Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities

Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior

Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 October 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tackling global social issues: Understanding what shapes and motivates pro-environmental behaviour

Claudia R Schneider (University of Canterbury).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Large Language Models or Large Models of the Human Mind?

Michal Kosinski (Stanford University).

Online.

Wednesday 12 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social robots: an experimental apparatus in fundamental psychological research and a support tool in healthcare

Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative

Ceejay Hayes (Cambridge) .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tin Foil Confessions: Escaping The Cult Of Conspiracy

Brent Lee.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Trends, Drivers, Solutions

Julia Ebner (Oxford).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioural Science and Security: Informing Evidence-based Policy and Practice

Brooke Rogers (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies

Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Political Polarization, Social Norms, and Sorting: An Agent-based Social Sampling Model

In person only

Gordon Brown (University of Warwick).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychological Intergroup Interventions: The Motivation Challenge

NOTE: This talk is on Monday at 11 am !

Eran Halperin (Hebrew University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2024, 11:00-12:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Student Spotlight: Yan Xia, James Ackland, and Nikolay Petrov

Yan Xia (Aalto University), James Ackland (Cambridge), and Nikolay Petrov (Cambridge).

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

When Curiosity Gaps Backfire: Effects of Headline Concreteness on Information Selection Decisions

Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response?

Madalina Vlasceanu (New York University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A closer look at testimony: Scope, challenges, and consequences

Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London) .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding and managing conspiracy beliefs

Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles

Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The paradox of virality

Steve Rathje (New York University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine and Russian PsyOps ads on Facebook

Jon Roozenbeek (Cambridge), Tetiana Haiduchyk and Uliana Hresko (Trementum), Anton Dek (Judge Business School).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Social Power on Empathy for Pain

Ekim Luo (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Behavioural and Neural Dynamics of Learning in Social Interaction

Sara De Felice (University College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Rational Belief Polarisation: A Bayesian Network Model of Bias Attributions

David Young (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Snacks & Drinks! (Postgrads & Postdocs)

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Civilians on Fire: Moral Injury and Associated Mental Health Symptoms in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion

Larysa Zasiekina (University of Cambridge; Ukrainka Volyn National University).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

When Is Morality Black and White?

Joshua D. Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Prejudice is Affect: Divorcing Prejudice from Propositional Representations?

Chris Crandall (University of Kansas).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Stereotypes as Shifting Standards: Implications for Social Judgment, Communication, and the Interpretation of Feedback

Monica Biernat (University of Kansas).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks

Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics.

https://zoom.us/j/91013725662?pwd=V1VVYzJGenB2R3p5NHl3dUhaNlM1QT09.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals

Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour).

https://zoom.us/j/91285050301?pwd=bkNKeXhRV25US2phMlNISGpGcERvZz09.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling

Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,.

https://zoom.us/j/93583553185?pwd=d1kvR3A1VnNxemZwWUNhR2RJUGk5Zz09.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding the effects of repetition on belief

Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt).

via zoom .

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics

Bert Bakker (Amsterdam).

via zoom .

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Cooperative Animal

Michael Tomasello (Duke).

via zoom .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena

Dr Alin Coman (Princeton).

via zoom .

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:00-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Field Social Psychology

Dr Séamus A. Power, University of Copenhagen.

via zoom .

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them

Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill).

via zoom .

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent

Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell).

via zoom .

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think

Dr Hugo Mercier (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS).

via zoom .

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 15:00-16:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Having a Voice in Your Group: Field Experiments on Behavioral and Attitudinal Changes

Dr Sherry Wu (UCLA).

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs

Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

via zoom .

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs

Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

via zoom .

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

For better or worse: The role of social identity in the Pandemic

Dr Jay van Bavel (NYU).

via zoom .

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Facing the epidemics of hate speech.

Professor Michal Bilewicz (University of Warsaw).

via zoom .

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away?

Bharathy Premachandra (Cornell University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

PhD Research Talks - Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg

Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge).

via zoom .

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How we know what not to think (3pm start)

Dr Fiery Cushman (Harvard University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Quantifying and nudging collective intelligence

Associate Professor Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Misinformation and the distinct psychologies of believing and sharing

Professor Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration-policy preferences

Associate Professor Mina Cikara (Harvard University).

via zoom .

