10 June 2011 - Marilynn Brewer honoured Congratulations to Visiting Professorial Scholar Marilynn Brewer who was recently added to the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Foundation’s Honouring-our-scientists p.....
11 May 2011 - PhD students recognised with awards Several current and completed PhD students have recently received various awards for their work. Dr. Lynette Hung was awarded the E.R. Hilgard Award for 2011 from the Society of Psychological Hypnosis.....
05 May 2011 - Rising Star Congratulations to Tom Denson who was recognised as a “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Each year the APS highlights the accomplishments of a very small, and select, gr.....
15 December 2010 - Don’t call me obese Fat or obese? The labels we use to describe heavy-weight individuals can dramatically influence the judgments we make about people, a new study conducted by Dr Lenny Vartanian of the School of Psychol.....
23 November 2010 - Sugarcoating aggression The ''sugar high'' many parents fear may not be so bad. In a study led by Dr Tom Denson of the School of Psychology, it was found consuming sugar could make people react less aggressively when provoke.....
11 November 2010 - A blind eye to love Asked to picture a psychopath, you might conjure up a horror movie character: someone prone to violence, serial murder even, coldly scrutinising you with unblinking eyes but the reality is much differ.....
18 October 2010 - NSW Young Tall Poppy of the Year Congratulations to Associate Professor Michelle Moulds who was selected by the Australian Institute of Policy & Science for a Young Tall Poppy Award. Ten awardees from various Universities across NSW.....
29 September 2010 - Best postgraduate poster Congratulations to Joyce Siette whose poster (“Voluntary running reverses age-associated cognitive decline and restores synaptic growth and neurogenesis in the aged rat”) was selected as the best post.....
03 August 2010 - Neurological Fellowship Bronwyn Graham has been awarded a Neurological Fellowship (for US$25,000) by the American Australian Association, which allows her to undertake postdoctoral research for 12 months in the United States.....
19 March 2010 - A psychological approach Members of the University and wider communities can benefit from high-quality, cost-effective clinical psychological therapy – all while doing a good turn themselves, reports Mary Azzi in the latest e.....
10 March 2010 - Booze skews race-recognition bias People are much better at recognising faces of their own racial group than those of different races, but a new study led by one of our PhD students in the UNSW School of Psychology suggests that drink.....
29 October 2008 - The drink before the stormA Morgan Poll this year found that 14.5million Australians think there is link between drinking alcohol and violent behaviour. University of NSW psychologist Thomas Denson, who studies aggression and .....
21 April 2008 - New hope for prolonged griefStrong feelings of grief are normal and healthy after the death of someone you love but recent research from UNSW suggests that some people grieve for so long that it becomes a significant mental illn.....
08 February 2008 - Pregnancy hits your memoryMany women believe that they become more forgetful during pregnancy: a new study by Australian researchers suggests that they are right - and that their memory can be significantly impaired for at lea.....
05 June 2007 - Unleashing the love hormoneCouples who’ve considered counselling to improve their relationship are being encouraged to join a UNSW School of Psychology study testing whether a so-called "love hormone" can help relationships by .....
21 May 2007 - Bilingual Aussies are better spellersBilingual Australians are better spellers than monolinguals but they struggle to understand some spoken English, according to the first language study of its kind conducted at the School of Psychology.....
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