PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)


2009-05-05 13:00: Nostalgia as a social support repository: The role of attachment-related avoidance (Dr. Tim Wildschut (University of Southampton))

2009-05-19 13:00: Sex differences in spatial navigation and spatial IQ tasks (Dr. Lucie Salwiczek (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2009-06-08 16:30: Religion and self-regulation (Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami))

2009-06-11 13:00: Nonconscious processes in goals and their pursuit (Prof. Henk Aarts (University of Utrecht))

2010-02-05 13:00: Facial expressions and moral transgressions: What can facial affect tell us about moral judgments? (Dr. Peter Cannon (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-19 13:00: How do we learn to read? An artificial orthography paradigm (Dr. Jo Taylor (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-02-26 13:00: Networking to charisma or inspiring to centrality?  Comparing models of how leaders affect team performance (Prof. Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge))

2010-03-05 13:00: CANCELLED -Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-understanding (Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University))

2010-03-12 13:00: Why are the Big Five personality dimensions still important? (Prof. Oliver John (UC Berkeley))

2010-04-23 13:00: Investigating reading in low I.Q. children (Sarah Kuppen (Department of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire))

2010-04-30 13:00: Helping divorced fathers help their children (Prof. Sanford L. Braver (Department of Psychology, Arizona State University))

2010-05-07 13:00: The psychology of the imagination and social development: Reflections from Rio's favelas (Dr. Sandra Jovchelovitch (Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics))

2010-05-14 13:00: Children's memories for repeated events: Helping them to recall individual episodes and unique details (Sonja Brubacher (Department of Psychology, Wilfred Laurier University))

2010-05-21 13:00: Conversations sell: How dialogical judgements and goals underpin the success of viral videos (Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-28 13:00: Dialogical knowing and believing (Prof. Ivana Markova (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling))

2010-06-04 13:00: Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: Effects on parent-child relationships and children's psychological well-being (Lucy Blake (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge))

2010-10-15 13:00: Personality Reconsidered:  Personal Projects, Free Traits and the Shape of a Life (Prof. Brian R. Little)

2010-10-22 13:00: Challenges for parents:  understanding infant communication (Dr. Joanna Hawthorne, Brazelton Centre UK)

2010-10-29 13:00: Resilience, regulation, and adaptation - British children's first school experiences (Anni Yang, PPSIS)

2010-11-05 13:00: Towards a Psychological understanding of Extremism (Shahzad Shafqat, Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-12 13:00: Morals and taboos in cyberspace: Do we play by the same rules? (Dr. Monica Whitty, Nottingham Trent University)

2010-11-19 13:00: The adolescent brain: vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders (Dr. Jennifer Lau, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2010-11-19 13:00: Adolescent vulnerability for mood and anxiety problems: the role of brain maturation and social changes. (Dr. Jennifer Lau (Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford))

2010-11-26 13:00: Effective Intergroup Relations in Experimental and Field Settings (Dr. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge))

2010-12-03 13:00: TBC (Dr. Pasco Fearon, University of Reading)

2011-02-04 13:00: What children know about groups, and why it matters: The development of intergroup and intragroup relations (Dr. Dominic Abrams, University of Kent)

2011-02-11 13:00: Exploring the Role of Executive Functions in School Achievement (Dr. Michelle Ellefson (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge))

2011-02-18 13:00: Living fast and dying young: Variation in life history across English neighbourhoods (Dr. Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University))

2011-02-25 13:00: Theorising bystander behaviour: challenges and responses (Dr Rachel Manning (University of the West of England))

2011-03-04 13:00: Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-knowledge (Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University))

2011-03-11 13:00: The reluctant collaborator? How developing social understanding shapes knowledge (Patrick J. Leman (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2011-03-15 16:00: Self-presentational processes in childhood: An interplay of social experience, cognition, motivation and emotion. (Dr Robin Banerjee (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex))

2011-03-18 13:00: Strong versus the weak: A meta-analysis of tie strength and individual effectiveness (Dr. Martin Kilduff (Cambridge Judge Business School))

2011-05-06 13:00: Adverse future outcomes of children involved in school bullying: Synthesizing data from longitudinal studies. (Dr. Maria Ttofi, University of Cambridge (Institute of Criminology))

2011-05-13 13:00: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development (Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-05-20 13:00: Creating contexts that enable behaviour change: towards a fourth generation of approaches to health promotion. (Dr. Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics)

2011-05-27 13:00: Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-03 13:00: Discussing the development of Executive Functions in brazilian children (Dr. Rosinda Martins Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

2011-10-07 13:00: Rewriting the Rules? Non-monogamies and other adventures in non-normative relationships (Dr. Meg Barker, Open University)

2011-10-14 13:00: Collective efficacy and violence in London (Dr. Alex Sutherland, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-21 13:00: Risk factors for adolescent violence across cultures: comparing data from Ghana with the Cambridge Study in Delinquency Development and the Pittsburgh Youth Study (Dr. Kofi E. Boakye, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-28 13:00: Psychological outcomes in parents of children diagnosed with disorders of sex development (DSD) (Dr. Vickie Pasterski, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-04 13:00: Representations of the past, present and future of Intercommunal Relations in Cyprus: A social-psychological analysis of the Cyprus issue (Dr. Charis Psaltis, Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus)

2011-11-11 13:00: Restrictive Parenting and the Unintended Consequences of Moral Prohibitions (Dr. Sana Sheikh, University of St. Andrews)

2011-11-18 13:00: Identifying Perpetrators with Distinctive Features (Dr. Dora Zarkadi, University of Bedfordshire)

