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Volume 12 Issue 3 (September 2022)
Announcement
Professor David Chan (BSI Director & Lee Kong Chian Professor of Psychology) has been re-appointed as a Board Member of the National Parks Board (NParks) for a further two-year term from August 2022. The mission of NParks is to create the best living environment through excellence in nature conservation, greenery and recreation, and veterinary care, in partnership with the community and its vision is to make Singapore our City in Nature. Members of the Board are appointed by the Minister for National Development and approved by the Cabinet of Singapore.
Upcoming BSI Webinars
11 October 20222 Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate Admissions
Seminar by Louis Tay
William C. Byham Associate Professor in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Purdue University, USA
1 November 2022 How do we express conflicts beneficially? Perspectives from social perception and emotion
Seminar by Tsai Ming Hong
Associate Professor of Psychology, SMU
Highlights of Recent BSI Webinars
6 September 2022
Cheng Shih-Fen, Associate Professor of Computer Science at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Improving Quantal Cognitive Hierarchy Model Through Iterative Population Learning”. Using real-world datasets from taxi and ride-hailing industries, he proposed an approach based on a refined behavioural game-theoretic model for measuring human strategic behaviours that could be generalised to similar decision-making domains.
20 September 2022
Jacinth Tan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Integrate or Isolate? The link between social class and relational interdependence”. Using survey data from Singapore and United States, she discussed how social class may predict interdependence in terms of social attention, self-concept, and behaviours, and how trust and perceived social resources may partly explain these relationships.
Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences
In this section on Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature an invited talk by Professor David Chan on "The Psychology of Public Trust" that was delivered on 19 September 2022 to the Leadership Group of the Singapore Police Force.
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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