Off the back of the Prime Minister's climate change u-turn and concerns that the UK won't reach Net Zero in time, are awareness days like World Car Free Day (22nd September 2023) enough to 'nudge' us into being more environmentally conscious?

New research from the University of Warwick suggests that how well we think we slept is not only determined throughout the night but also throughout the following day. Findings show that the activities we engage in help us define how well we slept the night before, and that our judgement can change as new information becomes available.

Professor Nick Chater has won the prestigious The David E. Rumelhart Prize for his contribution to cognitive science.

Kenny Smith, Chair of the Cognitive Science Society, said: “Professor Chater’s work ranges from reasoning and decision-making to perception, the acquisition and evolution of language, and the virtual bargaining theory of social interaction. He has also made significant contributions to the public understanding of science and the application of behavioural science to practical problems in public policy and business.”

Professor Robin Goodwin’s research on psychological consequences of a major natural disaster is featured in the article on climate change in Observer, the magazine published by the Association for Psychological Science.

EPP Director Prof Christoph Hoerl has co-authored an article "Thinking in and about Time: A Dual Systems Perspective on Temporal Cognition" published in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences in December 2019 (written together with Teresa McCormack from the School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast). This is accompanied by 33 commentaries on the article written by philosophers and researchers working in comparative, developmental and cognitive psychology, as well as by a response to those commentaries by Christoph and Teresa.