The Department of Psychology at Middlesex University Dubai values student research engagement, and we believe that this student conference is an important learning experience for them.
The Social Psychology Research Lab (SPRL) organised a virtual Student Research Conference on 11th February 2022 from 10 AM to 12:30 PM UAE. This year, we also had a keynote address from Dr. Adam P. Natoli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Philosophy at Sam Houston State University, named ‘Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0: Comparison Across Seven Countries’. The Lab’s international academic collaborations inspired some of the research ideas. Our students conducted some excellent impact-based research projects!
We conducted four parallel sessions, where 106 second-year Psychology students presented 18 research projects in the form of an academic poster. Students presented on a range of research topics such as: Body image and Nature, Faulty Memory on Other Ethnicity Faces, Associations between Personality and Eating Behaviour, and Mechanisms of Prosociality in the Dark Triad.