Research Seminar Programme

All seminars take place in Keynes Lecture Theatre 4 on Thursday afternoons at 4.00pm unless otherwise stated, and last about one hour. All University staff and postgraduate students are welcome to attend. Refreshments are provided.

Current
2010-11
2009-10
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03

Current Series

Date	Title	Speaker
06 Oct 2011	Single Consciousness and Psychological Science	Dr Peter Hegarty University of Surrey
20 Oct 2011	In Pursuit of Existential Liberty: Differential Effects of Mortality Salience and Death Reflection on Desires for Freedom	Dr Philip Cozzolino University of Essex
03 Nov 2011	Michelangelo phenomenon: Partner Affirmation and Sculpting of the Ideal Self	Dr Madoka Kumashiro Goldsmiths
10 Nov 2011	Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Intergroup Conflicts - A Psycho-political Perspective	Dr Eran Halperin Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
17 Nov 2011	Evaluating Offending Behaviour Programmes	Dr Emma Palmer University of Leicester
24 Nov 2011	Neurocognitive correlates of the Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)	Dr Jason Braithwaite University of Birmingham
01 Dec 2011	Sexual selection as an explanation of men's violence	Professor John Archer University of Lancaster
08 Dec 2011	To what extent do selective processing skills at 2-3 predict difficulties with language, social communication and literacy at 10 years? Evidence from a follow-up study of clinically referred children	Professor Shula Chiat & Penny Roy City University
26 Jan 2012	Event comprehension and competition between multiple representations of the same object	Professor Gerry Altmann University of York
02 Feb 2012	Sex, violence and self-harm: Indirect measures of cognitions in forensic settings	Professor Bob Snowden University of Cardiff
09 Feb 2012	The Many sides of Mind Reading	Professor Dana Samson UCLouvain, Belgium
01 Mar 2012	The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness	Ruud Custers University College London
08 Mar 2012	Explaining Misbelief	Dr Ryan McKay Royal Holloway
29 Mar 2012	Person Construal Prima Facie: Social Perceivers, Faces Perceived	Dr Kimberley Quinn University of Birmingham

2010-11

Date	Title	Speaker
21 Oct 2010	A moveable feast: How transformational cross-cultural experiences facilitate creativity	Dr William Maddux Insead, Paris
04 Nov 2010	Children's Reasoning about Rights	Dr Harriet Tenenbaum Kingston University
11 Nov 2010	The Time Traveller's Life	Professor Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
18 Nov 2010	On the roles of motivation and emotion in legal judgements	Dr Karl Ask University of Gothenburg
25 Nov 2010	Beyond Victim Derogation and Blame: Just World Dynamics in Everyday Life	Dr Mitch Callan University of Essex
02 Dec 2010	"Look, the frog is glorping the rabbit": Cross-linguistic investigations into how children learn the meaning of sentences	Dr Carol Rowland University of Liverpool
03 Feb 2011	The flow of attention in reading and its literary connections	Prof Tony Sanford University of Glasgow
10 Feb 2011	Towards an integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behaviour	Prof Rory O'Connor University of Stirling
17 Feb 2011	Achievement goal promotion at university: Social desirability and social utility of mastery and performance goals Note: This seminar takes place at 10.00am in KS13	Prof Fabrizio Butera University of Lausanne
03 Mar 2011	Effects of experience on children's language	Dr Danielle Matthews University of Sheffield
10 Mar 2011	The reluctant collaborator? How developing social understanding shapes knowledge	Dr Patrick Leman Royal Holloway, University of London
17 Mar 2011	Three ironies of integration: intergroup contact and the problem social change revisited	Dr John Dixon Lancaster University
24 Mar 2011	Determining the distinct crucial contributions made by different prefrontal cortical regions to rule-guided behaviour and executive control	Dr Mark Buckley University of Oxford
31 Mar 2011	Feelings change: Exploring the dynamics of emotional experience	Dr Peter Kuppens KU Leuven, Belgium