2011-11-25 13:00: Meaning making between socially anxious mothers and their children regarding starting school (Dr. Lynne Murray, University of Reading)

2011-12-02 13:00: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Dr. Mark Johnson, Birkbeck College)

2012-01-27 13:00: Crowdsourcing Contests (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research)

2012-02-03 13:00: Control versus chaos: differences in advertisements for non-psychiatric and psychiatric medication in professional journals (Dr. Juliet Foster ( University of Cambridge))

2012-02-10 13:00: Psychological correlates of smoking, drinking and drug-taking use and dependency from a large online sample (David Stillwell)

2012-02-17 13:00: Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments (Stephen Gibson, York St John University)

2012-02-24 13:00: The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices (Christina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent)

2012-03-02 13:00: I Am, Therefore I Buy - Measuring How Personality Influences Consumer Preferences in a Digital Age (Sanna Balsari-Palsule, Psychometrics Centre)

2012-03-16 13:00: The Mental Representation of Social  Values: From System to Instantiation (Greg Maio, Cardiff University)

2012-04-27 13:00: Mastering Uncertainty (Stephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd)

2012-05-04 13:00: Outsmarting the liars: Towards a cognitive lie detection approach (Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth)

2012-05-18 13:00: Mediators of the sex difference in aggression: An evolutionary approach (Anne Campbell, Durham University)

2012-05-25 13:00: Interacting without Touch. (Dr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS))

2012-06-01 13:00: Value From Hedonic Experience and Engagement (Tory Higgins, Columbia University)

2012-06-08 15:00: Understanding (Dis)honesty. (Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School)

2012-06-15 13:00: The Social Regulation of Activity and Inactivity (Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois)

2012-10-09 13:00: "Listen to me, because I'm your mother"-Chinese mothers' parental authority and children's compliance (Soar Huang, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-18 13:00: Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment. (Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego)

2012-10-23 13:00: Sex, Love, and Goodness (Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-06 13:00: Optimising eyewitness testimony by matching witness chronotype and time of interview (Katrin Mueller-Johnson, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-22 13:00: Mothers' depressive symptoms and young children's problem behaviours: The roles of executive function and emotion regulation (Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-05 13:00: Performances in psychiatric hospitals: a social psychological perspective (Dr. Juliet Foster (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-19 13:00: (How) does attentional control matter? (Dr. Gaia Scerif, University of Oxford)

2013-02-28 16:00: Morality in the Body: Influences of Bodily Experience on Moral Judgments and Decisions (Dr. Chen-Bo Zhong, University of Toronto)

2013-03-05 13:00: From Research Setting to Parents: The Role of Parent Social Networks in the Choices they Make about Interventions for their Child with ASD (Katherine Pickard, Michigan State University)

2013-04-30 13:00: How Do Mindreaders Model Minds? (Dr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick)

2013-05-14 13:00: 'Has multiculturalism failed?' Challenging representations of difference in schools. (Dr. Caroline Howarth, LSE)

2013-05-28 13:00: Flourishing: from science to policy (Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-11 13:00: The role of temperament in attention, motor and language development (Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-15 13:00: Visual and Audiovisual Perception in Adults with Autism (Professor Frank Pollick, University of Glasgow)

2013-10-29 13:00: Exploring young children's understanding of their own peer-directed behaviour at school (Katie Rix, PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich)

2013-11-13 13:00: Psychology and Medicine: Critical friendship or uncomfortable bedfellows? (Dr Charlotte Paddison, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-26 13:00: Eating disorders in the classroom: Designing and testing a new universal prevention programme for secondary schools (Dr Helen Sharpe, KCL)

2014-01-13 13:00: The Impact of Visual Cues on the Judgment of Performance  (Dr Chia-Jung Tsay)

2014-02-13 12:45: Applying for Clinical Psychology Training & Clinical Psychology Training at UEA (Professor Kenneth Laidlaw, University of East Anglia)

2014-02-25 13:00: The assessment of sexual arousal and sexual orientation (Dr Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex)

2014-03-12 13:00: How health beliefs influence the symptom experience and treatment decisions at menopause (Helena Rubinstein, University of Cambridge)

2014-04-29 13:00: The daily behaviour of happy people (Dr Gillian Sandstrom, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-13 13:00: Factors that influence the sex difference in young children's physical aggression (Dr Debra Spencer, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-04 13:00: Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything (Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota)

2014-10-14 13:00: Evolutionary perspectives on sex differences in behaviour  (Dr Gillian Brown, University of St Andrews)

2014-11-11 13:00: What is Happiness and What Determines it? Integrating Perspectives from Philosophy, Social Science, and Psychology (Professor Alex Wood, University of Stirling)

2014-11-17 13:00: The Eye Contact Effect: Mechanism and Development (Dr Atsushi Senju, Birkbeck, University of London)

2015-01-19 13:00: The Fathers' Affection Display in Contemporary Chinese Families (Xuan Li, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-03 13:00: Imitation in Early Social and Cognitive Development (Dr Janine Oostenbroek, University of York)

2015-02-16 13:00: Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests  (Dr Niro Sivanathan, London School of Business)

2015-03-03 13:00: Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons (Naomi White, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-28 13:00: Thoughts on sex and violence - using indirect measures in Forensic Psychology (Professor Robert Snowden, Cardiff University)

2015-05-12 13:00: How do infants learn from us? Investigating the neural mechanisms involved in infants' social learning (Dr Victoria Southgate - Birkbeck, University of London)

2015-06-09 13:00: The MInT study: Effectively communicating about, and intervening with, overweight in young children (Dr Deirdre Brown, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)