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Bruce Hood receives grant from the Immortality Project

24 May 2013

The Immortality Project is an initiative that involves scientists, philosophers, and theologians from around the world.

TARG involved in large new research programme

11 May 2013

An interdisciplinary research team, which includes members of TARG, has been awarded a grant of £12 million by the EPSRC for a scheme known as SPHERE (Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment).

GW4 Research Day

10 May 2013

On the 9th of May, the School welcomed the Psychology departments from the Universities of Bath, Cardiff and Exeter at a highly successful Research Day.

Experimental Psychology tops NSS response rate

3 May 2013

Psychology achieved a response rate of 94%, the highest in the University

The School is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Stephan Lewandowsky.

29 April 2013

Steve is an internationally renowned cognitive scientist who has joined us from the University of Western Australia. 

Reliability of Neuroscience Research Questioned

22 April 2013

A team led by academics from the University of Bristol reviewed 48 articles on neuroscience meta-analysis which were published in 2011 and concluded that most had an average power of around 20 per cent – a finding which means the chance of the average study discovering the effect being investigated is only one in five.

Reliability of Neuroscience Research Questioned

10 April 2013

New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, saying that conclusions could be misleading due to small sample sizes.

Seeing happiness in ambiguous facial expressions reduces aggressive behaviour

27 March 2013

Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, new research from the University of Bristol has found.

Jenna Todd Jones continues the School's tradition of success in I'm A Scientist competition

25 March 2013

Jenna Todd Jones continues the School's tradition of success in I'm A Scientist competition

South West Undergraduate Conference, March 2013

25 March 2013

The prize for best oral presentation was awarded to Year 3 University of Bristol student Rebecca Griggs for her talk on "The effects of expectancy information on cephalic phase responses to food".