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Royal Society announces new Cambridge fellows | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/royal-society-announces-new-cambridge-fellows18 May 2007: Professor Barry John Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology. ... Since 2005 he has been Head of the Department of Physics, and the Cavendish Laboratory. -
Ageing cuttlefish can remember the details of last week’s dinner |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ageing-cuttlefish-can-remember-the-details-of-last-weeks-dinner18 Aug 2021: Search. Search. Ageing cuttlefish can remember the details of last week’s dinner. ... the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, first author of the paper.
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Artificial ‘brain’ reveals why we can’t always believe our eyes |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-brain-reveals-why-we-cant-always-believe-our-eyes25 Feb 2021: at or tested before,” said Dr Reuben Rideaux, a researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and first author of the study. ... Images, including our videos, are Copyright University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as
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Stigma of broken family relationships compounded by lockdown |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stigma-of-broken-family-relationships-compounded-by-lockdown18 Jun 2020: Images, including our videos, are Copyright University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox.
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Personality test to explore rules of attraction | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/personality-test-to-explore-rules-of-attraction30 Jul 2010: The results could prove groundbreaking, enabling social scientists to cross-refer the results and accumulate an unprecedented set of data on two of psychology's biggest unknowns. ... The research will be carried out by Dr. Rentfrow and Professor Michael
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Pets are a child’s best friend, not their siblings | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pets-are-a-childs-best-friend-not-their-siblings26 Jan 2017: Department of Psychiatry, who led the study. ... Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology; 24 Jan 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.01.003.
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Novel Thoughts: what Cambridge scientists read | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read8 Jun 2015: Dr Juliet Foster from the Department of Psychology discussing The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer on 22 June. ... Dr Amy Milton from the Department of Psychology discussing Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Junior on 3 July.
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Gardeners and carpenters: the ‘skill’ of parenting | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/gardeners-and-carpenters-the-skill-of-parenting8 Nov 2018: There are obvious reasons for this – mothers are more often the primary carers and theories that have dominated psychology have revolved around the mother–child relationship – plus, over the past 30 ... Images, including our videos, are Copyright
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Ageing affects test-taking, not language, study shows | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ageing-affects-test-taking-not-language-study-shows12 May 2016: the same sentences leads to the additional activation of several task-related networks. ... Journal of Neuroscience; 11 May 2016; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4561-15.2016.
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Musical tastes offer a window into how you think | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/musical-tastes-offer-a-window-into-how-you-think22 Jul 2015: Department of Psychology. ... The app asked Facebook users to take a selection of psychology-based questionnaires, the results of which they could place on their profiles for other users to see.
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Spending for smiles: money can buy happiness after all | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/spending-for-smiles-money-can-buy-happiness-after-all7 Apr 2016: The study was authored by Sandra Matz, a PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Department of Psychology; Joe Gladstone, a Research Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School; and David Stillwell, University Lecturer ... Categories with the lowest and highest
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Research reveals how elephants 'see' the world | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/research-reveals-how-elephants-see-the-world28 Aug 2013: Inset image: Josh Plotnik with elephants and some of the co-authors of the research. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox.
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Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/just-like-humans-more-intelligent-jays-have-greater-self-control31 Oct 2022: The worst performers, ‘Dolci’ and ‘Homer’, could only wait a maximum of 20 seconds. ... Dr Alex Schnell at the University’s Department of Psychology, first author of the report.
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Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sleight-of-hand-magic-trick-only-fools-monkeys-with-opposable-thumbs3 Apr 2023: Nicola Clayton FRS, senior author of the study from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology. ... Another co-author of the study, Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, is a professional magician and Member of the
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Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mothers-and-babies-brains-more-in-tune-when-mother-is-happy17 Dec 2019: Leong in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, who led the study. ... Images, including our videos, are Copyright University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified.
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Mood-tracking app paves way for pocket therapy | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mood-tracking-app-paves-way-for-pocket-therapy8 May 2013: In terms of sheer presence, mobiles can provide an ongoing link with a person.”. ... Rentfrow, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, said.
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Gates Scholar Melisa Basol on inoculating against fake news |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gates-scholar-melisa-basol-on-inoculating-against-fake-news11 Dec 2018: immigration. Melisa Basol was just finishing her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Aberystwyth at the time. ... As a member of the Social Decision-Making Research Lab at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, she has been working
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Marmoset study identifies brain region linking actions to their…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/marmoset-study-identifies-brain-region-linking-actions-to-their-outcomes24 Jun 2021: When we temporarily turned this off, behaviour became more habitual - like when we go onto autopilot,” said Lisa Duan in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, first author of ... Trevor Robbins in the University of Cambridge’s
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Near misses are like winning to problem gamblers | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/near-misses-are-like-winning-to-problem-gamblers4 May 2010: The dopamine system is associated with addiction and targeted by drugs of abuse. ... The findings are published in the new issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
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Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-psychologist-helps-facebook-fight-climate-change-misinformation18 Feb 2021: Facebook is in a unique position to counter the circulation of online misinformation. ... Department of Psychology.
