Thinking About The World

This is just a sample of the sort of questions being asked by our staff and our students who have a special interest in helping us to understand our place in the world, with a focus on how we think about the world.

Some of the specific lines of inquiry that you’ll find addressed in this area of concentration include:

• risk, judgement and decision making 
• health behaviour
• memory
• political psychology
• motivation
• emotion
• neuro-cognitive disorders

Our unique approach to understanding our place in the world leverages an interdisciplinary programme of research, which benefits from the use of multi-methodological strategies and facilities. Some of the methodologies employed by our researchers focused on ‘thinking about the world’ include electrocephalography (EEG), near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS), and Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).