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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. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under -
‘Moral identity’ key to charitable time giving | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/moral-identity-key-to-charitable-time-giving5 Jun 2015: The study, entitled “I don’t want the money, I just want your time: how moral identity overcomes the aversion to giving time to pro-social causes”, has just been accepted ... for publication by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. -
Flying high: levitation and energy storage | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/flying-high-levitation-and-energy-storage1 Nov 2010: Currently, nine projects are running, involving research teams in the Department of Engineering, the Computer Laboratory and the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology. ... Applications of the research are as varied as developing new materials -
Pay it Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behaviour | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pay-it-forward-elevation-leads-to-altruistic-behaviour9 Feb 2010: Dr Simone Schnall. Dr Simone Schnall, lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge, along with Jean Roper from the University of Plymouth, and Daniel M.T. -
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: Psychologists were able to examine the link between pre-scandal attitudes and post-scandal messages of support among individual social media users. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their -
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: She wrote to Dr van der Linden about her proposal and soon began her MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. ... As a member of the Social Decision-Making Research Lab at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, she -
Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-psychologist-helps-facebook-fight-climate-change-misinformation18 Feb 2021: Dr Sander van der Linden is one of three experts on behaviour and communication to have been drafted in by the social media giant to advise on how best to debunk ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under -
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: The findings are published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. -
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 -
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: By pre-bunking, we aim to stop the spread of fake news in the first place,” said Dr Sander van der Linden, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab and ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content -
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: social power, then asked to lift boxes of varying weights and guess how heavy they were. ... Researchers found that the lower a person’s feelings of social power, the more they thought the boxes weighed. -
Developmental dyslexia essential to human adaptive success, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/developmental-dyslexia-essential-to-human-adaptive-success-study-argues24 Jun 2022: Taylor, H and Vestergaard MD: 'Developmental Dyslexia: Disorder or Specialization in Exploration?' Frontiers in Psychology (June 2022). ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. -
Families with a difference: the reality behind the hype | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/families-with-a-difference-the-reality-behind-the-hype12 Mar 2015: Many experience years of infertility before becoming parents; others become parents in the face of significant social disapproval; and still others surmount both hurdles in order to have a child.”. -
Opinion: What can we learn about you from just one click? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-what-can-we-learn-about-you-from-just-one-click14 Nov 2017: or read on social sites, and the pages you follow on Facebook. ... showing a group of women in a social situation, dancing, and having fun, accompanied by ad copy saying: ‘Dance like no one’s watching (but they totally are)’). -
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: The geographical clustering of personality reinforces existing social and economic differences across the country. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. -
Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/computers-using-digital-footprints-are-better-judges-of-personality-than-friends-and-family12 Jan 2015: analysis, showing machines can know us better than we'd previously thought: an "important milestone" on the path towards more social human-computer interactions. ... The ability to judge personality is an essential component of social living— from -
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-educational-neuroscience-of-dyslexia-and-dyscalculia1 Jan 2010: Staff are trained in a variety of disciplines, spanning psychology, education, medicine, linguistics and physics. ... Research at the Centre is funded by grants from the MRC, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Union, Leverhulme Trust -
Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-online-game-may-inoculate-by-simulating-propaganda-tactics20 Feb 2018: The game encourages players to stoke anger, mistrust and fear in the public by manipulating digital news and social media within the simulation. ... Linden, Director of Cambridge University’s Social Decision-Making Lab. -
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: The study, published today in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, did not focus on behaviours relating to the pandemic itself - such as social distancing - but considered a wide range of moral transgressions. ... of channels including social media that -
Does your empathy predict if you would stop and help an injured…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/does-your-empathy-predict-if-you-would-stop-and-help-an-injured-person31 Oct 2016: Carrie Allison. A team of psychologists at the University of Cambridge has conducted a social psychology experiment to test the theory that an individual’s level of empathy influences their behaviour. ... The results of their preliminary study, dubbed
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