{"id":5171,"date":"2023-03-02T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2023-03-02T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:04:33","slug":"february-news-roundup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-3\/","title":{"rendered":"February News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The ability to consider other people&#8217;s perspectives, spreading joy in our community and supporting others is the theme of this month&#8217;s Round Up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Meaning in Helping Others<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Students Tobias and Nicolette have created workshops that connect fellow Psychology students. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5084\/kent-stars-motivational-mentors\"><strong>Here&#8217;s how.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>There are school strike support drop-in sessions available &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5106\/strike-support\"><strong>check in here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Funded PhD Studentship!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying the socio-cognitive mechanisms that underpin the ability to consider other peoples\u2019 perspectives. Apply for a 3-year PhD studentship with Professor Heather Ferguson and Dr Lindsey Cameron, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5097\/leverhulme-trust-funded-phd-studentship-in-psychology-the-cognitive-basis-of-perspective-taking-and-prosocial-behaviour-in-adolescents\"><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Happy Schools Project<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For children\u2019s mental health week, we helped Kent school children create their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5138\/how-to-make-a-happy-school-2\"><strong>happiness research projects<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Choosing the Perfect Mate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Arnaud Wiseman looked into the psychology of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5095\/sexual-arousal-increases-the-desire-for-a-snog-rather-than-marry-among-men\"><strong>men\u2019s mating preference<\/strong><\/a> in the context of sexual arousal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Coming up soon..<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong> &#8211; we are delighted to host political activist and Kent alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5167\/aba-amoah-joins-us-this-international-womens-day\"><strong>Aba Amoah<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Join us on <strong>Wednesday 8th March<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/219\/cichocka-aleksandra\">Professor Alexsandra Cichocka<\/a><\/strong> beautifully kicked off the HSS Innaugral Lecture Series last month. She&#8217;s followed by development economist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2278\/wahhaj-zaki\">Professor Zaki Wahhaj<\/a> who will speak on <em>Marriage Decisions in Low-Income Countries<\/em> next on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/5013\/hss-inaugural-lecture-series\">Friday 10 March<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to consider other people&#8217;s perspectives, spreading joy in our community and supporting others is the theme of this month&#8217;s Round Up.\u00a0 Meaning in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-3\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171"}],"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\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}