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21 Apr 2015: performance. Dr Tristan Bekinschtein, a Wellcome Trust Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, says: “‘Follow your heart’ has become something of a cliché, but

10 Sep 2015: The research team, from the Prosociality and Well-Being Lab in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, conducted two studies – one local and one global, with the global study

22 Jun 2015: 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

7 Sep 2015: Scientists at the University of Cambridge University have published new results in the journal PLoS ONE from the largest ever study of people with autism

9 Sep 2015: Many animals use the colours and patterns on their bodies to help them blend into the background and avoid the attention of predators. But this strategy,

21 Aug 2015: The worsening epidemic message also fits well with consumer psychology and the recent history of over-medicalisation: fear, demand for a solution, and salvation.

12 Oct 2015: Vision is a constructive process – in other words, our brain makes up the world that we ‘see’,” explains first author Dr Christoph Teufel from the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.

12 Jan 2015: A new study, published today in the journal PNAS, compares the ability of computers and people to make accurate judgments about our personalities. People's

19 Jan 2015: An in-depth study of mothers and young children living in multicultural areas of London found that many of the women interviewed had prepared children for

3 Nov 2015: Building on this first report was another, which demonstrated that gender stereotyping is as damaging for boys, putting them off subjects such as Psychology and English.