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DoctorJoseph Watts

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing

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  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
  • +6433693173 (Work)
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TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I coordinate PSYC382 Culture and Cognition and PSYC485 Evolutionary Approaches to Human Psychology.

 

I also supervise postgraduate students working in the Cultural Dynamics Lab.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Mental states as relational states
    1 Jul 2026
    Iwabuch, Tamichi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Mind-body representations in Vietnamese and English
    1 Apr 2026
    Nguyen, Dat Tuan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Cultural variation in mental state representations and mentalising
    16 Feb 2026
    Oliver, Deakin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Macro-Dynamics of Religiousity - Beyond Descriptive Approaches
    1 Sep 2025
    McRoberts, Katherine
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Outsider Perceptions and Moral Judgments of Individuals in Potentially Morally Injurious Events
    1 Aug 2025
    Slater, Jennifer
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Population Pressure and Sedentism Predict the Influence of Black Magic in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
    14 Jul 2025 - 14 Jul 2026
    Chen, Yilong
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Approaches to Human Psychology
    16 Feb 2025
    PSYC485
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding Credibility-Enhancing Displays (CREDs): A Case Study of Retention and Disaffiliation Among Jehovah’s Witnesses
    16 Feb 2025 - 17 Oct 2025
    Hamilton, Monty
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluating Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: A Turing-Inspired Approach
    19 Oct 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
    Leslie, Tom W
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Culture and Cognition
    16 Jul 2024
    PSYC382
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Roll for Identity: Unveiling the Social Power of Dungeons & Dragons
    1 May 2024
    Matthews, Courtney
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Credible Displays and the Transmission of Conspiracy Belief
    19 Feb 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    Maillard, Esme
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluating Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: A Turing-Inspired Approach
    18 Feb 2024 - 18 Oct 2024
    Leslie, Thomas W
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Religion, Secularization, asnd Measurement of Change
    16 Jan 2024
    Conrad, Matthew
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Eagle and the Serpent Omens, Divination and the Prophetic Space in the Iliad and Odyssey
    1 May 2022 - 30 May 2025
    Clarkson, Ben
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Psychology of Religion
    6 Dec 2021 - 10 Feb 2023
    RELS237/337
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    The Cultural Evolution of Religious Systems
    5 Jul 2021 - 19 Nov 2021
    RELS240/340
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The association between material constraints and religious cognitions
    14 Mar 2021 - 14 Oct 2026
    Kaur, Navdeep
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Introduction to the Scientific Study of Religion
    1 Mar 2021 - 24 Jun 2022
    RELS110
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Religion and Human Behaviour
    1 Mar 2021 - 25 Jun 2021
    RELS238/338
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Mu-Opioid of the People: Rituals and the Psychobiology of Social Bonding (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Sep 2017 - 30 Jun 2021
    Charles, Sarah
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  • GUEST LECTURE
    Evolution, Behaviour, and Cognition
    The Evolution of Religious Ritual
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Evolution, Behaviour, and Cognition
    The Evolution of Religious Belief
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Introductory Psychology - Social, Personality and Developmental
    The WEIRD ProblemIn Psychology
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Introductory Psychology - Social, Personality and Developmental
    Visual Perception Across Cultures