QIMR Berghofer High School Lecture Series: Psychology June 2020

Welcome to QIMR Berghofer’s online High School Lecture Series. Here you can view talks from four of the Institute’s top medical researchers discussing their research into Psychology. The subjects discussed align closely with the Queensland senior Psychology syllabus and students can submit questions for the researchers via our website.

In this series, our researchers respond to the overarching question “Are psychological traits contagious?” through their work on intelligence, emotions, depression, and even the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor James Scott – Can mental illness be contagious? Anxiety in response to COVID-19 (start time: 1:58)

Associate Professor Lucia Colodro-Conde – Genetics and stress: Their role in mental health (start time: 10:27)

Dr Saurabh Sonkusare – What it takes to study emotions (start time: 22:03)

Dr Katrina Grasby - Intelligence and individual differences (start time: 30:53)