University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

David Williams

11/17/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

Positive Psychology Center (3701 Market Street, 2nd floor, room 201)

Positive Psychology Lunch Series

Lunch is provided

Please RSVP to Peggy Kern at mkern@sas.upenn.edu for this talk by Wednesday 10 am (and let me know if you have any dietary limitations).

Psychology Colloquium: Professor Renee Baillargeon

Early Sociomoral Reasoning

11/14/2011 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Stiteler Hall Room B21

Psychology Colloquium: Professor Renee Baillargeon, University of Illinois

Date: November 14, 2011

(Hosted by John Trueswell)

URL for more info:

www.psychology.illinois.edu/people/rbaillar

Decision Processes Colloquia: Yaacov Trope, New York University

11/14/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

Jon M. Huntsman Hall 245

Please contact faculty Decision Process Coordinators Katy Milkman (215) 898-5873 (OPIM) or Cassie Mogilner (215) 898-1228 (Marketing),or staff coordinator Beth McCarthy (215) 573-4831 if you have any questions.

IRCS/SILC Talk Series: Kate Jeffery, Institute of Behavioral Neuroscience University College London

Navigating in a 3D world - is the brain's map of space actually flat?

11/11/2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A, Conference Room - Room 470

Navigating in a 3D world - is the brain's map of space actually flat? Abstract: Understanding how the brain constructs a neural map oflarge-scale navigable space has been a major goal of neuroscience in thepast few decades.

URL for more info:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jefferylab/

Elliot Turiel, University of California Berkeley

11/10/2011 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

337 Cohen Hall

URL for more info:

http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/ETuriel/ETuriel.html

IRCS Colloquium Series: Sarah-Jane Leslie Princeton University

Generics and Generalization

11/04/2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A, Conference Room - Room 470

Generics and Generalization Generic sentences express generalizations about kinds, such as "tigers are striped", "ducks lay eggs", and "ticks carry Lyme disease".

URL for more info:

http://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/

Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry: Minimizing Harm Robert L. Sadoff, MD

11/01/2011 - 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Location:

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Silverman Hall, Room 240B

The presentation will be followed by light refreshments.
Copies of Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry will be available for purchase.

URL for more info:

http://www.scattergoodethics.org/ethical-issues-forensic-psychiatry-mini...

Vision Seminar Mick Marsh-Armstrong Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Phagocytic Astrocytes and Glaucoma

10/31/2011 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm

Location:

Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building)

Students (and postdocs): We encourage you to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact the speaker's host (in advance, if possible).

Claire Mitchell

Maya Bar-Hillel Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Poets and poetry: What's going on and how can we know?

10/26/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

JMHH 370

Hosted by Jon Baron

Food will not be served.

URL for more info:

http://www.russellsage.org/visiting-scholars/maya-bar-hillel

Decision Processes Colloquia : Jonathan Zinman Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

10/24/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location:

Jon M. Huntsman Hall 245

Please contact faculty Decision Process Coordinators Katy Milkman (215) 898-5873 (OPIM) or Cassie Mogilner (215) 898-1228 (Marketing), or staff coordinator Stephanie Lutz (215) 573-0547 if you have any questions