Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity

Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Imitation, Participation, and the Transformation of Identity in Paul's Practical Theology

Prof. Susan Eastman (Duke Divinity School).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Monday 23 May 2011, 14:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism

Note irregular date and venue

Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice).

Arts School Lecture Room C.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development

Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity

Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge).

Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Scientific study of forgiveness: Status

Prof. Everett L. Worthington (Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA).

CHANGE OF VENUE: Room 606 (Second Floor, Centre for Family Research Area).

Friday 25 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul

Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside).

PPSIS COMMITTEE ROOM (change of venue) (Free School Lane).

Friday 18 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

The ethical brain

All welcome.

Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Friday 12 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity

Professor Tanya Luhrmann.

Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Spirituality, religiousness, and schizophrenia

Prof. Pierre-Yves Brandt (Universities of Lausanne and Geneva).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations

Bonnie Poon Zahl (Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Monday 23 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Religion and the emergence of differentiated cognition

Dr. Fraser Watts (University of Cambridge).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Monday 02 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Researching fundamentalism and xenophobia: A religious schema approach

Coffee and tea from 4:15pm.

Dr. Heinz Streib (Bielefeld University, Germany).

Committee Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Monday 19 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Religion and self-regulation

Joint seminar of SDP and PRRG.

Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 08 June 2009, 16:30-18:00

How to create a religion: What does it really take to explain (and therefore understand) a religious ritual act?

Coffee in PPSIS Tea Room from 4.15pm

Prof. E. Thomas Lawson (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, Belfast).

Committee Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Jesus in your heart: Why personal relationships with God can increase both cardiovascular health and coalitional aggression

Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook and Colin Holbrook (Queen's University, Belfast).

Committee Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care

Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.

Prof. Steve Allison (Abilene Christian University).

Stonehill Room, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, 14 Grange Road.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

A religious Stroop effect? Searching for attentional biases in religious cognition

Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.

Dr. Nicholas Gibson (University of Cambridge).

Stonehill Room, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, 14 Grange Road.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Irreligious experiences: Preliminary empirical findings

Tea and coffee available from 4.15pm

Stephen Bullivant (University of Oxford).

Stonehill Room, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, 14 Grange Road.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

The natural foundations of reincarnation beliefs

Tea and coffee available from 4.15pm

Claire White (University of Cambridge).

Stonehill Room, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, 14 Grange Road.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cultural psychology of religion

Prof. Jacob Belzen (University of Amsterdam).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Implicit theism in self-reported atheists

Dr. Jesse Bering (Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast).

Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Do ghosts get itchy? A cross-cultural study of folk dualistic reasoning

Dr. Emma Cohen (Centre for Anthropology and Mind, University of Oxford).

Committee Room, Faculty of SPS, New Museums Site, Free School Lane.

Friday 17 October 2008, 16:45-17:30