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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: Applying psychology (socio-behavioural science) to tuberculosis – acceptability\, value\, and preferences \n\n\n\nAbstract:  \n\n\n\nWhen 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 leveraged my expertise in understanding people’s experiences and how these experiences interface with history\, context\, social systems\, and health systems\, to turn my training in psychology to a required skill for policy-impactful health research. I share five examples from the field of mixed-method\, multi-disciplinary projects\, mostly on tuberculosis and children. And I invite discussion on lessons-learned toward opportunities and conceptualisations of applied health psychology. \n\n\n\nBio:  \n\n\n\nGraeme trained in psychology in South Africa. He is now a senior lecturer in global health at the Sydney School of Public Health. He is also an extraordinary associate professor in paediatrics and child health (Stellenbosch University\, South Africa)\, and an African Academy of Sciences “ARISE” Fellow hosted by the Group for Research in Infectious Diseases (GRID) at the University of Namibia. He will tell us about his research in the presentation.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-3/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Sabina Kleitman (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nWithin the meta-reasoning framework\, our group is the first to examine individual differences in giving-up behaviours. The decision to give up is not simply a failure but a metacognitive strategy—one that can reduce errors and resource costs during problem solving. Across a series of studies\, we have shown that people give up in systematic ways\, and that some strategies are adaptive while others are maladaptive for performance. \n\n\n\nI will also discuss our work on collective decision making\, highlighting the role of metacognitive confidence and in-group communication in shaping group outcomes. \n\n\n\nFinally\, I will share findings from our research on cognitive fitness\, examining the factors that support mental resilience\, adaptability\, and sustained performance under pressure. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these programs advance our understanding of how individuals and groups manage the demands of decision-making\, and how metacognition and cognitive fitness can be leveraged to improve performance in everyday and high-stakes contexts. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr Sabina Kleitman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney\, and she is a director of the CODES lab at the School of Psychology. She researches psychological traits underlying decision-making\, meta-reasoning\, cognitive fitness\, resilience\, and mental well-being\, and how extreme and uncertain conditions affect them. She and her team also develop or assist with developing novel assessment and research tools\, and methodologies of significance to various end-users\, including Australian Defence.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-4/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Daniel Feuerriegel (University of Melbourne) \n\n\n\nTitle: Where are the prediction errors? Three tests for expectancy effects on visual evoked responses \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe 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 the visual system are reduced when an expected stimulus appears (expectation suppression). However\, there is currently scant electrophysiological evidence for genuine expectation suppression in the visual system when relevant confounds are taken into account. To provide stronger tests for expectation suppression in the visual system\, we performed three predictive cueing experiments (n=48\, n=48\, n=60) while recording electroencephalographic (EEG) data. Participants learned cue-stimulus associations during a training session and were then exposed to the same cue-stimulus pairs in a subsequent experiment. Experiment 1 presented faces\, whereas experiments 2 and 3 presented oriented gratings. Across the three experiments we did not find evidence that expectations influenced event-related potentials in the first 300ms after stimulus onset (i.e.\, during afferent visual responses). These findings do not support predictive coding-based accounts that specify reduced prediction error signalling when perceptual expectations are fulfilled. Our results instead highlight the role of other hypothesised processes that allow our minds to adapt to our environments\, which do not appeal to prediction error signalling modulations. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr. Daniel Feuerriegel is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab at the University of Melbourne. He uses a variety of neuroimaging techniques in combination with psychophysics and computational modelling to investigate how decision-making and visual perception are implemented within the human brain. His team uses high temporal resolution recording methods\, such as scalp and stereotactic EEG\, to track the formation of decisions as they unfold over time. His research group is also interested in how our past experience and expectations about future events shape responses of stimulus-selective neurons within the visual system.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-5/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Yoel Inbar (University of Toronto) \n\n\n\nTitle: Moral Language Use By U.S. Political Elites \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nPoliticians 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 and fairness\, and the “binding” foundations of ingroup loyalty\, respect for authority\, and purity. Past self-report studies suggest that conservatives endorse the binding foundations more strongly than liberals do. However\, research does not consistently show that moral language use differs by ideology as predicted by MFT. I’ll present a series of studies in which we use computer-aided natural language analyses to uncover moral language used by U.S. Members of Congress. I’ll discuss differences between liberal and conservative politicians in how much and what kind of moral language they use\, and how this changes across time and different issues. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nYoel Inbar is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and director of the Morality\, Affect\, and Politics (MAP) Lab. His research is dedicated to uncovering the basic processes underlying moral thinking and applying this knowledge to understand people’s ideology\, beliefs\, and reasoning.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-yoel-inbar-university-of-toronto/
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