UNSW is hiring! Six academic positions (Lecturer / Senior Lecturer) in the School of Psychology. Exciting times! Come and work in a wonderful department with lots of friendly people (+ it’s the closest uni to the beach in Sydney) external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073… external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073…

Well done, Sarah!

🆕 paper with Victor Varela , Dr Alice Towler. We present a new tool for automatically measuring social attention in natural settings, combining wearable eye tracking tech (Pupil Labs) with #OpenPose to automatically record person-directed attention. nature.com/articles/s4159… 1/8

Factors that accelerate epigenetic aging: 1. Smoking (worst) 2. Alcohol intake 3. Waist size 4. Body fat 5. CRP (inflammation) 6. Triglycerides 7. Childhood obesity 8. Type 2 diabetes (Alcohol is turning out to be more toxic than we thought. Sorry) academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol…

Our theme issue (w/Antonia Hamilton) is out - a huge thanks to all the fantastic contributors and The Royal Society Royal Society Publishing who have helped to make it happen!

Our review on the the Impact of Social Presence on Social Interaction Processes in Autistic and Non-Autistic people is out! With Emma Morgan Edited by Antonia Hamilton and Judith Holler royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Mindreading Measures Misread? A Multimethod Investigation into the Validity of Self-Report and Task-Based Approaches osf.io/maq5p/

We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on a Dementia, Ageing and #AgedCare MRFF. Loc Do UQ Health UQ Dentistry Contribute to the co-design, adaptation, pilot and evaluation of a novel oral health intervention in residential aged care! seek.com.au/job/67627774

We are hiring a #postdoc to conduct research about the effects of fiction and Theory-of-Mind Bradford Uni Psychology School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen the project is funded by The Leverhulme Trust Please feel free to PM me if interested, or help spread the word! jobs.ac.uk/job/DCQ962/pos…

In this paper we found that new mums report seeing illusory faces in examples of #facepareidolia more easily than pregnant women. Thanks to the members of the public who shared their experiences of face pareidolia and drove this research! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

A study shows that older adults who see themselves as looking younger than their peers experience more positives and fewer negatives of aging, suggesting that perceived youthfulness can significantly impact one's quality of life and social interactions. dlvr.it/T5cyYV

More variety in your social life in old age may help you live longer. Dr Sarah Grainger from UQPsych wrote for Psychology Today: psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/agin… #Health #Psychology #HealthyAgeing

Excited to share our latest publication by @LachlanCGreig, Sarah Coundouris, Julie D Henry & Nilufar Baghaei which provides the first test of whether visual biofeedback increases the benefits of self-compassion training. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38896949/#:~:t…

The findings of this study suggest that mental disorders might be socially transmitted within adolescent peer networks. ja.ma/3TubUnA

Top effort Dr @_katemckay! 🥳

New research finds that better awareness of bodily signals (interoception) helps older adults detect deception, including spotting phishing emails and lies. Could interoceptive accuracy be key to fraud prevention? Gerontological Society of America (GSA) @OUPMedicine #GeroNews doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

Super proud of @_katemckay winning the UQPsych Postgraduate Student Research Excellence Award! Very well deserved 👏👏👏

#JGSSAdvAccess study finds older adults feel ~9 years younger than their actual age! Subjective aging happens slower than actual aging, esp. in younger cohorts. Health limitations reduce this "feeling younger" gap by 1-3 years. Gerontological Society of America (GSA) OUP Medicine doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

This is a truly fantastic piece - check it out 👇 "An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience" Psychology & Brain Society for Social Neuroscience SANS

This review proposes a new model for understanding social connectedness that focuses on the importance of social perception and mentalizing - an excellent piece of work! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…