Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 25/06/2013 (12:00-13:30)
- Location:
- Mechanical Engineering basement room B22
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speakers: Professor Essi Viding and Dr Eamon McCrory, UCL
- Date
- 09 (12:00) - 12/08/2013 (18:00)
- Description
- The Birmingham Boot Camp v2.0 comprises the Advanced ERP Workshop and the tDCS & tACS Workshop.
- Date
- 19/11/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building - R3 on the Edgbaston Campus map - room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Dr Chris Chambers, Cardiff University
- Date
- 03/12/2013 (16:00-17:00)
- Location:
- Hills Building - R3 on the Edgbaston Campus map - room 1.20
- Description
- Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Marion Hetherington, Psychology, Leeds University
News
- Description
- Ulrik Beierholm has contributed to a paper titled 'Dopamine Modulates Reward-Related Vigor', published in Neuropsychopharmacology on 18th February 2013.
- Date:
- 22/04/2013
- Description
- University of Birmingham scientists are looking for volunteers who have had out-of-body experiences to come forward and be involved in a new study which seeks to identify the scientific causes behind these bizarre phenomena.
- Date:
- 28/03/2013
- Description
- Research in the School of Psychology suggests that 'attentive eating' affects how much people choose to eat. A paper published recently by the research team in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition took an overview of research on attentive eating and concluded that encouraging people to eat more attentively could aid appetite control.
- Date:
- 28/03/2013
- Description
- In the forthcoming Horizon programme 'The Truth About Taste', Jackie Blissett will be discussing some of the reasons why children like some foods and dislike others, how this changes as they move from infancy to adulthood, and some of the psychological processes involved in our development of food likes and dislikes.
- Date:
- 26/03/2013
- Description
- PhD students Angela Meadows and Sara Tookey are running a multidisciplinary conference on the subject of Weight Stigma and Health.
- Date:
- 22/03/2013
- Description
- Teresa da Silva, a doctoral research student working in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology under the supervision of Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Leigh Harkins, has contributed a chapter entitled "Multiple Perpetrator Rape as an international phenomenon" to the Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape published on the 5th of March 2013.
- Date:
- 18/03/2013
- Description
- Drs Steve Mayhew (pictured right) and Andy Bagshaw (pictured left) have been awarded £39,840 by the Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund to develop a collaborative project entitled ' Birmingham-Nottingham multimodal neuroimaging alliance: Understanding spatio-temporal brain network dynamics'.
- Date:
- 18/03/2013
- Description
- Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape, edited by Dr Jessica Woodhams and Professor Miranda Horvath, is the first text to be compiled regarding this type of sexual violence which has been so prominent in international news recently.
- Date:
- 28/02/2013