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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201023T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Khandis Blake (School of Psychological Sciences – University of Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Khandis BlakeSchool of Psychological Sciences\, University of Melbourne\nTitle: On the causes and consequences of female sexualisation:  A nature/nurture approach that incorporates female agency.\nAbstract: The last decade has seen an increasing interest in the saturation of popular Western culture by representations of sex. What drives the proliferation of female sexualisation\, and is this something that advantages—or disadvantages—women? In a series of studies combining insights from social psychology\, economics\, gender studies\, and biology\, I examine the causes and consequences of female sexualisation\, especially as they pertain to women’s agency. I will show that sexualisation is rooted not just in cultural conditions\, but also in patterns of endogenous hormones and degrees of socioeconomic inequality. Using this evidence\, I argue that sexualisation can express a form of female agency that facilitates social climbing and status-enhancement for women. That is not to say that sexualisation entails no risks for women. I will also show that sexualisation activates intra- and inter-personal psychological processes in others\, and that these processes increase the risk of women suffering harm. I synthesise these paradoxical findings to provide a functional account of female sexualisation\, highlighting the value of integrating competing disciplinary perspectives to understand complex gendered phenomena.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-khandis-blake-school-of-psychological-sciences-university-of-melbourne/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201016T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201016T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Oren Griffiths (College of Education\, Psychology and Social Work – Flinders University)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Oren GriffithsCollege of Education\, Psychology and Social Work\, Flinders University\nTitle: Effects of non-contingency on learning\, attention and effort\nAbstract: Learned helplessness is one of the most widely recognized findings that psychology has produced in the public sphere. Much of the empirical work on this topic has focused on questions related to how repeated failure produces broadly generalizable decrements in motivation and performance. By contrast\, relatively little work has looked at how people learn than an event is unpredictable when faced with non-contingency. This talk focuses on how this learning takes place\, what the consequences of such learning are\, and whether learning that a particular stimulus is unpredictable is qualitatively distinct to classic learned helplessness effects. We used a mix of behavioural\, gaze fixation and pupil dilation measures\, and conclude that environmental factors may play an important role in governing the consequences of exposure to non-contingency (in addition to cognitive attributions).
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-oren-griffiths-college-of-education-psychology-and-social-work-flinders-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201002T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20201002T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Naomi Sweller (Department of Psychology – Macquarie University)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Naomi SwellerDepartment of Psychology\, Macquarie University\nTitle: I (might!) listen\, but I’m also watching: Effects of gestures on learning and communication\nAbstract: We often think of “communication” as meaning verbal interactions only\, or perhaps the effect of a smile or a frown. Less frequently considered are the hand gestures that can co-occur with speech. These movements\, made either a speaker or a listener with their hands or arms\, can have sizeable effects on learning. We learn more when we watch others’ gestures than from speech alone\, and producing our own gestures can similarly benefit task performance. In this presentation we will look at when gestures might be beneficial to learning and communication\, as well as discussing the effects of different types and sub-types of gestures on a variety of tasks. We will look at the effects of task difficulty\, as well as individual differences such as age and cognitive ability. Finally\, we will look at when perhaps gestures might not be beneficial\, including some rather counter-intuitive findings of negative effects of gesture production on learning.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-naomi-sweller-department-of-psychology-macquarie-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200925T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200925T160000
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CREATED:20250507T044320Z
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Jemma Todd (School of Psychology – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jemma ToddSchool of Psychology\, University of Sydney \nTitle: Cognitive biases in pain and health: A dynamic perspective\nAbstract: It is important to attend to potential threat in the face of danger: doing so may save your life. However\, there are plenty of instances when our cognitive bias system can go awry. Individuals with chronic pain often continue to interpret pain as threatening\, with the pain capturing their attention to the detriment of other life goals and despite no ongoing danger. Whilst research has come far in identifying unhelpful cognitive biases\, the measures typically used do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of these biases. These biases can be adaptive or unhelpful depending on the circumstance\, and are likely to shift with motivation\, context\, and threat perception. In this presentation\, I will explore the challenges of assessing cognitive biases. I will draw on my recent research in pain and other areas such as diabetes and anxiety\, to highlight some directions forward in the field of cognitive bias research.