Psychology News and Events
Psychology Department Speaker Series
2012–2013
All talks are on Thursdays during common hour and are open to the public. Locations will be
announced.
Septmenber 27 - Reamer Aud.
Robert Kurzban, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
“Strategic Morality”
October 18 - EVEREST LOUNGE - HALE HOUSE
Jessica L. Tracy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
“The Nature of Pride: From Self-Conscious Emotion to Social Status”
November 1 - EVEREST LOUNGE - HALE HOUSE
Erika Wells, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Union College
“Determinants of Perceptual Awareness: Clues from Motion-Induced Blindness”
January 24
Carin Perilloux, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Union College
[evolutionary social psychology of mating]
February 7
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York University
[personality and creativity]
February 28
Michael Basseches, Ph. D.
Professor of Psychology, Suffolk University
[clinical/lifespan developmental psychology]
April 11
Melanie Green, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[narratives and persuasion: changing beliefs through stories]
April 25
Glenn Konopaske, M.D.
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
[neurobiological research on schizophrenia]
May 2
Lisa Shin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Tufts University
[neuroimaging research on PTSD and anxiety disorders]
May 9
Alan Sanfey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona
[neuroeconomics – neuroscience of human judgment and decision-making]
