les34's list


2007-10-09 13:00: Collaborative learning in children: contradiction, co-construction and the development of knowledge (Christine Howe, Faculty of Education, Cambridge)

2007-10-15 13:00: The origins and biology of play (Professor Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee)

2007-10-23 13:00: Intrusive Thoughts and Cognitive Functioning following Potentially Traumatic Events: From Hurricanes to Maltreatment, Injury, and Chronic Illness (Manuel Sprung, University of Innsbruck)

2007-11-06 13:00: Chinese Whispers and Virtual Arrowheads: What cultural transmission experiments can tell us about cultural evolution (Alex Mesoudi, SPS)

2007-11-20 13:00: Change in Personal Values: How, When, What, and Effects on Well-Being (Dr Anat Bardi, University of Kent)

2008-02-05 13:00: Stress and Child care (Professor Lieselotte Ahnert, Faculty of Human Science, University of Cologne)

2008-02-19 13:00: The geography of personality (Dr Jason Rentfrow, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Cambridge)

2008-03-04 13:00: How to measure God: Innovations in the experimental investigation of religious cognition (Dr Nicholas Gibson, Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity,)

2008-04-29 13:00: Fathers, Infants and Family Leave Policies: International Perspectives and Policy Impact (Professor Margaret O'Brien, University of East Anglia)

2008-05-27 13:00: Shifting ground: The variable use of essentialism in contexts of inclusion and exclusion (Dr Thomas Morton, University of Exeter)

2008-06-10 13:00: Dialogue and the development of reasoning and understanding (Professor Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-10 16:30: The spatial foundations of the conceptual system (Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA)

2008-10-21 17:30: How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science (Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net)

2008-11-04 13:00: The Colour of Motivation (Prof. Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester, NY, USA)

2008-11-18 13:00: Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children's Evaluations of Disclosing an Adult's Wrongdoing (Lindsay Malloy, University of Cambridge)

2008-12-02 13:00: Adoption: Recovery After Initial Adversity (Prof. Jesús Palacios, University of Seville, Spain)

2009-01-13 13:00: Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Movement (Brady Wagoner (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-28 13:00: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences (Prof. Jay Belsky (Institute for the Study of  Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London))

2009-02-10 13:00: "Only You Can Tell Me What Happened": Innovative Techniques for Interviewing Child Alleged Victims of Sexual Abuse (Dr. Carmit Katz (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-24 13:00: Deception Detection (Dr. Eunkyung Jo (Hallym University, Korea))

2009-03-12 13:00: The Art Image as Foundation for a Science of Mind: The Life Work of Susanne K. Langer (Dr. Ivan Ellingham (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust))

2009-04-20 13:00: Talking about the past, present and future: Effects on children's memory and knowledge (Prof. Mel Pipe (Brooklyn College, CUNY))

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))

2009-06-01 17:30: Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences (Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

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))

2009-10-13 13:00: Psychometrics ancient and modern: From Classical Test Theory to Item Response Theory (Prof. John Rust (Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-27 13:00: The development of sex differences in mental rotations in human infants (Prof. David Moore (Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School, USA))

2009-11-10 13:00: Measuring unconscious response tendencies in adults and children (Dr. Dénes Szücs (Department of Education, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-17 13:00: Daily well-being is about thoughts as well as feelings:  Extending the day reconstruction method (Dr. Mathew White (University of Plymouth))

2009-11-24 13:00: The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human? (Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh))

2009-12-08 13:00: "The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human?" (Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh))

2009-12-08 13:00: We think we understand: When empathic accuracy and perceptions diverge (Prof. Sara D. Hodges (University of Oregon))

2010-01-29 15:30: Positive psychology and positive education (Prof. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania; former president, American Psychological Association))

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))

2010-03-12 16:00: The ethical brain (Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara))

2010-03-19 19:30: Explore the science of personality research (Dr Jason Rentfrow (Dept of Social and Developmental Psychology))

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))

2010-06-18 13:00: Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul (Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside))

2010-06-25 13:00: Scientific study of forgiveness: Status (Prof. Everett L. Worthington (Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA))

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)

2010-11-26 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)

