Feeling like you are not good enough for the position you are in is a common experience. Known as imposter phenomenon (or more commonly as imposter syndrome), the feeling that you are not capable or underqualified to be a member of a group or hold a position…
Seeing is believing:we need to see something before we can accept that it really happened. Or do we?
Maybe you have had the experience of completely misreading a sentence and then needing to go back.The reason could be that the brain relies on its…
A team from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Psychology responsible for delivering an international conference has won three awards at this year’s Aberdeen Convention Bureau awards evening. The European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) took home the accolades for Best Event over 500 Delegates and the Impact Award, while Dr…
We all know the cliché that ‘the eyes are the window to the soul’. A lot of psychology research has supported the idea that we look at people’s eyes when trying to decide what they are feeling: Is someone who seems unhappy sad, angry or scared? But…
My name is Barbora, and I am a MA Psychology student particularly interested in social psychology, stereotyping and gender issues as well as other assorted unrelated subject areas like latin and coding. Outside of academia, I read urban fantasy, embroider (badly), and write fiction (these are usually even worse than…
Ana Rozman graduated with her PhD in Psychology this week and reflected on how her time with the School led her to this moment.
The 29-year-old says: “I wanted to study human colour perception for my PhD project and the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen has an…
Have you ever wondered why some teaching methods seem to work better than others? Recent research highlights the power of “multimodal enrichment”—a teaching approach that engages multiple senses or movements, such as hearing and seeing a new word simultaneously. Far from being just a trendy technique, this method…
Our lives are characterized by change, it’s pretty much the only constant in life. Some changes are almost unnoticeable, some take adjustment. Menopause is one of those changes. Menopause is experienced by anyone that has periods but it usually affects women between the ages of 45-55 but can also occur…
In the autumn of 2022, my dissertation student Ria Amirapu did just that. She had started her studies during the Covid-19 Pandemic and had witnessed the effects of the lockdowns on her Indian friends and family. In particular, she noticed that her female friends were struggling with the level of…
I am both thrilled and humbled to have been awarded the John Shepherd Prize for the best MRes Psychology thesis and the Anderson Prize for the highest performing student in MRes Psychology for the 2023-24 academic year! These awards are a huge honour, representing not only my own hard work,…