2009-10

Date	Title	Speaker
22 Oct 2009	What reverses the verb effect in causal explanation?	Dr Denis Hilton Université de Toulouse
05 Nov 2009	Nothing to Lose: Desperate circumstances require desperate measures	Prof Russell Spears Cardiff University
12 Nov 2009	How do social conventions influence the way we do research? Opening of the new Centre for Research on Social Climate.	Dr Ulrich Weger University of Kent
19 Nov 2009	Leaders as altruists, and why selfish genes can produce generous humans	Dr Rick O'Gorman University of Essex
03 Dec 2009	Tackling the "Walk-on-by Society": groups, bystanders and intervention in violence	Dr Mark Levine Lancaster University
10 Dec 2009	The Social Functions of Nostalgia	Professor Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
21 Jan 2010	The Production Effect: Distinctive Responding Improves Remembering	Prof Colin MacLeod University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
04 Feb 2010	Examining the role of denial in sexual recidivism	Dr Leigh Harkins University of Birmingham
25 Feb 2010	Ineffective and inefficient: Where next for the Transtheoretical Model and clinical trials of behavioural interventions?	Dr Chris Bridle Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School
04 Mar 2010	Emotions and Morality	Dr Simone Schnall University of Cambridge
18 Mar 2010	Measuring the behavior of groups and their members	Professor Richard Moreland University of Pittsburgh
25 Mar 2010	Invisible "rules of attraction": How the number and variety of options affect early mate choice	Dr Alison Lenton University of Edinburgh

Programme for 2008-2009

Date	Title	Speaker
16 Oct 2008	Coming to terms with your ingroup's moral violations	Dr Sonia Roccas The Open University of Israel
23 Oct 2008	Attentional bias and craving in substance use	Dr Matt Field University of Liverpool
06 Nov 2008	Exploring the Perceptual Organization of Sound	Prof Brian Roberts Aston University
13 Nov 2008	From the closet to the jungle: The relation between language and cognition in stereotype communication research	Dr Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles
20 Nov 2008	Bicultural Identity: Dynamics, Individual Differences, and Psychosocial Correlates	Dr Veronica Benet-Martinez University of California Riverside
11 Dec 2008	Chimpanzee vocal communication: evolutionary links to human communication?	Dr Katie Slocombe University of York
22 Jan 2009	'I see myself as a nice person, but once I...': Pheneomenological characteristics of self-consistent and self-discrepant autobiographical memories	Dr Ali Tekcan University of Leeds
12 Feb 2009	Weird Science: An Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology	Professor Chris French Goldsmiths College, University of London
26 Feb 2009	Throwing a Punch or Turning the Other Cheek: Aggression and Self-Regulation	Dr Brian Meier Gettysburg College, USA
05 Mar 2009	Can attention make us drink?	Dr Emmanuel Pothos Department of Psychology, University of Wales
19 Mar 2009	How do I look? Self-presentation in childhood	Dr Robin Banerjee University of Sussex
26 Mar 2009	What might have been and what might be: Children's thinking about possibilities	Dr Sarah Beck University of Birmingham
02 Apr 2009	Sharing is believing: How audience tuning shapes communicators' memory	Gerald Echterhoff Jacobs University Bremen
09 Apr 2009	The problem of behaviour change: Strategies and moderators	Dr Thomas Webb University of Sheffield

Programme for 2007-2008

Date	Title	Speaker
25 Oct 2007	Distortions in the perception of time	Dr Sandra Quinn Stirling University
01 Nov 2007	Spelling production and writing duration	Professor Chris Barry University of Essex
08 Nov 2007	The formation and change of social identity	Professor Tom Postmes University of Exeter
22 Nov 2007	Motivated perception of others: Situation-relevant goals and stereotyping	Dr Lorella Lepore University of Reading
29 Nov 2007	Living in history: When (and why) public events affect the organization of autobiographical memory	Professor Norman Brown University of Alberta, Canada
06 Dec 2007	Status and verticality	Dr Ulrich von Hecker Cardiff University
24 Jan 2008	Subjective Group Dynamics: Inclusive Responses to In-Group Deviants and the Validity of Prescriptive Norms	Prof Jose Marques University of Porto
07 Feb 2008	Spatial Representation of Numbers	Dr Martin Fischer School of Psychology, University of Dundee
14 Feb 2008	Mind-building: Freud, Picasso, Stokes	Prof Janet Sayers SSPSSR, University of Kent
28 Feb 2008	Fatherhood in contemporary Britain: Some preliminary insights from behavioural ecology	Dr Daniel Nettle University of Newcastle
06 Mar 2008	There can be only one: Cognitive limits in face perception.	Dr Markus Bindemann University of Glasgow
13 Mar 2008	Morality and Overcoming Intervention Inertia: Disinhibited Behavior can Improve the Greater Good	Prof Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
20 Mar 2008	Predictors of donations following humanitarian disasters	Dr Hanna Zagefka Royal Holloway University of London
27 Mar 2008	The Nature of Intergroup Emotions	Professor Diane Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara

