Dr. Georgina Hosang is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research concerns the role of life adversity and medical burdens for those with mental illness and the gene-environment interplay in mood disorders (Major Depression & Bipolar Disorder). Here, in the second of our Brexit-focussed posts, she considers the psychological Read More…
Stakeholder engagement, Brexit and beyond
As the prospest of a Brexit makes waves across the UK and beyond, this is the first of two posts this week from our Department, focussing on its impact and meaning. The first post is from Elisabeth Hill, a Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Department of Psychology where she heads up Goldsmiths Action Lab. Read More…
The Talking Brain: Adventures of a Travelling Neuropsychologist
Dr Jansari studied Experimental Psychology at King’s College Cambridge followed by a PhD at the University of Sussex with Alan Parkin and then a post-doctoral fellowship in the States with Antonio Damasio and Ralph Adolphs. His research in cognitive neuropsychology has spanned amnesia, facial emotions, prosopagnosia, synaesthesia, mindfulness meditation and most notably assessment of executive Read More…
One like me! Toying with the Doll Industry
Dr. Sian Jones is a Teaching Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on discrimination and prejudice among children and adults based on membership of a given group – and how friendships may be encouraged between children from different groups. Here, she looks at the Psychology behind the importance of representing disability in the Read More…
Schools without sanctions
Alice Jones is a Senior Lecturer, and Director of the Unit of School and Family Studies. Her work focuses on understanding how students with behavioural difficulties can achieve their potential in school, as well as developing methods of promoting social and academic inclusion. Here, she provides an update on an on-going project that explores one Read More…
Mathematical modelling in psychology and the dangers of physics envy.
Prof. Alan Pickering has a Chair in the Department at Goldsmiths. He has researched in many different areas of psychology since the mid 1980s but in recent years his focus has been on the psychobiology of personality traits such as extraversion, anxiety, impulsivity and schizotypy. He uses formal models to capture the biological bases of these individual differences. Read More…
I like the way you move: The social neuroscience of dance
Dr. Guido Orgs received his training in both Performing Dance (Folkwang University of the Arts) and Psychology (University of Dusseldorf). After completion of his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, he performed with German Dance Company NEUER TANZ/VA WÖLFL. At the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, he conducted research on how we perceive other people’s movements and how the brain mechanisms of movement perception underlie Read More…
The death of Jane Doe: A mock murder investigation
Dr. Gordon Wright, a Teaching Fellow, and member of the Forensic Psychology Unit in the Department, studies the personality and behaviour of liars, manipulators, cheats, scammers and fraudsters. Among his research and analytic methods lie mock-crimes and investigative interview scenarios, linguistic & sentiment analysis, alongside physiological and brain stimulation. Here he blogs about a mock murder investigation – an immersive Read More…
Time in Mind: How your brain tells the time
Dr. Caspar Addyman is a Lecturer in the Department. He is a developmental psychologist interested in learning, laughter and behaviour change. The majority of his research is with babies. He has investigated how we acquire our first concepts, the statistical processes that help us get started with learning language and where our sense of time comes Read More…
Memory Loss: It’s not all amnesia
Dr. Ashok Jansari is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, researching cognitive neuropsychology, particularly memory/amesia, face recognition and assessment of executive functions. While we break between terms, here is a post by Ashok, originally published in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/javascripts/lib/content_tracker_hook.js Short-term memory, long-term memory, amnesia, dementia, Alzheimer’s – people often use these terms incorrectly. Read More…
