Past events
Judy Slee Seminar Series: Attentional Orienting by Social and Nonsocial Cues: Mechanisms and Perceptual Consequences »
Our visual environment is complex, dynamic, and abundant. One way our visual system makes sense of this environment is by relying on shifts of covert attention (i.e., “looking out of the corner of one’s eye”) to select certain elements of our visual world for preferential processing...
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: Making Shiny Research »
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could design research in a way that shifts participants from being passive ‘respondents’ to being interested and engaged ‘participants’?
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: Fresh Faces and Ideas in Social Psychology »
A panel of emerging leaders in psychology present research on pressing social issues.
Conversations Across the Creek: Microbes and Masses »
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre and the Research School of Chemistry.
Judy Slee Seminar Series: Bayesian Graphical Models of Anxiety and Belief Updating in the Classic Beads Task »
The tendency to accept a hypothesis based on fewer than normal pieces of information (“Jumping-to-Conclusions” (JTC) bias) is a probabilistic reasoning bias commonly observed in clinical populations with delusions. This tendency can be attributed to a relatively low decision threshold and overweighting of a piece of...
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: Why faking it isn’t making it in facial expression research »
Despite the longstanding and widespread interest in how people perceive others’ emotions from facial expressions, much of the empirical data comes from a small number of artificially posed stimuli (e.g., the Ekman faces), validated only by high levels of agreement about what emotion they are showing...
Judy Slee Student Seminar Series: Does motivational intensity exist independent from valence and arousal? »
This study aimed to validate motivational intensity as an emotional construct, in particular to determine if it should be considered independent from existing constructs valence and arousal for understanding emotion.
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: Impact and innovation working with social identity »
It is 50 years after the publication Tajfel’s “Experiments in intergroup discrimination” in Scientific American. This series of studies underpins the social identity approach which incorporates social identity theory and self-categorization theory.
Socioemotional tools for maintaining mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic »
The Research School of Psychology at the Australian National University, along with the Black Dog Institute, are proud to offer a free webinar on ‘Socioemotional tools for maintaining mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic’.
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: What we are working on—Cognitive Psychology at the RSP »
Cognitive Psychology at the Research School of Psychology