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Announcements
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Dr Jeremy Lim, member of the BSI Business Advisory Board, has recently joined Fortis Healthcare International as its CEO (Singapore).
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Professor David Chan, Director of BSI, has been re-appointed by the Minister of Health as Chairman of the International Advisory Panel (IAP) for the National Addictions Management Service and the National Council on Problem Gambling, for another two years. |
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BSI invites applications to fill two (2) Post Doctoral Fellow/ Research Fellow positions, to start work in 2012.
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Highlights of Recent Seminars
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Hans IJzerman, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Tilburg University, presented his research on the associations between people's actual physical experiences (e.g., physical warmth) and their use of social cognitive metaphors and concepts in interpersonal relationships.
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Angela Leung, Assistant Professor of Psychology at SMU, presented her research on how emotions may explain the effect that experiences with diverse cultures could have on creativity.
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Research Feature
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BSI recently sponsored two research studies, both of which will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology in January 2012 at San Diego, USA. The first study, by Assistant Professor Serena Wee, examines how women make job choices and the second study, by Assistant Professor Cheng Chi-Ying, examines the way women manage their gender and professional identities and which in turn affects various personal and work-related outcomes.
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Insights from Behavioural Sciences
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In this regular section on Insights from Behavioural Sciences, we focus on what research on fairness perceptions tells us about policy and politics - see article by Director BSI titled Fairness: Processes as important as outcomes, published in the Straits Times in November 2011. The newspaper article was adapted from the original article published in the special commemorative issue of ETHOS, a journal by the Civil Service College.
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Applications from Behavioural Sciences
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In this regular section on Applications from Behavioural Sciences, we feature an article by Director BSI, published in the Straits Times in October 2011, titled Drill into what makes S'poreans happy. The newspaper article was a response to the public debate on the notion of happiness and well-being, and the implications for public policy in Singapore.
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