Title:
Mindreading, morality, and the search for human cognitive specializations
Faculty Host: Paul Rozin
Stiteler Hall B26 (208 South 37th Street)
Title: The Emperor, the Elephant, and the Matzo Ball: Common Knowledge as a Ratifier of Relationships
Faculty Host: Coren Apicella
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Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: The developmental antecedents of adult attachment styles: What makes us secure or insecure in our relationships?
Faculty Host: Daniel Swingley
Stiteler Hall B26 (208 South 37th Street)
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.
Stiteler Hall, B26 (208 South 37th Street)
Title: Towards a Rational Theory of Heuristics
Faculty Host: Barbara Mellers
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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 research by which effective interindividual messages can be elevated to authorities within communities. I will conclude with an analysis of the challenges of mobilizing authorities and describe field and experimental research on the bottom-up, social action mechanisms that inspire them to work toward solving problems in their communities.
URL for more information: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/details/profiles.php?id=17310
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: "Dealing with social stress during adolescence."
Faculty Host: Angela Duckworth
URL for more info:
http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/profile.php?id=yeagerds
Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: TMI: Disengagement and Memory
Faculty Host: Michael Kahana
URL for more information: http://www2.psych.utoronto.ca/users/hasherlab/people_hasher.htm
This talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent the day of the talk.
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 decision-making. We are more likely to empathize with those from similar social, racial and political circles. We respond more readily and with greater intensity to the suffering of individuals rather than groups. I will integrate knowledge from evolutionary theory, neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics to demonstrate that various social and situational factors unconsciously and rapidly modulate empathy. Decision-making guided by empathy alone is not optimal when dealing with large groups, people from our tribe, or anonymous persons. However, when combined with reasoning and deliberation, empathy can promote valuing the welfare of others.
Key-words: Empathy – Emotion – Evolution – Caring – Cognitive biases – Decision-making – Morality – Social psychology – Social neuroscience
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: "Measuring Psychological Traits using Social Media"
Faculty Host: Marty Seligman
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Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Delight, desire and dread
Faculty Host: Harvey Grill
URL for more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/berridge.html
This talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent the day of the talk.
Title: "Memory consolidation during sleep and implications for mental health".
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: "Adversity and advantage: the influence of social environments on fitness in social mammals"
Faculty host: Robert Seyfarth
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Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Looking Back to Move Forward: Long-Term Effects of Segregation on Perception, Action, and Cognition
Faculty Host: Coren Apicella
URL for more information:https://psychology.cornell.edu/neil-lewis-jr
This talk will be virtual and the zoom link and password will be sent on the day of the talk
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 tools to analyze the linguistic properties of participants’ favorite websites, we compare effects of internet reading habits to effects of cognitive factors such as working memory and inhibitory control on reading difficulty. Consistent with constraint-based and Bayesian models of language comprehension, we find that prior experience with language is an important predictor of language comprehension
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
Title: "Where do social norms come from and why do they matter?"
Faculty Host: Geoff Goodwin
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Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Title: Halting Legacies of Trauma
Host: Michael Platt