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SUMMARY:Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents - Professor
  Andy Field\, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology)\, School of 
 Psychology\, University of  Sussex
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:On a distant planet called Skaro\, the evil scientific genius 
 Davros entered an inter-galactic competition to invent the ultimate child-
 scaring device. His mission\, to create a being to invoke fear in the chil
 dren of Earth. After decades of mutating Kaleds\, he believed he had succe
 eded. Cackling maniacally to himself\, he unveiled this weapon of childhoo
 d fear: the Dalek. Immediately he began to transmit their evil doings thro
 ugh televisions and the children of earth were soon cowering behind their 
 sofas. Davros sat back smugly\, secure that he would win the competition.\
 n\nHowever\, light years away on the planet Earth evolution had other plan
 s. Over millions of years it developed its own organism for implanting fea
 rs into the minds of children. An organism it believed was even more power
 ful in the terror that it could instil than even a Dalek. It called this w
 eapon of childhood fear ‘the Parent’.\n\nThis talk describes a body of
  work looking at how children’s fearful emotional reactions are influenc
 ed by what they hear\, what they see\, their personalities\, and their par
 ents. In doing so\, we will try to decide whether Davros or evolution won 
 the competition.\n\n\nBio\nAndy Field is Professor of Child Psychopatholog
 y at the University of Sussex\, UK. He has published extensively on emotio
 nal development in children but in the unlikely event that you’ve ever h
 eard of him it’ll be as the ‘Stats book guy’. That’s because he wr
 ote the bestselling textbook  ‘Discovering Statistics using SPSS: and se
 x and drugs and rock n’ roll’\, which won the British Psychological So
 ciety book award in 2007. He’s also written a version of that book for R
 . His unorthodox teaching of statistics has gained him University of Susse
 x (2001) and British Psychological Society (2006) teaching awards and a pr
 estigious National Teaching Fellowship (2010). In his spare time he plays 
 the drums very noisily in a heavy metal band\, which he finds very therape
 utic.\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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