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Creative Commons |
Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries |
Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ |
Anna Macready, Stanley Ulijaszek, Tanja Schneider |
13 Mar 2024 |
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The Moving Brain with Dr. Andrew Peters |
We met with Dr Andrew Peters (a new PI) to discuss his career in neuroscience so far studying movement in the brain. By combining multiple modern techniques, Andy interrogates global circuits during motor learning and behaviour. |
Katherine Willard, Neddy Kareha, Ritika Mukherji |
01 Aug 2023 |
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5 The behaviours and culture of cooling use |
Our team member Dr Antonella Mazzone and Eric D Wilson discuss approaches that can make the use of cooling more sustainable |
Antonella Mazzone, Eric Wilson |
05 Sep 2022 |
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Strachey Lecture - Mixed Signals |
Mixed Signals: audio and wearable data analysis for health diagnostics |
Cecilia Mascolo |
06 Jan 2022 |
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Sociogenomics – when nature meets nurture |
In this short talk, Professor Melinda Mills introduces her work on the role of gene and gene-environment interaction on reproductive health |
Melinda Mills |
12 Apr 2017 |
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'Learning' part 1 - Sleep for success |
Sleep is really important. But do we realise how important it is, particularly for helping us think straight? Are teenagers lazy? Are their body clocks different? |
Christopher-James Harvey |
05 May 2016 |
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Power People: what are we doing with all that energy? |
Did you know that you are in charge of a power station? It's true. Every time you flick a light switch, a power station somewhere in the UK will respond and generate that little bit of extra power you need for your light. |
Phil Grunewald |
05 May 2016 |
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Lady White Lecture 2015: If not you, who? If not now, when? |
Alumna and entrepreneur Caroline Plumb talks about the challenges of overcoming fears and expectations of normality to help find our path to success. |
Caroline Plumb |
02 Mar 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
Behavioral biology and obesity |
Trent Smith (Washington State University) gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th Novmber 2009 |
Trent Smith |
01 Feb 2015 |
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How Do People Interact with Virtual Environments? |
Andrew Przybylski discusses the motivational dynamics of how people approach ICTs, social media and video games. |
Andrew Przybylski |
12 Feb 2014 |
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Computational Perspectives on the Structure and Information Flows in Online Networks |
An increasing amount of social interaction is taking place online: analyzing this data computationally offers enormous potential to address long-standing scientific questions, and to harness and inform the design of future social computing applications. |
Jure Leskovec |
22 May 2012 |
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Social evolution in primates and other animals |
In this lecture, Dr Susanne Shultz (Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford) examines the social evolution of primates and other animals (10 March 2011). |
Susanne Shultz |
06 Jun 2011 |
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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behaviour |
In this seminar for the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Professor Mark Thomas (University College London) discusses the origins of modern human behaviour (18 May 2011). |
Mark Thomas |
06 Jun 2011 |
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Relationships and the Internet |
This forum looks at the state of the art of academic research on relationships and the Internet and how this research informs research on the social aspects of the Internet in general, such as issues of trust and identity. |
William Dutton, Nicole Ellison, Bernie Hogan, Joseph B. Walther |
08 Mar 2010 |
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When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age |
Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination. |
Joseph Turow |
08 Mar 2010 |
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Cooperation, Norms and Conflict: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society |
In order to understand social systems, it is essential to identify the circumstances under which individuals spontaneously start cooperating or developing shared behaviors, norms, and culture. |
Dirk Helbing |
05 Mar 2010 |
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Using the Web to do Social Science |
Duncan Watts discusses how the Internet is beginning to lift a long-time constraint of social science research on emergent collective behaviour: the difficulty of measuring interactions between people, at scale, over time, while also observing behaviour. |
Duncan Watts |
09 Nov 2009 |
