Paul and Marty concentrate on our history, particularly the aspects they knew intimately, rather than rendering a global history. They hope their stories will have implications for our long-term future as a department.
Past Colloquia
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Penn Psychology History Of The Department Colloquium
September 24, 2020
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Steven Pinker, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
February 10, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: The Emperor, the Elephant, and the Matzo Ball: Common Knowledge as a Ratifier of Relationships
Faculty Host: Coren Apicella
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*CANCELLED* Nick Turk-Browne, Professor of Psychology, Yale University
March 23, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
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Elizabeth Cauffman, Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law, UC Irvine
March 2, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Arrested Development: Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice
Faculty Host: Sara Jaffee
URL for more information:
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Lila Davachi, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
February 24, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: The life of a memory: rest, reactivating and reorganization
Faculty Host: Anna Schapiro
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Paul Frick, Professor, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University
January 27, 2020
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "What makes some youth aggressive and violent and what can we do about it?
Faculty Host: Rebecca Waller
URL for more information:
https://www.lsu.edu/hss/psychology/faculty/clinical/frick.php
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
December 2, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "Genetic and behavioral dissection of neural circuits for touch and pain"
Faculty Host: Rebecca Waller
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Keith Holyoak, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA
October 21, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: "Semantic Relations in Minds, Brains, and Machines"
Faculty Host: Sudeep Bhatia
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Rebecca Saxe, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 25, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Early origins of social brain
Faculty Host: Anna Jenkins
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Dima Amso, Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Department, Brown University
March 18, 2019
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Mechanisms of attention, learning, and plasticity early in life
Faculty Host: Allyson Mackey
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