Public lecture: Faking it - The strange psychology of impostor-ism
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 15 October 2013
- Time:
- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Room:
- QBI Auditorium
- Location:
- Level 7
- UQ Location:
- Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.vision6.com.au/em/mail/view.php?id=1042349&a=39308&k=679c8c2
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Kristen Bastian
- Phone:
- 69279
- Email:
- k.bastian@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Please join us for a public lecture where Professor Matthew Hornsey from the School of Psychology will explore how fakery and façades shape our lives.
Sufferers of Capgras Syndrome come to believe that their loved ones – or even their own bodies – have been replaced by identical looking replicas.
Professor Hornsey uses this phenomenon as a platform to explore how fakery and façades shape our lives. He tells the breathtaking stories of people who have faked race, sex or nobility to get ahead, and examines what impostors tell us about the slippery relationship between image and reality.
Why would people pretend to be someone they’re not, and why are we so slow to spot it? And why are we haunted by the nagging feeling that we have become fakes even to ourselves?
The battle for authenticity is a modern obsession … but is it a battle we’re doomed to lose?
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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