Fhionna Moore of the School of Psychology has published a chapter today in the open access volume "Glucocorticoids" (InTech Press).
The chapter reviews the evidence from humans and other species that stress hormones influence the expression of traits used in mate choice. The chapter is available at
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A study conducted by an international research team, including Fhionna Moore of the School of Psychology is published online today at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Masculine features – a strong jawline, prominent brow an ...
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The School of Psychology had 27 students graduating at the November 2012 ceremony. Of those were one BSc, two MA, three Diploma of Higher Education, seven Certificate of Higher Education and fourteen MSc students. The MSc students were eleven Developmental Psychology, two of which with Distinction and one with Merit, one Language and Communication with Distinction, two Psycholo ...
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Research conducted by Dundee Social Psychologist Juliet Wakefield is soon to be published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly. It will be accompanied by a podcast interview in which Juliet discusses the study and its implications with the journal Editor (Prof. Jan Yoder). The research concerns women's reactions to being stereotyped by men as dependent, and how they may seek ...
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Professor Trevor Harley is giving a talk called "All in my mind" at the University of South Carolina on Friday 16 November, as part of his American tour.
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Dr Yuki Kamide has been appointed to serve as a member of ESRC Peer Review College from this month.
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Nick Hopkins was recently interviewed by Claudia Hammond for the BBC’s World Service. Nick spoke about ESRC-funded research conducted by himself and other social psychologists in the UK and in India concerning social identity, collective participation and well-being. The site for this research was an enormous Hindu festival in Norther ...
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A new grant funded by the ESRC has been awarded to Dr Emese Nagy. The project will investigate the psychology of the neonate via analysis of sequential-temporal patterns in neonatal behaviour.
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An article in Cortex has recently been published by our staff (Dr Emese Nagy) with cover image depicting the study.
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The third edition of Visual Perception: An Introduction by Nick Wade and Mike Swanston has just been published by Psychology Press. Amongst the reviews on Amazon is the following by Ian Gordon from Exeter University: "I believe that the three texts in this sequence of books deserve the title of classics. It is hard to imagine how Wade’s and Swanston’s textb ...
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Findings from a Social Psychological investigation of the consequences of participating in a large-scale collective event are published today in PLOS ONE. The paper, entitled ‘Participation in mass gatherings can benefit well-being: Longitudinal and control data from a North Indian Hindu pilgrimage event’ arises from a project involving social psychologists from ...
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The Dean, Professor Trevor Harley, is currently visiting Professors at the Psychology Department, University of California.
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will attend a meeting of the Working Group on Health Claims at the European Food Authority in (EFSA) Parma at the end of October. The Working Group reports to the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies at EFSA, which deals with questions related to dietetic products, nutrition and food allergies as well as associated subjects such as novel foods.
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The development of prosocial behaviour
Description of project: The aim of this study is to provide experimental data on the earlydevelopment of prosocial behaviour and to investigate the contribution of self-consciousemotion, perspective taking and effortful self-control to this phenomenon. Full detail can be found on the left hand panel of the
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With colleagues Robin Banerjee (Sussex) and Nikki Luke (Oxford), Mark Bennett has published a paper resulting from an ESRC project on the development of self-presentation. The paper breaks new ground by demonstrating that self-presentational processes are activated by social contexts whic ...
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Professor Harley has published a paper on the limitations of neuroimaging and the relation between the brain and the mind. This controversial paper is called:
"Why the earth is almost flat: Imaging and the death of cognitive psychology" Cortex, in press, now digitally available: DOI: ...
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Dr Yuki Kamide and her team are currently seeking a couple of enthusiastic undergraduate students who are willing to work with them as a research apprentice to gain research experience in an extremely supportive environment. The students will be involved in various aspects of their research on a wide variety of issues on language and eye movements, mainly exploring 'situated' l ...
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Professor Trevor Harley has been awarded a grant from the Soillse Initiative to look at the use of Gaelic in describing the weather. Along with the journalist Seon Caimbeul, he will collecting a corpus of Gaelic weather sayings, with a view to preserving and extending the use of Gaelic in Scotland, examining how language used to describe the weather has changed with time, and w ...
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An EEG & fMRI Study on the Effects of Nicotine Withdrawal on Attention We are looking for volunteers (Smokers Only!) for an EEG/fMRI study exploring attention mechanisms in the brain. Are you 18-35yrs, right handed, regular smoker (15 or more cigarettes per day), with normal hearing and not taking any medication? For more information please contact
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On Friday 7th September, Fhionna Moore of the School of Psychology joined researchers from across Scotland to present a session on the "Science of Attraction" at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen. The event was sold out and covered topics such as facial cues to arousal, individual differences in attraction and how we can learn about human beauty by studying non-human spe ...
