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NYU Psychology Talks — Spring 2008

Departmental Colloquium

On Tuesdays in Psychology room 551 from 4:00-6:00 pm, unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.

February 12
Steve Yantis, Johns Hopkins University
Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
6 Washington Place, Room 550

March 11, 2008
John Dovidio, Yale University
Interpersonal Interactions and Intergroup Relations: The Tragedy of Intergroup Interaction
6 Washington Place, Room 550

April 15, 2008
Shelley Taylor, UCLA
Stress and Health Across the Lifespan
6 Washington Place, Room 550

 

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Cognition & Perception Colloquia

On Thursdays in Psychology room 878 from 12:30-1:30 pm, unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.


January 31
George Alvarez, M.I.T.
Visual Cognition: from Attentional Selection to the Long-term Storage of Visual Information

February 7
Yaoda Xu, Yale University
Dissociable parietal mechanisms supporting visual object individuation and identification

February 21
David Poeppel, University of Maryland
Temporal primitives in auditory cognition and speech perception


March 6
Frank Keil, Yale University:
Running on Empty: How Children and Adults Grasp the Causal Structure of the World


March 27
Barbara Spellman, University of Virginia
Conundrums of Causation


April 10
Brian McElree, NYU
Memory mechanisms that support language comprehension

May 1
Janet Metcalfe, Columbia University
Metacognition of agency

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Social Colloquia

On Thursdays in Psychology room 551 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.

January 22
Tessa West, University of Connecticut
Bumps in the road: Disruptions in dyadic interracial interactions
University of Connecticut
2:00pm

January 24
Emily Pronin, Princeton University
How We See Ourselves versus How We See Others: Basic Mechanics to Social Consequences

January 28
Keith Payne, University of North Carolina
What mistakes disclose: Unintended behavior as a window to automatic social cognition
5:30pm

February 14
Bertram Gawronski, University of Western Ontario
Associative and Propositional Processes in Evaluation: Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change

Social Neuroscience Colloquia

On Thursdays in Psychology room 551 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.


February 21
Stephen J. Morse, University of Pennsylvania Law School

March 13
Richard J. Davidson, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging & Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison

April 17
Eddie Harmon-Jones, Texas A&M University

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Social Psychology Brown Bags

On Tuesdays from 12:15-2:00 pm in Psychology room 771, unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.

Janurary 22
Irina Feygina
The effect of system justification tendencies on environmental attitudes and actions
Laura M Kressel
Implicit Causal Inferences in Person Perception

February 26
May Ling Halim
Pink Frilly Dresses and Social Identity
Suzette Caleo

March 4
Margarita Krochik
Ideology Informs Structure: Attitudinal Strength and Implicit-Explicit Consistency in the Everyday Attitudes of Liberals and Conservatives
Martin Reeder Mayo

March 11
Kyle Ratner
A Diathesis-Stress Model of Intergroup Anxiety

March 25
Suzette Caleo
Integrating justice and gender norms: Differential reactions to men and women's fairness behaviors
Avital Mentovich
The Role of Procedures vs. Outcomes in Group Based Comparisons and Intergroup Relations

April 1
Erin Hennes
Using Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions to Solve Ill-Structured Problems

April 15
Sean Lane
The Effects of Social Support Receipt: Do They Last?

April 22
Liz Przybylinski
Shared Meaning Evoked in Transference
Jennifer Thorpe
Transference as Functional: Can Transference Promote a Useful Kind of Knowing?


April 29
Jennifer Brooke
Motivation or Depletion: The Effects of Intergroup Interactions
Sam Maglio
The Positive Side of Negative Affect in Self-Regulation

May 6

Anesu Mandisodza
Social Psychological Perspectives on Change
Gaëlle C. Pierre
The Penalties Effect: It's Not What You Do But How You Get There

Job Talks


January 22
Tessa West, University of Connecticut
Bumps in the road: Disruptions in dyadic interracial interactions
University of Connecticut
2:00pm

January 28
Keith Payne, University of North Carolina
What mistakes disclose: Unintended behavior as a window to automatic social cognition
5:30pm

January 31
George Alvarez, M.I.T.
Visual Cognition: from Attentional Selection to the Long-term Storage of Visual Information
12:30pm

February 7
Yaoda Xu, Yale University
Dissociable parietal mechanisms supporting visual object individuation and identification
12:30pm

February 11
Dominique Muller, Université Pierre Mendes France
The focusing effect of self-evaluation threat
5:30pm

 

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