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-jemma-todd-school-of-psychology-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200918T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200918T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Alana Fisher (Matilda Centre – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alana FisherThe Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use\, University of Sydney \nTitle: Advancing shared decision-making in mental health and alcohol/other drug use conditions\nAbstract: Shared decision-making is widely-endorsed as the ‘gold standard’ approach to making healthcare decisions. Shared decision-making involves clinicians\, patients (and others\, e.g.\, family) partnering together to discuss the available healthcare options and make a decision that is both evidence-based and consistent with the patient’s values and preferences. Most of the research has focussed on medical conditions such as cancer\, however\, recent years have seen a shift towards better understanding and applying shared decision-making for people with mental health conditions\, such as depression\, schizophrenia\, and bipolar disorder. The recent literature demonstrates that shared decision-making is preferred by most people with mental health conditions\, and delivers similar benefits to patients including satisfaction with care\, and better adherence to chosen treatments. Given that mental health conditions often co-occur with at-risk alcohol and other drug (AOD) use (up to 3 in 4 people presenting to AOD treatment services)\, we need to advance our knowledge of shared decision-making in this comorbid population who often present with more complex and severe needs\, and face potentially more complex decisions about their treatment and management. With reference to my PhD and early postdoctoral research work\, I will present an overview of i) shared decision-making within the context of mental health conditions\, ii) novel directions in shared decision-making through the development and evaluation of patient decision-support interventions for people with co-occurring mental health and AOD conditions.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-alana-fisher-matilda-centre-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200911T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Iain McGregor (School of Psychology & Lambert Initiative – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Professor Iain S. McGregorThe Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics\, Brain and Mind Centre\, University of Sydney\, Sydney\, Australia\nSchool of Psychology and Faculty of Science\, University of Sydney\, Sydney\, Australia\nTitle: Cannabis-based medicines: current use and future promise\nAbstract: This talk will highlight recent research from the Lambert Initiative around the current legal use of medicinal cannabis (MC) products in Australia for the treatment of conditions such as anxiety\, insomnia\, and autism\, as well as the widespread use of illicit cannabis for self-medication of chronic pain and various psychiatric conditions. Current collaborative clinical trials will also be described showing beneficial effects of cannabidiol (CBD) in intractable youth anxiety (ORYGEN\, Melbourne)\, preliminary positive signs for THC/CBD in Tourette syndrome (Wesley Hospital\, Brisbane) and investigation of CBD effects in alcohol withdrawal\, methamphetamine dependence and early psychosis. Our recent experimental work investigating the effects of vaporised cannabis on driving and cognitive function will be described. Current preclinical drug discovery programs will also be discussed outlining multiple bioactive molecules from the cannabis plant and various synthetic derivatives with strong therapeutic potential. This is an exciting and pivotal time for cannabis-based medicines in Australia with scope for cannabis-derivatives to become mainstream pharmacotherapies for a number of difficult-to-treat conditions.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-iain-mcgregor-school-of-psychology-lambert-initiative-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200904T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: COVID-19 research projects (several speakers from our own School)
DESCRIPTION:Members of our own School will present brief overviews of their COVID-related research projects:\nDr Micah Goldwater: Causal and moral reasoning about COVID-19 in the USA\nA/Prof Sabina Kleitman: Individual differences in coping and behaviour with COVID\nA/Prof Sally Gainsbury: COVID and gambling\nDr Ilan Dar-Nimrod: The impact of COVID on intimate relationships\nA/Prof Paul Rhodes: Cultural aspects of COVID distress; Zoom therapy implementation during COVID\nMs Grace Wei: COVID and dementia\nDr Joanne Shaw: COVID and treatment decision-making in cancer; barriers and enablers to the use of telehealth for psycho-oncology consultations \nThe Zoom webinar link will be circulated to School of Psychology staff and students. Others interested in attending\, please contact sophie.ellwood@sydney.edu.au to request the link.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-covid-19-research-projects-several-speakers-from-our-own-school/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200828T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200828T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium-free week – program commencing in Week 2
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URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-free-week-program-commencing-in-week-2/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200529T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: TBA (TBA)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: TBATitle: TBA\nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-tba-tba-4/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200522T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200522T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: TBA (TBA)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: TBATitle: TBA\nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-tba-tba-3/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T150000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: TBA (TBA)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: TBATitle: TBA\nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-tba-tba-2/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: