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Join Dr Junwen Chen from the Emotion and Behaviour Laboratory, ANU, and Professor Hiroaki Kumano from the Behaviour Medicine Laboratory, Waseda University in Japan,for a research seminar to exchange ideas and share findings on clinical and health psychology.

You'll gain insights into the most up-to-date research on social anxiety and other mental health issues such as ADHD, social withdrawal (Hikikomori), imposter syndrome, and cyberchondriacs. 

Last year's seminar resulted in very positive feedback from participants, and new research collaborations were developed.

Seventeen (17) speakers from both laboratories will present research projects covering topics such as intolerance of uncertainty, perfectionism, shame and social withdrawal, cognitive biases; as well as their interventions including emotion regulation, self-compassion, mindfulness, attentional training.   

Speakers will present for 15 minutes and take questions from the audience for 5 minutes. See the schedule.

All researchers and HDR students are welcome to participate. It's a great opportunity to learn and grow your network.

Speakers  from the Emotion and Behaviour Laboratory, ANU

• Dr Junwen Chen (Senior Lecturer, ANU): Junwen’s research focuses on social anxiety, excessive worry, and cross-cultural comparison.
• Aseel Sahib (PhD candidate, ANU): Aseel's PhD examines the role that emotion dysregulation plays in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and emotional difficulties (i.e., anxiety and depression).
• Maika Kumada (PhD candidate, ANU): Maika’s research focuses on the role of perspective-taking in social anxiety, both at a behavioural and neural level.
• Jasmine Turner (PhD candidate, the University of Adelaide): Jasmine’s research is looking into well-being and mental health in primary school children.
• Wangtianxi (Sandy) Li (PhD candidate, ANU): Sandy’s research investigates safety behaviours in social anxiety.
• Kelly Ferber (PhD candidate, Australian Catholic University): Kelly investigates Self-Determination Theory to explore individual differences in psychological well-being across the lifespan.
• Bolun Zhang (PhD [clinical] candidate, ANU): Bolun’s PhD project focuses on health anxiety and cyberchondria and their relationship with intolerance of conflictive uncertainty.
• Nicole Tan (PhD [clinical] candidate, ANU): Nicole’s research focuses on how social anxiety influences the way we evaluate information to change our beliefs in a given situation.
• Adam Kinasch (graduate Honours student, ANU): Adam’s research focuses on imposter syndrome and how self-compassion can function to help those experiencing imposter feelings.
• Samantha Coutts-Bain (Honours student, ANU): Sam is interested in clinical and cross-cultural psychology and is currently researching shame and social withdrawal in Australia.
• Thomas Tran (Honours student, ANU): Thomas’s Honours research focuses on loneliness in the workplace, specifically investigating the relationship between business networking and loneliness.

Speakers from the Behaviour Medicine Laboratory, Waseda University

• Dr Hiroaki Kumano (Professor, Waseda University): Hiroaki's research interests include clinical behavioural analysis, mindfulness, attention, and brain imaging.
• Mana Oguchi (PhD candidate, Waseda University; Research fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS]): Mana’s research focuses on a causal relationship between the effects of procrastination and depressive symptoms in adult ADHD patients.
• Siqing Guan (PhD candidate, Waseda University; Research fellow, JSPS): Siqing’s research focuses on understanding intentionality and content-specificity of mind wandering as transdiagnostic factors in depression and anxiety.
• Ayumi Minamide (PhD candidate, Waseda University): Ayumi’s research focuses on the causal relationship between focused attention and its metacognitive beliefs in social anxiety.
• Taro Uchida (PhD candidate, Waseda University; Research fellow, JSPS): Taro’s research focuses on the relationship between mindfulness and self-compassion in mindfulness-based intervention for depression/anxiety.
• Mao Nanamori (Master’s Student, Waseda University): Mao’s research focuses on the relationship between self-focused attention and gaze perception in social anxiety.