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1 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

3 Feb 2010: by treating it as a social science with links to areas like education and psychology.

26 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

9 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

21 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

29 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.

12 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

14 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

8 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.

14 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.

14 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

8 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.

22 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

10 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

22 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

8 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.

1 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

16 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.

3 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

6 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

5 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.

9 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.

30 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

11 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

18 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

21 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.

24 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.

6 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

12 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

12 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.”.

4 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.

1 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

14 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)’).

16 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.

20 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.

9 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

31 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

1 Sep 2007: Considering the social aspects of genetic testing and its meaning for families has been one of the enduring interests of the CFR for nearly 20 years. ... As a funder, the Wellcome Trust is innovative,’ says Helen Statham, ‘because they provide

6 Mar 2023: Sander van der Linden, director of the University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.

20 Apr 2022: facial images of different races that vary in perceived threat”, says co-author Isabelle Mareschal, also of the Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London. ... of channels including social media that permit

15 Nov 2022: The surveys gauged an array of mental states and social behaviours, and included questions on perceived economic status. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.

16 Apr 2018: By connecting the realm of cognition with that of ideology, we find that flexibility of thought may have far-reaching consequences for social and political attitudes. ... The research was conducted by scientists from the University’s Department of

3 May 2022: of the Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues book series Contemporary Social Issues, published by Cambridge University Press. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.

11 Dec 2017: The vast majority of people want to conform to societal standards, it's innate in us as a highly social species," says Dr Sander van der Linden, study lead author from ... People often misperceive social norms, and seek to adjust once they are exposed to

6 May 2020: Appealing to prosocial motives can be an important part of solving social dilemmas during pandemics. ... of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.

13 Feb 2017: The ALS campaign managed to exploit a two-pronged approach to 'social influences'. ... Similarly, people often respond to social injustice, such as genocide, with strong moral outrage.".

17 Jul 2014: They call for a thorough examination of the complex ways in which identities guide childcare choices far beyond traditional social structure - of which this study is just the start. ... We believe these patterns can partly be explained by the lack of

10 Dec 2017: The UK findings, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, are supported by a North American “robustness check”, with less detailed data from US demographics suggesting the same patterns ... and formative epochs in modern history,

12 May 2021: Go Viral!, developed by the University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab in partnership with the UK Cabinet Office and media agency DROG, was launched last autumn as part of ... of channels including social media that permit your use and

26 Nov 2015: Four internationally disseminated psychosocial interventions – described by Eisner as "market leaders" – were examined: the Positive Parenting Programme (or Triple P); the Nurse-Family Partnership; the parenting and social skills programme