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National initiative needed on chattering classes | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/national-initiative-needed-on-chattering-classes26 Feb 2010: social psychology and knowledge management, could influence the ways in which experts think about the National Curriculum in the future. -
With friends like these… | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/with-friends-like-these22 Apr 2011: It then tracks what these people have chosen to "like" on the social networking site - the Facebook user's stamp of general approval. -
New Gates scholars announced from 26 countries | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-gates-scholars-announced-from-26-countries7 Apr 2010: This year's scholars combine a strong academic record with highly developed social leadership skills. ... Niamh Skelly from Ireland, who will study for MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology. -
Aesop’s Fable unlocks how we think | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/aesops-fable-unlocks-how-we-think26 Jul 2012: folk physics. Lucy Cheke. Lucy Cheke, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Experimental Psychology, expanded Aesop’s fable into three tasks of varying complexity and compared -
Joanna Merifield wins prestigious Cambridge fiction prize |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/joanna-merifield-wins-prestigious-cambridge-fiction-prize23 May 2014: The College is particularly strong in Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Law, Psychology, the Social Sciences and English. -
Tricks of the trade: magic and mischief in the making | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tricks-of-the-trade-magic-and-mischief-in-the-making19 Nov 2014: However we attempt to understand magic performance, it remains a social phenomenon that is located within, and depends on, the particular circumstances of the performance environment.”. -
Democratising the airwaves | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/democratising-the-airwaves1 Nov 2010: The project is harnessing interdisciplinary expertise across the University, from the Computer Laboratory, Judge Business School, Engineering, Social Anthropology and Psychology. -
Funding Agency Committee Members | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/funding-agency-committee-members28 Jan 2013: Professor Kathryn Lilley (Biochemistry), Chair. Dr Zoe Kourtzi (Psychology). Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS). ... Dr Jason Carroll (CRUK CI). Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (Pathology). Professor Zoe Kourtzi (Psychology). -
Cambridge Professor provides key evidence in overhaul of same-sex…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-professor-provides-key-evidence-in-overhaul-of-same-sex-marriage-ban9 Aug 2010: Professor Michael Lamb, from the University’s Department of Social Psychology, provided information that played a crucial role in the decision of a Federal Judge to overturn “Proposition 8” last week. ... Professor Lamb is Professor of Psychology -
Researchers get serious about kids’ stuff | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/researchers-get-serious-about-kids-stuff3 Feb 2010: by treating it as a social science with links to areas like education and psychology. -
What is Computer Science? A competition tells the world about it |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/what-is-computer-science-a-competition-tells-the-world-about-it27 May 2008: Computer Scientists combine mathematical rigour with lateral thinking, creative design, psychology and social sciences to make tomorrow's technology. -
The new geography of personality | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-new-geography-of-personality1 Jan 2009: But do such stereotypes have any basis in reality? Ongoing research by Dr Jason Rentfrow, at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, and Dr Sam Gosling, at the University of ... For more information, please contact Dr Jason Rentfrow -
Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/fake-news-black-holes-and-ai-cambridge-academics-to-speak-at-hay-festival26 Mar 2019: Sander van der Linden from the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and Department of Psychology will speak about how we can counter fake news and whether we can inoculate the public ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing -
I’d love to smash the Ritz… | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/id-love-to-smash-the-ritz29 Sep 2011: Let’s park the social commentary on one side for a moment and do a bit of science. ... Of course, education is just one area of concern on which psychology has a bearing. -
Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-ideas-the-crime-experiment12 Apr 2011: This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing -
Ethnic minority pupils get up to speed on Cambridge applications |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/ethnic-minority-pupils-get-up-to-speed-on-cambridge-applications13 Jun 2008: Lateef, 17, who came top of his year at a Hackney comprehensive, plans to do a degree in philosophy or social sciences. ... I’m interested in psychology and social sciences and I’m here to look at the opportunities Cambridge has to offer,” she said. -
You Are What You Listen To | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-are-what-you-listen-to21 Aug 2009: The studies have been led by Dr. Jason Rentfrow, from the University's Department of Social and Developmental Psychology and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, who is conducting ongoing research ... A new analysis also appears in the psychology -
Report examines origins and nature of ‘maths anxiety’ | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/report-examines-origins-and-nature-of-maths-anxiety14 Mar 2019: Dr Denes Szucs from the Department of Psychology, the study’s lead author. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. -
Leading Orthodox Union member to speak on science and religion - New…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/leading-orthodox-union-member-to-speak-on-science-and-religion-new-date29 Jan 2009: It also maintains a wide variety of religious, educational, social action and public policy programmes. ... families. He has a Masters in Psychology from the New School for Social Research and a PhD from the University of Maryland and, before becoming a -
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: But is this because of differences in brain-wiring or because of continuing social inequalities? ... At Women’s Word - a festival of literature, debate and discussion taking place at Lucy Cavendish College this weekend – Melissa Hines, Professor of -
Sibling rivalry and brotherly love | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sibling-rivalry-and-brotherly-love8 Apr 2011: these children a consistently higher level of social understanding by the time they reached the age of four. ... Social Understanding and Social Lives, by Claire Hughes, is published by Psychology Press. -
Education investment needs to be sustained to halt widening…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/education-investment-needs-to-be-sustained-to-halt-widening-inequality-say-cambridge-experts24 Mar 2015: It would be naive to think that education can "solve" the social mobility issue. ... References:. (1) Blakemore, Sarah‐Jayne, and Suparna Choudhury. "Development of the adolescent brain: implications for executive function and social cognition."Journal -
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-dr-sander-van-der-linden14 May 2020: This necessitates knowledge about human cooperation as well as economic and social inequalities. ... important.”. Sander van der Linden is Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology and a Fellow of Churchill -
Fact: there is an I in team | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/fact-there-is-an-i-in-team10 Feb 2014: This has been particularly beneficial, Hollis adds, given that it is the younger team members who are in a position to give relevant input on electronic and social media communication. ... By contrast, experiments in social psychology show that harmony -
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: its role in learning and social development, and finding the best way of measuring playfulness itself. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. -
Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-children-who-are-close-to-their-parents-are-more-likely-to-grow-up-kind-helpful-and-prosocial9 Oct 2023: Katsantonis, the lead author and a doctoral researcher specialising in psychology and education, said: “Our analysis showed that after a certain age, we tend to be mentally well, or mentally unwell, ... of channels including social media that permit -
Study unearths Britain’s first speech therapists | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-unearths-britains-first-speech-therapists22 Oct 2018: References:. Elizabeth Foyster, ‘Fear of Giving Offence Makes Me Give the More Offence’: Politeness, Speech and Its Impediments in British Society, c.1660–1800.' Cultural and Social History (2018). ... of channels including social media that -
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 -
Novel Thoughts: what Cambridge scientists read | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/novel-thoughts-what-cambridge-scientists-read8 Jun 2015: read as a PhD student, still have echoes in her current social psychology research into public understandings of mental illness. ... Dr Amy Milton from the Department of Psychology discussing Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Junior on 3 July. -
Substance over style? That’s entertainment | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/substance-over-style-thats-entertainment14 Mar 2011: Now research suggests that may not be as true as we thought. In a paper published this week, a team of academics reveal that whether we ultimately prefer -
‘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. -
British Academy welcomes new Fellows | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/british-academy-welcomes-new-fellows16 Jul 2014: Professor Jane Millar OBE, Professor of Social Policy and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Bath. ... Professor Naomi Ellemers, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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)’). -
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.”. -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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