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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]