Academic Partner
Professor Ian Robertson
A neuropsychologist and author of How Confidence Works, Ian researches attention and self-belief and co-directs the Global Brain Health Institute.
About Ian
Ian Robertson is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Trinity College and was the founding director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute , a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Member of Acadamia Europea. He is a highly-cited researcher on the brain’s attention systems and his most recent of a series of widely-translated popular science books is How Confidence Works: the new science of self-belief, published by Penguin in 2021.
Talks by Ian
- ArticleThe Antidote to Uncertainty is Right in Front of UsJust under one third of your cortex is called the prefrontal cortex, which sits above your eyes and behind your forehead. It is a very strange part of the brain.
- ArticleHow to build a stronger teamHumans are a group species, and much of what we do is shaped by how we imagine others in our lives will respond to our actions.
- ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Affects Our BrainThousands of Irish teenagers will soon sit down to write essays for their Leaving and Junior Certs, without ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot to lean on.
- ArticleCollective ConfidenceAny football, hockey, rugby or team player will tell you there is such a thing as team confidence, and there’s a scientifically validated way of assessing it.
- ArticleConfidence Creates the FutureThe future doesn’t exist. We create it in our minds. Have you ever stepped onto a stopped escalator? If so, you will have felt your body lurch.
- ArticleConfident Women Why do so many capable people doubt their abilities, and why are women, on average, more likely to underestimate theirs? This article looks at what the research says about confidence, where the gender gap begins and the practical steps anyone can take to build confidence.