The Runners High: Why Training For a Marathon Makes You a Better Person:
Discover the Human Mind: Psychology Webinar Series
The Psychology Department at Bangor runs a module for psychology students that teaches them how to run a marathon! Whilst this might seem a little crazy, the ability to achieve a difficult and long-term goal is really down to factors in the mind: willpower, planning, overcoming difficult challenges, building resilience, having the right mindset. This talk will introduce you to the module and also tell you why you’ll become a better person if you completed it (and the marathon, of course)!
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This session will be delivered through the medium of English.
Speaker
Prof John Parkinson
John is a behavioural psychologist with a research focus on the interface between cognition and emotion, particular with respect to health promotion and illness prevention.
He is interested in how motivational signals are generated, how they interact with ongoing cognitive processes and how this affects behaviour. The integration of dual-process theory with contemporary approaches to behaviour (such as COM-B) is of particular interest. His research interests include: the influence of motivational states on cognitive processes such as attention, memory and decision-making; the effect of positive emotional states on cognition; the role and nature of stimulus-induced behaviours (including motivational arousal and craving in addictive behaviours).
John is the Director of the Wales Centre for Behaviour Change and collaborates with the Public Health Wales Behavioural Science Unit. John is a member of the Clinical, Health, & Behavioural Psychology and Social Neuroscience research groups.