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The first of a series of workshops on "Future Directions of Evolutionary Psychology" was held in the School last week. This was organised by Fhionna Moore and funded by the Human Behavior & Evolution Society. The aim of the workshops is to bring together experts from across Scotland to discuss contemporary issues and challenges in the field. Last week's workshop was on "Applied ...
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Social Psychologist Nick Hopkins gave a keynote lecture to the annual conference of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society (August 21st-23rd, 2012). The lecture, entitled 'Minority groups and the negotiation of belonging' considered isues of identity, especially the social construction of national and religious identity in Britain over the last twent ...
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Dr. Fhionna Moore of the School of Psychology has launched a new website. The Evolution & Behaviour Research website is dedicated to research into mate preferences, facial attractiveness, parenting and reproductive decisions. It is also a forum for data collection, with links to experiments that can be completed online.
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URGENT! The timetable which is currently viewable on the Registry website has not been finalised and is NOT the confirmed timetable for 2012-13. Students should NOT make any childcare or work arrangements based on it.
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The 2011-12 School of Psychology Graduation Ceremony took place on the beautifully sunny afternoon of Tuesday 19 June 2012 in Caird Hall. Prior to the ceremony, the School hosted its annual Graduation Reception and Prize-giving event in the Scrymgeour Building which was attended by graduands with their families and friends, and School staff. The Dean congratulated the graduands ...
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As part of the dissemination activity associated with an ESRC project concerning the impact of participating in the Magh Mela (an enormous month-long Hindu festival in India), social psychologist Nick Hopkins helped organise two events to showcase the project's findings in relation to well-being. The first event (held in Exeter, ...
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Special journal issue Production of Referring Expressions, edited by Roger van Gompel and colleagues, appears in Topics in Cognitive Science
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Dundee University voted best student experience in the UK
Students at The University of Dundee have the best experience of university life, according to a new survey. The Univeristy of Dundee topped the Times Higher Education (THE) student experience which surveyed more than 14,000 UK undergraduates. More information on this story at
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In March, 2012 Dr. Alissa Melinger was invited to present a series of lectures on research methods and statistical analysis at the University of Stuttgart. The workshop, which took place on March 29th, was hosted by the university's highly prestigious Institute for Natural Language Processing . The focus of the lect ...
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On Monday 26 March Professor Trevor Harley gave a talk called "Stretching you mind" to the Dundee Ladies' Probus Club. The talk was very well attended, and was on the subject of how we can live longer, healthier lives, particularly looking at how the mind can be exercised just like the body
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There are opportunities to get involved in a range of projects within the Active Vision Lab. Current projects include CCTV surveillance, eyewitness testimony, eye movements and dialogue in natural collaboration, real world tasks and the psychology of magic. These projects use a variety of eye-tracking techniques and software. All look at vision in new and exciting ways. Pl ...
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We are pleased to offer a maximum of four funded PhD studentships allowing the successful candidates to complete their doctorate working with top researchers in the School of Psychology, University of Dundee. These studentships will start in September 2012 (or in October, by special arrangement) and applicants will be expected to hold a First or Upper Second ...
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Omega-3 fats are added to many foods with the claim that they improve learning and concentration. But is it true?
This is a question which will be explored by Dr Peter Willatts, from the School of Psychology at the University of Dundee, in a public talk this week.
"Omega-3s ar ...
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While the School Offices undergo a major refurbishment, the office team – Heather, Liz and Rachel – have temporarily moved along the corridor on the same floor of the Scyrmgeour Building. Liz and Rachel are in the temporary School Office in Room 2.34, and Heather is next door in Room 2.35. It’s anticipated that the team will be in the temporary accommodat ...
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I would like to wish all returning staff and students a very happy and prosperous New Year. I am thinking particularly of our final-year students, and all others taking leaving us in the summer. I'd like to wish you all the very best of luck.
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Ths School of Psychology has launched a new lab webpage. The MiniMeLab is dedicated to investigating the cognitive, behavioural, affective and social impact of the self in early development.
The lab is run by Dr. Josephine Ross, and currently hosts a team of 12 re ...
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I would like to wish all staff and students a very Happy Christmas. I'd like to thank everyone for all their efforts over the year and hope you all have a wonderful break.
Trevor Harley,
Dean of School.
