BSI-News (Volume 13, Issue 2)

Announcement

Professor David Chan (Lee Kong Chian Professor of Psychology) has been re-appointed as BSI Director with effect from 1 July 2023.

Upcoming BSI Webinars

• 5 September 2023
  Revolutionizing Social Psychology Research: The Impact of ChatGPT as a Powerful Tool
  Seminar by Lin Qiu
  Associate Professor of Psychology, NTU
• 26 September 2023
  Women in STEM: Gender-Professional Identity Integration (G-PII) and Information System Students' Outcomes
  Seminar by Cheng Chi-Ying
  Associate Professor of Psychology, SMU
• 10 October 2023
  Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between Mexican-origin adolescents’ cumulative strengths and individual self-growth
  Seminar by Lester Sim
  Assistant Professor of Psychology, SMU
• 24 October 2023
  The Fear of Being Idle
  Seminar by Verity Lua
  Psychology PhD Candidate, Stanford University
• 31 October 2023
  From Apps to Absentmindedness: A Daily Diary Investigation of the Link between Objective Smartphone Use and Cognitive Failures
  Seminar by Andree Hartanto
  Assistant Professor of Psychology, SMU

BSI Research

Professor David Chan contributed an invited chapter entitled "Technology-enabled measurement in Singapore" in the book "Technology and measurement: Research and practices around the globe" (forthcoming, 2023) published by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom.

BSI Outreach

Professor David Chan shared his views on "Evidence-based computational social science" at a keynote session in the SMU-CUHK Global Forum held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 23 June 2023. Find out more about the forum from the media interview video and the news report on the event here:

Media Interview Video (2 minutes)

News Report on Forum

Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences

In this section on Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature an invited interview with Professor David Chan on "Understanding Adaptability".

Youtube
Understanding adaptability: What's resilience got to do with it?

Facebook
Understanding adaptability: What's resilience got to do with it?

About BSI

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.