Royal Holloway Psychology
LightNews LightNews
banner
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Royal Holloway Psychology
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
460 followers 130 following 29 posts
The official Bluesky account for the Department of Psychology
at Royal Holloway, University of London.

https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/psychology/
Posts Replies Media Videos
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
We have four teaching-focused positions available, with a start date of early January. Please share widely and tag anyone who may be interested!

Teaching associates: Two permanent posts at 0.8 FTE

Postdoctoral teaching associates: Two full-time posts, one permanent, one for 12 months
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
lukekendrick.bsky.social
FOUR teaching roles available at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Interested in joining a large teaching focused group, in a wonderfully supportive, dual excellence department? Check out the job adverts below:

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Teaching Associate
Full-Time, Permanent/Fixed-Term - One permanent appointment and one 12-month appointmentApplications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Teaching Associate post in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holl...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Each year, our third-year DClinPsy trainees form a committee to organise the annual programme conference. This year’s theme is Health Inequalities, with an excellent line-up of speakers exploring disparities. Here are a few of the committee members setting up for the day.
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
Our new study is out

Self-as-Context (SAC): a promising tool for managing cancer-related pain.
SAC

- can support active coping with cancer pain
- a more stable sense of self during distress
- More EMA research needed
🔗 www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...

@myacbs.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
|| New Study ||
Community-based ACT helps in the rheumatic management of pain and emotions
Body awareness, mindfulness, and values: key but dynamic

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Community delivery=accessible psychosocial care
@myacbs.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
🌍 Day 1 of Demystifying Personalization in Psychotherapy kicks off in Athens!
Diving into Process-Based Therapy- reimagining how we personalize care in mental health
Let’s move beyond protocols - toward processes empowering change
@karekla.bsky.social @myacbs.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
cmolho.bsky.social
🚨New paper led by Lei Fan, with Florian van Leeuwen, @hirotakaimada.bsky.social, and @joshtybur.bsky.social, out in Cognition & Emotion:

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0269...

In two preregistered studies from Japan 🇯🇵 , we find that anger relates to confrontation while disgust to gossip and social exclusion.
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan
Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations. Across two studies sampling from J...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
New paper led by our recent graduate, Amanda Ferrer Knight, "‘I feel trapped in my safe clothes’: The impact of tactile hyper-sensitivity on autistic adults" in @journalautism.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
|| 1 WEEK BEFORE our FIRST Bootcamp

🔶 PERSONALIZED PSYCHOTHERAPY! 🔶

The future of psychotherapy is personalised, data-driven, and process-based.

1st Process-Based Therapy (PBT) Training Bootcamp in Athens, Greece

📅
👉
www.acg.edu/academics/ce...

@rhulpsychology.bsky.social @myacbs.bsky.social
The American College of Greece | Demystifying Personalization in Psychotherapy
The American College of Greece, in collaboration with the Greece & Cyprus Association of Contextual Behavioral Science chapter, is proud to host Europe’s Unique PBT Bootcamp; a rare opportunity to tra...
www.acg.edu
October 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
kathyrastle.bsky.social
** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
alice-gregory.bsky.social
This is how to #apologise according to #research.

@shirilevari.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
The words that make an apology convincing | Psyche Notes to Self
Research on the psychology of apologising finds that certain word choices are more convincing because of their mental cost
psyche.co
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Can people be led to defend the opposite of their religious beliefs? A new study by Prof. Ryan McKay and colleagues shows they can, shifting later attitudes too. The paradigm holds real promise for illuminating big questions in the field. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/2153...
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness
Given ongoing debates about the nature and consequences of religious belief, effective procedures for experimentally controlling such beliefs are highly desirable. To date, however, there are few r...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
🧠 Presented today at #NPCE on personalised psychological care for youth.
Why it matters:
📱 Therapy that adapts daily
🎯 Goals that evolve with the adolescent
🔄 Real-time nudges = real change
Mental health care is going personal — and digital.

@rhulpsychology.bsky.social @myacbs.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
keijiota.bsky.social
I had the privilege of contributing to the Summer School of Decision Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a fantastic opportunity to share ideas of comput models. Huge thanks to Dr. Gabriele Bellucci!
center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...

@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
furllab.bsky.social
Our new EEG + modeling work using the beads task is now preprinted osf.io/preprints/ps..., led by Christina Dimitriadou @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
September 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
vsvasiliou.bsky.social
🎶 Can Music Help with Chronic Pain? 🎶

|| Launching the first exploring how listening to favorite music in everyday life can support people living with chronic pain.

Easy to take part – just listen to music & feed data
rhulpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
ashleysymons.bsky.social
📄 New paper out!

It’s long been known that listeners reweight acoustic cues in speech when cue reliability changes. Here @adamtierney.bsky.social, Kyle Jasmin, and I show that this can happen instantly after a single exposure to 'accented' speech. tinyurl.com/mwt6usdw

@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Speech perception strategies shift instantly
To perceive speech listeners must decide how to prioritize information from multiple acoustic dimensions. Over the course of language learning, indivi…
tinyurl.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
mlisi.bsky.social
New paper out! 📣

Syrian refugee children (4-9 yrs) show age-related shifts in judging trustworthiness from faces — older kids tend to see faces as less trustworthy; yet judgments are not tied to child or maternal mental health.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

#PsychSciSky
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Trust perception in Syrian refugee children | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Trust perception in Syrian refugee children
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Dr. Crowley (@beckcrowley.bsky.social), Dr. Tamminen (@jakketamminen.bsky.social), and Prof. Ricketts
have developed an exciting animation with Nifty Fox Creative (@niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social) to communicate their research on teenage sleep. A great resource for schools, charities & young people!
September 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
sandrajgeiger.bsky.social
🌏 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

It’s not that people doubt biodiversity is declining—it’s that we underestimate how many others already share this concern.

In our new Perspective, we review work on pluralistic ignorance and set out a research agenda to:
Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda
Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
rhulpsychology.bsky.social
👋 Meet Rikki (@rlissaman.bsky.social)
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Rikki Lissaman to the department this September 🎓🧠

Check out our quick interview to learn more about Rikki
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
New Staff Spotlight: Dr. Rikki Lissaman
Rikki started as a lecturer in the department in September. We caught up with Rikki to get to know more about them better.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
alice-gregory.bsky.social
There are calls to ban #smartphones in #childhood but what are the consequences for children with #T1D who use these as essential medical devices? @parthaskar.bsky.social @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/smartphonet1d
Smartphone-Free Childhood? Monitoring the Implications of Initiatives to Remove Smartphones on Children With Type 1 Diabetes
Alice M. Gregory, Partha Kar; Smartphone-Free Childhood? Monitoring the Implications of Initiatives to Remove Smartphones on Children With Type 1 Diabetes,
tinyurl.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Reposted by Royal Holloway Psychology
mlisi.bsky.social
New registered report out in BJHP📣

How to reduce demand for antibiotics?

Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment

doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...

#PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objectives Patients' expectations for antibiotics are among the strongest predictors of clinicians' decisions to overprescribe antibiotics. In this registered report, we used a signal detection theo...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM