28 February 2011

TOO EASY TO BELIEVE? Skepticism and the Psychology of Suggestibility

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A Canberra Skeptics Lecture

Speaker: Dr Krissy Wilson

Date: 13 April 2011,

Time: 6.00-7.30pm

Location: Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building, Eggleston Road, ANU

Cost: Free

Dr Krissy Wilson will review the nature, mechanism and psychological impact of suggestibility, including hypnotic suggestibility and how this relates, for example, to false memories.

Dr Wilson is a graduate of the University of London. Formerly at the University of Tasmania, she now teaches at Charles Sturt University.

No need to book but note that theatre holds 106.

Dinner will follow the lecture (venue tbc). To RSVP for the dinner please contact mail@skeptics.org.au

For further information about Canberra Skeptics please visit our website

http://www.canberraskeptics.org.au/default.html

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i can’t quite believe in skepticism…

i don’t believe this lecture will actually take place – just a suggestion it will, though, means it already has. innit?

I believe that Arthur C Clarke exists.

no longer, sadly, thumper.

The joke will be on anyone who believes this and turns up.

The truth is out there.

I believe

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