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Face Perception Research Group Featured in The Star News

The Face Perception Research Group, based in the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is in the The Star news today! The Star article looks into the research conducted by PhD student, Tan Kok Wei, and headed by Dr Ian D. Stephen which focuses on the science of attraction, specifically skin colour as …

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – LOOK there is an approaching vehicle, is it SAFE to pull out?“

Continuing with the series of posts on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, here is Lee Yee Mun’s entry titled “LOOK there is an approaching vehicle, is it SAFE to pull out?“ Have you ever driven in Malaysia? Or have you adapted to Malaysian driving’s style and did not realize the problems with it? My …

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – Stress Induced Food Cravings

Continuing with the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition series, here is Adila Alias’ research titled “Stress Induced Food Cravings.”   My research looks at stress induced food cravings with race being the manipulating variable. Race, in this context, represents the ethnicity or the ethnic group For example; would it be safe to say that I, …

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – Foraging for Thought

Continuing with the series of posts on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, here is Poh Wei Lin’s talk titled “Foraging for Thought.” Whenever I tell people that I study psychology, the usual response I get is “Can you read my mind?” Just to be clear, I can’t, even if I stared deeply into your …

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – How do people describe faces?

Continuing from last week’s blog post on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, here is Lee Ai-Suan’s talk titled “Black hair, brown eyes: How do people describe faces?” Look at the person next to you. How would you describe his or her face? Research has shown that people from different cultures process information in different …

3rd Year Modules: Cognitive Neuroscience of Ageing

The most obvious signs of ageing are physical changes, for examples developing wrinkles and your hair turning grey.  Other changes include the slowing down of motor movements, and being more prone to chronic illnesses (such as hypertension, rheumatism, osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes and asthma (e.g., Oskvig, 2005).  This can reduce the ability of an older …

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) – Spoken English Discrimination Training

Continuing from last week’s blog post on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, here is an entry from Christine Leong. The title of her talk was “Do You Hear This? Or Do You Hear That? : Spoken English Discrimination Training.” What? Did you just say pet a pet? Or did you just say pat a …

Malala Yousafzai: Words To Remember

Disclaimer: The author of this article is no expert on Malala Yousafzai, the current state of education in Pakistan or on psychology in general. “You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education”. The words above were uttered by one Malala Yousafzai during her interview at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, …

80,000 words in three minutes: The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition is exactly what it sounds like: describe your thesis in three minutes.  In plain English, so someone outside your field can understand it.  To put it in perspective, a typical thesis of 80,000 words would take 9 hours to present.  We had three minutes.  (That’s 180 times less, in case you …

3rd Year Modules: Evolution of Brain and Behaviour

Continuing with the series of introducing third year modules… To start things off, I am going to try to answer two very different questions: 1)      Why is a mother breastfeeding her child? 2)      How did Malaysia revolutionise psychology, but get no credit for it? How do these questions relate to my module? Keep reading and …