Lecturer in Psychology @YSJPsych. Future thinking, self-regulation, simulation, goals. "The future is but the present, a little farther on" - Jules Verne
📣Fully-funded ESRC studentship at Oxford focusing on youth trauma and sexual harm, with the brilliant Dr Alex Lau Zhu, Professor Lucy Bowes and Dr Carmen Chan. @topic_group
Deadline to apply is Friday 3 Jan.
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What is the true range of mental imagery? sciencedirect.com/science/ar… from @sampendu. I'd call myself an associator - I don't "see" faces when I think of them, they're not in my visual field, but I get a visual impression. It's not purely knowledge.
Please can you take part in our new study about the UK election? Only 10 mins before and after the election. Must be a UK voter, and will get a chance to win £50 shopping voucher; details in link and below
➡️ Link: run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/su…
Researchers - a family of an autistic child with language difficulties got in touch asking if we had any research projects they could take part in, but we don’t have any projects for autistic kids at the mo! If anyone has projects let me know and I’ll direct the fam to you.
We're hiring ! #PhD-position to study why some people tend to diminish positive emotions through dampening thoughts, like 'These positive feelings won’t last '. Dampening is implicated in various forms of psychopathology, particularly #depression.
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Out now in @APA_Journals Emotion: dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo000137… Anticipatory (now) emotions are weaker than anticipated (then) for the same pos/neg future events, given high depressive symptoms. As presented at #APP Leuven.
Join us during the @YorkFestofIdeas for Curious Minds Discovery Zone on 8 June.
Take part in a special science engagement event that will introduce kids to the wonders of psychology-related research in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere. 👇
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We're pleased to announce that our All About Respect project has secured Home Office funding, launched in 2017, to tackle gender-based violence and harassment and promote a zero-tolerance approach. The funding will enable a range of new activities.👇
yorksj.ac.uk/news/2024/all-a…
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Do you collect autobiographical memories? Would you like an automated scoring tool to reduce all those hours of human scoring? Download our natural language processing model, recently published in Behavior Research Methods
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Just out in PLOS One: Compared to controls, those completing positive simulation training subsequently showed a stronger implicit expectation that negative events would not happen to them. @ysjpsych@HULLPSY @JulieLinJi @Blackwell_SE journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Calling all procrastinators! Are you looking for something to distract you from a task you don't want to do? Do you want insights on how to break the procrastination cycle? Then this is the study for you!
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Many thanks in advance and please share widely.
Two weeks left to apply for PhD studentship at @YSJPsych, co-supervised with @ScottColePsych. Tracking future episodic constructions through time (jobs.ac.uk/job/DGD450). Get in touch if you haven’t already!
A reminder to get in touch with me if you might be interested in a PhD pursuing some interesting experimental research on language, related to the below 👋
I'm offering a fully-funded Psychology PhD 'Activation of imagery during spoken language' 💭 (info and other offered PhD topics here:
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.as…) Proposal deadlines 22nd March. Please get in touch to discuss/share with those that might be suited and interested!😊
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