PsychologyTitle: 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
February 6, 2023
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: "Memory consolidation during sleep and implications for mental health".
Jean Decety, Professor, University of Chicago
January 23, 2023
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
December 12, 2022
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
November 7, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: TBA
URL for more information: https://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/yo-jackson-professor-of-psychology
Joni Wallis, Professor, UC Berkeley
April 25, 2022
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
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-sampling
URL for more information: http://www.mattkillingsworth.com/
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
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
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...