SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies -- Ref 1584/15 Parramatta Campus Full-Time, Fixed Term Position for 3 Years* The School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies. The School takes pride in educating students in an environment that is contemporary, challenging and adapted to a rapidly evolving world. The School of Social Sciences and Psychology is located across the Bankstown, Parramatta and Penrith campuses of the University. For more information regarding >>>

Can science publishing benefit from the establishment of a stock exchange of sorts?WIKIMEDIA, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGEThe poor reproducibility dogging psychological science has been well documented in recent months. Now, an international team of researchers—some of whom were the first to sound the alarm regarding the field’s replication problems—suggests that solving the predicament may lie in setting up futures markets in which psychologists acting as traders place bets on whether or not a particular study’s findings will be replicated in future attempts. “The results show that a >>>

BLACKWOOD, NJ (CBS) — A South Jersey Iraq war veteran who nearly lost his life in a suicide bombing nine years ago spoke to a Camden County College Psychology forum about his struggles with PTSD. Twenty-nine-year-old Josh House lives in Mount Ephraim with his pregnant wife, Shannon, and six-year-old son, Zachary. House, a Marine, received the Purple Heart for his service. Now a student at Camden County College, he opened up about that fateful day. He vividly recalls Oct. 29, 2006, the day a terrorist drove a four-door sedan into the side of his tank and detonated his explosives. House >>>

Eating is a fundamentally multisensory experience: we don't just eat our food, we also see it, smell it, and hear ourselves chewing it. However, perception of non-food components of the dining experience can also influence flavor perception. For instance, desserts are rated as sweeter if they are presented on a white vs. black plate, and exposure to loud noise reduces affective food ratings. The latter result is particularly relevant to the bad reputation of airline food. Air cabins are unusual environments where food is routinely consumed under extreme noise conditions. In recent work published >>>

A team of reporters from BuzzFeed has been busy calling everyone they could find who was associated with the Yale Record in 1970, when they hoaxed some students into retaking the final exam in a psychology class. Nobody could remember anything about it except for Curtis Bakal, who confirmed that the hoax had been carried out: “We did a mock parody of the Yale Daily News during the exam period in January 1970, and in this parody we had a box that said: ‘So-and-so section of the exam has been lost in a fire. Professor so-and-so is going to give a makeup exam.’” “We got a room to do >>>

A one-size-fits-all approach to mental health treatment might not be the answer for ethnic minorities and one researcher is looking to bring cultural competency into the field of psychology. Emily Earl/Assistant Photo Editor Stanley Huey, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, spoke to a crowd in Lecture Hall on Monday evening about culturally sensitive mental health treatment. He drew from his experience with psychological and behavioral studies that encompass >>>

Robinson Psychology at the Little, Brown Book Group has bought The Shaping of Us by environmental psychology consultant Lily Bernheimer. In The Shaping of Us Bernheimer talks about what our environment says about us and how it shapes us - whether public space, housing, workspaces, healthcare environments or cities. Editorial director, Andrew McAleer, acquired World English language rights to the title from Kirsty McLachlan at David Godwin Associates. Bernheimer is the founding director for Space Works Consulting where she consults on how to make workspaces, dwellings, and urban >>>

HOUSTON – Job applicants who are cancer survivors are less likely to receive callbacks from potential retail employers than those who did not disclose their health history, according to a recent study by Rice University and Penn State University researchers. Image courtesy ThinkStockPhotos.com/Rice UniversityThe study, published recently in the Journal of Applied Psychology by the American Psychological Association, focused on retail employers and compared two groups of job applicants: applicants who ostensibly never had cancer and applicants who indicated on their resumes they were cancer >>>

CODE BLACK: ANGUS HOPES HIS BACKGROUND IN PSYCHOLOGY WILL HELP A DISTRAUGHT WOMAN WHO CAN’T REMEMBER HOW SHE INJURED HERSELF AND OTHERS, ON “CODE BLACK,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11.“Buen Árbol” – Angus uses his background in psychology to help a woman who doesn’t remember how she injured herself and others. Also, when Christa bonds with an illegal immigrant whose son is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, she becomes determined to help the woman find long-term care for her son in the U.S., on CODE BLACK, Wednesday, Nov. 11 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  CHEAT >>>

The University of Calcutta (CU), Kolkata has invited applications from eligible candidates for admission to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) program in Psychology for the academic session 2015. The Research Eligibility Test-Written Part (RET-WP) and Research Eligibility Test Oral Part (RET-OP) are scheduled to be held on December 21 and December 23, respectively. The interested candidates should apply online on or before December 11.Educational qualification:The candidates should have done a Master's in Psychology from a recognised university or institute. Selection procedure:The candidates will be >>>