2011-01-21 13:00: Using Triangulation in Qualitative Research in Times of Mixed Methods (Dr. Uwe Flick (University of Applied Sciences, Berlin))

2011-01-28 13:00: How musical is Homo Sapiens? Investigating perceptual and emotional components of musicality (Dr. Marcel Zentner (University of York))

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))

2011-03-18 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)

2011-05-18 13:00: Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism (Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice))

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)

2012-05-11 13:00: The developmental antecedents of political preference: Re-examining parental influence (Lori Bougher (University of Cambridge))

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)

2012-11-16 13:00: Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative (Nicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science)

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)

2015-10-13 13:00: How Sex Offenders Groom Minors on the Internet (Dr Evianne van Gijn, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-27 13:00: The Order of Gendered Words in a Phrase: When and Why It Constitutes Gender-Biased Language (Dr Selin Kesebir, London Business School)

2015-11-10 13:00: Becoming a Viking:Processes of Identification with the Remote Past (Dr Marc Scully, Loughborough University)

2015-11-24 13:00: What dancing robots might teach us about  the development of form and motion  understanding in the human brain  (Dr Emily Cross, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University  |    Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2016-01-19 13:00: Forming Beliefs: information seeking, avoidance & integration in the human brain (Dr Tali Sharot, University College London)

2016-02-02 13:00: HIV and the "dirty" other: Living with a spoiled identity (Dr Poul Rohleder, University of East London)

2016-02-09 13:00: Family influences on the health risk behaviours and well-being of African American adolescents (Prof Cleopatra Howard Caldwell)

2016-02-16 13:00: A discourse of ‘we’: gendered subjectivities and caregiving in UK ‘stay-at-home-dads’ (Dr Abigail Locke, University of Bradford)

2016-03-08 13:00: The role of stigma in the pursuit of personal projects:  Implications for the health and well-being of marginalized individuals (Dr David Frost, University of Surrey)

2016-04-26 13:00: The Early Development of Joking and Pretending (Dr Elena Hoicka, Sheffield University)

2016-05-10 13:00:  The construction of extremism in ‘The Trojan Horse’ affair: implications for identity and citizenship (Dr Caroline Howarth, London School of Economics)

2016-10-11 13:00: Dementia care through the lens of social representations: A discussion of anchoring and framing processes  (Nils Töpfer, University of Jena, Germany)

2016-10-25 13:00: Understanding radicalisation (Dr Noemie Bouhana, University College London)

2016-11-08 13:00: The Reluctant Altruist (Prof Eamonn Ferguson)

2016-11-22 13:00: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Prof Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany )

2017-01-24 13:00: Social representations and political thought (Prof Christian Staerklé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

2017-02-07 13:00: Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women's leadership roles in times of crisis (Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter and University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

2017-02-21 13:00: Social Identity: The enactment and performance of religious identities (Dr Nicholas Hopkins, University of Dundee, Scotland)

2017-02-28 13:00: Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments (Prof Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)

2017-03-07 13:00: Developmental changes after early adversity: lessons from adoption research (Prof Jesus Palacios, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

2017-05-02 13:00: Ritual, Community, and Conflict (Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford)

2017-05-16 13:00: Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives (Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France))

2017-10-10 13:00: Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages (Jac Davis, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-24 13:00: Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse? (Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton)

2017-11-07 13:00: Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa (Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics )

2017-11-21 13:00: Spaces for citizen involvement in healthcare: an ethnographic study (Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2018-01-23 13:00: The role of attachment in cults and radicalization (Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London)

2018-02-06 13:00: What constitutes 'discrimination' in everyday talk? Argumentative lines and the social representations of discrimination (Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University )

2018-02-20 13:00: Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genetic social psychology  (Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia)

2018-03-06 13:00: Bringing Personality Theory Back to Life:   On Persons-in-Context, Idiographic Strategies, and Lazarus (Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA))

2018-05-01 13:00: Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania (Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2018-05-15 13:00: Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory (Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent)

2019-02-20 15:00: From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors (Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London)

2019-03-06 15:00: The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization (Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. )

2019-03-13 15:00: Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty (Matija Franklin )

2019-03-20 15:00: Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay. (Peter Romero)