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Unhappy mothers talk more to their baby boys, study finds |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unhappy-mothers-talk-more-to-their-baby-boys-study-finds3 Sep 2019: The findings of the research, which was supported by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council, are published in the Journal of Family Psychology. ... Journal of Family Psychology; 22 Aug 2019; DOI: 10.1037/fam0000590.
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Why be human when you can be otherkin? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin16 Jul 2016: Feijó’s essay Doctors Herding Cats: The Misadventures of Modern Medicine and Psychology with NonhuMan Identities offers a fascinating insight into questions of identity and how they have been mediated. ... The problem is that the ridicule seems to
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Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/eye-contact-with-your-baby-helps-synchronise-your-brainwaves29 Nov 2017: Their results are published today in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). ... Dr Victoria Leong is an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, and also an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological
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Beliefs, predictions and shortcuts in the deceitful brain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/beliefs-predictions-and-shortcuts-in-the-deceitful-brain1 May 2010: Professor Fletcher’s group, in collaboration with Professor Tony Dickinson, a learning expert based in the Department of Experimental Psychology, and Dr Philip Corlett at Yale University, has been studying the ... and Trevor Robbins in the Department
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People more afraid of catching COVID-19 are more judgemental, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/people-more-afraid-of-catching-covid-19-are-more-judgemental-study-finds9 Jun 2021: Department of Psychology, senior author of the report. ... of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and first author of the report.
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Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bridging-the-divide-philosophy-meets-science12 Jul 2018: For three years, Daniel De Haan, Natalja Deng and Peter Woodford worked side-by-side with colleagues from the Department of Experimental Psychology, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics ... DAMTP) and the Department of Zoology
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How could multilingualism benefit India’s poorest schoolchildren? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-could-multilingualism-benefit-indias-poorest-schoolchildren20 Nov 2018: Research Council and the Department for International Development. ... Led by Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the project involves Dr Dénes Szucs from the Department of Psychology, plus researchers
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"Academic Incubator" to develop new medicines of value |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/academic-incubator-to-develop-new-medicines-of-value1 Sep 2008: Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology and the Institute of Metabolic Science, to develop a novel centrally acting agent with therapeutic potential for obesity and addictive disorders. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent
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How risky is your breakfast? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/how-risky-is-your-breakfast27 Oct 2012: the outside world – they are constructed on the basis of our judgement and knowledge. ... I have been collaborating with Dr Mike Aitken in the Department of Experimental Psychology on the Big Risk Test run by BBC Lab UK, in which over 60,000
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Elephants and humans: a love affair over 1300 years | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/elephants-and-humans-a-love-affair-over-1300-years1 Jul 2015: The remarkable intelligence and memory of elephants is at the core of a research programme run by Dr Josh Plotnik, a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge and a ... In Kenya, Dr Lauren Evans, a post-doctoral researcher at the Department
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Is there any such thing as the female brain? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/is-there-any-such-thing-as-the-female-brain22 Jun 2011: At Women’s Word - a festival of literature, debate and discussion taking place at Lucy Cavendish College this weekend – Melissa Hines, Professor of Social and Development Psychology at Cambridge University, will ... Studies of genetics, prenatal
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Cultural heritage after conflict | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cultural-heritage-after-conflict1 May 2010: Dr Marie Louise Stig Sørensen in the Department of Archaeology leads the 1.2 million project, which is funded through the European Union Seventh Framework Programme and brings together researchers in ... For more information, please contact the author
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Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cocaine-addiction-scientists-discover-back-door-into-the-brain12 Jan 2016: Previous research by Professor Barry Everitt from the Department of Psychology at Cambridge showed that when rats were allowed to self-administer cocaine, dopamine-related activity occurred initially in an area ... and so on,” says co-author Mickael
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Young minds think alike – and older people are more distractible |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-minds-think-alike-and-older-people-are-more-distractible14 Aug 2015: Dr Karen Campbell from the Department of Psychology, first author on the study, says: “As we age, our ability to control the focus of attention tends to decline, and we end ... variety of techniques to draw attention to the focal item in each shot.
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Rates of infectious disease linked to authoritarian attitudes and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rates-of-infectious-disease-linked-to-authoritarian-attitudes-and-governance21 Sep 2021: an expert in the psychology of ideology from the University of Cambridge. ... If COVID-19 increases the allure of authoritarian politics, the effects could be long-lasting,” said Zmigrod, from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology.
