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BSI-News (Volume 12, Issue 4)

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Volume 12 Issue 4 (December 2022)

 

Upcoming BSI Webinars

  • 31 January 2023
    The Role of Perceived Others’ Motives in Moral Norm Inferences from Descriptive Norms
    Seminar by Kimin Eom
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, SMU

  • 21 February 2023
    The Role of Executive Function in Cognitive Reappraisal: A Meta-Analytic Review
    Seminar by Noah Toh
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, NTU

  • 14 March 2023
    Executive functions and child development
    Seminar by Yang Hwajin
    Associate Professor of Psychology, SMU

  • 28 March 2023
    How do thinking of the past and the future shape our creativity?
    Seminar by Brandon Koh
    Assistant Professor of Psychology, SUSS

Highlights of Recent BSI Webinars

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11 October 2022

Louis Tay, William C. Byham Associate Professor in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Purdue University, USA, presented a webinar titled “Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate Admissions ”. Given the current controversy of many schools and departments considering the removal of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) from their graduate admission processes to enhance equity and diversity in higher education, he discussed the available research evidence on validity, bias, and fairness associated with six major sources of information that are widely used in graduate admission assessment.

   
Jacinth Tan

1 November 2022

Tsai Ming Hong, Associate Professor of Psychology at SMU, presented a webinar titled “How do we express conflicts beneficially? Perspectives from social perception and emotion”. Using empirical findings, he discussed whether and how conflict can reduce and instead of increase work-related stress, identified the practical implications of the findings, and provided several suggestions on how conflict can be handled to reduce work-related stress.

Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences

In this section on Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature a commentary by Professor David Chan (SMU Behavioural Sciences Initiative Director and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Psychology), in which he discussed the repeal of Section 377A of the Penal Code and proposed adopting five practical approaches for a more constructive discussion on the emotive issue.

The Straits Times Online:
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/section-377a-repeal-how-to-handle-disagreements

The Straits Times, pB9:
https://smu.sg/tvpg

About BSI

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