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Acting ‘out of character’ in the workplace | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/acting-out-of-character-in-the-workplace20 Feb 2015: Since 2010, Little has lectured in the Department of Psychology and Cambridge Judge Business School. -
Closing the Gender Gap | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/closing-the-gender-gap-02 Oct 2015: Event leader, Dr Sophie Zadeh, Fellow in Psychology at Corpus Christi College, said “We’re thrilled that we’ve been able to offer these young women the opportunity to experience Cambridge -
Your brain might not be as ‘old’ as you think | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/your-brain-might-not-be-as-old-as-you-think9 Mar 2015: How ‘old’ is your brain? Put another way, how ‘aged’ is your brain? The standard, scientific answer, suggests that the older you get, the greater the changes -
University of Cambridge Research Horizons magazine Issue 27
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue_27_research_horizons.pdf29 May 2015: Cambridge, research, Big data -
Opinion: What your musical taste says about your personality |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-what-your-musical-taste-says-about-your-personality30 Nov 2015: trauma. If you want to find out how you score on musical ability, preferences, and personality, you can take these tests atPhD candidate, psychology, University of Cambridge. -
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: References:. (1) Blakemore, Sarah‐Jayne, and Suparna Choudhury. "Development of the adolescent brain: implications for executive function and social cognition."Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 47, no. -
Here’s looking at you: research shows jackdaws can recognise…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/heres-looking-at-you-research-shows-jackdaws-can-recognise-individual-human-faces11 Aug 2015: Researchers Alex Thornton, now at the University of Exeter, and Gabrielle Davidson carried out the study with the wild jackdaw population in Madingley village -
A new partnership in Cambridge to help build a more resilient and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/a-new-partnership-in-cambridge-to-help-build-a-more-resilient-and-inclusive-global-economy20 Oct 2015: The work of the Institute on economic policy issues will draw on Cambridge’s expertise in neuroscience and psychology as well as economics, finance and behavioural science. -
Play’s the thing | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/plays-the-thing4 Aug 2015: Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked sorcerers and gallant heroes, -
Un iversity of C amb ridg eA nnual Report ...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/cu_annual_report_2014.pdf4 Mar 2015: The Departments of Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Psychology, Zoology, and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, the Faculty of Mathematics, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, and the Wellcome -
New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-index-of-childrens-school-readiness-highlights-importance-of-family-support28 May 2015: British Journal of Educational Psychology; 8 May 2015. -
Child's best friend? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/childs-best-friend7 May 2015: Matt was looking for a research topic for his MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology. -
Thinking inside the box | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/thinking-inside-the-box31 Mar 2015: In psychology, this phenomenon of being ‘stuck in a rut’ or failing to ‘think outside the box’ is known as fixation, or the ‘Einstellung’ effect. ... For example, one of the participants described their own thought process as they work: -
Jays: the birds that can talk like humans | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/jays-the-birds-that-can-talk-like-humans5 Aug 2015: Professor Nicky Clayton (Department of Psychology) has carried out pioneering research into the thinking power of corvids. -
How to read a digital footprint | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-to-read-a-digital-footprint23 Jun 2015: For the Centre’s Director Professor John Rust, the team’s background in psychology means they don’t lose sight of the people within the oceans of data: “We’re dealing -
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. -
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. -
Hallucinations linked to differences in brain structure | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hallucinations-linked-to-differences-in-brain-structure17 Nov 2015: In a previous study, a team of researchers led by Dr Jon Simons from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, found that variation in the length of the -
Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tired-of-london-maybe-its-time-to-change-postal-districts12 Jan 2015: choosing a place to live,” says Dr Jason Rentfrow from the Department of Psychology and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge. -
‘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: for publication by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. -
Two-thirds of studies on 'psychosocial' treatments fail to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/two-thirds-of-studies-on-psychosocial-treatments-fail-to-declare-conflicts-of-interest26 Nov 2015: Image. Reading psychology. Credit:Search research. Keyword search. Go. Sign up to receive our weekly research email. -
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 -
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 -
The British Academy welcomes new Fellows for 2015 | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-new-fellows-for-201516 Jul 2015: It funds research across the UK and in other parts of the world, in disciplines ranging from archaeology to economics, from psychology to history, and from literature to law. -
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 -
Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-finds-gbs-most-extroverted-agreeable-and-emotionally-stable-regions25 Mar 2015: Understanding how personality traits differ by region is more than just ‘a bit of fun’,” explains Dr Jason Rentfrow from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow ... Although participants in an online test are -
Preparing social scientists for the world of big data | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/preparing-social-scientists-for-the-world-of-big-data18 Jun 2015: Some subjects, such as Psychology and Economics, already have all students graduating with good levels of quantitative skills. -
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: Over the past 40 years the family has altered in ways that few people imagined back in the days of the Janet and John reading books in which mummy baked and -
At the edge of vision: Struggling to make sense of our cluttered…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/at-the-edge-of-vision-struggling-to-make-sense-of-our-cluttered-world25 Nov 2015: Even with 20/20 vision in broad daylight on a clear day, our peripheral vision can be surprisingly poor, particularly when the scene in front of us is -
Unhappy families: Nine out ten adults estranged from family find…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unhappy-families-nine-out-ten-adults-estranged-from-family-find-christmas-difficult10 Dec 2015: Hidden Voices – Family Estrangement in Adulthood, a collaboration between the charity Stand Alone and the Centre for Family Research at the University of -
Listen to your heart: why your brain may give away how well you know…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/listen-to-your-heart-why-your-brain-may-give-away-how-well-you-know-yourself21 Apr 2015: performance. Dr Tristan Bekinschtein, a Wellcome Trust Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, says: “‘Follow your heart’ has become something of a cliché, but -
Facebook data suggests people from higher social class have fewer…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/facebook-data-suggests-people-from-higher-social-class-have-fewer-international-friends10 Sep 2015: The research team, from the Prosociality and Well-Being Lab in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, conducted two studies – one local and one global, with the global study -
Novel Thoughts #5: Juliet Foster on Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/novel-thoughts-5-juliet-foster-on-susan-fromberg-schaeffers-the-madness-of-a-seduced-woman22 Jun 2015: Today she carries out research in Cambridge’s Department of Psychology. Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of -
Men and women with autism have ‘extreme male’ scores on the ‘Eyes…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/men-and-women-with-autism-have-extreme-male-scores-on-the-eyes-test-of-mindreading7 Sep 2015: Scientists at the University of Cambridge University have published new results in the journal PLoS ONE from the largest ever study of people with autism -
Motion dazzle: spotting the patterns that help animals outsmart…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/motion-dazzle-spotting-the-patterns-that-help-animals-outsmart-predators-on-the-run9 Sep 2015: Many animals use the colours and patterns on their bodies to help them blend into the background and avoid the attention of predators. But this strategy, -
Despite the headlines, dementia epidemic may not actually be getting…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/despite-the-headlines-dementia-epidemic-may-not-actually-be-getting-worse21 Aug 2015: The worsening epidemic message also fits well with consumer psychology and the recent history of over-medicalisation: fear, demand for a solution, and salvation. -
How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-hallucinations-emerge-from-trying-to-make-sense-of-an-ambiguous-world12 Oct 2015: Vision is a constructive process – in other words, our brain makes up the world that we ‘see’,” explains first author Dr Christoph Teufel from the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. -
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: A new study, published today in the journal PNAS, compares the ability of computers and people to make accurate judgments about our personalities. People's -
“You need to ignore it, babe”: how mothers prepare young children for …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-need-to-ignore-it-babe-how-mothers-prepare-young-children-for-the-reality-of-racism19 Jan 2015: An in-depth study of mothers and young children living in multicultural areas of London found that many of the women interviewed had prepared children for -
Opinion: Girls can have it all: how to stop the damaging gender…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-girls-can-have-it-all-how-to-stop-the-damaging-gender-stereotyping-in-schools3 Nov 2015: Building on this first report was another, which demonstrated that gender stereotyping is as damaging for boys, putting them off subjects such as Psychology and English.
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