Thank you Amy Elkheart for inviting us to the showcase of creative writings from the women's prison in Limerick. Well worth a visit! It's in the people's museum until the 2nd July Irish Prison Service #LimerickandProud

Extreme psychological distress is a normal response to extreme events – here’s why it’s unhelpful to medicalise distress bit.ly/3xMW6V3

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Wonderful to hear Anna-Mariya Lashkay talk about her research ISPP. Important work evidencing disassociation being driven by disidentification from family and friendship groups in narratives of those who have experienced serious child adversity.

Super-interesting talk, including experimental evidence #ISPP2024 by ⁦Efisio Manunta⁩ on the effect of identity threat on populism as an identity management strategies. 👋

Efisio Manunta presenting his innovative European Research Council (ERC) work on Populism and cardiovascular threat response ISPP Could effect be an identity management strategy in response to threat?

Our STO Sandra O'Brien was awarded the BPS/ATSIP award for excellent in teaching support!! Here she is giving an excellent presentation on the value of softskills in being a technical officer. University Of Limerick #ATSIPCCCU2024

Great presentation by Dearbhla Moroney @growth-ul.bsky.social on the belonging and identity costs of forced family separation ISPP

Lovely work from Elaine Smith, PhD and Mike Quayle and Caoimhe O'Reilly on the role attitude sharing online in development of reactionary anti asylum seeker sentiment ISPP More great research from @ulpsych European Research Council (ERC).

We are hiring! Assistant Professor in Psychology, 5 Year Fixed Term Salary Scale: €46,455 - €63,332 p.a. Closing date 25/7/24 at noon Teaching Assistant in Psychology, 10 Month Fixed Term Salary: €36,510 p.a. pro rata. Closing date 19/7/24 at noon ul.ie/hrvacancies/

Would you like to participate in a study on the privacy rule in family law cases in Ireland? See below⬇️ for details. Please share: 🔗 forms.office.com/e/ANkL9pemxK

Dr Aisling Parkes Senior Lecturer at UCC School of Law was on Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning to discuss the launch of her new study examining the operation of in-camera rule in family law courts. Listen back here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Discover how social norms shape trust in science during critical times. 🔗 [Read here](doi.org/10.1111/jasp.1…) #PublicHealth #ScienceTrust #BehavioralScience #SocialNorms

Our paper on stigma and illness self-concept in those with concealable chronic illness is one of the top 10 most-cited papers in the British Journal of Health Psychology for 2022-23. Open access here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #TopCitedArticle UL Psychology EHS Research HRI

💭 Read IPRT Children & Families Project Coordinator Ashling Tobin's account of the recent Children of Prisoners Europe (Children of Prisoners Europe) international conference ‘Let’s Talk to One Another: a cross-sectoral approach for children with a parent in prison'. 👇 actionforfamilies.ie/2024/07/04/rou…

Today we published a new paper in Political Psychology. It offers an analysis of the #Irish parliamentary debate on the state apology offered to survivors of '#motherandbabyhomes'. The full open access paper is here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po… But here is a summary for scrollers 1/

Are you a family member with experience of the in camera rule in family law/ child care proceedings? If so, we would like to hear from you. Pls complete our 10 min survey: forms.office.com/e/ANkL9pemxK

Here's something I've just written for the Psychology@MIC blog on the crowd psychology of the All-Ireland final: sway.cloud.microsoft/MzeeAIhdPsZkAL…

Our "Behaviour Settings/Roger Barker" Theme Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is out! Very proud to have been a part of this project, with Marek McGann @[email protected], Miranda Lucas, and Louise Barrett, and of course all the Authors. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/…

Are you a family member with experience of the in camera or privacy rule in family law or child care proceedings in Ireland? If so, please consider taking the opportunity to have your voice heard by filling out the survey referred to below ⬇️- it will only be live until 16th Aug!