Please click here if you are unable to view this page.
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
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.
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 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.
Should you wish to subscribe/unsubscribe, please click here.
