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Ways of Seeing: Dr Simone Schnall in Living Rooms event

5 February 2014

Dr Simone Schnall will appear with artist and dancer Jasmin Vardimon at a Living Rooms event in Canterbury, on Friday 7 March. The event, which is sponsored by the charity People United , is entitled ' Ways of Seeing - The Body as a Metaphor '. This interactive and participatory event will include a discussion of how...

Psychology at the Science Festival

4 February 2014

The annual Science Festival is a great opportunity to find out about the amazing research being undertaken in the University. This year, the Festival will run from 10 - 23 March and, as in previous years, the Department will play a full role. The theme of this 20th Science Festival is structures and patterns. The...

Dr Luke Clark to lead new gambling research centre in Canada

30 January 2014

Congratulations to Dr Luke Clark, who will be joining the University of British Columbia (UBC) in July to become the first Director of its newly established Centre for Gambling Research. Luke, who has been a member of the Department since 2007, is a Senior Lecturer and co-directs the Lab for Affect, Risk and Gambling...

1st place to Taeko Wachi in the AP-LS Dissertation Awards

28 January 2014

Taeko Wachi (pictured), who recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Michael Lamb , is the first place winner in the 2013 American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) Dissertation Awards. In a year which saw a large number of high quality submissions, Taeko's dissertation was judged to be highly original...

CSLB conducts large concept property norming study

27 January 2014

Researchers at the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain (CSLB) have recently conducted a large concept property norming study and have made the resultant set of property norms publically available as a free lexical resource. The CSLB norming study is described in an upcoming issue of Behaviour Research Methods ...

Research gives insights on how to keep one’s New Year’s resolutions

27 January 2014

Research carried out by PhD student Hyunji Kim (now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Essex) under the supervision of Dr. Simone Schnall and Dr. Mathew White (University of Exeter) addresses the question of why people often given in to temptations. Dr. Schnall explains to Cambridge News how this work relates to...

Prof. Lorraine Tyler elected as the Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecturer 2015

23 January 2014

Professor Lorraine K Tyler has been elected as the Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecturer 2015 by the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). First awarded in 1966, the prize is given annually to recognise distinction in experimental psychology or a cognate discipline. Previous recipients include: Professor OL Zangwill, Professor...

BBC Two programme looks inside the minds of animals with help from Prof. Nicky Clayton

20 January 2014

Inside the Animal Mind is a new three-part BBC Two series for which Professor Nicky Clayton acted as super contributor and scientific consultant. Nicky also co-presents the second programme in the series, alongside Chris Packham. The series investigates the minds of animals and attempts to find out what it would be like to...

Dr Luke Clark to present opening lecture at international symposium on problem gambling

8 January 2014

Dr Luke Clark is to give the opening lecture at an upcoming international symposium on problem gambling. The Third International Multidisciplinary Symposium, Excessive Gambling: Prevention and Harm Reduction will be held at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland from 15-17 January. Dr Clark's lecture will look at how...

Two Psychology papers in the top 21 most talked about articles of 2013

16 December 2013

An analysis of the on-line impact of academic articles from 2013 by the foremost company in the field of article level metrics, Altmetric , indicates that Cambridge was the only UK university with two articles in the top 100 most talked about papers of the year. Furthermore, the two papers in question were authored by...

Ways of Seeing: Dr Simone Schnall in Living Rooms event

Psychology at the Science Festival

Dr Luke Clark to lead new gambling research centre in Canada

1st place to Taeko Wachi in the AP-LS Dissertation Awards

CSLB conducts large concept property norming study

Research gives insights on how to keep one’s New Year’s resolutions

Prof. Lorraine Tyler elected as the Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecturer 2015

BBC Two programme looks inside the minds of animals with help from Prof. Nicky Clayton

Dr Luke Clark to present opening lecture at international symposium on problem gambling

Two Psychology papers in the top 21 most talked about articles of 2013

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