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Volume 11 Issue 4 (December 2021)
Announcement
The BSI Conference 2021 on "Dealing with Disagreements", held virtually on 1st December 2021, was attended by participants from academia and the public, private and people sectors. Details of the conference proceedings will be published as a book at a later date. More information can be found in the webstory and report on the conference.
We are pleased to announce that the new book Meaning Matters authored by BSI Director Professor David Chan has just been published. More information is available in the publisher's (World Scientific) video clip and book flyer.
Upcoming BSI Seminars
25 January 2022 Awareness of attachment security: The self-regulation of attachment styles
Seminar by Kenneth Tan
Assistant Professor of Psychology, SMU
8 February 2022 Is busyness good or bad for you?
Seminar by Brandon Koh
Assistant Professor of Psychology, SUSS
22 February 2022 The application of essentialism to understanding consumer judgments of food
Seminar by Bobby Cheon
Stadtman Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, USA
15 March 2022 In or out? Unpacking cross-cultural differences in monoracials’ categorization and perceptions of biracials
Seminar by Sheila Wee
Psychology PhD Candidate, SOSS
29 March 2022 Battling self-esteem issues during SNS use: A multilevel latent path analysis approach
Seminar by Shuna Khoo
Psychology PhD Candidate, SOSS
Highlights of Recent BSI Webinars
19 October 2021
Kenneth Tai, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Have You Heard? Examining the Relationship Between Leader Positive Gossip and Prosocial Behaviour”. He shared his research findings on the impact of workplace gossip on employees’ motivations and interpersonal behaviors, and how these effects vary for employees with differing levels of core self-evaluations.
2 November 2021
Keh Jun Sheng, Psychology PhD Candidate at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Too Tired for Meaning: Not All Negative Emotions Interfere with Meaningful Experiences”. By analyzing a large-scale sample using response surface analysis, he shared his research findings on how mixed emotional experiences influence perceptions of meaning.
Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences
In this section on Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature two recent events that took place in November 2021:
Invited Keynote Address by Guest-of-Honour Professor David Chan delivered at the 90th CUHK Congregation for Conferment of Postgraduate Degrees held in Hong Kong, 5 Nov 2021.
The Behavioural Sciences Initiative (BSI) is a multi-disciplinary research initiative for creating, disseminating and applying scientific knowledge about human behaviours in various social, organisational and cultural settings. For more information, please refer to our website.
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