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Past Public Engagement Events

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What Makes Humans So Different? The 2007 annual British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, presented by Professor Robin Dunbar FBA of the University of Oxford, was held on 11 October 2007. This event showed how religeon and story-telling seem to have arisen as human societies have been forced to expand in size during the course of our evolution over the past 5 million years. The PowerPoint slides and an audio download of the lecture is available. Psychology & Learning Maths: Unpacking the Crisis. An event at the Nuffield Foundation, 8 June 2005 This event explored how psychology can help children who have problems learning maths. Powerpoint presentations (slide shows) are available to download.
Naked Science: (Ir)Rational Voting? and Are Leaders Born or Made? Two events at the Dana Centre, 3 & 10 May 2005 Two events focussing on the psychology of voting and leadership, to coincide with the 2005 General Election. Webcasts of both events are available.
Marathon Minds. An event at the Dana Centre, 15 April 2004 An event exploring sports psychology, to coincide with the London Marathon 2004. A webcast of this event is available.

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