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Psychology staff research symposium, June 23, 2025, Psychology Lecture Theatre.

Psychology Staff Research Symposium 2025

20 May 2025

The Research Staff Representatives are pleased to invite the Psychology research staff (postdocs, research assistants, visiting researchers, teaching associates, and other ECR staff members) to participate in the upcoming Psychology Staff Research Symposium 2025 , taking place on June 23, 2025 , in the Psychology Main...

Dr Lee de-Wit wins Pilkington Prize 2024

21 March 2024

Congratulations to Dr Lee de-Wit who is one of this year's Pilkington Prize winners! The prizes are awarded to individuals who make a substantial contribution to the teaching programme of a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole. Read more about the 2024 winners: Pilkington Prize 2024

Join Centre for Family Research Activities at the Cambridge Festival

20 February 2024

The Department of Psychology and Centre for Family Research (CFR) are jointly hosting events and activities on the Family Weekend of the Cambridge Festival, 23-24 March 2024. All event details and booking information are available on the CFR website .

Dr Steve Rathje and Dr Jon Roozenbeek win APS Rising Star Awards

20 February 2024

Congratulations to former PhD student Dr Steve Rathje and department member Dr Jon Roozenbeek who won the APS Rising Star Awards this year. The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding Members of the APS (Association for Psychological Science) in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. View...

Prof Sander van der Linden wins BPS Best Book Prize

20 February 2024

Congratulations to Prof Sander van der Linden who has won the Best Book Prize (popular science) from the British Psychological Society for his book Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity . Read about all winning books: Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Book Award Further information on...

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Department of Psychology Undergraduates Prizes 2023

18 December 2023

Many congratulations to all the students below, who were awarded prizes in the 2023 examinations. The British Psychological Society Prize for Best Performance across Accredited Programmes was awarded to: Jess Evans, M The Cambridge University Press Prize for best project was awarded to: Jess Evans, M The Cambridge...

Clarivate ISI Highly Cited Researchers

16 November 2022

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade. These highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for a field or fields and publication year in the Web of Science™ . In 2022, fewer than 7,000...

Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control

1 November 2022

A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the ‘marshmallow test’ – and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests This paper was published by Nicola Clayton, Alex Schnell and Markus Boeckle. This is the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in...

The inaugural issue of The Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour (CJHB) is now published!

10 October 2022

cjhb_inaugural_issue.png The Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour (CJHB) has released its inaugural issue, which can be found on https://cjhumanbehaviour.com . This student-led, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, is open to any undergraduate student to submit to. This is a student project which we are proud to...

Psychology Staff Research Symposium 2025

Dr Lee de-Wit wins Pilkington Prize 2024

Join Centre for Family Research Activities at the Cambridge Festival

Dr Steve Rathje and Dr Jon Roozenbeek win APS Rising Star Awards

Prof Sander van der Linden wins BPS Best Book Prize

Department of Psychology Undergraduates Prizes 2023

Clarivate ISI Highly Cited Researchers

Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control

The inaugural issue of The Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour (CJHB) is now published!

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