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Varela award for Betül
Congratulations to Betül Tatar, who has received a Varela Award from the Mind & Life Institute. Betül and Esther will study daily life experiences of applying mindfulness to food cravings, through a longitudinal qualitative approach. We will be hiring a … Continue reading
We’re hiring!
We’re hiring a postdoctoral researcher to join our team, working on the ESRC-funded project “Using consumption and reward simulations to increase desire for plant-based foods”. Do you hold a PhD in cognitive, social, or health psychology? Are you into food, … Continue reading
Paper and grant on plant-based foods
Our new paper on increasing the appeal of plant-based foods has been accepted for publication in Appetite! Great work by our former Postdoc Niklas Johannes, and undergraduate interns Teya Daneva, Gintare Semyte, and Lina-Lotta Kauhanen. We also received a 546k … Continue reading
Pre-print on feature listing method to study food and drink representations
New pre-print on a feature listing method to study how people think about food and drink objects. We are also creating a Shiny App to support the coding of feature listing data – watch this space! Papies, E. K., Tatar, … Continue reading
New pre-print: brief review paper on grounded cognitive processes in desire
The pre-print is available here.
Chapter Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology available
It was a great pleasure to join an impressive line-up of participants and speakers at the 21st Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology in Visegrad, Hungary, in July! A wonderful, diverse group of very passionate researchers, all strongly committed to using … Continue reading
Congratulations to Teya Daneva and Gintare Semyte
Congratulations to Teya and Gintare, who have each received an Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship from the Carnegie Trust, in collaboration with the Barsalou Lab. Both will join us for 6 weeks in June and July 2019, to study food labels and … Continue reading
Congratulations to Tess Davis and Amy Rodger
Congratulations to Tess Davis (Psychology, University of Edinburgh) and Amy Rodger (University of Glasgow) who have been awarded an SGSSS Scholarship to join our lab for their fully funded PhD studies! Tess will complete a 3-year PhD program to study … Continue reading
New fully funded PhD studentship on building healthy habits
We are offering a fully funded PhD studentship to begin in October 2019, on a project examining how healthy habits (for drinking water) can be built using goal priming, in collaboration with Danone Research. You can join us either with … Continue reading
New fully funded PhD studentship on sustainable food choices
We are offering a fully funded PhD studentship to begin in October 2019, on a project examining how to use language to promote sustainable food choices. You can join us either with an excellent BSc degree for a 1+3 program … Continue reading