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Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: The Moral Psychology of Misinformation »
According to some pundits, we live in a post-truth world, surrounded by fake news, “alternative facts,” conspiracy theories, and dishonesty leaders. One risk of such misinformation is that people will believe it. This talk examines a different risk: that people will sometimes judge misinformation morally permissible...
RSP Annual Lecture - From individual fragility to collective resilience: the two psychologies of COVID-19 with Professor Stephen Reicher »
From individual fragility to collective resilience: the two psychologies of COVID-19
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar: Time as a social determinant of health »
…in health terms, time is almost like a prescription…like two fruit, five veg…and thirty minutes of physical activity Health promotion campaign designer, cited in Strazdins et al 2011
Cecil Gibb Research Seminar Series: The Psychology of Secrecy »
Why do we keep secrets? To whom do we tell our secrets? What happens when we reveal a secret? These are only some of the questions that psychologists have begun to investigate on the topic of secrecy. The current state of the science suggests that secrecy has a negative psychological impact – but can nevertheless...
Cecil Gibb Seminar Series: Why Psychology has a problem with co-production and how we can fix it: Reflections on failures and successes in...
Along with other health and science disciplines, psychology has traditionally privileged (and continues to privilege) its own ways of understanding the world through an often ostensibly objective lens. In such a paradigm, other forms of meaning making can be ignored or otherwise marginalised – including experiential...
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...
