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The unconscious mind by Prof David Shanks
20 February 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm UTC+0
About the speaker
David Shanks is Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences at University College London (UCL), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Previously he was Head of Psychology at UCL from 2003-17. His research falls across a number of topics in experimental cognitive psychology, including learning, memory, judgment and decision-making, and he is the author (with Newell and Lagnado) of Straight choices: The psychology of decision making (2nd ed., 2015). A number of his early replication studies in the field of ‘social priming’ led to an enduring interest in and contribution to debates about research transparency.
About the talk
Professor Shanks talks about the important role in the reproducibility crisis played by the unchallenged, pervasive and probably false conception of the unconscious mind which dominates much thinking in psychology and neuroscience.