In the latest issue of Element magazine (distributed with the New Zealand Herald) Andy Kenworthy explores new research into the […]
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Prof Marc Wilson on the End of the World
Associate Professor Marc Wilson, from the Department of Psychology, Victoria University, talked to TVNZ’s Breakfast show about the Mayan calendar, […]
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An American university has filed a lawsuit against a New Zealand hypnotherapist for breach of copyright after he published what […]
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Joseph Gelfer, Adjunct Research Associate, School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, picks apart the 2012 apocalypse theory […]
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A New Zealand researcher who showed pigeons can be as good as rhesus monkeys at sorting images of shapes into […]
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Finance writer Diane Clement explores the psychology of gift-giving in a New Zealand Herald article, drawing on kiwi experts and […]
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To many New Zealanders rugby is more than just a sport, but maybe we need to lighten up if we […]
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Rugby is central to New Zealand’s sense of national self worth- but this can be a problem given New Zealand’s […]
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The trauma and resilience of Cantabrians in the wake of earthquakes has been the focus of research presented at a […]
Continue readingExperts respond: UK Riots and crowd psychology
As rioting continues in London and other UK cities, the public are left wondering how the mob mentality of a […]
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