Event Details

This is a psychology event as part of Campus in the City. Campus in the City is an exciting, interactive project which brings our world-class research and more to the city centre, as we move into St Nicholas Arcades for five weeks from 24th February 2018. We want to bring local people, academics and students closer together while bringing our research to life and sharing the opportunity to experience the relevance of this research for everyone.

Older people are often seen as particularly vulnerable to being defrauded. This may be because older people are less good than younger people at detecting whether someone is lying. In this event the Campus in the City shop will be taken over by psychologists at Lancaster University, who are researching why older people may be less good at lying. We’ll be showcasing several factors that might play a role in this, including differences in how older people think about what other people are thinking, and differences in how often and convincingly older people lie. Join us for a range of fun experiments designed to explore this issue further!