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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Stefan Volk: Last Place Aversion: Relative Status Striving of Low Status Individuals
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Stefan Volk (USYD Business School)\nAbstract\nMost modern workplaces place high value on teamwork in advancing the goals of the organization\, and much research effort has been devoted to understanding and optimizing organizational and team dynamics and behavior. A notable conflict within organizational goals is incentivizing employees to improve both individual and team performance whereas in reality it is not always possible to improve personal status without a cost to the team or organization or vice versa. Desire for personal improvement and ascending in status can be achieved by adding value through extra effort\, or by cheating and can have positive or negative impacts on the individual\, team and organization. While the dynamics of how individuals strive to improve their status when ranked in the middle of a team\, or to retain their status when ranked at the top of a team\, has been studied before\, little research to date has investigated status striving in relation to individuals ranked at the bottom of a team – i.e. what people do to get out of last place. Thus\, it is unclear what behavioural strategies individuals would use to improve their status relative to the team\, such as putting in extra effort\, or cheating. Further\, it is thus far unknown whether conflict between individual and team status affects their status striving – i.e. whether individuals would be willing to put in more effort or sacrifice their teammates in order to get out of last place – and whether these behaviours can be modified.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-stefan-volk-last-place-aversion-relative-status-striving-of-low-status-individuals/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Sophie Li: Sleep Ninja®: An app to help teens improve their mood with a better nights sleep
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sophie Li (Black Dog Institute)\nAbstract\nRates of depression are increasing among adolescents. A novel way to reduce depression is by improving sleep. We evaluated whether an app-based intervention for insomnia improved sleep and depression\, and whether changes in insomnia mediated changes in depression. We conducted a 2-arm single-blind randomised controlled trial at the Black Dog Institute. Adolescents 12–16 years (N=264) experiencing insomnia symptoms were randomly allocated to receive Sleep Ninja\, an app-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy program for insomnia\, or to an active control group involving weekly text message sleep tips. Assessments took place at baseline\, 6 weeks (post-intervention) and 14 weeks (post-baseline). Co-primary outcomes were symptoms of insomnia and depression at post-intervention (primary endpoint). Intent-to-treat analyses were conducted. The results of the RCT will be presented\, along with secondary analyses of the data aimed at examining rumination as a potential mediator between insomnia and depression symptoms.\nBio\nDr Li is a Clinical Psychologist and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute. Her current research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying psychopathology and treatment effects\, including the effect of transdiagnostic factors such as repetitive negative thinking\, sleep disturbance and technology use on disorder development and treatment. She recently led the evaluation of Sleep Ninja®\, a smartphone app for adolescent insomnia and also led the development of ClearlyMe®\, a cognitive-behavioural therapy smartphone app for adolescent depression and anxiety\, which is currently under evaluation. Dr Li also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-sophie-li-sleep-ninja-an-app-to-help-teens-improve-their-mood-with-a-better-nights-sleep/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Celia Harris: Memory Scaffolding: From Theory to Practice
DESCRIPTION:Dr Celia Harris (Western Sydney University)\nAbstract\nTheoretical approaches from philosophy and cognitive science emphasise how experience\, cognition\, memory\, and self are embedded within and distributed among the social and material environment. This ‘scaffolding’ perspective implies that the characteristics of the social and material environment are critical for cognition. This perspective provides new avenues for supporting people to age well\, by maintaining and even enhancing cognitive\, psychological\, and social functioning. In this talk\, I discuss evidence from lab-based and field-based research on the ways in which the social and material environment can support memory as we age\, including recent extensions to interventions within aged care.\nBio\nCelia Harris is Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain\, Behaviour\, and Development at Western Sydney University. She was awarded her PhD in 2010 from Macquarie University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre on Autobiographical Memory Research at Aarhus University\, Denmark\, before returning to Macquarie as a Macquarie University Research Fellow and then an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow. Celia’s research focuses on memory in context\, aiming to better understand the processes involved in bringing memories to mind and how memory retrieval can be supported by our social and technological environment. She aims to use new knowledge of retrieval mechanisms to develop innovative ways of supporting memory in contexts where it is needed most\, like aged care and dementia care settings.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-celia-harris-memory-scaffolding-from-theory-to-practice/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Nathan Holmes: How does the brain integrate sensory and emotional information?
DESCRIPTION:Dr Nathan Holmes (UNSW)\nAbstract\nAnimals and people integrate information acquired at different times when responding to novel situations or problems. For example\, after being attacked by a boy at school\, a child may become fearful of places where the boy had been previously encountered; and after learning the relationship between a particular sound and danger\, an animal may become fearful of places where it had previously heard that sound. In the laboratory\, this type of integration can be studied using sensory preconditioning protocols in which animals (rats) integrate innocuous sensory information acquired at time 1 (e.g.\, a sound is paired with a light) with emotional information acquired at time 2 (e.g.\, the light is paired with brief but aversive foot shock) and\, thus\, express fear to a stimulus that was never paired with danger at time 3 (e.g.\, the sound). The project that I will describe uses sensory preconditioning protocols to examine how the brain integrates sensory and emotional information. Specifically\, I will present a series of experiments which show that the way in which rats integrate sensory and emotional information depends on characteristics of the stimuli to which they are exposed (e.g.\, their familiarity) and has consequences for learning about the danger. These experiments are part of a larger research program which aims to advance our understanding of how fear is processed in the mammalian brain. The findings will be discussed with respect to this program and different theories of information processing.\nBio\nNathan Holmes is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Scientia Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is interested in how the mammalian brain processes different types of information; and how motivational states\, like fear\, change the way the brain processes information. Specifically\, Nathan examines how fear influences the processing of innocuous information (e.g.\, the relation between a sound and a light); how fear spreads across a network of linked memories; and how an established fear memory is updated to include new information. The aim of his research is to develop a theory of how fear influences information processing in the brain\, with a particular focus on cells and circuits of the medial temporal lobe.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-nathan-holmes-how-does-the-brain-integrate-sensory-and-emotional-information/
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