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When people read or listen to a conversation, their brains sometimes pro-actively predict which words come next. Research carried out in 2005 suggested that these … Read more

Dr Heather Ferguson has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for a project entitled “Learning from Fiction: A Philosophical and Psychological Study”. The … Read more

Ignoring someone you’re with in a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone – called ‘phubbing’ – can have a negative effect on relationships … Read more

Psychology at Kent is delighted to be ranked in the top 100 universities for Psychology in the world according to QS World University Rankings 2018.  … Read more

Belief in conspiracy theories stems – in part – from negative early childhood experiences with caregivers, new research has shown. In two studies, Ricky Green … Read more

A Kent Psychologist has played an important role in a research breakthrough in the assessment of language development for bilingual two-year-olds. In a study, led … Read more

Congratulations to Ayse Uskul, who has been awarded the University Prize for Consolidator Research. The award is given ‘in recognition of outstanding achievements in the … Read more

Was Theresa May right to go for ‘strong and stable’ at the last general election? Although that strategy has been the subject of criticism, research … Read more

One explanation for Brexit suggests it reflected people’s worries about immigration. Another is that it reflected people’s distrust of the political establishment. Now new research … Read more

Ayse Uskul was awarded with an Invitational Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to spend 6 weeks at the Kokoro Research … Read more