Past events
Explore the past events at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology. Review previous seminars, workshops, and conferences that have contributed to advancements in medical and psychological sciences and learn from the shared knowledge and experiences of experts and practitioners.
Why do we keep secrets? To whom do we tell our secrets? What happens when we reveal a secret? These are only some of the questions that psychologists have begun to investigate on the topic of secrecy. The current state of the science suggests that secrecy has a negative psychological impact – but can nevertheless...
Along with other health and science disciplines, psychology has traditionally privileged (and continues to privilege) its own ways of understanding the world through an often ostensibly objective lens. In such a paradigm, other forms of meaning making can be ignored or otherwise marginalised – including experiential...
Our visual environment is complex, dynamic, and abundant. One way our visual system makes sense of this environment is by relying on shifts of covert attention (i.e., “looking out of the corner of one’s eye”) to select certain elements of our visual world for preferential processing...
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could design research in a way that shifts participants from being passive ‘respondents’ to being interested and engaged ‘participants’?
A panel of emerging leaders in psychology present research on pressing social issues.
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre and the Research School of Chemistry.
The tendency to accept a hypothesis based on fewer than normal pieces of information (“Jumping-to-Conclusions” (JTC) bias) is a probabilistic reasoning bias commonly observed in clinical populations with delusions. This tendency can be attributed to a relatively low decision threshold and overweighting of a piece of...
Despite the longstanding and widespread interest in how people perceive others’ emotions from facial expressions, much of the empirical data comes from a small number of artificially posed stimuli (e.g., the Ekman faces), validated only by high levels of agreement about what emotion they are showing...
This study aimed to validate motivational intensity as an emotional construct, in particular to determine if it should be considered independent from existing constructs valence and arousal for understanding emotion.