Programme for 2006-2007

Date	Title	Speaker
12 Oct 2006	Dance reveals symmetry especially in young men	Dr William Brown Brunel University
19 Oct 2006	The geography of personality: Regional differences in personality across the United States	Dr Jason Rentfrow Cambridge University
26 Oct 2006	A re-evaluation of the effects of repetition priming and retention intervals on subjective reports of remembering	Dr Richard Tunney University of Nottingham
02 Nov 2006	Deflecting threat in stereotypic domains: How access to multiple social identities can improve academic performance	Dr Richard Crisp University of Birmingham
09 Nov 2006	Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Children's Language	Simon Bignell University of Derby
15 Nov 2006	The psychological impact of medical interventions	Professor Jane Ogden University of Surrey
30 Nov 2006	Implications of Culture for Question Comprehension and Response in Survey Context	Dr Ayse Uskul University of Essex
07 Dec 2006	Work related fatigue and the need for recovery	Dr Philip Tucker Swansea University
14 Dec 2006	Facial identification in a forensic setting	Dr Allan McNeill Glasgow Caledonian University
11 Jan 2007	Focusing on threat and the role of trait anxiety: Evidence from eye-movements.	Dr Naz Derakshan School of Psychology, Birkbeck College
25 Jan 2007	Are you anxious or simply disgusted? The role of disgust in anxious psychopathology.	Prof Graham Davey Department of Psychology, University of Sussex
01 Feb 2007	The 'hooligan wars': social identity, intergroup dynamics and the importance of legitimacy in the exercise of power.	Dr Cliff Stott School of Psychology, Liverpool University
08 Feb 2007	Self-affirmation and the biased processing of health-risk information.	Dr Peter Harris University of Sheffield
22 Feb 2007	Annual Psychology Lecture - 6pm Grimond Lecture Theatre 1	Professor Mike Burton Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
01 Mar 2007	Risk perceptions and self-presentation: Understanding health risk and attitudes towards exercise in overweight women.	Dr Anne Haase Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Bristol
08 Mar 2007	Spontaneous speech-accompanying gesture as a window into "thinking-for-speaking": Insights from cross-linguistic and developmental studies.	Dr Sotaro Kita School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
15 Mar 2007	Factors that influence the production of false memories in the DRM paradigm.	Dr Hedwige Dehon Département des sciences cognitives/psychologie cognitive, Liège, Belguim
22 Mar 2007	Lie Detection: The need for proper interview protocols.	Prof Aldert Vrij Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth
17 May 2007	"How do I reject thee? Let me count the ways..."	Professor Norb Kerr Michigan State University
24 May 2007	The evolution of the social brain	Professor Robin Dunbar University of Liverpool

Programme for 2005-2006

Date	Title	Speaker
03 Nov 2005	SIQ things: sensational interests, mental disorder and offending.	Professor Vincent Egan Glasgow Caledonian University
10 Nov 2005	Title to be announced	Professor Sheina Orbell University of Essex
17 Nov 2005	Verbal encoding in unfamiliar face recognition.	Dr Lee Wickham University of Manchester
24 Nov 2005	Audiences and Attention: An Investigation of Social Influence and Perceptual Load.	Dr Liz Moores Neurosciences Research Institute, Aston University
01 Dec 2005	*21st ANNUAL PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE* The Michelangelo phenomenon: Partner affirmation and self-discrepancy processes. (6pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre 1)	Professor Caryl Rusbult Free University, Amsterdam
08 Dec 2005	How does anxiety affect cognition?	Professor Michael Eysenck Royal Holloway, University of London
15 Dec 2005	The influence of photographs on memory	Dr Kimberley Wade University of Warwick
12 Jan 2006	Finding fleeting threats fast: is there an extra-cortical threat detector?	Dr Michael Burt University of Durham
19 Jan 2006	There's no such thing as memory	Dr William Macken Cardiff University
26 Jan 2006	Is short-term memory needed to explain performance on short-term memory tasks?	Dr Geoff Ward University of Essex
02 Feb 2006	Linking Leader Personality with Group Dynamics: Leader Process Directiveness as Mediator and Performance Feedback as Moderator	Professor Randall Peterson London Business School
09 Feb 2006	The justice motive as a personal resource	Professor Claudia Dalbert Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
16 Feb 2006	Evidence for special design in human face preferences	Dr Ian Penton-Voak University of Bristol
23 Feb 2006	Optimistic bias in motorists and smokers: Is it rational?	Dr David Hardman London Metropolitan University
02 Mar 2006	Living on the edge: The path of peripherals	Professor Jolanda Jetten University of Exeter
23 Mar 2006	The Development of False Memories in Children	Professor Mark Howe Lancaster University