2019-04-24 15:00: Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions (Dr Marwa El Zein)

2019-05-15 15:00: Why do we cry? (Dr Eric Vanman, University of Queensland)

2019-05-22 15:00: Is the child the father of the political man? (Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London)

2019-05-29 15:00: Inside-out:  How emotions are perceived in the face (Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London)

2019-06-05 15:00: The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change (Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

2019-06-12 15:00: Digitally Distracted (Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL))

2019-06-19 15:00: Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-07-11 12:00: Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime Solving story (Dr Tesh Goyal)

2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Lynne Cooper)

2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Dr Lynne Cooper)

2019-10-23 15:00:  Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities (Patricia Andrews Fearon)

2019-11-20 15:00: Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction (Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London)

2019-11-27 15:00: Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why (Joseph Marks)

2020-01-15 15:00: Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making (Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

2020-01-29 16:00: Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science (Dr Cory Clark, Durham University)

2020-02-12 16:00: Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality (Dr. Claudia Schneider)

2020-03-11 16:00: A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data (Dr David Stillwell)

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Dr Lasana Harris (UCL))

2020-11-04 16:00: Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others (Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-18 16:00: How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions (Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University))

2020-12-02 16:00: The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction (Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago))

2021-01-27 16:00: Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration-policy preferences (Associate Professor Mina Cikara (Harvard University))

2021-02-03 16:00: Misinformation and the distinct psychologies of believing and sharing (Professor Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University))

2021-02-17 16:00: Quantifying and nudging collective intelligence (Associate Professor Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University))

2021-02-24 15:00: How we know what not to think (3pm start) (Dr Fiery Cushman (Harvard University))

2021-03-03 16:00: PhD Research Talks - Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-17 16:00: Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? (Bharathy Premachandra (Cornell University))

2021-04-28 16:00: Facing the epidemics of hate speech. (Professor Michal Bilewicz (University of Warsaw))

2021-05-05 16:00: For better or worse: The role of social identity in the Pandemic (Dr Jay van Bavel (NYU))

2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2021-06-02 16:00: Having a Voice in Your Group: Field Experiments on Behavioral and Attitudinal Changes (Dr Sherry Wu (UCLA))

2021-10-13 15:00: Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think (Dr Hugo Mercier (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS))

2021-10-20 16:00: Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent (Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell))

2021-11-04 16:00: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them (Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill))

2021-11-17 16:00: Field Social Psychology (Dr Séamus A. Power, University of Copenhagen)

2021-12-01 16:00: Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena (Dr Alin Coman (Princeton))

2022-03-02 16:00: The Cooperative Animal (Michael Tomasello (Duke))

2022-03-09 16:00: Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics (Bert Bakker (Amsterdam))

2022-03-16 15:00: Understanding the effects of repetition on belief (Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt))

2022-05-11 16:00: Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling (Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,)

2022-06-08 16:00: Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals (Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour))

2022-06-15 16:00: Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks (Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics)

2023-04-26 15:00: Stereotypes as Shifting Standards: Implications for Social Judgment, Communication, and the Interpretation of Feedback (Monica Biernat (University of Kansas))

2023-05-03 15:00: Prejudice is Affect: Divorcing Prejudice from Propositional Representations? (Chris Crandall (University of Kansas))

2023-05-10 15:00: When Is Morality Black and White? (Joshua D. Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania))

2023-05-17 15:00: Civilians on Fire: Moral Injury and Associated Mental Health Symptoms in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion (Larysa Zasiekina (University of Cambridge; Ukrainka Volyn National University))

2023-05-24 15:00: Snacks & Drinks! (Postgrads & Postdocs) (Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room)

2023-05-31 15:00: Rational Belief Polarisation: A Bayesian Network Model of Bias Attributions (David Young (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-07 15:00: Behavioural and Neural Dynamics of Learning in Social Interaction (Sara De Felice (University College London))

2023-06-14 15:00: Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Social Power on Empathy for Pain (Ekim Luo (University of Cambridge))

2024-01-17 16:00: The failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine and Russian PsyOps ads on Facebook (Jon Roozenbeek (Cambridge), Tetiana Haiduchyk and Uliana Hresko (Trementum), Anton Dek (Judge Business School))

