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| Volume 14 Issue 1 (March 2024) |
Announcement | | Professor David Chan (Lee Kong Chian Professor of Psychology & BSI Director) has been renewed for another two-year term in his appointment as a member of the Social Science Research Council. The appointment is made by Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. | Upcoming BSI Webinars- 2 April 2024
Causal Complexity Explains the Beliefs in Tempting Fate
Seminar by Albert Lee
Associate Professor of Psychology, NTU
| Highlights of Recent BSI Webinars |  | 30 January 2024 Kenneth Tan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Ironic Effects of Singlehood Stigma”. He discussed how exposure to singlehood stigma may increase motivation to avoid being single but decrease the capacity to do so. | | | |  | 20 February 2024 Ng Shu Tian, Psychology PhD Candidate at SMU, presented a webinar titled “Through the lens of a naturalist: A smartphone intervention to promote awe and nature connectedness in urbanized Singapore”. She discussed how learning about nature can promote awe which in turn increase nature connectedness. | | | |  | 5 March 2024 Jolynn Pek, Associate Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University, presented a webinar titled “Consistent Methods Safeguard Against False Findings”. She discussed how consistent methods across studies (variables, conditions, covariates) can reduce the potential to produce consistent findings across studies that are false positives. | | | | Insights and Applications from Behavioural Sciences |  | In this section on Insights & Applications, we feature a fireside chat conversation with Professor David Chan on "Computational Social Science: Issues, Insights, Applications", held on 22 March 2024 at A*STAR. The session, jointly organised by SMU and A*STAR and attended by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, is the first event in the month-long Social Science and Humanities Ideas Festival organised by the Autonomous Universities and research institutes in Singapore and supported by the Social Science Research Council. | Fireside Chat: Closing Remarks: About BSIThe 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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