UCL Psych & Lang Sci
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@ucl Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS). We undertake world-leading research and teaching in mind, behaviour, and language.
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New Research!
We've released our latest research paper focusing on supporting children transitioning to secondary school & the interventions in place.
Read now: orlo.uk/x7bvQ
Congratulations to the team Emily Stapley Hannah Merrick, PhD Daniel Hayes, PhD #research #schools
Successful entrepreneurs and C-suite leaders tend to over-index on impulsivity and risk-taking, claims Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic from UCL Psych & Lang Sci in the Deccan Herald.
👉 Find out more here: buff.ly/3vSkIuM
#BodyDysmorphia affects about two in every 100 teens (1.9%), with the disorder being six times more common in girls than in boys, according to a new report led by Dr
Dr Georgina Krebs 💙 from UCL Psych & Lang Sci
👉 Read in U.S. News & World Report here: buff.ly/4439rEt
For the next @UCL_EP seminar John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social) presents research demonstrating how crowding in the visual scene affects peripheral and foveal vision in typical and disordered sight, and how this can be modelled by 'pooling' mechanisms for scene 'gist' encoding
buff.ly/3UtiImh
.Anna Freud has unveiled its new 'Thinking differently' manifesto, incl:
1️⃣Empowering youth
2️⃣Focusing on communities
3️⃣Whole-school approach to mental health & wellbeing
4️⃣Expanding awareness of childhood trauma
5️⃣Leveraging science & data
More @ annafreud.org/manifesto
People can become more 'rigid and inflexible' when fasting, research conducted by Dr Lucy Serpell EatingDisorderResearch_UCL UCL Psych & Lang Sci suggests.
🎧 Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Health' (from 18 mins 50 secs) ⬇️ bbc.in/4aTYbwj
What an inspiring kick off from Professor Peter Fonagy and our founder Jessica Bondy at our first international conference on childhood verbal abuse today.
Together we can end verbal abuse of children by adults.
Join our mission at wordsmatter.org
#WordsMatter2024
Prof Joseph Devlin from UCL Psych & Lang Sci has visited Clarence House to launch a new campaign from the Queen’s Reading Room, a charity that promotes reading. Joe was involved in a project with them about the neuroscience of reading.
More about the charity here: buff.ly/4cNOykT