The Stroop Effect was used to identify Russian spies during the Cold War. Covert agents could claim not to speak Russian, but would take longer to correctly identify the colour of a word when presented with Russian text.

BRANDOLINI'S LAW law holds that "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it"

Slow down Ronaldo

Some interesting ideas and comments from David Halpern from @B_I_Tweets. Defiantly worth a listen . The Decision Lab thedecisionlab.com/nudging-the-nu…

A follow up study building from our mortality salience and size biases BJSP paper (2018) did not produce the effect we hypothesised. All materials, data, etc here if people want to see what we tried: osf.io/ysd6q/

Nice day on campus today. Hint of spring maybe.

I know we're all fed up of the rain but in this image the wet streets of Birmingham look positively romantic, especially lit by both moonlight and gaslights! 😍

Hey friends, I've helped to found a society for the science of existential psychology and I'm serving as its first President. Super excited to launch our website for it! Check it out; hope you enjoy it and find it useful :)

Seriously.

It's been years since I last ate white bread.. what does that buy me? An extra couple of weeks?

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Our study on self-relevant research (aka "Me-search") is now in-press at Clinical Psychological Science! Association for Psychological Science We found over 50% of clinical psychologists have done research on topics that are personally relevant Heres a🧵on why this matters 1/10 psyarxiv.com/szg5d/

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Congratulations to Dr Crawshaw (Jonathan Crawshaw), Dr Busch (a recent WON PhD graduate), along with Prof Guillaume (Liverpool University) & Dr Legood (Exeter University) on their new paper ‘Ethics-related mentoring’ doi.org/10.1111/1467-8…

Interesting recent piece of qualitative work examining why retirees in UK made decision to leave work but also reasons to potentially come back e.g., autonomy; supportive work colleagues; a sense of being appreciated; and perceived job flexibility. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'm currently hiring a Postdoc in Energy, Behavioural and Experimental Economics (22 months), deadline 6 April. Please spread the word: aplitrak.com/?adid=ZS5rYXRz… UCD Economics Behavioural Science and Policy in Ireland Economic Science Association @NexSysEnergy

Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees at today's healthy work and workplaces workshop. A great day! Fantastic coverage of absolutely fascinating and important work. Dr Karen Burlison (Maher) @DrRachelShaw

🎙️ The Healthy Workplace Podcast 🎙️ 🗣️ Simon McCabe talks to Paul Jones about workplace wellbeing and how research can help "What's the difference between PhD & DBA?" WATCH👉tinyurl.com/4k4ypnv8 LISTEN👉tinyurl.com/44rnxha8 #CorpuCast Aston Business School Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University