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Dr Gulbanu Kaptan has been invited by the Global Food and Environment Institute at the University of Leeds to give a talk on People’s acceptance of food biotechnology in the UK and Switzerland. The study that was conducted in collaboration with Dr Angela Bearth (ETH-Zurich) and Dr Sabrina H. Kessler (University of Zurich) aimed to investigate UK...
Dr Gulbanu Kaptan was an invited speaker at Leeds University Business School Lunch Bag Seminar Series on Sustainability Research. The seminar that was held on 18 February 2021 covered two studies conducted before and after the lockdown, respectively. The first study aimed to identify strategies to reduce food waste while promoting better nutrition and improved food safety....
This work reflects the collaboration of a panel of international experts on risk communication from different institutions across Australia (University of Sydney), the Netherlands (Amsterdam UMC), and the US (University of Oregon, Tufts University, University of Utah, University of Michigan, Maine Medical Center Research Institute). The reference and abstract are below: Trevena, L., Bonner, C.,...
This work reflects the collaboration of a panel of international experts on risk communication from different institutions across Australia (University of Sydney), the Netherlands (Amsterdam UMC), and the US (University of Oregon, Tufts University, University of Utah, University of Michigan, Maine Medical Center Research Institute). The reference and abstract follow. Bonner, C., Trevena, L., Gaissmaier,...
A team of researchers from five UK Universities, including CDR member Dr Gulbanu Kaptan have been awarded a UK Research and Innovation's Strategic Priorities Fund for their 5-year project aiming to transform the UK food system ‘from the ground up’ for healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy people (H3). The project team consists of PI and Co-I's from the Universities of...
Historically, individual differences research has sought to explain problem-gambling severity in adolescence by means of unitary “risk-taking” traits, such as sensation seeking and impulsivity, implying that these personality traits account for risk-taking tendencies across different types of behaviors and situations. In the current study, we adopted a psychological risk-return framework, which posits that perceptions of...
Because the construct of psychopathy is of chief interest across different disciplines, spanning developmental, clinical, and forensic psychology, its assessment bears far-reaching implications. One prominent contemporary conceptualization of psychopathy, the Triarchic Model, posits that a psychopathic personality encompasses three phenotypic constructs: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. The present study examined the longitudinal measurement invariance and the...
Gulbanu Kaptan has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation's rapid response to Covid-19 grant for the project on Capitalising on COVID-19 as a Trigger for Positive Change in Food Waste Behaviour. This is an 18-month project with a funding of £328,000, including a grant of £268,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The project team...
Can we judge a book by its cover? Our paper ‘Confidence and Capital Raising’ has been accepted by the Journal of Corporate Finance. We run an image experiment to assess the confidence of the management teams of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and find a positive association between confidence and the fundraising amount. Our study highlights...
In an experimental study John, along with co-authors Ozan Isler and Onurcan Yilmaz, show that Christians are more cooperative toward fellow Christians than atheists and that this is due to them expecting lower levels of cooperation from atheists and that reciprocating this led them to lower their own levels. The study also provides exploratory support...