On Monday the 5th November over 150 fourth year
Psychology students and staff piled into buses, trains, and cars and headed to
Panthers in Newcastle city to attend and present at the annual fourth year
conference. Honours students presented
the results of their year’s research and the audiences were astounded with the
quality of the presentations and the excellent research that had been conducted
over the year. The annual photograph was taken with much mirth on the part of
the photographed. In one presentation, Zisheng Chen explained the results of
his study investigating Facebook and addiction to an audience which represented
over 90% of the attendees; people were sitting on the floor and squeezing in
the door. Karlye Damaso, Laura Wall, Mathew Marchant and Jade Frost won the
Best Presentation Awards for their research investigating respectively mismatch
negativity, working memory in schizophrenia, cross-species differences in
decision making and maternal immune activation and its relation to schizophrenia.
Excellent posters were also presented on a variety of topics with Matthew
Cologon, Jade Draper, Allanah Hessel, Candice McIntyre and Richard Waters
winning the Best Poster Award for their poster on mate choice decisions.
Following the presentations and poster sessions, students and staff repaired to
the bar for drinks and nibbles, music and dancing, and fun had by all.