TBA (TBA)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: TBATitle: TBA\nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-tba-tba/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200501T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Dr Ann Meulders (KU Leuven)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Ann Meulders (KU Leuven)\nTitle: TBA\nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-dr-ann-meulders-ku-leuven/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200424T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200424T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Emeritus Professor Robert (Bob) Boakes (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Emeritus Professor Robert (Bob) Boakes (University of Sydney)Title: The monkey\, the lettuce leaf\, sugar and disappointment: From translation to discovery\nAbstract: For some years our group has run translational experiments to study metabolic and cognitive impairments in rats that have drunk large amounts of a sugar solution.  Metabolic problems have included development of large amounts of visceral fat\, while the cognitive changes include poor performance on spatial learning and memory tasks.  We have also studied recovery from the impact of sugary drinks when the rats no longer had access to such solutions.  To model a human change from\, say\, classic Coca Cola to Diet Coke\, we have switched rats from a sugar to a saccharin solution.  Although the saccharin solutions were ones that are normally liked by rats\, in these sugar->saccharin ‘switch’ experiments intakes remained unexpectedly low.  Consequent experiments confirmed that we had stumbled upon an unusually persistent successive negative contrast effect.  It seems that\, when expecting a delicious drink and instead experiencing something that isn’t quite as nice\, disappointment supports conditioning of a lasting aversion to the new drink.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-emeritus-professor-robert-bob-boakes-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200403T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200403T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Dr Emma Alleyne (University of Kent)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Emma Alleyne (University of Kent)Title: ‘Taking it out on the dog’: Why adults abuse animals\nAbstract: One of the most acute and distressing animal welfare problems is abuse carried out by adults. There are difficulties to detect\, intervene\, and prevent animal cruelty incidents due to the very nature of animals as ‘voiceless victims’. As a result\, even when complaints are made\, convictions are rare and we are left with a limited evidence base to inform practice. Despite these challenges\, there is a growing field of research to develop a greater understanding of the factors associated with animal abuse\, the motivations underpinning this behaviour\, and the treatment needs of abusers. In this talk I will present a series of empirical studies examining the social\, psychological\, and behavioural factors related to animal abuse propensity and behaviour. These studies explore both distal and proximal factors that give insight into why and in what context individuals might harm animals. I will also present these findings within the context of theory development and future directions for research.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-dr-emma-alleyne-university-of-kent/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200327T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200327T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Dr Samuel Mehr (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Samuel Mehr (Harvard University)Title: Psychological functions of music in infancy\nAbstract: In 1871\, Darwin wrote\, “As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man … they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed.” Infants and parents worldwide engage their mysterious musical faculties eagerly and frequently\, unlike any other species\, and have done so throughout recorded history. Why should this be? In this talk I propose that infant-directed song functions as an honest signal of parental investment. Three lines of work support this proposal. First\, I show that the genomic imprinting disorders Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes\, which cause an altered psychology of parental investment\, are associated with an altered psychology of music. Second\, I analyze ethnographic texts and audio recordings with tools of data science\, finding that vocal music appears in 100% of a representative sample of human societies and is reliably associated with the care of infants and children therein. Moreover\, infant-directed songs are recognizable by massive cohorts of naïve listeners\, a result driven by acoustic features of the singing that consistently differentiate the infant-directed songs from other songs\, worldwide. Last\, I show that infants are sensitive to these reliably-occurring acoustic features: despite their unfamiliarity\, infants are calmed by foreign lullabies. These findings converge on a psychological function of music in infancy that may underlie more general features of the human music faculty\, laying the foundation for a comprehensive psychology of music.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-dr-samuel-mehr-harvard-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200320T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
CREATED:20250507T044235Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Dr Nicky Quinn (Macquarie University)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Nicky Quinn (Macquarie University)\nTitle: Applying behavioural science to government policy\nAbstract: In psychology\, we take many principles of behavioural science as given. We know that we regularly make decisions that are ‘bad’ for us or irrational\, we fail to follow through with even our strongly-held good intentions\, and we show a range of biases in the way we interpret information. Although these principles are well understood in psychology\, this way of approaching human behaviour is more novel in some areas of government policy making. This is problematic given that government policy is often the end place in the research translation pathway for the evidence we generate in academia. After conducting research and working in and with government for four years\, I will be presenting on the application of ‘behavioural insights’ to government policy\, and running randomised-controlled trials to test government policy and programs. This will include a series of trials we ran over the last few years\, including in reducing the over-prescription of antibiotics\, helping the unemployed back to work\, reducing sexual harassment\, and in attempting to reducing discrimination.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-dr-nicky-quinn-macquarie-university/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200313T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200313T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED – Psychology Colloquium: Dr Laura Bradfield (UTS)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Laura Bradfield (UTS)Title: Hippocampal dysregulation causes transient deficits in decision-making: consequences for old age and Alzheimer’s disease\nAbstract: The hippocampus is a central component of learning and memory systems in the brain\, but its role in decision-making has received comparatively little attention. We found that\, similar to its role in learning and memory\, the hippocampus regulates goal-directed decision-making in a temporally transient manner. Specifically\, we chemogenetically inactivated the dorsal CA1 region of the hippocampus in rats during outcome devaluation testing: the gold-standard test of goal-directed action in rodents. We found that such inactivation impaired goal-directed decisions on this test if it occurred immediately after initial training\, but not after extended training or after a one week temporal window had passed. As degeneration of the hippocampus is observed in old age and in Alzheimer’s disease\, we next investigated whether a similar temporal transience in decision-making impairments would be observed in aged mice\, and a J20 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed we found that outcome devaluation performance was impaired after initial training in both aged and J20 mice relative to wildtype controls\, but that this deficit could be overcome with additional training. Aged J20 mice showed an additional deficit in outcome-selective reinstatement. We further found strong relationships between neuroinflammatory markers in the dorsal CA1 region and goal-directed decision-making performance. Experiments investigating a causal connection between local neuroinflammation and goal-directed decision-making impairments are currently ongoing.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-psychology-colloquium-dr-laura-bradfield-uts/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200306T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200306T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Professor Lazar Stankov (University of Sydney & University of Southern Queensland)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Lazar Stankov (University of Sydney & University of Southern Queensland)\nTitle: Individual differences meet political psychology: from communism to the right-wing extremism via IQ\, education\, social conservatism and conflict\nAbstract: I will review our work that points to a link between psychological aspects of Social Conservatism and measures of militant extremist mindset (MEM). Some of these studies were cross-cultural while others were based on data collected from participants in areas that have experienced recent conflict. Our findings point to the emerging role of cognitive abilities and education in the division between social groups. The perception that higher education has created a “liberal elite” in society has contributed to an increased endorsement of conservative views.\nA critical component of militant extremist mindset (MEM) that distinguishes it from Social Conservatism is Grudge. Three aspects of Grudge are a) Belief that we live in a Vile World; b) Belief that the West is responsible for all problems in the world today; and c) EOC (Ethos of Conflict) Grudge that blames immediate neighbours for poor relationship. These are the central predictors of animosity. While nationalism/ethnocentrism has a significant positive correlation with Grudge\, measures of the trust in the system have low correlation. By using the rhetoric that points to the division between the ‘people’ and the ‘elite’\, populist politicians contribute to the increased visibility of the right-wing political parties. Terrorism motivated by the right-wing ideology is also on the rise.\nTwo recently completed studies of MEM produced outcomes that may be useful to policymakers. First\, Serbs living in the area of the recent conflict with Albanians show higher levels of Grudge than Serbs living outside the conflict area. Thus\, conflict increases the likelihood of militant extremism. Second\, asylum seekers hold lower levels of Grudge towards Western nations than do people living in Southern Europe. Right-wing politicians are wrong in assuming that immigration will lead to an increase in Islamic terrorism.\n 
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-professor-lazar-stankov-university-of-sydney-university-of-southern-queensland/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200228T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T133212
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen University)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen University)Title: Why we look where we do\nAbstract: The existence of a central fovea\, the small retinal region with high analytical performance\, is arguably the most prominent design feature of the primate visual system. This centralization comes along with the corresponding capability to move the eyes to reposition the fovea continuously. I will present work on eye movements and their interactions with visual perception that addresses the question why do we look where we do\, and what it is good for? I will argue that a multitude of different circuits related to salience\, object recognition\, actions\, and value ultimately interact to determine gaze behavior.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-karl-gegenfurtner-giessen-university/
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