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Catriona Havard

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A Professor of Psychology at the Open University

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Is facial recognition technology 'racist'?
Is facial recognition technology 'racist'? YouTube video by Good Morning Britain

Automatic face recognition is meant to reduce human bias, but when it’s trained on narrow datasets—like mostly white male faces—it can reproduce those same biases and even lead to wrongful arrests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKm...

27.02.2026 16:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.01.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Open Psychology Research Centre Public Lecture will be delivered online by my fantastic colleague Professor Gemma Briggs on 11th February from 7- 8pm. The talk is entitled Why do we tolerate road deaths? Implications for policy and practice. Registration link in the comments

27.01.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The next Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture will be delivered by the OPRC’s Prof Gini Harrison on the 12th November from 7pm to 8pm.
If you want to find out more and attend please register here events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a67b94...

15.10.2025 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm giving a talk about her book as part of The Open Psychology Research Centre online public lecture series on 8th October 7pm. If you want to find out more about When Face Recognition Goes Wrong, please do come along and register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/656278...

17.09.2025 11:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dear all, you are invited to the Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) FREE online lecture "Accents in the courtroom" delivered by Prof Lara Frumkin on 14th May from 7pm to 8pm @OU_Psychology @OU_FASS @OU_Law
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fb5534...

06.05.2025 10:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dear all
The Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture delivered by Zoe Walkington is on our relationship with fictional villains. Taking place on 12th March from 7pm to 8pm. Please register here events.teams.microsoft.com/event/112e72...

19.02.2025 14:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dear all
The first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Louise Newbigging on the 12th from 7pm to 8pm. Details of the talk are below, if you want to find out more and attend please register
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f0b696...

16.01.2025 10:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cat appears to be a fan of my book. You can get your own copy from here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

09.12.2024 10:58 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Face blindness will be examined as part of new project Dr Hayley Ryder hopes a new project will raise awareness of a very unusual condition.

Our project made the BBC News - Face blindness will be examined as part of new project - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

01.12.2024 13:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Are you interested in face recognition? You might like my new book 'When face recognition goes wrong' You can also get a discount code www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

28.11.2024 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0