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Jim Orford to feature on Channel 4's Dispatches on Monday 6th August
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Emeritus Professor Jim Orford will feature on The Channel Four TV show Dispatches on the subject of gambling. The special interest just now is in the types of gambling machines, new in the last 10 years, which allow people to play virtual casino-type games on machines to be found in high street betting shops.
Date:
24/07/2012
Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson awarded £404K from the ESRC to examine "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
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Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Economic and Social Research Council: "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
Date:
23/07/2012
New paper in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior outlines approaches to treating emotional regulatory deficits among sexual offenders
Description
Steven Gillespie, Ian Mitchell, Dawn Fisher, and Anthony Beech have a paper published in 2012 in Aggression and Violent Behavior entitled 'Treating disturbed emotional regulation in sexual offenders: The potential applications of mindful self-regulation and controlled breathing techniques.'
Date:
23/07/2012
New International Network to Detect Serial Offenders: School of Psychology awarded £79K from the Leverhulme Trust's International Networks scheme
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Dr Jessica Woodhams has been successful in her application to the Leverhulme Trust for a grant to set up the first international network dedicated to research on crime linkage.
Date:
23/07/2012
School of Psychology welcomes Professors Kim Shapiro and Jane Raymond
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We are delighted to welcome two new members of the school. Professor Kim Shapiro and Professor Jane Raymond join us this month from the University of Bangor.
Date:
11/07/2012
Kim Quinn and colleagues awarded £478k by the ESRC to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony
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Dr Kimberly Quinn from the School of Psychology, in collaboration with Prof. John Cacioppo from the University of Chicago, has been awarded £478,137 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a research project to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony.
Date:
11/07/2012
I just can't get me out of my head: Charlotte Hartwright and colleagues demonstrate that Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex inhibits self perspective when predicting the action of another
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A paper newly published in Neuroimage written by Charlotte Hartwright, Ian Apperly and Peter Hansen demonstrates that typically functioning adults find it difficult to overcome their own perspective when making a behavioural prediction about someone else.
Date:
11/07/2012
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