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction

Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago).

via zoom .

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions

Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others

Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How is Human Social Cognition Special?

Dr Lasana Harris (UCL).

via zoom .

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

Dr David Stillwell.

Nick Mackintosh Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

Dr. Claudia Schneider.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Seminar Series:Place2Be: outcomes from delivering a school-based mental health support service for children and young people

Sarah Golden, Place2Be.

GS5 - Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making

Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

ABC of DLD: Supporting children's communication in school

Dr. Jenny Gibson, Melanie Greaux, Lenka Janik Blaskova, Vicky Yiran Zhao .

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS4.

Saturday 09 November 2019, 14:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

Patricia Andrews Fearon.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience

Lynne Cooper.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 15 July 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience

Dr Lynne Cooper.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 15 July 2019, 15:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime Solving story

Dr Tesh Goyal.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change

Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Is the child the father of the political man?

Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Why do we cry?

Dr Eric Vanman, University of Queensland.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

Dr Marwa El Zein.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay.

Peter Romero.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty

Matija Franklin .

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Embracing the Mosaic: Crafting Collaborative Arts-based Research for Critical Resilience

Dr Helen Johnson, University of Brighton.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room 1S3.

Monday 18 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory

Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania

Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Bringing Personality Theory Back to Life: On Persons-in-Context, Idiographic Strategies, and Lazarus

Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genetic social psychology

Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What constitutes 'discrimination' in everyday talk? Argumentative lines and the social representations of discrimination

Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The role of attachment in cults and radicalization

Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Spaces for citizen involvement in healthcare: an ethnographic study

Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa

Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse?

Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages

Jac Davis, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives

This is a joint seminar, featuring talks by Dr Sophie Zadeh and her collaborators. Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Ritual, Community, and Conflict

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Developmental changes after early adversity: lessons from adoption research

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Jesus Palacios, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social Identity: The enactment and performance of religious identities

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Nicholas Hopkins, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women's leadership roles in times of crisis

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter and University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield

Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social representations and political thought

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Christian Staerklé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Reluctant Altruist

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Eamonn Ferguson.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding radicalisation

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Noemie Bouhana, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dementia care through the lens of social representations: A discussion of anchoring and framing processes

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Nils Töpfer, University of Jena, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The construction of extremism in ‘The Trojan Horse’ affair: implications for identity and citizenship

CANCELLED!!!

Dr Caroline Howarth, London School of Economics.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Early Development of Joking and Pretending

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Elena Hoicka, Sheffield University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The role of stigma in the pursuit of personal projects: Implications for the health and well-being of marginalized individuals

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr David Frost, University of Surrey.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A discourse of ‘we’: gendered subjectivities and caregiving in UK ‘stay-at-home-dads’

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Abigail Locke, University of Bradford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Family influences on the health risk behaviours and well-being of African American adolescents

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Prof Cleopatra Howard Caldwell.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

HIV and the "dirty" other: Living with a spoiled identity

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Poul Rohleder, University of East London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Forming Beliefs: information seeking, avoidance & integration in the human brain

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Tali Sharot, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What dancing robots might teach us about the development of form and motion understanding in the human brain

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Emily Cross, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University | Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Becoming a Viking:Processes of Identification with the Remote Past

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Marc Scully, Loughborough University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Order of Gendered Words in a Phrase: When and Why It Constitutes Gender-Biased Language

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Selin Kesebir, London Business School.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How Sex Offenders Groom Minors on the Internet

Tea and coffee are served before this seminar for attendees from 12.30pm onwards in the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room on the 2nd floor.