Programme for 2004-2005

Date	Title	Speaker
28 Oct 2004	The Emergence of Leadership: Integrating the Evolutionary and Psychological Literatures	Mark Van Vugt University of Kent
04 Nov 2004	Using electrophysiologial brain measures to assess recognition memory	Hannie van Hooff University of Kent
11 Nov 2004	The value of studying values: Theory and applications to various areas of psychology	Anat Bardi University of Kent
18 Nov 2004	Personal goals of high school students: Effects on achievement, motivation, prosocial behaviour and subjective well-being	Joachim Stober University of Kent
25 Nov 2004	Unintentional Social Inferences about Individuals and Groups	Matt Crawford University of Bristol
02 Dec 2004	Exploring the constraints on children's working memory span performance	Donna Bayliss University of Bristol
20 Jan 2005	The Assembly of Phonology from Print is Serial and Subject to Strategic Control: Evidence from Serbian	Jelena Havelka University of Kent
27 Jan 2005	Palliative Care: Care for the many or the few?	Sheila Payne University of Sheffield
10 Feb 2005	Seeing the shark from the seas: Detecting Negativity and Attentional Disengagement	Gun Semin Free University Amsterdam
24 Feb 2005	Pre-trial Publicity and Juror Decision Making	Terry Honess City University London
03 Mar 2005	To sleep, perchance to acquire a novel spoken lexical item?	Gareth Gaskell University of York
10 Mar 2005	Reciprocity, Partner Choice and the Function of Chimpanzee Intelligence	Dr N E Newton Fisher University of Kent
17 Mar 2005	Under the influence?: The effect of power on action, regret and the attitude expression	Adam Galinsky Northwestern University
28 Apr 2005	Men�s Body Image and the Drive for Muscularity	Professor Don McCreary York University, Toronto
19 May 2005	International survey research	Stephen Young ISR

Programme for 2003-2004

Date	Title	Speaker
09 Oct 2003	The pleasure (and the pain) in intergroup schadenfreude	Dr Colin Wayne Leach University of Amsterdam
16 Oct 2003	Personality and well-being: Examining interactive effects	Dr Anat Bardi Department of Psychology, University of Kent
23 Oct 2003	Placing parameters on verbal overshadowing: Verbalisation may interfere with or facilitate recognition of multiple faces	Dr Charity Brown University of Kent
30 Oct 2003	Speech segmentation: Multiple constraints and hierarchy	Dr Sven Mattys Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
06 Nov 2003	Telling and detecting true lies in police interviews	Professor Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth
11 Nov 2003	The development of ethnic prejudice in children	Professor Drew Nesdale Griffith University, Australia
13 Nov 2003	What can neuroimaging tell us about memory ageing	Dr Alexa Morcom Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
21 Nov 2003	Psychological Well-being: What is it? Who has it? And, how does it matter?	Professor Carol Ryff University of Wisconsin-Madison
27 Nov 2003	Neural Network Models of the Attentional Blink	Dr Howard Bowman University of Kent, Computer Science
04 Dec 2003	Discourses about immigration and their impact on multiculturalism: A discursive and experimental study	Dr Maykel Verkuitjen University of Utrecht
15 Jan 2004	Attention, emotion, and problem drinking.	Dr Dinkar Sharma University of Kent
22 Jan 2004	Lexical and semantic binding in short-term memory: evidence from normal recall and semantic dementia.	Dr Beth Jeffries University of Manchester
29 Jan 2004	Power, information processing, and objective group variability.	Dr Ana Guinote University of Kent
05 Feb 2004	Hesitation in speech can...um...help the listener.	Dr Martin Corley University of Edinburgh
12 Feb 2004	Breast cancer screening: predicting and increasing attendance.	Prof Derek Rutter University of Kent
26 Feb 2004	Prospective remembering and implementation intentions	Dr Judi Ellis University of Reading
04 Mar 2004	I'm not prejudiced, but....: the self-preservation of intergroup bias.	Dr Gordon Hodson University of Wales Swansea
11 Mar 2004	The price of prejudice: social cues influence how lives are valued.	Dr Alison Lenton University of Cambridge
18 Mar 2004	ANNUAL PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE: The impact of psychological research on criminal justice	Professor Gisli Gudjonsson Institute of Psychiatry, London
25 Mar 2004	The influence of integral and incidental affect on risk perception	Dr Ellen Townsend University of Nottingham
13 May 2004	Adolescents' reasons for deliberate self-harm	Dr Karen Rodham University of Bath
20 May 2004	Exploring shame-related emotions in juvenile offenders	Dr Nathan Harris University of Cambridge

