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]