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Colour blindness sometimes an advantage | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/colour-blindness-sometimes-an-advantage14 Dec 2005: The study, published in the journal Current Biology (December 6) by researchers from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge and the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, developed -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches today | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-launches-today15 Oct 2018: It includes experts on the psychology of religion and people who have had mystical seizures.
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“Get back to school” headlines eroded teacher wellbeing during the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/get-back-to-school-headlines-eroded-teacher-wellbeing-during-the-pandemic6 Nov 2023: The finding comes from newly published research, following on from an earlier study with a small group of primary and secondary teachers during lockdown.
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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). -
Brandwashed – A sign of the times? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/brandwashed-a-sign-of-the-times27 Jan 2012: Speaking first to the MST Undergraduate ‘Introduction to Marketing’ class about social media, Martin will then give a talk to a wider audience about his book and the psychology behind the
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Cambridge academics elected to British Academy | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-academics-elected-to-british-academy-023 Jul 2021: Professor Holton’s current work focuses mainly on Moral Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, and Philosophy of Language.
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Wiping memories to tackle alcoholism | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wiping-memories-to-tackle-alcoholism12 Mar 2012: Researchers at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, based in the Department of Experimental Psychology, are tackling the problem of pavlovian ‘cue-drug memory’ - when memories of the people, places and
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‘Wild West’ mentality lingers in US mountain regions | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/wild-west-mentality-lingers-in-us-mountain-regions7 Sep 2020: The harsh and remote environment of mountainous frontier regions historically attracted nonconformist settlers strongly motivated by a sense of freedom,” said researcher Friedrich Götz, from Cambridge’s Department of Psychology. ... The research
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Religious perspectives on mental illness | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/religious-perspectives-on-mental-illness2 Feb 2009: Dr Chapman believes that modern secular psychology as founded by Freud made a mistake by treating the mind as a collection or traumas. -
Healing rifts in a broad Church | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/healing-rifts-in-a-broad-church5 Dec 2008: The Church often regards conflict as a stigma or a sign of failure," Dr Sara Savage, from the University of Cambridge's Psychology and Religion Research Project, said.
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Can old brains learn new tricks? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/can-old-brains-learn-new-tricks1 Sep 2007: In the Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain (CSLB) in the Department of Experimental Psychology, researchers are working to understand the relationship between neural ageing and cognitive ageing. ... Speech, Language and the Brain at the Department
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University teaching awards honour excellence | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-teaching-awards-honour-excellence1 Jul 2014: The prize-winners, and excerpts from their citations, are given below. Dr Michael Aitken, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology: Michael Aitken is a very popular, charismatic and accomplished lecturer ... He has a rich understanding of
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Sibling rivalry and brotherly love | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/sibling-rivalry-and-brotherly-love8 Apr 2011: Social Understanding and Social Lives, by Claire Hughes, is published by Psychology Press.
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What do drugs do to the brain? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/what-do-drugs-do-to-the-brain17 Mar 2011: head of the Department of Experimental Psychology.
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Assisted Reproduction and Family Development: The New Parents Study | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/assisted-reproduction-and-family-development-the-new-parents-study1 Nov 2013: The study brings two groups based in Cambridge, the Applied Developmental Psychology Research Group, and the Centre for Family Research, together with groups based at the University of Paris in France ... In March 2014, the Applied Developmental
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Challenging “us versus them” | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/challenging-us-versus-them19 Oct 2012: An original programme to address the tensions of worldview clash has been designed for young British Muslims by Dr Sara Savage and Dr Jose Liht, members of the Psychology and Religion
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A break from the lawn: can an iconic meadow seed wider change?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/kings-wildflower-meadow-a-break-from-the-lawn24 May 2023: Image Credit: Geoff Moggridge. Dr Claudia Schneider, a researcher in the University’s Department of Psychology, says that having information is not always enough to motivate people to change their behaviour –
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Cambridge academics recognised in 2021 New Year Honours | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-academics-recognised-in-2021-new-year-honours31 Dec 2020: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College, has been knighted for services to autism research
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Extra testosterone reduces your empathy | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/extra-testosterone-reduces-your-empathy10 Feb 2011: In addition, the effects of testosterone administration are predicted by a fetal marker of prenatal testosterone, the 2D:4D ratio. The study has important
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Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/activist-art-reflects-fight-for-rights-of-african-aids-sufferers22 Jun 2012: An extensive and vibrant body of artworks produced by a group of HIV/AIDS activists from Khayelitsha Township outside Cape Town and by lead artist Rachel
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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
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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: Buried deep in the archives of organisational psychology, there’s a model of conflict resolution called the Fire model. ... Of course, education is just one area of concern on which psychology has a bearing.
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Cambridge creates new Professorship in education and mental health |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-creates-new-professorship-in-education-and-mental-health12 Mar 2020: Opening the event, Professor Toope announced that the University will be creating a new role – Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health – which will be based in its Faculty
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Top Marks for Cambridge Biology Teaching | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/top-marks-for-cambridge-biology-teaching16 Feb 2000: Following the full marks awarded to the Experimental Psychology Department, Cambridge has once again received a top score for teaching quality - this time for "Organismal Biosciences": the courses taught mainly by ... Professor Malcolm Burrows, Head of -
The emotional historian? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-emotional-historian28 Feb 2012: Traditionally, emotions are regarded as the domain of psychology and neuroscience.
