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NYU Psychology Talks 2008-2009

Departmental Colloquium

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

January 27
Robert Siegler, Carnegie Mellon University
There's Nothing So Practical As A Good Theory: From Theory To Application And Back
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South

February 10
Philip Johnson-Laird, Princeton University
How we reason

March 24
Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia
Title TBA

 

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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.


September 11
Adam Buchwald, New York University
The autonomy and nature of orthographic processing

September 18
Hakwan Lau, Columbia University
The functions and mechanisms of visual awareness

October 2
Daniel Oppenheimer, New York University
Voting Agent Model of Preferences: A Computational Model of Individual Multiattribute Choice

October 16
Thomas Thesen, New York University
See me, hear me, feel me: The spatio-temporal dynamics of cross-sensory integration


October 30
Karen Wynn, Yale University
Early Understanding of the Social World: Social Evaluations and Strategies in Infants


December 4
Alan Leslie, Rutgers University
Title TBA

January 29
David Badre, Brown University
Prefrontal cortex and the hierarchical control of behavior

February 5
Peter Vishton, The College of William & Mary
Action Controls Perception Just as Perception Controls Action: Evidence from Infant and Adult Looking, Judging, Reaching, and Driving

February 12
Marjorie Rhodes
, University of Michigan
A Social-Cognitive Perspective on the Development of Categorization

February 26
David Amodio, New York University
Implicit Stereotyping and Evaluatin: From Brain to Social Behavior

March 12
Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Facing Facts: Psychological and neural processes underlying face recognition

April 9
Matt Botvinick, Princeton University
A computational substrate for goal-directed behavior

April 16
Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University
Bags, breasts and lots of little cells: Visual search gets real

April 30
Josh McDermott, NYU Center for Neural Science
What can Psychoacoustics Reveal About the Sound of Music?

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Social Colloquia

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

October 16
Tory Higgins, Columbia University
Beyond Pleasure and Pain: Value from Strength of Engagement

November 11
Jesse Preston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
First Causes: The Power and Value of Explanation

November 13
Emily Balcetis, Ohio University
Motivated visual perfeption: how we see what we want to see

March 26
Serena Chen, UC Berkeley
Title TBA

 

Social Neuroscience Colloquia

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

December 4
Jay van Bavel, Ohio State University
Social identity shapes social perception and evaluation: a multi-level approach

April 16
Jennifer Beer, University of Texas at Austin
Title TBA

May 7
Turhan Canli, SUNY Stony Brook
Imaging Genetics of Neuroticism - A Role for Life Stres

Early Spring
Paul Whalen, Dartmouth
Title TBA

 


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Social Psychology Brown Bags

On Tuesdays from 12:30-2:00 pm in Psychology room 771, unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.


September 23
David Amodio
, NYU
What's being controlled?

Tessa West,
NYU
The power of the partner in intergroup interactions

September 30
Lindsay Rankin

Procedural Justice and Cooperation
Sylviane Houssais
Self-Regulating Attachment Anxiety

October 7
Jojanneke van der Toorn
System Justification, Satisfaction, and Perceptions of Fairness and Typicality at Work: A Cross-System Comparison involving the U.S. and Hungary
Polina Potanina
Revisiting the function of stereotyping and affective race bias: Implications of active vs. reactive orientations to intergroup behaviorions to intergroup behavior

October 21
Susumu Yamaguchi, University of Tokyo
Japanese self-esteem: Myths and realities

November 18
Jamie Napier
The palliative function of system justifying beliefs

November 25
Pranjal Mehta
The Social Endocrinology of Dominance

December 2
Heather Barry
Positive Future Fantasies and Self-Satisfaction
Avital Mentovich
The effect of outcomes and procedures on group based comparison and intergroup relations

December 9
Irina Feygina
In pursuit of the American Dream? Exploring the trajectories and consequences of system justification among immigrants
Daniel Kirk
Self-Regulation in Bargaining

January 27
Yaacov Trope
Traversing Psychological Distance

February 10
Gerald Clore
How Affect Regulates Judgement and Thought

February 17
Margarita Krochik
Attitudinal Consistency and Persuasion across the Ideological Spectrum

February 24
May Ling Halim
Straying From the Striaght and Narrow Path: Sex Bias in Hiring Job Applicants with Unconventional Work Histories
Danielle Gaucher
Language and the Maintenance of Inequality: How does the wording in job ads influence people's interest in specific careers?

March 10
Adam Alter
The Pervasive Role of Cultural, Social. and Metacognative Cues in Judgment: Ten Quick Studies

March 31
Richard Nisbett
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

April 7
Kyle Ratner
Intergroup bias in early visual attention: An ERP study of minimal groups
Saaid Mendoza
The Expression of Intergroup Bias in Reciprocal Interactions

April 14
Sam Maglio
Anger as a boon in goal striving
Erin Hennes
I'm Not Not Voting for Change:  Status Quo Bias as Motivated Cognition (Part 1)

April 21
Sean Lane
The Asymmetrical Paths of Mood Transmission
Liz Przybylinski
Shared Meaning Evoked in Transference

April 28
Sylviane Houssais
Self-Regulating Attachment Anxiety

May 5
Janet Lee
The Social Effects of Goal Projection
Minsun Seoung
The Role of Psychological Distance in Social Comparison

Job Talks

All dates subject to change.

November 18
Adam Waytz, University of Chicago
The Human Side of Nature

November 20
Fiery Cushman, Harvard University
Outcome vs. intent: Which do we punish, and why?

December 2
Evan Apfelbaum, Tufts University
Navigating Intergroup Contexts: Intuitive Strategies, Cognitive Control, and Social Outcomes

 

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