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4 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,

7 May 2015: Matt was looking for a research topic for his MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology.

31 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:

5 Aug 2015: Professor Nicky Clayton (Department of Psychology) has carried out pioneering research into the thinking power of corvids.

23 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

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.

22 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.

17 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

12 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.

5 Jun 2015: for publication by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.