Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

NUS-led study finds extreme debtors may be exposed to debt accumulation due to inflated sense of self-control

NUS-led study finds extreme debtors may be exposed to debt accumulation due to inflated sense of self-control

Speaker: Jia Lile 16 Aug 2022

A first-of-its-kind study led by Associate Professor Jia Lile from the Department of Psychology at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences found that extreme debtors have a low capacity to regulate their behaviour but hold an illusory perception of high capacity, which may expose them to further debt accumulation.

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Many seriously ill patients end up living for treatment

Many seriously ill patients end up living for treatment

Speakers: Assoc Prof Alethea Yee, Asst Prof Shirlyn Neo and Asst Prof Gillian Phua from the Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS Medical School 18 Jul 2024