Psychology Unleashed WCPS

What are the values that drive people's decisions? Is it ambition, compassion, hedonism? And where do these values come from? In this episode, Dr Anna Doering talks about her international research on how children develop the values that will go on to shape their lives. She discusses the different ways this can be measured and talks about the importance of teaching approaches and classroom environments. Anna's research profile can be found here

If you witnessed a crime, how confident are you that you could provide good eyewitness testimony? In this episode, Professor Coral Dando talks about the fallibility of human memory and why this really matters to the criminal justice system. She shares her research into best practices when interviewing witnesses and suspects, then suggests a number of evidence-based ways for making the process better. This includes Chat Charlie, developed from a collaboration with Dr Charlotte Adam. Coral's research profile can be found here