2024-01-24 15:00: The paradox of virality  (Steve Rathje (New York University))

2024-01-31 16:00: Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles (Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London))

2024-02-07 15:00: Understanding and managing conspiracy beliefs (Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent))

2024-02-14 15:00: A closer look at testimony: Scope, challenges, and consequences (Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London) )

2024-02-21 15:00: How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response? (Madalina Vlasceanu (New York University))

2024-02-28 15:00: When Curiosity Gaps Backfire: Effects of Headline Concreteness on Information Selection Decisions (Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University))

2024-03-06 15:00: Student Spotlight: Yan Xia, James Ackland, and Nikolay Petrov (Yan Xia (Aalto University), James Ackland (Cambridge), and Nikolay Petrov (Cambridge))

2024-03-11 11:00: Psychological Intergroup Interventions: The Motivation Challenge (Eran Halperin (Hebrew University))

2024-03-20 16:00: Political Polarization, Social Norms, and Sorting: An Agent-based Social Sampling Model (Gordon Brown (University of Warwick))

2024-04-24 15:00: Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies (Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent))

2024-05-01 15:00: Behavioural Science and Security: Informing Evidence-based Policy and Practice (Brooke Rogers (King's College London))

2024-05-08 15:00: Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Trends, Drivers, Solutions (Julia Ebner (Oxford))

2024-05-22 15:00: Tin Foil Confessions: Escaping The Cult Of Conspiracy (Brent Lee)

2024-05-29 15:00: Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative (Ceejay Hayes (Cambridge) )

2024-06-05 15:00: Social robots: an experimental apparatus in fundamental psychological research and a support tool in healthcare (Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology))

2024-06-12 15:00: Large Language Models or Large Models of the Human Mind? (Michal Kosinski (Stanford University))

2024-06-20 15:00: Tackling global social issues: Understanding what shapes and motivates pro-environmental behaviour  (Claudia R Schneider (University of Canterbury))

2024-10-09 15:00: Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior (Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley)

2024-10-23 15:00: What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities (Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-13 15:00: The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions (Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-27 15:00: Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments (Ben Tappin (London School of Economics))

2025-01-29 13:00: CANCELLED: How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford))

2025-02-05 15:00: Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships (Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent))

2025-02-19 15:00: The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine (Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev))

2025-03-05 15:00: Encouraging sustainable food choices on food-delivery apps: which interventions work, when, and do consumers want them? (Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-17 15:00: The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography (Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia))

2025-05-07 16:00: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation (Lee McIntyre (Boston University))

2025-05-14 15:00: Strategic Climate Change Communication: The Questions Few are Asking (Matthew Goldberg (Yale University))

2025-05-28 15:00: The Long-Term Effectiveness of Gamified Inoculation: Mapping Decay, Booster Interventions, and Diffusion Messages (Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford))

2025-06-09 15:00: Climate beliefs across borders: National patterns and digital interventions (Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland))

2025-06-25 15:00: The Role of Voting Advice Applications in Combatting Misinformation (Clifton van der Linden (University of Oxford and McMaster University))

2025-10-31 15:00: Do Contemporary Psychological Inoculation Interventions Psychologically Inoculate against Misinformation? (Dan Loughnan; Radboud University)

2025-11-07 15:00: Behavioral research on climate change mitigation (Kristian Steensen Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School)

2025-11-14 16:00: The Causal Effects of Political Incivility in Social Media Discussions (Chris Bail (Duke University))

2026-01-28 15:00: AI and the Democratic Information Environment (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford))

2026-02-11 15:00: Behaviour change to achieve net zero (Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath))

2026-02-18 15:00: Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain (Nicholas Wright (University College London; Georgetown University))

2026-02-25 15:00: Algorithm-mediated social learning (William Brady (Northwestern University))

2026-03-02 15:00: Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion (Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI))

2026-03-11 15:00: Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere (Manon Revel (Google DeepMind))

2026-04-29 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford))

2026-05-13 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics))

2026-05-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jens Madsen (London School of Economics))

2026-06-10 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Leor Zmigrod)