Join the Department of Psychology for a special guest talk with Dr. Nathan Hall, the man behind the hilarious Twitter account @AcademicsSay. The @AcademicsSay Experiment | @chroniclehttp://t.co/I3zDlA4vBGpic.twitter.com/UXQ95IMNW2 — Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) July 1, 2015 Professor Nathan Hall, associate professor in the Faculty of Education’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, started the […]
Social media use in academia has grown increasingly over the last 10 years and it now plays a large role in student engagement and science communication. Join Dr. Liisa Galea and other colleagues in the Department of Psychology for a discussion on why social media is a crucial link to other academics and in communicating your […]
Dr. Stephen Lindsay, University of Victoria Title: Replication in Psychological Science Psychology journals have too often published Type I errors as real effects and too often greatly overestimated the sizes of real effects. As Interim Editor of Psychological Science, I am attempting to forge ahead on a path blazed by my predecessor Eric Eich: A […]
Title Alone need not be lonely: Correlates and consequences of solitude among Chinese and Canadian adults Committee Anita DeLongis (Chair) Christiane Hoppmann Peter Graf
Join the Department of Psychology for a special guest talk with Dr. Azim Shariff, associate professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Title: When Robots Take the Wheel: Allowing Self-Driving Cars to Navigate Life or Death Decisions Abstract: Self-driving cars offer a bright future—provided the public is willing to engage in widespread adoption. Thus […]
UBC Psychology’s Safety Orientation is geared towards new hires (e.g. new faculty, staff, graduate students, postdocs, research assistants, etc.), but any interested department member is welcome to attend. Please encourage anyone new in your unit to RSVP. As you know, each lab is required to provide safety orientations to new staff, students and volunteers. While […]
Invited Talk: Lara Pierce, Developmental Research
Colloquium with Dr. Niall Bolger