Jan 2, 2018
Before her talk for us on the relationships that people have with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Dr Louise Todd sat down with Heather Pentler to talk more about her research and how it came about, plus her thoughts about events and festivals in general and their future.
Dr Louise Todd is a lecturer and researcher in...
Jan 2, 2018
Edit: had to take a few clips out of this one. Sorry!
Often skeptics are charged with only concentrating on hard, physical sciences. Well, that shouldn't be the case. Recorded during our 2017 Edinburgh Fringe run, this talk from Dr Louise Todd is the perfect antidote as we hear her describe her research into the Fringe...
Dec 22, 2017
Is Martin Corley a big fat liar? Will his knowledge of speech disfluency manage to trick our host Danny Robertson into accepting his answers as the God's honest? Find out in this week's 10 Questions @ The Fringe!
Martin Corley is Head of Psychology at Edinburgh University. His research centres on the information that is...
Dec 22, 2017
How does the way you speak influence others' judgements?
What is it about the way that someone speaks that makes you think
they're lying? In this talk, Martin presents a series of
experiments looking at speech disfluency ("um" or "er") and how it
affects listeners' judgements. In particular, he shows that
judgements...
Nov 30, 2017
Before her talk for us on the wonders and the dangers of plastic Dr. Madeleine Berg sat down with Claudia Schaffner to discuss her career and current job, her work with Edinburgh Skeptics on their cinema nights and her adorable-sounding guinea pigs.
Coming from a geosciences background, Dr Berg completed a PhD...