Dr Evianne van Gijn, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The MInT study: Effectively communicating about, and intervening with, overweight in young children

Dr Deirdre Brown, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How do infants learn from us? Investigating the neural mechanisms involved in infants' social learning

Dr Victoria Southgate - Birkbeck, University of London.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Thoughts on sex and violence - using indirect measures in Forensic Psychology

Professor Robert Snowden, Cardiff University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Naomi White, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests

Dr Niro Sivanathan, London School of Business.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 16 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Imitation in Early Social and Cognitive Development

Dr Janine Oostenbroek, University of York.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Fathers' Affection Display in Contemporary Chinese Families

Xuan Li, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Eye Contact Effect: Mechanism and Development

Venue changed to the PPSIS SEMINAR ROOM

Dr Atsushi Senju, Birkbeck, University of London.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What is Happiness and What Determines it? Integrating Perspectives from Philosophy, Social Science, and Psychology

Professor Alex Wood, University of Stirling.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Evolutionary perspectives on sex differences in behaviour

Dr Gillian Brown, University of St Andrews.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything

Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Factors that influence the sex difference in young children's physical aggression

Dr Debra Spencer, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The daily behaviour of happy people

Dr Gillian Sandstrom, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How health beliefs influence the symptom experience and treatment decisions at menopause

Helena Rubinstein, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The assessment of sexual arousal and sexual orientation

Dr Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Applying for Clinical Psychology Training & Clinical Psychology Training at UEA

Professor Kenneth Laidlaw, University of East Anglia.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Thursday 13 February 2014, 12:45-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Impact of Visual Cues on the Judgment of Performance

Dr Chia-Jung Tsay.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Monday 13 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Eating disorders in the classroom: Designing and testing a new universal prevention programme for secondary schools

Dr Helen Sharpe, KCL.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychology and Medicine: Critical friendship or uncomfortable bedfellows?

Dr Charlotte Paddison, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Exploring young children's understanding of their own peer-directed behaviour at school

Katie Rix, PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Visual and Audiovisual Perception in Adults with Autism

Professor Frank Pollick, University of Glasgow.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The role of temperament in attention, motor and language development

Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Flourishing: from science to policy

Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

'Has multiculturalism failed?' Challenging representations of difference in schools.

Dr. Caroline Howarth, LSE.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How Do Mindreaders Model Minds?

Dr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Research Setting to Parents: The Role of Parent Social Networks in the Choices they Make about Interventions for their Child with ASD

Katherine Pickard, Michigan State University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Morality in the Body: Influences of Bodily Experience on Moral Judgments and Decisions

Dr. Chen-Bo Zhong, University of Toronto.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

(How) does attentional control matter?

Dr. Gaia Scerif, University of Oxford.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Performances in psychiatric hospitals: a social psychological perspective

Dr. Juliet Foster (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Mothers' depressive symptoms and young children's problem behaviours: The roles of executive function and emotion regulation

Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative

Nicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Optimising eyewitness testimony by matching witness chronotype and time of interview

Katrin Mueller-Johnson, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sex, Love, and Goodness

Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment.

Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

"Listen to me, because I'm your mother"-Chinese mothers' parental authority and children's compliance

Soar Huang, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Social Regulation of Activity and Inactivity

Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Understanding (Dis)honesty.

Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 08 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Value From Hedonic Experience and Engagement

Tory Higgins, Columbia University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 01 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Interacting without Touch.

Dr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Mediators of the sex difference in aggression: An evolutionary approach

Anne Campbell, Durham University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The developmental antecedents of political preference: Re-examining parental influence

Lori Bougher (University of Cambridge).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Outsmarting the liars: Towards a cognitive lie detection approach

Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Mastering Uncertainty

Stephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Mental Representation of Social Values: From System to Instantiation

Greg Maio, Cardiff University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 16 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

I Am, Therefore I Buy - Measuring How Personality Influences Consumer Preferences in a Digital Age

Sanna Balsari-Palsule, Psychometrics Centre.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices

Christina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments

Stephen Gibson, York St John University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychological correlates of smoking, drinking and drug-taking use and dependency from a large online sample

David Stillwell.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Control versus chaos: differences in advertisements for non-psychiatric and psychiatric medication in professional journals

Dr. Juliet Foster ( University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Crowdsourcing Contests

Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 27 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Dr. Mark Johnson, Birkbeck College.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 02 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Meaning making between socially anxious mothers and their children regarding starting school

Dr. Lynne Murray, University of Reading.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Identifying Perpetrators with Distinctive Features

