School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
@UoB_SoP
Conducting research that matters. Teaching psychology and human neuroscience to UG and PG students @unibirmingham
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Hoarding a mental health emergency - group warns Includes expert comment from @UoB_SoP Sam Wainman, PhD doctoral researcher bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… @bbcmtd
NEW PAPER: Towards User-Centred Design of AI-Assisted Decision-Making in Law Enforcement arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17393 @EdinburghUni @EdinUniHealth @UoB_SoP @timgrant123 @AIFL_Aston @imperialcollege @BathPsychology
🚨 PhD opportunity for Fall 2025 🚨 Send me your CV and cover letter by May 30th to apply to work on neural mechanisms of altruism and cooperation (fMRI, eye-tracking, computational). ONLY open to UK (home) students. Funded by @UoB_SoP Please share and RT!
Job Opportunity! Research Fellow needed to lead qual study of clinician decision making about lupus nephritis. Apply by 27/04/25 @DrJohnReynolds @UoB_SoP @jobsacuk @unibirm_CMH @BPSOfficial @divhealthpsych @UKSBM_ECN @UKSBM @BirminghamBRC #AcademicJobs linkedin.com/jobs/view/4206…
Last week, we were delighted to host the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jon Catling (@UoB_SoP), entitled: It "smells like Teen Spirit": Explorations in youth mental health and popular culture. Congratulations, Jon! 🎉
Research news: Pilot-Testing Interventions to Enhance Mental Health and Wellbeing of Police Staff birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pilo…
📰Pilot-Testing Interventions to Enhance Mental Health and Wellbeing of Police Staff with @UoB_SoP birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pilo…
Deadline extended to 28th April so still time to apply!
2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Keynotes: Matthew Rushworth, @DianaTamir, @david_m_amodio 👇Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com)
Next week - join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Caroline Richards 📆Thursday 1 May 2025, 4-6pm 🏦Hybrid event birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…
⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham & @UniLeiden Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @DianaTamir & @david_m_amodio compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jon Catling: It "smells like Teen Spirit": Explorations in youth mental health and popular culture. 📆Thursday 10 April 2025, 4-6pm 📷Hybrid - Biosciences, 301 See booking details below:
🎉Next week - join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jon Catling: It "smells like Teen Spirit": Explorations in youth mental health and popular culture. 📆Thursday 10 April 2025, 4-6pm 📍Hybrid - Biosciences, 301 🔗Book your place: birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…
🎉Next week - join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jon Catling: It "smells like Teen Spirit": Explorations in youth mental health and popular culture. 📆Thursday 10 April 2025, 4-6pm 📍Hybrid - Biosciences, 301 🔗Book your place: birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…
📰NEW | Dr Amy Burrell @UoB_SoP spoke to @Channel4News as part of its 'Domestic spiking – a hidden crisis?' feature this week (4:00 onwards). 🔗Watch here or listen here: channel4.com/news/domestic-…
🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Unrewarded Cooperation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Remember the poll that went viral in 2023? We reproduced these results using real monetary rewards in an online lab experiment (sorry, no life and death).
New paper out🧠Brain training apps have only limited cognitive benefits for healthy older adults @e__sutton @JetVvanZanten link.springer.com/10.1007/s00426…
🎉 Calling all parents! 👶 We’re running a fun and exciting study at the University of Birmingham! 🏫✨ 🎯 Who? Children born preterm, aged 2-4 years 🎯 What? Playful tasks to help us explore language development 💬🧠 🎯 Where? In-person at the University of Birmingham (1/2)
School of Psychology Welcomes Dr. Marie-Louise Sharp as Senior Behavioural Research Fellow @centre_ub @UoB_SoP birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/scho…
🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @CommsPsychol: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and Christian Ruff We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇
In a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game, manipulating the location of payout information on computer screens changed participants’ gaze pattern sequences and resulted in greater cooperation when more focus was given to others’ outcomes. @arkadykonovalov nature.com/articles/s4427…
Some academics still seem to be here... I have no idea where (online) everyone is gathering these days, so I'm going to shout into every void about our fantastic new paper, authored by our brilliant grad student, analysed by our superb CompSci colleagues: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…