This year's speaker was Dr. David Dunning from the University of Michigan. If you missed his talk you can watch it on Youtube.
Title: We are all flawed intellects: So can we really judge expertise in self and others?
Dr. James Beck, an Associate Professor in our Industrial/Organizational area, was recently featured on CTV News. You can hear (and read) about his research highlighting what business leaders can learn from NHL coaches at the link.
Towards a Neuroscience of Dynamic Experience and Design
Michael Arbib, University of Southern California (Emeritus) & NewSchool of Architecture and Design
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 12 noon
Cummings Lecture Theatre,
School of Architecture, Waterloo
7 Melville St S, Cambridge
Abstract
In the category of Excellence in Service, Val Rozon, Director of the Early Childhood Education Centre (ECEC), will receive one of the awards recognizing her outstanding leadership, especially in the face of the great flood of 2018.
UW Psychology's Allison Kelly won the International Journal of Eating Disorders2018 Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award for her paper, "A feasibility study of a 2‐week self‐compassionate letter‐writing intervention for nontreatment seeking individuals with typical and atypical anorexia nervosa". Congratulations Allison!
The Faculty of Arts heat of the 2019 Three Minute Thesis Competition took place on Friday March 1 and three of the four prizes awarded were to Psychology students. You can click on the titles below to watch the talks.
If you missed Dr. Danckert's talk, Out of My Skull: My travels in the psychology of boredom, on February 1, 2019 you can watch it on Youtube.
Clinical PhD Candidate Kathryn Miller's work on how social interactions influence body image among young women is featured in a new edition of the journal Body Image. Kathryn concluded the study with Dr.
You can read all about Dillon Browne's research on screen time and child development in The Telegraph, Yahoo UK, and The Conversation. You can also listen to Dr.
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