Past Colloquia

  • Duane Watson, Professor, Vanderbilt University

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: Language experience drives language understanding

    Abstract: The language environment is critical for language learning and vocabulary growth in children and in predicting the difficulty of processing words and sentences in adults.  However, psycholinguists have traditionally measured language experience by aggregating over populations. In this talk, I will share experimental evidence suggesting that an individual’s specific experience with language is linked to their specific preferences for different constructions.  By using NLP...

  • Gina Poe, Professor, UCLA

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: "Memory consolidation during sleep and implications for mental health". 

     

    Faculty Host: Anna Schapiro

    URL for more information: https://www.ibp.ucla.edu/faculty/gina-poe/
     
  • Jean Decety, Professor, University of Chicago

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: The role of empathy in morality: A force that can bind or blind us    

     Abstract: Empathy can be a strong motivation for moral behavior, but its influence can also have the opposite effect. People who are concerned for the well-being of others are more likely to help, care for them, and respect them. Empathy provides information for moral decision-making, which can supplement information based on reasoning, rational belief, and inference. However, empathy is limited and fragile, thus not always a reliable source of information in moral...

  • Dolores Albarracin, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

     

    Title:"Communicating Behavior: Bottom-Up Processes of Social Influence" 

    Abstract: This talk will begin with an analysis of interindividual processes of person perception and communication that unfold in brief verbal messages such as those on social media. I will describe experiments designed to establish whether merely alluding to behaviors can influence others to perform those behaviors. After discussing the processes underlying the effects of interindividual messages, I will present big data...

  • Yo Jackson, Ph.D., ABPP, Penn State

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: TBA

    Faculty Host: Sara Jaffee
     

    URL for more information: https://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/yo-jackson-professor-of-psychology

  • Joni Wallis, Professor, UC Berkeley

     

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: Neuronal mechanisms of value-based decision-making: a brain-machine
             interface approach
     
    Faculty Host: Michael Platt
     
  • Matt Killingsworth, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania

     

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: Human happiness in high resolution: Insights from large-scale
             experience-sampling

    Faculty Host: Michael Platt and Liz Brannon

    URL for more information: http://www.mattkillingsworth.com/
  • Jenny Tung Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University

     

    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

  • Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

     

    Levin Auditorium

    425 S. University Avenue

    Title: Designing Equitable Algorithms For Criminal Justice And Beyond

    Faculty Host: Coren Apicella and Sudeep Bhatia

    URL for more information: https://5harad.com/

     

  • Jay Van Bavel, Associate Professor, New York University

     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...