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Evolutionary 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

Give 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

Learn more about the course here: http://bit.ly/PsychologyPostgrad2021 Postgraduate students from the Department of Psychology share their experiences of studying at Cambridge. The Department will continue to accept applications up until 12pm (GMT) on Friday 30th April 2021 for October 2021 start date.

Throughout the undergraduate Education course at Cambridge you follow one of three tracks, studying Education alongside your chosen field of interest. The Faculty has put together three videos to give you an idea of the distinct identities of each track and provide an opportunity to hear from undergraduate students currently studying them. This video covers the Education, Psychology and Learning

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences is the name of Cambridge’s undergraduate course looking at the field of Psychology, allowing students to study cognitive, social, developmental and biological psychology within the broader context of the behavioural sciences. In this video, undergraduates from the course talk through what their studies have involved and their key areas of interest.

Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we’re going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought. Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter.

Professor Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society, talks about where Twitter might go next.

Science writer David Adam has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In the first of a series of films, he meets Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, to find out what we know about OCD and how scientists study the condition.

When 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

The Sutton Trust Summer Schools are subject-specific residential courses for Year 12 students from UK state-maintained schools, which aim to provide an insight into life as a first-year undergraduate studying at the University of Cambridge. Modern & Medieval Languages, Psychology & Sociology, Computer Science and Geography... these are just a few of the subjects which prospective students can

We asked University of Cambridge experts what they thought about the outcomes of the COP27 climate summit. Hear from: Dr. Matthew Agarwala, The Wealth Economy, Bennett Institute for Public Policy Emily Farnworth, Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall Prof Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge Dr Alison Ming, Atmospheric

Studies 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,

The 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

"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

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 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

Dr 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

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Open Day provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Faculty, view our facilities, meet lecturers and students. The Faculty holds an Open Day annually in March and also participates in the summer Cambridge Open Days. You can study for a Degree in Modern and Medieval Languages (MML) or Linguistics. In the MML course, you study two languages for at

Our 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