stipends statewide, and only 70 in Los Angeles County. CSUDH MFT students Daniel Lopez, Natashia Leonard, Jasmine Henry-Ala, and Gabriela Rubio will each receive a stipend of $18,500 and full-time positions at mental health agencies operated or contracted by ... Read More
Beverly Palmer’s New Book Offers ‘Love Demystified’ for Would-Be Valentines
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. For the very young, it’s a curious yet cheerful day when often illegible sentiments scribbled on adoring cards, accompanied by pastel-colored candy hearts, pile by the dozens on their school desks. As adults, love becomes much more challenging, and often as hard to decipher as a note from a 2nd grader. Many turn to the web for advice, only to become more frustrated, according to psychologist Beverly Palmer, emeritus professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She noticed that much of the information about love and relationships on the Internet is misleading opinions, so she decided to write “Love Demystified: ... Read More
To Ban or Not to Ban: Teachers Grapple with Forcing Students to Disconnect from Technology
At Cal State Dominguez Hills, the low November sun had faded to dusk when professor Toddy Eames called for a break in the middle of a nearly three-hour screenwriting class. “Fifteen minutes!” she announced as her students stood, stretched or ambled to the door. “You can take out your phones,” she added, but most students were already scrolling through the texts, emails, Snapchats and other postings that had piled up during an hour of mandated tech abstinence. Since fall 2016, the communications department at California State University at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for ... Read More