Dr. Dora Zarkadi, University of Bedfordshire.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Restrictive Parenting and the Unintended Consequences of Moral Prohibitions

Dr. Sana Sheikh, University of St. Andrews.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 11 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Representations of the past, present and future of Intercommunal Relations in Cyprus: A social-psychological analysis of the Cyprus issue

Dr. Charis Psaltis, Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychological outcomes in parents of children diagnosed with disorders of sex development (DSD)

Dr. Vickie Pasterski, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 28 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Risk factors for adolescent violence across cultures: comparing data from Ghana with the Cambridge Study in Delinquency Development and the Pittsburgh Youth Study

Dr. Kofi E. Boakye, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Collective efficacy and violence in London

Dr. Alex Sutherland, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Rewriting the Rules? Non-monogamies and other adventures in non-normative relationships

Dr. Meg Barker, Open University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 07 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Discussing the development of Executive Functions in brazilian children

Dr. Rosinda Martins Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Creating contexts that enable behaviour change: towards a fourth generation of approaches to health promotion.

Dr. Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Adverse future outcomes of children involved in school bullying: Synthesizing data from longitudinal studies.

Dr. Maria Ttofi, University of Cambridge (Institute of Criminology).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Strong versus the weak: A meta-analysis of tie strength and individual effectiveness

Dr. Martin Kilduff (Cambridge Judge Business School).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The reluctant collaborator? How developing social understanding shapes knowledge

Patrick J. Leman (Royal Holloway, University of London).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-knowledge

Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Theorising bystander behaviour: challenges and responses

Dr Rachel Manning (University of the West of England).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Living fast and dying young: Variation in life history across English neighbourhoods

Dr. Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Exploring the Role of Executive Functions in School Achievement

Dr. Michelle Ellefson (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What children know about groups, and why it matters: The development of intergroup and intragroup relations

Dr. Dominic Abrams, University of Kent.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How musical is Homo Sapiens? Investigating perceptual and emotional components of musicality

Dr. Marcel Zentner (University of York).

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

Friday 28 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Using Triangulation in Qualitative Research in Times of Mixed Methods

Dr. Uwe Flick (University of Applied Sciences, Berlin).

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

Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

TBC

Dr. Pasco Fearon, University of Reading.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Effective Intergroup Relations in Experimental and Field Settings

Dr. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The adolescent brain: vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders

Dr. Jennifer Lau, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Morals and taboos in cyberspace: Do we play by the same rules?

Dr. Monica Whitty, Nottingham Trent University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Towards a Psychological understanding of Extremism

Shahzad Shafqat, Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Resilience, regulation, and adaptation - British children's first school experiences

Anni Yang, PPSIS.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Challenges for parents: understanding infant communication

Dr. Joanna Hawthorne, Brazelton Centre UK.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Personality Reconsidered: Personal Projects, Free Traits and the Shape of a Life

Prof. Brian R. Little.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 15 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: Effects on parent-child relationships and children's psychological well-being

Lucy Blake (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 04 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dialogical knowing and believing

Prof. Ivana Markova (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Conversations sell: How dialogical judgements and goals underpin the success of viral videos

Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 21 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Children's memories for repeated events: Helping them to recall individual episodes and unique details

Sonja Brubacher (Department of Psychology, Wilfred Laurier University).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 14 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The psychology of the imagination and social development: Reflections from Rio's favelas

Dr. Sandra Jovchelovitch (Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 07 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Helping divorced fathers help their children

Prof. Sanford L. Braver (Department of Psychology, Arizona State University).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Investigating reading in low I.Q. children

Sarah Kuppen (Department of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 23 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Explore the science of personality research

This talk is a public lecture, as part of the Science Festival.

Dr Jason Rentfrow (Dept of Social and Developmental Psychology).

University Centre.

Friday 19 March 2010, 19:30-20:30

Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)

The ethical brain

All welcome.

Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

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

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Why are the Big Five personality dimensions still important?

Prof. Oliver John (UC Berkeley).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

CANCELLED -Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-understanding

We hope to reschedule this talk sometime soon.

Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Networking to charisma or inspiring to centrality? Comparing models of how leaders affect team performance

Prof. Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How do we learn to read? An artificial orthography paradigm

Dr. Jo Taylor (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 19 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Facial expressions and moral transgressions: What can facial affect tell us about moral judgments?

Dr. Peter Cannon (University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 05 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Positive psychology and positive education

No booking required. All welcome.

Prof. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania; former president, American Psychological Association).

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Friday 29 January 2010, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

We think we understand: When empathic accuracy and perceptions diverge

Prof. Sara D. Hodges (University of Oregon).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 08 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human?

Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Daily well-being is about thoughts as well as feelings: Extending the day reconstruction method

Dr. Mathew White (University of Plymouth).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Measuring unconscious response tendencies in adults and children

Dr. Dénes Szücs (Department of Education, University of Cambridge).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The development of sex differences in mental rotations in human infants

Prof. David Moore (Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School, USA).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Psychometrics ancient and modern: From Classical Test Theory to Item Response Theory

Prof. John Rust (Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Nonconscious processes in goals and their pursuit

If you require disabled access, please contact Dr Gibson or Mrs Wimbush in advance.

Prof. Henk Aarts (University of Utrecht).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Thursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)

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

Public Understanding of Risk

Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences

Free Public Lecture

Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:30-19:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sex differences in spatial navigation and spatial IQ tasks

If you require disabled access, please contact Dr Gibson or Mrs Wimbush in advance.

Dr. Lucie Salwiczek (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Nostalgia as a social support repository: The role of attachment-related avoidance

If you require disabled access, please contact Dr Gibson or Mrs Wimbush in advance.

Dr. Tim Wildschut (University of Southampton).

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Talking about the past, present and future: Effects on children's memory and knowledge

Prof. Mel Pipe (Brooklyn College, CUNY).

Seminar Room, PPSIS, New Museums Site.

Monday 20 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Art Image as Foundation for a Science of Mind: The Life Work of Susanne K. Langer

Dr. Ivan Ellingham (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Deception Detection

Dr. Eunkyung Jo (Hallym University, Korea).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

"Only You Can Tell Me What Happened": Innovative Techniques for Interviewing Child Alleged Victims of Sexual Abuse

Dr. Carmit Katz (University of Cambridge).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences

Prof. Jay Belsky (Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London).

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Movement

Brady Wagoner (University of Cambridge).

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Adoption: Recovery After Initial Adversity

Prof. Jesús Palacios, University of Seville, Spain.

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children's Evaluations of Disclosing an Adult's Wrongdoing

Lindsay Malloy, University of Cambridge.

Arts School Room B, New Museums Site.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Colour of Motivation

Prof. Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester, NY, USA.

Seminar Room, Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Public Understanding of Risk

How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science

Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!

Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net.

Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

The spatial foundations of the conceptual system

This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the Bartlett Club. Tea and cakes will be served in the Seminar Room from 4pm.

Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 10 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dialogue and the development of reasoning and understanding

Professor Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Shifting ground: The variable use of essentialism in contexts of inclusion and exclusion

Dr Thomas Morton, University of Exeter.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Fathers, Infants and Family Leave Policies: International Perspectives and Policy Impact

Professor Margaret O'Brien, University of East Anglia.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How to measure God: Innovations in the experimental investigation of religious cognition

Dr Nicholas Gibson, Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity,.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The geography of personality

Dr Jason Rentfrow, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Cambridge.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Stress and Child care

Professor Lieselotte Ahnert, Faculty of Human Science, University of Cologne.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Change in Personal Values: How, When, What, and Effects on Well-Being

Dr Anat Bardi, University of Kent.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Chinese Whispers and Virtual Arrowheads: What cultural transmission experiments can tell us about cultural evolution

Alex Mesoudi, SPS.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Intrusive Thoughts and Cognitive Functioning following Potentially Traumatic Events: From Hurricanes to Maltreatment, Injury, and Chronic Illness

Manuel Sprung, University of Innsbruck.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The origins and biology of play

Professor Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee.

SPS Seminar Room.

Monday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Collaborative learning in children: contradiction, co-construction and the development of knowledge

Christine Howe, Faculty of Education, Cambridge.

SPS Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 13:00-14:00