PsychologyTitle: Neuronal mechanisms of value-based decision-making: a brain-machine
interface approach
Faculty Host: Michael Platt
URL for more information: https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/joni-wallis
Past Colloquia
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Joni Wallis, Professor, UC Berkeley
April 25, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
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Matt Killingsworth, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania
April 4, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: Human happiness in high resolution: Insights from large-scale
experience-samplingFaculty Host: Michael Platt and Liz Brannon
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Jenny Tung Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University
February 28, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: The Social Genome:Lessons From Our Primate Cousins
Faculty Host: Allyson Mackey
URL for more information:https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jenny.tung
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Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
February 7, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: Designing Equitable Algorithms For Criminal Justice And Beyond
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Jay Van Bavel, Associate Professor, New York University
January 24, 2022
This talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent on the day of the talk
Title: “For better or worse: The role of social identity in the Pandemic”
Abstract:
We are in the midst of one of the greatest global health crises in the past century. In the absence of a vaccine, the major public health response has required massive collective behavior change—especially at the national level. In this talk, I will present several recent studies on the role of social identity in the...
Frank Keil, Professor of Psychology, Yale University
December 6, 2021
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: The Curious Case of Clockwork Cognition: Why are Young Children so Interested in Mechanism?
Faculty Host: Dan Swingley
URL for more information: https://psychology.yale.edu/...
Anjan Chatterjee, MD, University of Pennsylvania
November 15, 2021
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: Beauty
Faculty Host: Anna Jenkins
URL for more information: https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p15498
Michael Frank, Edgar L. Marston Professor, Brown University
November 8, 2021
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: Abstraction and generalization in reinforcement learning
Faculty Host: Anna Schapiro
URL for more information: https://www.brown.edu/academics/cognitive-linguistic-psychological-scien...
Professor Jamil Zaki, Associate Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
April 26, 2021
A recording of this colloquium can be viewed here.
Title: "Unforced errors in our emotional lives."Faculty Host: Joseph Kable and Anna JenkinsURL for more information: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zakiThis talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent on the day of the talk.Professor Brian G. Dias, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
April 12, 2021
A recording of this colloquium can be viewed here.
Title: Halting Legacies of Trauma
Host: Michael Platt
URL for more information:This talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent on the day of the talk.