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Talk
Talk — Join us at the old library for an exciting talk with Rachele Mazzini & drinks with peers. This special edition of "Trying to explain the world" on Valentines Day is especially for University of Copenhagen staff and students, but you are welcome to invite peers from other universities.
Date & Time:
Place:
Copenhagen Univeristy Library, Fiolstræde 1, 1171 København K, Danmark
Hosted by:
UCAPS, byStudents
Cost:
50 DKK
After the event, the University of Copenhagen Ph.D. Association UCAPS will host an informal evening; turning the Library into a Library Bar where you will meet researchers and students.
PROGRAMME:
17:00 Doors open; We serve a glass of wine or non-alkoholic cider (included in ticket price)
17:00-18:30: Talk with Rachele Mazzini & Torben Sangild: The Real Reasons We Lie To Our Partners
+ Questions (no break)
18:45-22:00 Library bar and icebreaker with UCAPS
THE TALK
A romantic relationship is based on trust and fidelity. So why do we taint it with lies?
You want to be able to trust your partner, and you want your partner to trust you as well. Still, there is no relationship without a degree of dishonesty – from withholding information and white lies to systematic betrayal. Why is one of the most important trust-based relations infected with small and sometimes big lies? And how do these lies affect the relationship?
Rachele Mazzini´s research on dishonesty in romantic relationships seeks to uncover how, and how often we are dishonest. The answer to the latter is: much more often than we think. The reasons are, however, also often more noble than we might assume.
Understand the science of dishonesty, when we explore the innocent, the bad, and the ugly types of lies, the motives behind them, and their effect on the relationships in this talk.
ON STAGE
Rachele Mazzini is a PhD candidate in psychology at University of Copenhagen, where she researches social, cross-cultural, and interpersonal relationship psychology. She is interviewed by Torben Sangild, writer for Zetland, radio and poscast host, and the author of the recent book Følelsernes bog. He is also a former scholar in aesthetic culture at University of Copenhagen.
TRYING TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD
Trying to explain the world (Verden forsøgt forklaret) is a series of conversations about what shapes our shared world.
The guest of the week contributes with research- based perspectives on themes from the public conversation – what we talk about, vote about, argue about and gather about. Get smarter together with some of the country´s leading researchers when they give their take on what is up and down in current discussions from the intimate scene in the historic Copenhagen University Library in Fiolstræde.
‘Verden forsøgt forklaret’ is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.