{"id":3678,"date":"2021-12-01T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2021-12-01T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T11:02:07","slug":"november-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/12\/01\/november-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"November News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Read our recent findings about how we have reacted to Covid 19 as a society, how children respond to anti-prejudice workshops and how we&#8217;re getting into the festive spirit at the School of Psychology. <\/p>\n<h2>How has Covid-19 impacted society?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Beyond Us and Them study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found the Covid-19 pandemic has increased national division but bolstered local unity.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3701\/covid-19-pandemic-has-increased-national-division-but-bolstered-local-unity\"> Read more about the findings presented by lead author Professor Dominic Abrams<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Research findings on the roles of various emotive states on COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and compliance with government restrictions, published into the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3704\/how-anger-anxiety-and-hope-influence-the-attitudes-and-behaviours-of-covid-19-conspiracy-theory-believers\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Anti-prejudice workshops are having significant impact&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The launch of the Anne Frank Trust 2021 Impact Report, written by our SeNSS Collaborative student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/1490\/goodbun-katie\">Katie Goodbun<\/a> shows that anti-prejudice workshops based on the life of Anne Frank are having a significant and lasting impact in British schools. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3674\/anne-frank-education-programme-has-a-proven-impact-on-racism\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Congratulations!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/2039\/everett-jim-a-c\">Dr Jim Everett<\/a> has won the 2021 Society for Personality and Social Psychology\u2019s Early Career Trajectory Award. This becomes the fourth early career award\u00a0Dr Jim Everett has received this year alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3729\/jim-everett-wins-the-spsp-early-career-trajectory-award\"><strong>Read more about his awards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We featured in the media!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/1952\/lalot-fanny\">Dr Fanny Lalot<\/a> spoke to Claudia Hammond on BBC Radio 4, on recent School research around encouraging people to turn off their engines while waiting in Canterbury, and its effect on air quality. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3693\/how-do-we-encourage-drivers-to-stop-coasting\">Listen here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/231\/kearney-lydia\">Dr Lydia Kearney<\/a> discussed &#8216;Splitting&#8217; in Borderline Personality Disorder for Glamour Magazine UK. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3651\/dr-lydia-kearney-discusses-splitting-in-borderline-personality-disorder-for-glamour-magazine-uk\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Show us your Deskorations!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We want to see how cheery your workspace is&#8230; share your photos and you could win a prize! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3725\/show-us-your-deskorations\">Take part here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During elections, pandemics, and when important social and political events occur, people often turn to conspiracy theories to explain what is happening.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/221\/douglas-karen\">Professor Karen Douglas<\/a> explains why conspiracy theories appeal to so many people. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3640\/explainer-why-do-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Psychology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read our recent findings about how we have reacted to Covid 19 as a society, how children respond to anti-prejudice workshops and how we&#8217;re getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/12\/01\/november-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3684],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}