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Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bridging-the-divide-philosophy-meets-science12 Jul 2018: For three years, Daniel De Haan, Natalja Deng and Peter Woodford worked side-by-side with colleagues from the Department of Experimental Psychology, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics ... We were an experiment for this.”. Dr
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Study unearths Britain’s first speech therapists | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-unearths-britains-first-speech-therapists22 Oct 2018: Until now, historians had assumed that John Thelwall became Britain’s first speech therapist in the early nineteenth century.* But Cambridge historian
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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
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Music – or language in action? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/music-or-language-in-action24 Nov 2011: There’s now a substantial amount of evidence from research at CMS and across the field of psychology that regularity or periodicity of timing – a regular beat – also has these last
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Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/why-reading-nursery-rhymes-and-singing-to-babies-may-help-them-to-learn-language30 Nov 2023: Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That’s because babies learn languages
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas opens for bookings | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-opens-for-bookings24 Sep 2018: It includes experts on the psychology of religion and people who have had mystical seizures.
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Cambridge offers workshop on well-being | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-offers-workshop-on-well-being27 Feb 2008: Professional Studies at the University has teamed up with Dr Nick Baylis, to offer a highly practical one-day workshop on Applying Positive Psychology and The Skills of Well-being. ... Dr Baylis is an internationally recognized well-being scientist, -
How to tell a missile from a pylon: a tale of two cortices |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-to-tell-a-missile-from-a-pylon-a-tale-of-two-cortices2 Oct 2014: Dr Welchman, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, explains: “The parietal cortex and the ventral cortex appear to be involved in the overlapping tasks to a
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How will we remember them? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-will-we-remember-them10 Nov 2011: Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict (CRIC) is an inter-disciplinary project that brings together European researchers working in areas such as archaeology, anthropology, history and psychology to
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Opinion: The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ – and what can be done…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-the-science-reproducibility-crisis-and-what-can-be-done-about-it20 Mar 2017: Murmurings of low reproducibility began in 2011 – the “year of horrors” for psychology – with a high profile fraud case. ... Although psychology is leading the way for improvements with these pioneering initiatives, it is certainly not out of the
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British Academy welcomes new Fellows | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/british-academy-welcomes-new-fellows16 Jul 2014: Professor Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool. Professor Francesco Billari, Professor of Sociology and Demography, University of Oxford; Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford. ... Professor Michael Posner, Professor of
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Contributors | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/women-at-cambridge/contributors10 Feb 2014: Senior Tutor at Newnham; Affiliated Lecturer in Psychology. "I bought into the family structures that set me up as primary carer of our children, and it was very difficult for me -
Monogamous birds read partner's food desires | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/monogamous-birds-read-partners-food-desires15 Feb 2013: The research was carried out in Professor Nicola Clayton’s Comparative Cognition lab at Cambridge University’s Department of Psychology, and is published today in the journal PNAS.
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Inauguration of The Well-being Institute | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/inauguration-of-the-well-being-institute20 Nov 2006: psychology and social science.’ They believe that the scientific study of well-being is needed to advance our understanding of how best to lead a life characterized by health and vitality, ... Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health, -
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.
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Why be human when you can be otherkin? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin16 Jul 2016: Feijó’s essay Doctors Herding Cats: The Misadventures of Modern Medicine and Psychology with NonhuMan Identities offers a fascinating insight into questions of identity and how they have been mediated. ... The problem is that the ridicule seems to
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Early Career Researcher 2023 - Dr Barry Coughlan
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/vc-awards/2023/early-career-researcher-barry-coughlan13 Dec 2023: The Vice-Chancellor's Awards. for Research Impact and Engagement. About the researcher. Dr Barry Coughlan is a psychology graduate with an interest in child development, mental health, and child welfare
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Global Alliance approves five joint research projects | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/global-alliance-approves-five-joint-research-projects13 Nov 2017: The Global Alliance was formed in 2016 as a tripartite agreement between University of California, Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, and National
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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.
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Explore the science of personality research | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/explore-the-science-of-personality-research17 Mar 2010: Dr Rentfrow is a Psychologist within The Psychometrics Centre and Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology. -
Chemical imbalance in the forebrain underpins compulsive behaviour…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/chemical-imbalance-in-the-forebrain-underpins-compulsive-behaviour-and-ocd-study-finds27 Jun 2023: s Department of Psychology.
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School starting age: the evidence | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/school-starting-age-the-evidence24 Sep 2013: These arise from anthropological, psychological, neuroscientific and educational studies. Anthropological studies of children’s play in extant hunter-gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of play in the young of other ... In my own
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OCD patients’ brains light up to reveal how compulsive habits develop …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ocd-patients-brains-light-up-to-reveal-how-compulsive-habits-develop19 Dec 2014: Trevor Robbins. The research, led by Dr Claire Gillan and Professor Trevor Robbins (Department of Psychology) is the latest in a series of studies from the Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience
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Stimulate your brain with the Cambridge BRAINFest 2017 | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/stimulate-your-brain-with-the-cambridge-brainfest-20175 Jun 2017: The three day event, running from 23-25 June, will allow audiences to quiz more than 130 leading Cambridge neuroscientists on everything from dementia and
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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.
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