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Are there equitable pathways to college for the Central Valley's students? CIS Prof. Aguirre-Muñoz has the data

November 20, 2024
Prof. Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz has released a progress update from the first phase of "Advancing Educational Opportunity in the Central Valley Project," a research initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Do high school students in the Central Valley, especially students...

Study: People Facing Life-or-Death Choice Put Too Much Trust in AI

September 4, 2024
In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a UC Merced study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said. Human subjects allowed robots to sway their judgment...

Prof. Morten Christiansen (Cornell & Aarhus) receives Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award from Cognitive & Information Sciences Department

August 20, 2024
The Cognitive & Information Sciences Department at the University of California, Merced, is pleased to announce that the 15th recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award is Professor Morten Christiansen (Cornell University & Aarhus University). Professor Christiansen has...

Cognitive Science for the Common Good Workshop on Genocide

May 20, 2024
Understanding Genocide: Neural, Psychological and Political Science Perspectives Interdisciplinary Online Workshop | 5.17.24 The Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences recently organized an online workshop, “Understanding Genocide: Neural, Psychological and Political...