MSPS vision researcher Dr Simon Cropper will explore the question 'Is Your Brain Just a Slave to Sense?', touching on art, music and the extraction of meaning from the texture of sensation.

NEW BOOK BY DAN LITTLE AND CO-AUTHORS

New clinical psychology chair Professor Kim Felmingham will discuss 'Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Can We Predict Who Develops It, Improve Treatment and Find Ways to Prevent It?'. Her lecture will highlight how PTSD can be prevented and treated, and what predicts resilience in the face of adversity.

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SCHOOL MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA

Several staff members and academic visitors have recently had their work featured in the media or contributed to public debate through popular writing or speaking. Jeanette Lawrence gave a radio interview on inheritance arrangements in families and was also featured in Domain. Miegunyah Fellow Professor Ellen Townsend's work on suicide prevention was covered in a radio interview and elsewhere during her visit.Amy Jordan's work was featured in a story on daylight saving and body clocks in Pursuit. Brock Bastian was interviewed in a panel discussion on guilty pleasures on ABC radio, and visiting professorial fellow Sam Gosling appeared in an SBS TV documentary on pill testing at music festivals (at the 15:32 minute mark).

A number of contributions to The Conversation have been published. Olivia Carter wrote on motherhood and the brain, and honorary fellows Melissa Wheeler and Victor Sojo penned a widely read piece on unconscious gender bias. Nick Haslam's columns covered the history of the anal character, whether millennials are different from other generations in the workplace, the psychological effects of economic inequality (and article cited that week in Federal Parliament), the origins of nose-related words and the reasons why using animal metaphors to refer to people can be offensive.
 

Members of the School recently organised and hosted two major conferences. Brock Bastian and Simon Laham brought together a distinguished collection of international scholars for their meeting on 'The Morality of Conflict and Cooperation'. The conference, which cemented MSPS's status as a global centre for moral psychology, featured eminent researchers including Susan Fiske (Princeton University), Geoff Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania), Roger Giner-Sorolla (University of Kent), Wilhelm Hofmann (University of Cologne), Felicia Pratto (University of Connecticut) and Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago). 

Immediately following this meeting members of the School hosted the annual meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP). With a record attendance and a large postgraduate student presence, the conference was a significant success, with keynotes by Susan Fiske and Garth Fletcher (Victoria University of Wellington) and about 190 other presentations, workshops and social events. Dr Katie Greenaway, who joins MSPS later this year, was awarded the annual SASP Early Career Award at the conference.

Antinori. A., Carter, O. & Smillie, L. (2017) Seeing It Both Ways: Openness to Experience and Binocular Rivalry Suppression. Journal of Research in Personality 68: 5-22 
 
Antinori. A., Smillie, L. & Carter, O. (2017) Personality Measures Link Slower Binocular Rivalry Switch Rates to higher Levels of Self-Discipline. Frontiers in Psychology 7: 2008 
 
Bryson, A., Carter, O., Norman, T. & Kanaan, R. (In press). 5-HT2A Agonists: A Novel Therapy for Functional Neurological Disorders. The international Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 

Burrows, E. L., Eastwood, A. F., May, C., Kolbe, S. C., Hill, T., McLachlan, N. M., Churilov, L., & Hannan, A. J. (2017). Social isolation alters social and mating behavior in the R451C neuroligin mouse model of autism. Neural Plasticity.

Carey, M., Sanson-Fisher, R., Macrae, F., Cameron, E., Hill, D., D'Este, C., & Doran, C (2017). Improving adherence to colorectal cancer surveillance guidelines: Results of a randomised controlled trial. BMC Cancer, 17.

Chen, W. Y., Wu, S. K., Song, T. F., Chou, K. M., Wang, K. Y., Chang, Y. C., & Goodbourn, P. T. (2017). Perceptual and motor performance of combat-sport athletes differs according to specific demands of the discipline. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 124, 293-313.

Ellis, R., Seal, M. L., Adamson, C., Beare, R., Simmons, J. G., Whittle, S., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Brain connectivity networks and longitudinal trajectories of depression symptoms in adolescence. Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging, 260, 62-69.

Emery, J. D., Jefford, M., King, M., Hayne, D., Martin, A., Doorey, J., Hyatt, A., Habgood, E., Lim, T., Hawks, C., Pirotta, M., Trevena, L., & Schofield, P. (2017). ProCare Trial: A phase II randomized controlled trial of shared care for follow-up of men with prostate cancer. BJU International, 119, 381-389.

Hearps, S., Seal, M., Anderson, V., McCarthy, M., Connellan, M., Downie, P., De Luca, C. (2017). The relationship between cognitive and neuroimaging outcomes in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia with chemotherapy only: A systematic review. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 64, 225-233.

Hearps, S. J. C., Takagi, M., Babl, F. E., Bressan, S., Truss, K., Davis, GA., Godfrey, C., Clarke, C., Doyle, M., Rausa, V., Dunne, K., & Anderson, V. (2017). Validation of a score to determine time to postconcussive recovery. Pediatrics, 139.

Morawetz, C., Bode, S., Derntl, B., & Heekeren, H. R. (2017). The effect of strategies, goals and stimulus material on the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 72, 111-128.

 
Prior, M Smart D, Youssef G,  Sanson A, Prior M, Toumbourou, J, and Olsson, C.
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood.
British Journal of Educational Psychology (2017) The British Psychological Society

Pua, E. P. K., Bowden, S. C., Seal, M. L. (2017). Autism spectrum disorders: Neuroimaging findings from systematic reviews. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 34, 28-33.

 
Ryan, NP., Catroppa, C., Beare, R., Silk, T., Hearps, S., Beauchamp, MH., Yeates, KO., Anderson, V. Uncovering the Neuroanatomical Correlates of Cognitive, Affective, and Conative Theory of Mind in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neural Systems Perspective. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Accepted 23 April 2017. 

Williams, L. K., McCarthy, M. C., Burke, K., Anderson, V., & Rinehart, N. (2016). Addressing behavioral impacts of childhood leukemia: A feasibility pilot randomized controlled trial of a group videoconferencing parenting intervention. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 24, 61-69.