Visiting speakers

Psychologists from institutions across the UK are invited by the Kingston Psychology Department to present their most recent research. Please contact Dr Elisa Back for more information.

Lectures take place during term time and all are welcome to attend.

Spring 2012

Date	Title
8 February 2012, 4pm	Professor Ian Apperly (University of Birmingham): How do we develop two systems for mindreading? Room JG1002
22 February 2012, 12pm	Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London): What the eyes say about language processing in devepmental disorders Room JG1002
7 March 2012, 4pm	Dr Tom Dickins (University of East London): The extended synthesis: Implications for the evolutionary behavioural sciences Room JG2007
21 March 2012, 12pm	Dr Barbara Fasolo (LSE): Understanding the nudging process Room JG3002
25 April 2012, 4pm	Professor Ian M Thornton (Swansea University): The body context of face processing Room JG1002

Autumn 2011

Date	Title
5 October 2011, 12pm	Dr Robin Banerjee (University of Sussex): Self-presentational processes in childhood: An interplay of social experience, cognition, motivation, and emotion Room JG4010
19 October 2011, 4pm	Professor Cecilia Essau (University of Roehampton): Cross-cultural aspects of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents Room JG2008
16 November 2011, 4pm	Dr Stephen Cowley (University of Hertfordshire): Interactivity: what's the problem? Room JG2008
30 November 2011, 4pm	Dr Louise Delicato (University of Sunderland): Investigations using visual psychophysics to understand how the brain processes what we see Room JG2008
14 December 2011, 4pm	Dr Mark Cropley (University of Surrey): Differences in work-related rumination with implications for health and illness Room JG2008

Spring 2011

Date	Title
9th February 2011, 12pm	Dr Max Roberts (University of Essex) - Underground maps: design challenges and challenging designs Room 70, Main Building
23rd February 2011, 4pm	Professor Antonia Bifulco (Kingston University) - Lifespan approaches to community mental health using an attachment framework Room JG5007, John Galsworthy Building
1st March 2011, 5pm	Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck College London) - Why adult neuropsychology models don't work for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders Room JG1002, John Galsworthy Building
9th March 2011, 4pm	Dr Marco Bertamini (University of Liverpool) - What we can learn from what we cannot learn about mirrors Room 70, Main Building
16th March 2011, 4pm	Professor Chris McManus (University College London) - Aesthetics of photography Room 70, Main Building
6th April 2011, 4pm	Dr David Lagnado (University College London) - Legal lego: a framework for evidential reasoning Room JG1007, John Galsworthy Building
18th May 2011, 4pm	Dr Kate Hardy & Dr Teela Sanders (Unversity of Leeds) - Flexible workers: attitudes and labour market behaviour amongst lap dancers Room JG1007, John Galsworthy Building

Autumn 2010

Date	Title
6th October 2010, 4pm	Professor Nick Braisby (University of Westminster): Essentialism, Deference and Categorisation JG1005
20th October 2010, 12pm	Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway): Morphological Processing in Visual Word Recognition JG2007
17th November 2010, 4pm	Dr Kevin Burchell and Dr Ruth Rettie (Kingston University): CHARM, The social norm approach to sustainable behaviour change JG1005
1st December 2010, 4pm	Dr Emmanuel Pothos (Swansea University): The riddle of similarity judgments JG1005

Spring 2010

Date	Title
10 February 2010	Professor Darryl Hill (The City University of New York): Insights from an affirmative intervention with parents and their gender variant children and adolescents
10 March 2010	Dr Sarah Beck (University of Birmingham): Thinking about what might have been and what might be
POSTPONED	Professor Nick Braisby (University of Winchester): Essentialism, deference and categorisation
28 April 2010	Dr Olga Kostopoulou (King's College London): Narrow focus and coherence in medical diagnostic judgments
26 May 2010	Professor Tom Ormerod (Lancaster University): Decision-making in detecting deception during airport security screening
23 June 2010	Dr Peter Gardner and Dr Peter Knapp (University of Leeds): Communicating the risk of side effects of medicines to patients