Fiona MacCallum
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Reader in Psychology at the University of Warwick (
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Morgan Centre
2 months ago
New article: ✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson
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Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625006859?via%3Dihub
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Warwick Psychology
4 months ago
Anja Raneberg for best PhD impact paper
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
4 months ago
Hey
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#PsySky
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we’ll be covering the event live from 10am UK time
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Nicole Tang
4 months ago
A buzzing Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group termly meeting today! 🍕🎉👏 Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers for sharing exciting updates on their projects - inspiring research all around.
#Wellbeing
#AcademicLife
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Hester Duffy
4 months ago
Not to be all that meme, but I have a book out today.
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Nicole Tang
5 months ago
Such a nice surprise to find that one of my papers is among the most-viewed in Journal of Sleep Research! Not a bad way to start the week 🙌
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#TopViewedArticle
🧪The paper is open access:
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
5 months ago
A new driving intervention developed by Dr. Melina Kunar and Prof. Derrick Watson reduces inattention-related driving errors—now featured on the Road Safety GB news page!
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‘Change Blindness’ intervention highlights the risks of distracted driving
https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/change-blindness-intervention-highlights-the-risks-of-distracted-driving/
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Andrew Camara
6 months ago
Was an absolute pleasure to host Dr. Nick Brown (
@steamtraen.eu
, Linnaeus University) for a Warwick
@reproducibilitea.org
workshop! We were introduced to the topic of statistical errors/fraud in scientific research, and shown how to check whether the statistics in a scientific paper "add up" 🧐
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
6 months ago
Young lemurs sing like children -- new research from
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
6 months ago
We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at University of Warwick
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply toda...
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/assistant-professor-teaching-focussed-or-teaching-fellow-110378-0325-two-posts
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Katie Cunneen
6 months ago
Participant Recruitment! Looking for workers within the healthcare sector to take part in a 15-minute survey about workers' health and engagement in workplace mental health support (Prize draw to win up to £150 worth of shopping vouchers). Survey link -
warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
How to measure the prevalence of detailed—yet false—autobiographical memories in lab-based studies is debated.
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and colleagues explain why even low false memory rates in lab-based research can be practically important:
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Still Lost in the Mall—False Memories Happen and That's What Matters
For more than 25 years, psychologists have explored how people can develop rich false memories. Murphy et al. (2023) replicated the original “lost in the mall” study (Loftus and Pickrell 1995), demon...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acp.70028
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Nicole Tang
7 months ago
Don’t miss out the opportunity to work with my amazing colleagues
@alexdclarke.bsky.social
@mmrobinson93.bsky.social
@gambichiara.bsky.social
! Up to 4 PhD scholarships on offer by
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
⏳Last chance to apply! Don’t miss out.
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Matthew Mak
7 months ago
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure.
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Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h
Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725000265
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
Tomorrow's department Brown Bag speaker is Dr. Zachary Horne from the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh!
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Dr Chiara Gambi
7 months ago
Only a bit old and
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Lovely psych people out there 🙏 and keep coming!
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
Welcome to Dr Katy Stokes, who has joined us to work on the interdisciplinary UKRI-funded CONTAIN project, which aims to better understand and model the notion of human “contact” in the context of emerging infectious disease.
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to
@michaelapawley.bsky.social
, a PhD student of the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab
@nkytang.bsky.social
, on being awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship from the
@ukdataservice.bsky.social
! This competitive programme supports 5 early career researchers using UK Data Service resources.
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Nicole Tang
7 months ago
🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p..
. -1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/ proposal. If you're interested in sleep and pain research, get in touch. 🧪 Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59
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Fiona MacCallum
Warwick Psychology
7 months ago
Great discussion following our departmental brown bag seminar, on mild traumatic brain injury and post concussion symptoms. Dr Nigel King fielded questions spanning from aetiology and management of MTBI, high-profile NFL cases🦉, to banning of headers in young footballers. ⚽️
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Matthew Mak
8 months ago
Warwick Psychology is looking to appoint a permanent Assistant/Associate Professor, with a specific focus on leading an online MSc conversion programme. Come join us!
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Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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