Psychology
The Transparency of Mind in Action. (Psychology, Sports Science, Robotics, Philosophy)
Members: Professor A. Costall, Professor V. Reddy, Dr. P. Morris (Psych); Dr. E. Kadar (Psych., Robotics), Dr. M. Dicks (DSES), Dr. C. Becchio (Psych, Ext), Professor Corrado Sinigaglia (Philos, Ext)
Research Example: Perceiving deceptive intentions in football
Football players sometimes deceptively exaggerate the effect of a tackle. In an attempt to find out whether we can reliably tell which effects are faked – in a ‘dive’ – and which ones are genuine, three studies were conducted. One showed that non-professional participants agree strongly in their judgements about which players were attempting deception and which were not, and also about the tackles in which the intentions were ambiguous. Another study showed that the intentions of tackled players matched the judgment of their intentions by observers. A third identified the specific behaviours associated with deceptive and non deceptive intentions. (Morris & Lewis, 2010)
Programmes: Fake Injuries in Football (Morris), Gaze and Steering (Kadar), Sniffing robots (Kadar), The kinematics of Giving (Reddy, Morris, Becchio, Sinigaglia, Ferrara), Gaze, non-verbal cues and expectancies in football (Dicks), Perceiving deceptive intentions (Costall); Perceiving intentions in infancy and in Autism (Lopez, Ambriosini, Reddy, Sinigaglia, Costantini); Philosophy of mind (Costall)