BSI-News (Volume 11, Issue 4)

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.

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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.

  Youtube link: Prof David Chan Speech at CUHK Graduation Ceremony 2021

• Panel Discussion at the IPS-RSIS Conference on Identity held on 23 Nov 2021.

  Youtube link: IPS-RSIS Panel Discussion

  Media reports: Today, The Straits Times, The Straits Times Online

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