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Author Nicole Karlis discusses her new book "Your Brain on Altruism," and how together we can build a culture of kindness.

Meet Music Perception's new associate and consulting editors.

Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”

"I’ve really liked the editorial culture at Collabra: Psychology. Things like owning your decisions as editor... humility in your decision letters... and editing the paper the authors have written instead of the paper you would have liked them to have written."

The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) is being held this week from August 24-28, 2023, at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In honor of the 2023 conference, we have removed the paywall from select issues of Music Perception. Click on the covers below to access t

University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking applicants for editor of the journal Music Perception. The new editorship will begin July 1, 2023 following the end of Editor Kate Stevens’s term. Music Perception (MP) is a journal whose scope concerns the perception and cognition of music in

Openness is necessary to allow the research community, journalists, policy makers, and other stakeholders to evaluate research. Without transparency, only the researchers who carried out the research can evaluate their own findings

At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is central to our mission to drive progressive change by seeking out and cultivating the brightest minds and giving them voice, reach, and impact.

"I think many of us have been coasting on the uncritically positive reputation that peer review has among both scientists and the public - as if peer review is an almost magical process. Showing how the sausage is made will hopefully put some pressure on peer review to come closer to living up to it

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our recent award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Lauren Duquette-RuryBest Book Award 2021American Political Science Association