Following the success of last year's inaugural Psychology Matters Day, the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) is running the event again in 2018. The aim of Psychology Matters Day is to make psychology more accessible to the general public whilst raising the profile of the discipline and of the PSI.
On the afternoon of Saturday 12 May, six short talks of 15 minutes each will be available at WIT with topics ranging from various areas of psychology. The talks will take place from 2-4:30pm in the Auditorium on the Cork Road campus. Psychology Matters Day is a free drop-in event with no booking required.
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
2pm | Welcome |
Jennifer O'Mahoney Brendan O' Connell |
2:10pm |
Today’s kids, tomorrow’s prisoners? What the evidence tells us about pathways to prison and how society can keep its children off them |
Brendan O' Connell |
2:30pm | Demystifying depression and anxiety in sport, exercise and everyday life: “It’s okay not to be okay” | James Claffey |
2:50pm | Escaping the Menace of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) | Anita Corfe |
3:10pm | Improving your chances of avoiding our most common chronic diseases | Seamus Power |
3:30pm | Maintaining confidence in challenging times: What can we learn from athletes? | Ciara Losty |
3:50pm | Superintelligence: Cognitive Science and the Enhancement of Human Mental Performance | David Delany |
4:10pm | Closing words | Brendan O' Connell |