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Give and Take
Duration: 00:12:20
Published Date: 2019/11/14Give and Take explores the complex nature of gift giving for humans and their close animal relatives. The film brings biology, psychology, political studies, philosophy and theology into dialogue. Interviewees include Cambridge’s Professor Claire Hughes (Psychology), Professor Nicky Clayton (Psychology) and Dr Andrew Davison (Theology and Natural Sciences). Giving figures prominently in many -
Philip Kitcher, Human Nature and Belief, Wed 8 July
Duration: 00:12:54
Published Date: 2009/10/09Evolutionary Psychology and the Legacy of Sociobiology Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University, New York City, USA) Summary: The human sociobiology of the 1970s and 1980s was, I have argued, characterised by overly speculative hypotheses about human nature and the evolution of human tendencies to behaviour. Evolutionary psychology is often alleged to represent a significantly different, and -
Democracy in an age of upheaval
Duration: 01:03:18
Published Date: 2021/03/30"The last years, even the last months, have seen huge political upheaval around the world with massive implications for democracy. Go to www.slido.com and enter code 81814 to participate in a live Q&A with the speakers. In the US, we have seen threats to the democratic process instigated from the presidency itself. Brexit has tested Britain's democratic institutions in many ways and may still -
Cambridge Ideas - The Music In Me
Duration: 00:06:29
Published Date: 2009/09/01Studies at the University of Cambridge have revealed that many of us use musical taste both as a means of expressing our own identity, and to form and refine our opinions about other people. Researchers found that sample groups of subjects regularly make the same assumptions about peoples personalities, values, social class and even their ethnicity, based on their musical preferences. Rock fans, -
Novel Thoughts #8: Amy Milton on Hubert Selby’s Requiem for a Dream
Duration: 00:03:01
Published Date: 2015/07/03Dr 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 finding treatments for addiction. Here she talks about this favourite book as part of ‘Novel Thoughts’, a series exploring the literary reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists. From illustrated -
Opinion: What's the future of Twitter?
Duration: 00:01:38
Published Date: 2022/11/24Professor Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society, talks about where Twitter might go next. -
Judging Robots by their appearance
Duration: 00:01:00
Published Date: 2023/04/21When it comes to robots, we definitely judge a book by its cover! Researchers have found that robots can be useful as wellbeing coaches at work – as long as they look right. #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Robots #Psychology -
Novel Thoughts #5: Juliet Foster on Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's…
Duration: 00:03:57
Published Date: 2015/06/22Dr Juliet Foster’s ongoing fascination with the portrayal of mental illness in literature was triggered by reading The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. 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 eight Cambridge -
J is for Jay
Duration: 00:04:24
Published Date: 2015/08/06The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay – a surprisingly clever corvid with the ability to mimic human voices and much more. Jays are corvids – members of the crow family. The jays we see in Britain are Eurasian jays. With their pinkish plumage, and characteristic flash of blue, they -
Podcast: What is the future of wellbeing?
Duration: 01:03:22
Published Date: 2021/04/09Our wellbeing is essential to our overall quality of life. But what is wellbeing? Why is it so hard to pin down? How is it different to mental health, and what can we do to understand, measure and improve it? We talked with psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Amy Orben, psychiatrist Dr Tamsin Ford, and welfare economist Dr Mark Fabian to try and get to grips with wellbeing. In doing so, we learnt
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