A few questions about ‘mental disorders’
How many times have you seen a video on Facebook about mental disorder? How about an over-reaching headline on the same topic, something like “Depression: Solved by science”?
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What climate change could do to mental health
Heatwaves and other extreme weather events caused by climate change could have profound implications for personality traits and mental health, Ronald Fischer warned in his inaugural public lecture as a Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Victoria University academics appointed to new governmental justice advisory group
Victoria University of Wellington Psychology Professor Tony Ward and Law Senior Lecturer Dr Carwyn Jones have been appointed to the Safe and Effective Justice Programme Advisory Group - Te Uepū Hāpai i te Ora, a new advisory group for the Ministry of Justice.
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Five Minutes with: a memory researcher
In the second of a new series of interviews with young and mid-career researchers, Eloise Gibson talks to childhood memory researcher Deirdre Brown about testing children’s recall and helping kids remember events accurately.
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Victoria researcher receives Wegner Theoretical Innovation prize
Dr Rita McNamara, from the School of Psychology, received the award for her contribution to the 2016 article, “The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions.”