Kim Wade will present her research on false memory at ALSO Festival, as well as Latitude Festival this summer.

“I will discuss how and why our memories become distorted and the most recent developments in false memory science. You may be surprised to learn how malleable your memory is, but don’t worry, you’ll also discover why memory distortions, often, are a very good thing.”

Congratulations to CJC member Divya Sukumar who won the Warwick Three Minute Thesis® competition during the live final last night (7 June)!

Divya's presentation got the highest score from a panel of specially appointed judges drawn from senior University staff and an external guest judge. She also won the People’s Choice Award from the audience. She now gets the chance to enter the national 3MT competition.

Congratulations to Melissa Colloff and Divya Sukumar for winning the 2016 Psychology Student Publication Awards! The awards worth of £100 were announced and presented on Friday 19 May, during the closing session of the Psychology Postgraduate Research Day. Melissa is supervised by Kim Wade and Divya is jointly supervised by Kim Wade and Jackie Hodgson.

This is what the judging panel said about the award-winning publications:

Colloff, M. F., Wade, K. A., & Strange, D. (2016). Unfair lineups make witnesses more likely to confuse innocent and guilty suspects. Psychological Science, 27(9), 1227-1239.

"The study used a sophisticated and careful experimental design to examine an important real life issue from a theoretical perspective. An impressively large sample size gives more strength to the study's results which potentially will have important practical implications for improving the lineup construction practices in the police force."

Sukumar, D., Hodgson, J. S., & Wade, K. A. (2016). Behind closed doors: Live observations of current police station disclosure practices and lawyer-client consultations. Criminal Law Review, 12, 900-914.

Congratulations to Melissa Coloff and Divya Sukumar who presented research posters at the biennial conference of the Society for Applied Memory in Research and Cognition (SARMAC) in Sydney in January (http://www.sarmac.org/sarmac-xii-2017/). Their posters were chosen by the SARMAC student caucus as the best student posters and they were each awarded $100 as prize money.

Here are the winning posters:

Colleagues from the Psychology department will present their research at the biennial conference of the Society for Applied Memory in Research and Cognition in Sydney in January 2017 (http://www.sarmac.org/sarmac-xii-2017/). Here are the posters they will be presenting: