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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Paul Bays

11 Mar 2025

Paul Bays is a Professor of Computation and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the 探花直播 of Cambridge. He investigates the nature of...

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Empathy lessons at Kingsmead School, Enfield, UK

One term of empathy training measurably improved classroom behaviour

28 Aug 2024

A study involving 900 students in 6 countries found that a short programme of empathy lessons led to measurable, positive changes in their conduct...

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Boy in school corridor

Limited resources leave school leaders with few options to manage poor behaviour

07 Jun 2023

School leaders in England feel compelled to continue using a system of escalating punitive measures to manage student behaviour, even though they...

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Rewarding accuracy instead of partisan pandering reduces political divisions over the truth

06 Mar 2023

Researchers argue that the findings hold lessons for social media companies and the 鈥減erverse incentives鈥 driving political polarisation online.

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Child and mother during lockdown

Study reveals 鈥榙rastic changes鈥 to daily routines during UK lockdowns

03 Nov 2021

Some spent an extra hour a day on chores and childcare during lockdowns, while others got an added daily hour of solo leisure time 鈥 and most of us...

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A screen shot of the Fake News Game on a smart phone.

Fake news 鈥榲accine鈥: online game may 鈥榠noculate鈥 by simulating propaganda tactics

20 Feb 2018

A new experiment, launching today online, aims to help 鈥榠noculate鈥 against disinformation by providing a small dose of perspective from a 鈥渇ake news...

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Conservationists鈥 eco-footprints suggest education alone won鈥檛 change behaviour

10 Oct 2017

A new study shows that even those presumably best informed on the environment find it hard to consistently 鈥渨alk the walk鈥, prompting scientists to...

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Winner takes all: Success enhances taste for luxury goods, study suggests

19 Sep 2017

Footballers in flashy cars, City workers in Armani suits, reality TV celebrities sipping expensive champagne while sitting in hot tubs: what drives...

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Victorians rally for No New Coal projects

'Psychological vaccine鈥 could help immunise public against 鈥榝ake news鈥 on climate change 鈥 study

23 Jan 2017

New research finds that misinformation on climate change can psychologically cancel out the influence of accurate statements. However, if legitimate...

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Teenagers in Oslo, Norway

Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for up to four years

09 Aug 2016

探花直播first study to look at the impact of the relationship with teachers on adolescent behaviour finds that a positive teacher-student relationship...

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 探花直播orbitofrontal cortex (blue) and medial temporal cortex (red) were more similar in terms of thickness in youths with Conduct Disorder than in typically-developing youths, suggesting that the normal pattern of brain development is disrupted.

鈥楳ap鈥 of teenage brain provides strong evidence of link between serious antisocial behaviour and brain development

16 Jun 2016

探花直播brains of teenagers with serious antisocial behaviour problems differ significantly in structure to those of their peers, providing the clearest...

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No evidence that genetic tests change people鈥檚 behaviour

15 Mar 2016

Genetic tests that provide an estimate of an individual鈥檚 risk of developing diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease do not appear to motivate...

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