Women are better multitaskers than men

Professor Keith Laws at the University's School of Psychology has conducted research providing definitive evidence that women can multitask more effectively than men. The participants in the study had eight minutes to do several tasks at the same time.

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Men think their dance moves improve with age

Research conducted by Dr Peter Lovatt from the University’s School of Psychology on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme’s website asked people to imagine they were at a party dancing with other people and then asked them to rate how good a dancer they thought they were compared with the average person of their own age and gender.     More about the results of this study.

High Research Rating

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise a significant proportion of research from the School of Psychology was rated as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent' in terms of orginality, signficiance and rigour.

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