• Psychology Colloquium: Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD)

    Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD) Title: Applying psychology (socio-behavioural science) to tuberculosis – acceptability, value, and preferences Abstract: When I was a psychology student, I thought I was going to be ‘a psychologist’. That’s not what happened. Instead, I trace a journey of 20 years working alongside medical clinicians, epidemiologists, and public health implementers. I have […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD)

    Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD) Title: TBA Abstract: We make thousands of decisions every day, often without realising how complex and costly they can be. In this talk, I will provide an overview of several research programs currently underway in the CODES Lab, with a focus on decision-making, meta-reasoning, and cognitive fitness. Within the meta-reasoning framework, […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne)

    Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne) Title: Where are the prediction errors? Three tests for expectancy effects on visual evoked responses Abstract: We can rapidly learn repeating patterns in our environment. These learned patterns are often used to form expectations about future sensory events. Several influential predictive coding models posit that stimulus-evoked neural responses in […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto)

    A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto) Title: Moral Language Use By U.S. Political Elites Abstract: Politicians on the left and right vary in the extent to which they moralize social issues. Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits five moral foundations said to constitute the basic building blocks of morality across cultures: the “individualizing” foundations of harm […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Dr Jessica Flake (University of British Columbia)

    Dr Jessica Flake (University of British Columbia) Title: Methodological Research Needs Methodological Reform Too Abstract: Psychology is in a period of methodological reform. Researchers are rethinking their practices, sharing their data, and trying out registered reports. In this open science era, my work has focused on the role of measurement practices. I’ll provide some background as […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Prof Ed Awh (University of Chicago)

    Prof Ed Awh (University of Chicago) Title: Content-independent pointers mediate storage in working memory Abstract: Although past neural studies of working memory (WM) have focused on stimulus-specific activity that tracks the stored feature values, a separate line of evidence has revealed neural signals that track the number of items in WM, independent of the contents […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Prof Luigi Fontana (University of Sydney)

    Prof Luigi Fontana (University of Sydney) Title: Promoting healthy longevity through lifestyle medicine: biological and behavioural mechanisms Abstract: Chronic diseases are often perceived as an unavoidable consequence of genetics or chance. Yet converging evidence shows that a large proportion of cardiometabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, and many cancers is preventable, and that the years lived […]