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I would like to wish all out students currently taking exams the best of luck
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Dr Ben Vincent becomes a review editor for Frontiers in Perception Science. The Frontiers Journals are notable for their interdisciplinary perspective, and for their new approaches to peer-review procedure and open access.
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Our 2010-11 MSc class will graduate in the Caird Hall on Wednesday 16th November in the afternoon. Eighteen MSc students were awarded degrees in Developmental Psychology, Psychological Research Methods and Eye Movements and Cognition Three of the MSc students will graduate with Distinction and five with Merit. There will also be a small number of Undergraduate students graduati ...
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Dr Kamide's lab has launched a new website. They aptly call themselves 'Cæt Lab', standing for 'Communication And Eye-Tracking' Lab. They are mainly interested in situated language processing (language processing 'in contexts').
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Our Level 4 students will be having a fund-raising Hallowe'en Party for their Yearbook in Room 2.32 of the Scrymgeour from 1 pm on Monday 31 October. Please show your support for this initiative by coming along and spending generously! Fancy dress welcome.
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Warm welcome to another new postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Shane Lindsay!
We have another new postdoc who has just started. Dr Shane Lindsay has joined us to work on a 3-year ESRC grant (“Dynamic mental representations of motion events in sentence processing”) awarded to Dr Yuki Kamide. Dr Lindsay has previously worked at the University of Sussex ( ...
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New Codes for SPSS Version 19 are now available. Please contact one of the technicians, John Morris, David Brisbane or Fariad Umar for the new cod ...
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The updated School ethics page is now available. Which includes information about the new application procedures and you can download forms, guidance notes and templates from the new site.
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Prof. Fabio Sani has been awarded a large grant (£504,000) to conduct a 4-year longitudinal and cross-national study on the effects of identification with groups (e.g., the family, community, and workplace) on health and well-being. The project will involve 4,000 participants. As well as Fabio Sani, the Dundee University team will include Dr. Michael Norbury and Dr. Pauline ...
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The School of Psychology is delighted to announce that Dr Ben Tatler, Reader in Psychology, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s newly-established Young Academy. The establishment of the Young Academy brings together 68 of the most able and innovative young academics, entrepreneurs, artists and pr ...
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Peter Willatts is speaking at the British Science Festival which is taking place all this week in Bradford. He is taking part in a symposium on 'Brain Food' organised by the British Nutrition Foundation. The title of his talk is 'Can omega-3 fats really make children smarter?', and here is a brief summary: 1Food manufacturers are adding omega-3 fats to dozens of food produ ...
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Dalhousie Building 6pm Tuesday 13 September
Carnegie Centenary Professor Keith Rayner will consider the controversy as to whether culture influences where and what people focus on when they look around their world. He will discuss how cognitive processes and culture may influence where we look and how long we look for and consider research on eye movements and langua ...
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To
mark its centenary, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
established a highly prestigious scheme of visiting professorships. Only one award is normally offered each year
across all disciplines in all Scottish universities. By attracting nominees of the highest
academic standing, the aim is to benefit not only the host university, but also
the broad ...
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On Thursday 1st September, Juliet Wakefield - one of our PhD students -
gave an oral defence of her thesis to her examiners. The outcome w ...
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We hope this will be a great year for you, both academically and personally. All the staff within the School are committed to ensuring that your experience here is a positive one. We look forward to working with you.
The first couple of weeks provide plenty of opportunities to meet new people (even in those matriculation queues) - make the most of them!
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Words, Faces and
Places: Cultural and Cognitive Influences on Eye Movements
There has been a lot of
controversy concerning the extent to which culture influences where and what
people focus on when they look around their world. In this lecture, Professor
Rayner will discuss how cognitive processes and culture may influence where we
look and how long we look ...
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Dr Anue Kukona has just joined the School of Psychology on a 3-year
post-doctoral research position based on an ESRC grant ("Language-induced
event-representation: Competition and multiple object instantiation") awarded to
Dr Yuki Kamide. Dr Kukona came to us from the University of Connecticut (USA)
where he p ...
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I would like to inform staff and students that we have recently upgraded PC office suite from 'Office 2003' to 'Office 2010'. This is to ensure we are on par with ICS software upgrades across the campus IT suites. So whether your working in the School of Psychology building or over at the University Library you will be able to access your Office documents such as 'Word' an ...
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At the meeting of the International Society for the History
of the Neurosciences (ISHN), held at Calgary,
Alberta in June, Professor
Nicholas Wade received a Lifetime Contribution Award for his research on the
history of visual neuroscience. He has also received a grant from the Carnegie
Trust for the Universities of Scotland for "Colour illustrations on the
Scottish influe ...
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