Psychology & Neuroscience
The School of Psychology & Neuroscience has consistently been ranked one of the best research departments in the UK. Our research is broadly organised around 5 research themes, namely human cognition, neuroscience, origins of mind, perception, and social psychology, with many members of the School carrying out research in more than one theme. Researchers from the School also contribute to numerous interdisciplinary research centres and institutes.
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Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: cognitive and motivational determinants
(2016-09-14) - Journal itemSocial interactions are the result of individuals’ cooperative and competitive tendencies expressed over an extended period of time. Although social manipulation, i.e., using another individual to achieve one’s own goals, ... -
Information seeking about tool properties in great apes
(2017-09-07) - Journal articleEvidence suggests that great apes engage in metacognitive information seeking for food items. To support the claim that a domain-general cognitive process underlies ape metacognition one needs to show that selective ... -
Preliminary research informing policy on remote alcohol monitoring in criminal justice : the Scottish experience
(2016-11) - Journal articleObjectives. To explore the views of Scottish offenders on the impact of alcohol on their experience of offending and their lives in general. Further, to explore their views on the concept of Remote Alcohol Monitoring (RAM) ... -
How does intergroup contact affect social change? Its impact on collective action and individual mobility intentions among members of a disadvantaged group
(2015-09) - Journal articleA current debate surrounds the issue of whether prejudice-reducing interventions such as intergroup contact may reduce resistance to unequal intergroup relations among disadvantaged groups. Addressing this question, the ... -
A test of the submentalizing hypothesis : apes' performance in a false belief task inanimate control
(2017-09) - Journal articleMuch debate concerns whether any nonhuman animals share with humans the ability to infer others' mental states, such as desires and beliefs. In a recent eye-tracking false-belief task, we showed that great apes correctly ...
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