Academic Primary Care Centre (APCC) Public Lecture Series 2021-22

 

How Confidence Works – what are its enemies, and why it is important for health.

Professor Ian Robertson

18th November 2021, 2-3pm

This event was held online

 

Biography

Ian Robertson is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute at (www.gbhi.org). A Member of Academia Europaea, and the Royal Irish Academy, he is a trained clinical psychologist as well as a neuroscientist, he is widely known internationally for his research on neuropsychology. His science writing has included books aimed at the general reader: Mind Sculpture (2000), The Mind’s Eye  (2003), Stay Sharp (2005), The Winner Effect (2012) and The Stress Test (2016), all of which have been widely translated (www.ianrobertson.org). His latest book How Confidence Works was published by Penguin in June 2021.