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2019
May
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Spot the risk! Fatigue and stress in comic book strips
-Fatigue and stress can negatively affect the performance of workers and can lead to serious incidents. But fear not! There are simple things which can be done to tackle risks and to avoid danger. Join us for a game of spot the risk like you have never played before! The Applied Psychology...
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Troll Hunting: Investigating and dealing with cyber-bullying
-Cyberbullying is a concern among young people with as many as 75% of school children experiencing cyberbullying at some stage. This interactive seminar will discuss four types of ‘troll’ – cyber bully types (harassment, flaming, impersonation, stalking). The impact of these ‘trolls’ and methods for dealing with them will also be covered....
March
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The cradle of (mental) health: The science of perinatal and infant mental health, and why it needs psychologists.
-There is increasing evidence that the global burden of mental health difficulties is rising, and that many of the risk factors for these difficulties relate to psychological and developmental factors – from in-utero through to early years. In this seminar, I will explore how psychological approaches can help us understand...
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Beyond the language given: The neurobiological infrastructure for pragmatic inferencing
-Even though language allows us to say exactly what we mean, we often use it to express things indirectly, in a way that depends on the specific communicative context. One of the big puzzles in language science is how listeners work out what speakers really mean, a skill central to communication. In this...
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The emerging (neuro-)science of people watching
-This event was cancelled
Witnessing how people behave around, and towards, each other can prompt far-reaching social impressions. These impressions can concern, for instance, whether those observed are acquainted with one another, have compatible desires and goals, or compete for limited resources. But despite their prevalence in everyday life, so-called encounter-based impressions have attracted...
February
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Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic structure
-Language is a product of learning in individuals, and universal structural features of language presumably reflect properties of the way in which we learn. But language is not necessarily a direct reflection of properties of individual learners: languages are culturally-transmitted systems, which persist in populations via a repeated cycle of...
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From dyads to social networks: the importance of the inter-personal in social interaction
-The mechanisms that enable us to engage in successful social interaction are still poorly understood, despite a movement in social cognition research toward studying two- or more people engaged in interaction rather than in isolation. However, studies investigating interpersonal mechanisms that emerge and facilitate joint action beyond symmetric tasks have...
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The psychology of everyday interactions
-In 1988 Norman’s published “The Psychology of Everyday Things”, which became a seminal work, commonly considered the base for the developing of User Centered Design (UCD). The main goal of UCD was to develop “usable” products, where usability is typically defined as the extent to which a product can be...
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Inhibitory Control in Task Switching
-The inhibition of irrelevant tasks is considered an important cognitive control process involved in human multitasking performance. In a task-switching situation, inhibiting the no longer relevant task facilitates switching to the currently relevant task. In this talk I will present research on task-level inhibition using behavioral measures and diffusion modeling....
