Jackson Cate -- #UniversityOfWaikato School of #Psychology demonstrates people feel more confident in their learning when they "learn" easy before hard #kanji (compared to vice-versa) -- even though performance was equivalent.
#KiwiCAM

Cameron Heyman -- #UniversityOfAuckland School of #Psychology discusses the relationship between White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) and #cognitive performance impairments and risk of #alzheimers.
#KiwiCAM

Jessica Leov - #UniversityOfWaikato School of #Psychology discusses the study of visual attention, orienting, and anticipatory gaze of fetuses (32-36 weeks in utero) using ultrasound.
#KiwiCAM

Ecem Altan -- #UniversityOfAuckland School of #Oprometry and #VisionScience demonstrates that the Ponzo illusion is decreased when images inverted (with lower V1 activation).
#Psychology
#KiwiCAM

Ilana Seager van Dyk -- #MasseyUniversity
"Using #PsychologicalScience to understand #cognitive and #affective mechanisms underlying #rainbow health disparities"

#LGBTQ
#KiwiCAM Keynote address

Ren Pritchard - #VictoriaUniversityOfWellington on using #VirtualReality to study physiological correlates if #Awe.

The talk was awe full. 😜
Great job Ren!
#KiwiCAM

Laura O'Sullivan -- #MasseyUniversity discusses sleep disruptions following Near-death Experiences. Subjective reports of sleep quality don't match objective measures.

I'll sleep (or not) when I'm almost, but not really, dead.
#KiwiCAM

Eva Bonning - #UniversityOfWaikato School of #Psychology on emotional trajectories in telling of autobiographical #memory events. Do people choose the trajectory based on the audience or purpose of the communication?

Are you Icarus? Or are you King Lear?

#KiwiCAM

Roydon Goldsack -- #VictoriaUniversityOfWellington School of #Psychology used #MachineLearning to identify emotional behaviour from dyadic interaction body movements - with lower prediction error for negative compared to positive emotions.

The machine knows you are raging against it!
#KiwiCAM

Nick Fox -- #MasseyUniversity School of #Psychology on stress, anxiety, and belief in #conspiracyTheories. Stress, but not Anxiety, positively related to these beliefs.

Or maybe that's what *they* want you to think...
#KiwiCAM

Morgan Heslop - #MasseyUniversity from the Animal Welfare Science & Bioethics Centre discusses boredom in animals and how to study it. Hint: it involves rats, ipads, and repetitive vs. novel tasks.

Is your pet bored? How do you know?
#Psychology #KiwiCAM

Lijana Mook -- #UniversityOfCanterbury School of #Psychology discusses autobiographical #memory recollection, memory function, self-authenticity, and well-being.

Btw- people are more 'inauthentic' in their behaviours at work ☺️.
#KiwiCAM

Donella de Silva -- #MasseyUniversity School of #Psychology discusses the relationship between NSSI (Non-Suicidal Self Injury) and self-esteem, emotion dysregulation, and self-compassion.
#KiwiCAM

Courtney Ngata-Turley - #MasseyUniversity School of #Psychology discusses belonging and tūrangawaewae in relation to academic success -- with particular interest in multi-ethnic students.

Definitely a good reason to get students back on campus and face-to-face engagement for cohort building and creating that sense of belonging!

#KiwiCAM

Deanna Haami -- #MasseyUniversity School of #Psychology discusses intergenerational transmission of trauma and the impact on physical health in #Maori

Fitting first talk in the context of the #Roberts commentary posted earlier today.

#KiwiCAM

KiwiCAM (The New Zealand Cognition and Memory (broadly defined) conference) getting ready to start... Will post about talks as they happen (all presenters are students).
Follow #KiwiCAM hashtags.
#KiwiCAM #psychology #cognitivePsychology #research #newZealand

On my way to #kiwiCAM !