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Multidisciplinary neuroscientist Shaira Berg finished her PhD last year in the Cambridge MiND Lab. She was interviewed by Nature on her work combining neuroscience and art: How I explore trauma through ‘cinematic neuroscience’

Congratulations to our researchers Dr Rakoen Maertens, Dr David Young and Dr Chloe Austerberry, whose outstanding research has made them the inaugural winners of two new awards in the Department of Psychology.Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize (PhD & MPhil students)Dr Rakoen Maertens has been awarded the Brenda Milner Prize 2025 for his outstanding res…

Congratulations to Psychology researchers Marcella Montagnese and Richard Bethlehem, who have secured funding from the Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery for their CogMap project. 15 differerent research projects in the programme will use artificial intelligence to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in science and society.CogMap…

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 Building. We welcome submissions…

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

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.

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 the full list: New APS Rising…

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 AwardFurther information on the winners: Books with insi…

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, MThe Cambridge University Press Prize for best project was awarded to: Jess Evans, MThe Cambridge University Press Prizes for best …

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, or about 0.1%, of the world's …

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 testsThis 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 birds.Self-control - the ab…

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 recommend. Our PBS students are encouraged to further dev…

On This Day.... 7th May Kenneth Craik (1914–1945) By Professor John Mollon Today, 7th May, marks the 75th anniversary of a fatal accident that changed the course of Psychology in Cambridge. It was the eve of V.E. Day and the centre of Cambridge was filled with celebrating crowds. Kenneth Craik (photo on the right) was cycling to his College, St Joh…

  On February 13th, 1915, the term 'shell shock' was used for the first time in the medical literature, in a paper in The Lancet.  The paper is now seen as seminal in the literature on war neuroses.  The author was Charles Samuel Myers, Director of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory.  Myers had volunteered for war work the previous autumn and s…

Professor John Mollon reports on the centenary of the official opening of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory On May 15, 1913, the Vice-Chancellor formally opened the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory.  Ludwig Wittgenstein was present to demonstrate apparatus for studying rhythm; and from a letter written by Bertrand Russell to Ottoline Morrell…