Seasons Greetings! A reminder that this evening marks the final, very festive CRITUCL of term: NEXT MEETING: How can parapsychology inform us about good and bad scientific practice? Date and Time: 6.30-7.30pm, Thursday 11th December Venue: Room 448, 26 Bedford Way This discussion will be followed by the CRITUCL CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA! Expect a veritable feast, free-flowing wine and a series of very silly games and neuroactivities. Be there or be square. CRITUCL is now featured on the Experimental Psychology website. To see details of this event and to keep an eye on CRITUCLs activity, please click on the following link: https://ucl.ac.uk/…/experimental-psycho…/centre/critucl/ Do you have a strong premonition about what will happen at the Christmas CRITUCL? If recent studies are to be believed, (Bem, 2011, Mossbridge et al., 2012, 2014) it’s not beyond the realm of possibility... But does science harm itself by investigating fields of precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance and the like? Or are these: (1) legitimate areas for investigation and (2) the fronts on which they are criticised (e.g. Schwarzkopf, 2014,Ritchie et al., 2012) merely highlighting issues that plague research practices in general? To give you a feel for the discussion, two papers that outline the key issues were circulated with the email. Please feel free to come along even if you do not get the time to take a look at the reading. It is really great to have people with a diverse range of backgrounds there, no matter how well informed or prepared people they are on the topic. No need to RSVP, just pop along! FUTURE MEETINGS: - Thursday 29th January, 6.30-7.30pm, Room 448 - TBA If you have any ideas of themes you wish to put forwards or feedback on how the last session went we would really like to hear from you! Please do not hesitate to contact us if have any questions or suggestions: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter for updates and related tweets: @CRITUCL Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting! Kari, Leila and Tom WHAT IS CRITUCL? CRITUCL is a peer-led discussion group created by three PhD students last year. We wanted to set up a place for completely informal discussions about contemporary issues related to research and careers in Psychology and Neuroscience, without the pressures of formal courses, seminars or lab meetings. The discussions are all pretty relaxed (aided by reasonably large amounts of wine) and you can say as much or as little as you want. We usually send out a few readings before our debate if you want to be more informed, but you’re more than welcome to just turn up and crack out some wisdom on the fly. FORMAT: · A monthly meeting on a Thursday, 6.30pm – 7.30pm. · A theme will be put forward for each meeting, feel free to get in touch with your own ideas! ([email protected]). · In order to get the discussion going, we may allocate people to different sides of the debate - so be prepared to defend a perspective or position that many not be your own. PAST TOPICS: - Can brain imaging contribute to psychology? - Are laboratory experiments ecologically valid? - How should scientists engage with the public? - Are animal studies necessary for the study of human cognition? - The replication crisis revisited: Would study pre-registration ‘put science in chains’? - Is it irresponsible for neuroscience to suggest that we dont have free will? - What can lesion studies tell us about the brain? - Venus and Mars: Is it time for science to ditch the male versus female brain debate? - How our publishing culture undermines scientific integrity: Should we boycott traditional luxury journals in favour of open-access? - What can genes tell us about cognition and behaviour? What are the ethical implications? - Sick society: the medicalisation of the everyday - How should the public engage with science? - Was the Facebook experiment ethical? Big data, informed consent and corporate responsibility. - Dealing with Human Factors in Science - Lessons Learnt from CRITUCLs trip to Amsterdam - Does the nativism debate still matter, or is it a red herring? - Cognitive neuroscience or mindless neurobabble: What can the brain really tell us about the mind? __________________________________ Cognitive Research Issues aT UCL __________________________________
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