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Racial Awareness and Bias Begin Early: Developmental Entry Points, Challenges, and a Call to Action
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The Department of Psychology at Northwestern University was founded in 1909. Our department is a group of eminent faculty - scholars and teachers - who make major contributions to the field by helping to shape the base of knowledge, academic literature, and training of both undergraduate and graduate students of psychology
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Dec
9
2022
Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: Psychology Colloquium Series, Emotion...
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Online
This talk integrates evolutionary, biological, psychological and cultural perspectives to explore a novel hypothesis: that emotions are...
Jan
13
2023
Prof. Gina Poe: Psychology Colloquium Series, Mechanisms at work ...
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston
Mounting evidence from human and animal studies supports the idea that during sleep the brain is busy eliminating debris and redundant ...
Feb
10
2023
Prof. Carol Gilligan: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Evanston
Carol Gilligan is a professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at NYU. She is best known for her research on the moral development ...