Programme for 2002-2003

Date	Title	Speaker
10 Oct 2002	Ageing and eyewitness identification	Dr Amina Memon University of Aberdeen
17 Oct 2002	Semantic, syntactic, phonological, articulatory and orthographic processes in language production	Dr Marcus Damian University of Bristol
31 Oct 2002	Blending the boundaries of social categorisation	Dr Richard Crisp University of Birmingham
07 Nov 2002	Attending to touch in Parkinson's disease: tactile inhibition of return	Dr Ellen Poliakoff UMIST
14 Nov 2002	Noticing things - the psychophysics of natural scenes	Professor Tom Troscianko University of Sussex
21 Nov 2002	Perceiving social and emotional signals in faces: functional imaging studies	Joel Winston The Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience
28 Nov 2002	Rethinking social cognitive models of health psychology	Dr Sarah Milne University of Bath
05 Dec 2002	Normal and impaired reading: Has computational modelling helped us to ask the right questions	Dr Kathy Rastle Royal Holloway College, University of London
10 Dec 2002	Iraq, Intelligence and the Bush Administration	Professor Richard Ned Lebow Dartmouth College, USA
12 Dec 2002	Studying face recognition using event-related brain potentials	Professor Stephan Schweinberger University of Glasgow
13 Dec 2002	Spontaneous behavioural tendencies of approach and avoidance in intergroup perception	Dr Paola Paladino University of Trento
16 Jan 2003	Identification and variables of individual difference as antecendents of ingroup bias	Dr Dora Capozza Universit� degli Studi di Padova
23 Jan 2003	Who bombed Yugoslavia and why? - Conspiracy theories, antisemitism and the study of social explanations	Dr Jovan Byford Nottingham Trent University
30 Jan 2003	Localist coding in neural networks for visual word identification	Dr Jeff Bowers University of Bristol
06 Feb 2003	Divine therapy? Crime and punishment, guilt and war	Professor Janet Sayers University of Kent
13 Feb 2003	The words that predict the outbreak of wars	Professor Robert Hogenraad Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research
20 Feb 2003	Intrapersonal and interpersonal processes of motivated self-concept	Professor Rasyid Sanitioso Universit� Ren� Descartes
27 Feb 2003	Self-presentational behaviour and concerns about public self-image in childhood: Developmental change and individual differences	Dr Robin Banerjee University of Sussex
06 Mar 2003	Sex, drugs and male contraception: the behavioural effects of testosterone in men	Dr Daryl O'Connor University of Leeds
20 Mar 2003	Group Performance: Perils and Potentials	Professor Norb Kerr Michigan State University
25 Mar 2003	Strategies of Conflict Resolution: Accommodating interests, changing images and building new identities.	Professor Richard Herrmann
08 May 2003	Subdivisions of visuospatial working memory: The contributions of modality and sequentiality	Dr Stephen Darling Goldsmiths College, University of London
15 May 2003	Wordlikeness and lexicality in STM and literacy development	Dr Clive Frankish University of Bristol
29 May 2003	Misinformation and Eyewitness Testimony	Dr Dan Wright University of Sussex
05 Jun 2003	The irrelevance of identity: What ugly ducklings truly want to be.	Dr Aiden Gregg University of Southampton

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