Calendar of events
Tue 12 May, '26- |
Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling, Dr Sam Cacace from the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of ReadingSocial Sciences Building, room S0.19Hosts: Dr Suzanne Aussems and Dr Chiara Gambi Abstract Psychologists and other social scientists often deal in abstract concepts, like emotions, moral judgement, depression, trauma, and stress. Self-report scales, biofeedback, participant observation, and other commonly used methods provide means to access these valuable parts of human experience, but can often be unreliable, exhibit poor validity, and/or fail to fully address the underlying construct. Fortunately, structural equation modelling (SEM) offers ways to evaluate relationships between constructs that are not directly observable (i.e., latent variables), through a two-step process. In this interactive workshop, you will learn the foundations of SEM and the types of questions it can answer, including evaluating measurement models through confirmatory factor analysis, and structural models. We will work through SEM examples, ensuring model identification, power analysis and sample size checking, measurement reliability, and guidance on how to start thinking about and using latent variables in your own research. All coding will be tailored to R, but will be accessible to those who choose other statistical packages or are relatively new to the software, with additional resources provided to explore the techniques. Time will be allocated at the end of the workshop for you attempt to code your own SEM and receive personalized assistance. Preparation: This workshop will be run in R and Rstudio so please bring a laptop with these installed. You can also pre-install some of the packages that the workshop will be using, by running these two lines of code in R: install.packages(c("haven", "dplyr", "lavaan", "semPower", "semTools", "semptools")) There will be a social lunch around 1pm, where we will go somewhere on campus to eat. The lunch will be covered, so please sign up here: Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling |
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Tue 12 May, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Dr Elizabeth Wonnacott, University of OxfordOC0.05 OculusHost: Dr Olga Feher Title: TBC
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Tue 19 May, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Dr Deborah Talmi, Cambridge University1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology Building
Host: Professor Adam Sanborn Title: How would I feel tomorrow? Towards a mechanistic understanding of subjective pain experiences.
Abstract: In this talk I suggest that tests of pain perception help validate theories of emotion. I will describe empirical support for predictive processing accounts of pain perception and how we used both group averages and individual difference approaches to examine this account. I will argue that our approach offers reliable, valid, objective quantification of the psychological drivers of pain at the level of the individual which may be useful in clinical pain settings. |
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Wed 20 May, '26- |
Language and Learning Seminar: Dr. Kate Stone, University of HullMicrosoft Teams - Message Ying Guo for LinkTitle: TBC
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Thu 21 May, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Benjamin Scheibehenne, Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyTBCHost: Professor Thomas Hills Title: TBC
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Tue 26 May, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Professor Lazaros Andronis, WMS1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingHost: Dr Suzanne Aussems Title: TBC
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Tue 2 Jun, '26- |
PhD Seminars for First Year Students - Students are TBC1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingTitle: TBC
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Tue 9 Jun, '26- |
PhD Seminars for First Year Students - Students are TBC1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingTitle: TBC
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Tue 16 Jun, '26- |
PhD Seminars for First Year Students - Students are TBC1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingTitle: TBC
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Wed 17 Jun, '26- |
Language and Learning Seminar: Dr Suwei Wu, China University of PetroleumMicrosoft Teams - Message Ying Guo for LinkTitle: TBC
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Tue 23 Jun, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Louise Connell, Maynooth University1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingHost: Dr Matthew Mak Title: TBC
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Tue 30 Jun, '26- |
Department Psychology Seminars: Peter To (PGR Student, University of Warwick)1.61 Multi Purpose Room, First Floor, New Psychology BuildingHost: Professor Nicole Tang Title: TBC
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