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Are you a researcher whose work has practical applications? Have you been thinking about the psychology of certain public policies? Want a platform to talk about ethical issues of neuroscience research […]
Cognitive Enhancement
This is the first of a series of posts leading up to PsyNApps’ Symposium, “Human Advancement in the 21st Century” on May 18, 3-6 PM at the Hume Rothery Lecture Theater. We […]
Mental Illness to Violence
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo The early Hollywood rendition of a psychiatric patient is built around stereotypes of violent and dangerous behaviour. However, research findings have […]
Barriers to Academic Success in ‘Bright but Poor’ Young People: Findings from the EPPSE study
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo With academic school success having a massive impact on future education, employment, and social outcomes, helping their children do well […]
Psychological Approaches to Alcohol Related Problems in Adolescence
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo Bridging the gap between the endless summer of childhood and the independence of adult life, adolescence may perhaps always be difficult. […]
Nudging You for Better
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo Why is it that rates of joining the organ donor registry are so low, rates of obesity are so high, and […]
How can you have the most high impact career in psychology and neuroscience?
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo The massive turn-out for this talk showed one encouraging fact: lots of people want to do good. But the matter of […]
Forming Beliefs: Information Seeking, Avoidance and Integration in the Human Brain
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo What is the Optimism Bias?
Visual search: what can we learn from biology?
Written by Rhiannon White | Edited by Sahng-Ah Yoo What can you do more quickly and easily than even the most advanced computer software? Visual search is the task of looking […]
How does your brain make decisions? Answers from the field of neuroeconomics
Franz-Xaver Neubert discusses how different types of decision-making may be implemented in the human brain.
The PsyNAppS Junction 