Alison Ledgerwood joined the Department of Psychology at UC Davis in 2008 after completing her PhD in social psychology at New York University.
She is interested in understanding how people think, and how they can think better. Her research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, investigates how certain ways of thinking about an issue tend to stick in people’s heads.
ICE Seeks CIA Impersonator Believed to be in Germany Who Tried to Gain Access to Secure Airport Area
In July 2013, a man was watching a movie at a theatre in Michigan, wearing body armor and carrying a firearm. When approached by police, he presented a counterfeit CIA badge and credentials.
Mosque Shooter Asks Forgiveness From Muslim Community
Ted A. Hakey Jr. feared his Muslim neighbors. So much so that in a drunken state on a November night in 2015, he picked up one of his guns and fired several shots at the mosque next to his home.
On Saturday afternoon, Hakey faced his fears — members of Baitul Aman “House of Peace” Mosque — and apologized for the fear and pain he brought to them.
Baltimore Family Demanding Answers After Police Fire 56 Shots At Father & Son
A father and his son are dead after 56 shots fired by police.
For the family of Kimani Johnson and Matthew Wood Jr. the story doesn’t add up.
“56 shots, that’s overkill,” says Mary Scott Harper, of two of Matthew Wood’s children.
San Francisco police raid home of man severely beaten by officers last Year (Videos)
San Francisco police raid home of man beaten by officers in video last year
Stanislav Petrov, who is suing the police over the beating, is one of four arrested as another person is left with gunshot injuries.
FBI: Frisco Hospice Owner Directed Nurses to Overdose Patients
The owner of a North Texas medical company regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5.
Executive Brad Harris, 34, founded Novus Health Care Services, Inc., in July 2012, according to state records. The Novus office is located on Dallas Parkway in Frisco.
Psychiatrist Sentenced to 12 Years for Doctoring Treatment Records of Severely Mentally Ill Patients
A federal judge sentenced a Houston psychiatrist today to 12 years in prison for her role in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment, according to officials.
Just Saying: Jane Laut’s Sweet Deal, The Olympian, and Website Updates
It was a sweet deal.
Jane Laut who killed her husband Dave Laut, a 1984 Olympic bronze star medalist, would get six years in prison if she would plea guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
The deal was all but gift wrapped: Prosecutors also agreed not to tack on the use of a weapon during the commission of a felony crime. This would mean that Laut would be eligible for parole after serving about half of the six-year sentence.
Jane Laut, however, refused the offer.
Cop Shot fellow Officer During Drug Bust
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A day after the city settled with an undercover detective shot by his own lieutenant in a drug bust gone horribly wrong, lapel camera video from the incident was released.
As racial hate groups rise, strategies to shut them down
JUDY WOODRUFF: The Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups have gained more attention in the news recently, but as special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault explains, the national undercurrent of racism may be…
Man Convicted of Choking and Hitting Fellow Airline Passenger Over Reclined Seat, Flight Had to Return to LAX
A Northern California man has been convicted of a federal assault charge for choking and hitting a fellow passenger on a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Lawrence Wells, Jr., 54, of Richmond, California, was convicted by a jury Wednesday.
Reputed Texas Mexican Mafia Gang Member Arrested for Killing Cop
A purported hit man for the Texas Mexican Mafia has been indicted on racketeering charges in connection with the 2014 slaying of a Balcones Heights police officer.
A new federal indictment filed against Ruben “Menace” Reyes, 36, lays out the killing of Officer Julian Pesina as one of the overt violent acts or pattern of criminal acts Reyes is accused of as part of the gang’s alleged racketeering.