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Category: Psychology

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Are you North or South Indian? The prejudice of common categories.

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14 April 202214 April 2022 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

A Theory of Relation Learning and Cross-domain Generalisation

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6 April 202213 April 2022 Lasse Schaefer

Causal generalisations and zombies

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29 October 202129 October 2021 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Personality Psychology Podcast

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Psychology can’t help us understand people like you and me

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6 April 20216 July 2021 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Babies language skills are more advanced than you think

8 June 20208 June 2020 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Do we need a different kind of leader during uncertain times like a pandemic?

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16 April 202021 April 2020 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Mirror-writing

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5 March 202016 December 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Book tips from our researchers

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24 January 202024 January 2020 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Music and healthy ageing

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19 December 201919 December 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Board games can protect thinking skills in old age

25 November 201916 December 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Conference? Yes Please!

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22 November 201922 November 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Baby talk words

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27 August 201927 August 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Working memory: An adversarial collaboration

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8 August 20196 August 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

WoMAAC: Working memory across the adult lifespan

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