The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

The South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc)

This brief networking event will introduce a new BPS commissioned book on "Living Well With HIV".

BackgroundChronic pain, and its relationship with physical function and mental health, remains under-explored in people of Black ethnicities with HIV...

Addressing stigma, mental health, and health care access challenges for people living with HIV requires a multifaceted approach. Generative...

Dominance has been evolutionarily salient in shaping power relations across species, and recent social-psychological work has revived the concept in the study of human social hierarchies. Yet previou...

Part-Time, Permanent (31.5 hours per week)We are very pleased to advertise for a part-time (0.9FTE) Lecturer post to support the delivery of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway. The...

Recently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…

Program Registration Schedule Directions Home 7th – 11th September, 2026 The Center for Decision Sciences will host a Graduate Summer School during the second week of September, 2026 in Senat…

From paintings to apologies, tonight we're exploring what makes us human. Can art make us kinder? What shapes our mental health? And are sorry really the h…

Living Well with HIV: A Psychological Social Medical and Personal Guide aims to empower people living with HIV worldwide to thrive while addressing the critical need to reduce HIV stigma. It integrate...

Sharing an HIV status with others (onward HIV disclosure) can increase social support for people living with HIV (PLWH). Professionals working with PLWH are often unsure, however, about how to offe...

Social norms and group-bounded indirect reciprocity

Sharing one's HIV status with others (onward HIV disclosure) for youth with perinatally acquired HIV (PAH) is often difficult but may assist with challenges associated with living with HIV. We desc...

Part-Time (0.5 FTE), Permanent - x2 positions availableWe are very pleased to advertise two part-time (0.5FTE) Lecturer posts to support the delivery of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway, particularly the clinical and academic...

We’re obsessing about sleep like never before. But much of the messaging is exaggerated, distorted and unhelpful, asks Royal Holloway Sleep Laboratory co-director Alice Gregory

We’re obsessing about sleep like never before. But much of the messaging is exaggerated, distorted and unhelpful, asks Royal Holloway Sleep Laboratory co-director Alice Gregory

Questions mentioning government aid cuts were met with respondents being less likely to describe aid as essential and less likely to frame it as a moral duty

Audience cost theory suggests that as a country increases its audience costs, it can send a credible threat to an opponent and prevail in an international crisi...

This study uses polygenic scores derived using summary statistics from large adult genome-wide association studies to examine whether genetic variants that are associated with adult sleep phenotypes a...

Background Undisturbed circadian rhythms of rest/activity are crucial to health and well-being. There is growing evidence to suggest that circadian rhythm disruptions are also associated with adverse ...

Sharing one's HIV status with others is complex for youth with perinatally acquired HIV (PAH). However, the support from sharing one's HIV status may assist with HIV-related challenges. This study ...

Objectives Previous work in South Africans living with HIV and chronic pain has raised questions regarding maintained levels of physical activity while in pain, patterns of pain disclosure and recruit...

Other studentships

Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...