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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Erin Goddard
DESCRIPTION:Dr Erin Goddard (UNSW)Visual feature binding and colour constancy: similar processes?\nAbstract\nDifferent regions in visual cortex show specialisation for encoding different visual features\, giving rise the question of how these features are ‘bound together’ to create a unitary percept of each object. I will show recent work based on classification of magnetoencephalography (MEG) data where we found that information about separate colour and shape information preceded information about their conjunction in occipital cortex. This may reflect feedback to occipital regions being required for feature binding\, which would be consistent with a role for attention\, as suggested by behavioural work (e.g. visual search). While this ‘binding problem’ has been investigated for at least 30 years\, more recently I investigated whether a process similar to feature binding might be involved in the separation of surface and illuminant properties in colour constancy. I will present behavioural work where we tested this idea\, and found that\, like feature binding\, the perceptual separation of surface and illuminant properties appears to rely on a slower\, limited capacity process.\nBio\nErin Goddard is currently a Scientia Lecturer at UNSW\, Sydney. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney\, including honours in physiology (rather than psychology\, which meant that for years afterwards Sally Andrews greeted her as ‘the girl who made the wrong decision!’)\, then a PhD in the School of Psychology\, completed in 2011. After postdocs in Sydney and at McGill University\, Canada\, she moved to UNSW in 2020. Her research focusses on visual perception\, with a focus on colour vision. She uses a combination of behavioural and neuroimaging (fMRI\, MEG\, EEG) methods in her research.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-erin-goddard/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Carolyn MacCann
DESCRIPTION:Prof Carolyn MacCann (USYD)Emotional intelligence and emotion regulation\nAbstract\nThe way we deal with emotions is important for our well-being\, social relationships\, and performance at work and school. This talk focuses on two key concepts that affect how we deal with emotions: emotional intelligence and emotion regulation. Emotional intelligence is a set of skills or capacities you have\, usually defined as the ability to accurately perceive\, understand\, and regulate emotions. Emotion regulation is the process by which you influence the type and intensity of emotions that you or others feel and express. In this presentation\, I will discuss evidence from meta-analyses and empirical studies linking emotional intelligence\, emotion regulation\, and life outcomes. This includes a large-scale meta-analysis on the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic performance (k = 1\,246\, N = 42\,529) and emerging research on how people regulate others’ emotions (extrinsic emotion regulation).  I will present a framework for the strategies people use to regulate others’ emotions\, and consider cultural differences in these strategies and their effects.\nBio\nCarolyn MacCann is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Sydney. Her research addresses how emotion-related characteristics lead to work success\, educational success\, and greater mental health and well-being. Two major concepts in her research are emotional intelligence abilities and emotion regulation processes. She develops psychometric tests to assess these and other related concepts. She also focuses on the mechanisms and pathways by which emotional intelligence and emotion regulation lead to life success. Her research tends to be cross-disciplinary\, cutting across psychology\, education\, and business.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-carolyn-maccann/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Eliane Deschrijver
DESCRIPTION:Dr Eliane Deschrijver (USYD)Unequal resource division occurs in the absence of group division and identity\nAbstract\nThe seminal minimal group experiment has shown that discrimination can follow from intergroup relations and social identity. A large body of research evidenced that people discriminate against members of their out versus ingroup\, even if groups and identities were assigned on the basis of one’s dot guessing style\, aesthetic judgement or a chance outcome. But is group and social identity assignment required for unequal resource division to arise here? We show via Bayesian models in 6 pre-registered experiments (>900 subjects) that unequal resource division strategies persist against a single person that demonstrates a different versus the same quantity estimate\, painting preference\, or even coin flip (Experiments 1-3)\, with 43.1% more money awarded for sameness relative to difference conditions (Experiments 4-6). These findings open up the possibility that one key driver of discrimination may exist in a neural mechanism of interindividual comparison that treats difference more negatively than sameness. Theoretical implications\, ongoing work\, and future aspirations for understanding cognitive and brain systems of discrimination will be discussed.\nBio\nDr Eliane Deschrijver is a senior neuroscientist and a DECRA fellow at the University of Sydney. She works on the nexus of social neuroscience\, experimental psychology\, philosophy of mind and social psychology\, and has an added interest in sociology. Over the past few years\, her thinking has focussed on how the brain processes a difference between one’s own world view and that of another person\, independent of what the disagreement is about. She has theoretically argued that such a difference may come with a conflict signal in the brain\, which is negatively valenced and may lead to behavioral change. She is now investigating what this concept of “sheer difference” may mean for our understanding of discrimination. Breaking with the singular focus of social neuroscientists on the brain\, she believes that the most thorny social-cognitive scientific issues deserve an exceedingly interdisciplinary future approach\, in particular by enticing philosophers of mind and social psychologists into the debate.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-eliane-deschrijver/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: James Bates\, Dave Trudinger\, Selena Ledger and Eva Koromilas
DESCRIPTION:Dr Dave Trudinger & Mr James Bates (NSW Department of Customer Service)Sludge: are there measurable psychological costs from administrative burden? A NSW and global perspective\nAbstract\nYou’ve heard of nudges\, but have you heard of sludge? The NSW Behavioural Insights Unit is leading the world on tackling sludge – the unnecessary and unjustified frictions that put a tax on citizen time and prevent equitable access to services. At this colloquium\, we will present the NSW Sludge Audit Method – our approach to measuring and quantifying sludge which has now been adopted by the OECD. We will talk about how we developed and are expanding our method\, and invite collaboration from academics on research opportunities to understand and measure the psychological costs of administrative burden.\nBios\nEva Koromilas – Eva Koromilas is a Manager in the NSW Behavioural Insights Unit with a background in behavioural economics. She leads the team’s sludge program of work which is aimed at measuring and reducing administrative burden and improving access to services. She has led the design and development of the NSW Sludge Audit Method and its application across NSW services.\nSelena Ledger – Selena Ledger is a Senior Data Analyst in the NSW Behavioural Insights Unit with a background in psychology. She has specific skills in evaluation design and has contributed to the development of the NSW Sludge Audit Method as a tool to help practitioners measure sludge.\nJames Bates – James Bates is the Chief Data Officer and Executive Director of Customer\, Data & Insights at the NSW Department of Customer Service. The NSW Department  of Customer Service was formed in 2019 with a mission to put customers and community at the centre of government decision making and service delivery. James’ team supports that mission by using data\, insights and evidence to improve community outcomes through more effective policy development\, program design and service delivery. James has been with the NSW public sector for 15 years\, working in a variety of implementation and policy roles.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-james-bates-dave-trudinger-selena-ledger-and-eva-koromilas/
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