Lincoln School of Psychology News
Children can learn to better recognise other people’s emotions through games which emphasise the significance of the eyes and the mouth in conveying feelings, new research has shown. The study by cognitive neuroscientists in the School of Psychology suggests that simple training programmes could help children better understand which expressive facial features offer the most…
We welcome our new PhD students for this academic year who have started this September! We wish them every success with their projects and look forward to hearing more about their research soon. Below is a quick introduction to each of them. Welcome to Lincoln! Cátia Caerio (supervised by Kun Guo), will work on “Inter-species…
We warmly welcome our new academic staff members Dr Andrea Pavan and Dr Amanda Roberts. Andrea Pavan has joined us as a Lecturer from the University of Regensburg, Institute for Experimental Psychology, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow. Andrea’s research interests are in vision and visual neuroscience. He will contribute to the research skills…
Animal behaviour and psychology experts from the University of Lincoln, UK, featured on the new Channel 4 series, Dogs: Their Secret Lives. In the programme vet Mark Evans delves into what goes on in our dogs’ brains and how behavioural training and even canine pharmaceuticals are increasingly being used to help address problem behaviour in…
We warmly congratulate our graduates 2014! Lincoln cathedral provides a spectacular venue for our graduation ceremonies. You can find many pictures of the event here.