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Opinion: How to start healing those Brexit family rifts | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-to-start-healing-those-brexit-family-rifts1 Jul 2016: Estrangements are rarely static and cycling in and out of estrangement is common. ... Lucy Blake, Research Associate at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.
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Novel Thoughts #8: Amy Milton on Hubert Selby’s Requiem for a Dream | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/novel-thoughts-8-amy-milton-on-hubert-selbys-requiem-for-a-dream3 Jul 2015: Dr Amy Milton from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology relates how Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby’s bleak portrayal of drug addiction, motivated her to dedicate her academic career to ... Share. Published. 03 Jul 2015. Image. Amy Milton. Credit:
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Alzheimer’s test developed at Cambridge to be trialled by GPs |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/alzheimers-test-developed-at-cambridge-to-be-trialled-by-gps7 Sep 2011: Share. Published. 07 Sep 2011. Image. Image of CANTAB Mobile. Credit: Photo Cambridge Cognition. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox.
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Fervent fans keep faith with heroes even after ‘immoral acts’, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fervent-fans-keep-faith-with-heroes-even-after-immoral-acts-study-finds6 Sep 2022: analysing the posts from 36,464 YouTube followers of a famous online prankster. ... The question is whether anything can break this spell of commitment,” Karg said.
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Genes influence ability to read a person’s mind from their eyes |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genes-influence-ability-to-read-a-persons-mind-from-their-eyes7 Jun 2017: The majority of these were 23andMe customers who consented to participate in research. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox.
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Cuttlefish eat less for lunch when they know there’ll be shrimp for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cuttlefish-eat-less-for-lunch-when-they-know-therell-be-shrimp-for-dinner4 Feb 2020: not. This is a very complex behaviour and is only possible because they have a sophisticated brain,” said Pauline Billard, a PhD student in the University of Cambridge’s Department of ... This flexible foraging strategy shows that cuttlefish can
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The Bird Tango: Cambridge academic fuses love of birds and dance |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-bird-tango-cambridge-academic-fuses-love-of-birds-and-dance9 Sep 2009: Search. Search. The Bird Tango: Cambridge academic fuses love of birds and dance. ... Professor Nicola Clayton. "Darwin and dance? For me the connection is clear, thanks to the birds," says the Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology.
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Feeling powerless increases the weight of the world… literally |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/feeling-powerless-increases-the-weight-of-the-world-literally4 Feb 2014: Eun Hee Lee - a researcher working with Dr Simone Schnall at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology - carried out a series of tests in which volunteers were surreptitiously surveyed about their own ... The study is published this week in the Journal of
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Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-children-use-physics-not-previous-rewards-to-learn-about-tools23 Feb 2018: Dr Lucy Cheke from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge says: “Imagine a situation where someone is learning about hammers. ... In this test, some of the tools were ‘functional’ and some ‘non-functional’.
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Mechanisms of real-time speech interpretation in the human brain…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mechanisms-of-real-time-speech-interpretation-in-the-human-brain-revealed30 Sep 2019: Search. Search. Mechanisms of real-time speech interpretation in the human brain revealed. ... so that they make sense in the context of what has already been said.
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Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/game-combats-political-misinformation-by-letting-players-undermine-democracy6 Nov 2020: It has been created by University of Cambridge psychologists with support from the US Department of State's Global Engagement Center and Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ... The effectiveness of
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Simple ‘sniff test’ reliably predicts recovery of severely…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/simple-sniff-test-reliably-predicts-recovery-of-severely-brain-injured-patients29 Apr 2020: University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and the Weizmann Institute of Science Israel, who led the research, together with Professor Noam Sobel from the Weizmann Institute of Science Israel and ... the University of Cambridge’s Department
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Study confirms a gene linked to Asperger Syndrome and empathy |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-confirms-a-gene-linked-to-asperger-syndrome-and-empathy17 Dec 2013: The team was co-led by Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti from the Department of Psychology at Reading University. ... Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox.
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Cambridge academics to receive prestigious psychology award |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-academics-to-receive-prestigious-psychology-award16 Aug 2011: marking a collaboration that began in 1980 when Professor Robbins was a lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology and Professor Everitt was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy (moving ... have been previous recipients. It perhaps -
Gentrification changes the personality make-up of cities in just a…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gentrification-changes-the-personality-make-up-of-cities-in-just-a-few-years16 Dec 2021: Substantial personality shifts within cities can and do occur within a couple of years,” said Dr Jason Rentfrow, the study’s senior author from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and fellow ... He has since taken up a position at the University
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