Apr
4
2025
Dr.Tiffany Yip: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Tiffany Yip, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. She is a developmental and community psychologist Her research...
Past Events
2021-2022Jan
31
2025
Dr. Franki Y. H. Kung: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title: “Robotic Asians”: A Mechanistic Dehumanization Perspective on Anti-Asian Bias in the U.S. Abstract: Psychology has documented several stereotypes that explain...
Nov
15
2024
Dr. Laurie Bayet: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title: LEARNING FROM BABIES: HOWINFANTS UNDERSTAND THEVISUAL AND AFFECTIVEWORLDAmerican Abstract: Developmental approaches uniquely reveal the origins of perceptual andcognitive representations underlying...
Nov
8
2024
Dr. Riana Elyse Anderson: Psychology Colloquium Series
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Title: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Youth of Color by Any Means Necessary Abstract: For youth of color, prolonged exposure...
Oct
4
2024
Dr. Daniel Simons: Psychology Colloquium Series, "Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice unexpected objects or events when a person is focusing their attention on something...
May
17
2024
Prof. David Creswell: Psychology Colloquium Series, "How do mindfulness interventions work?"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
There has been a significant growth in research and public interest in mindfulness interventions, which teach a capacity to be...
May
3
2024
Prof. Dana Miller-Cotto: Psychology Colloquium Series, “Examining measurement invariance by race: The case of the dimensional change card sort”
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Executive function remains one of the most investigated variables in both cognitive science and education given its high correlation with...
Apr
5
2024
Prof. Vanessa Volpe: Psychology Colloquium Series, "To Be Young, Online, and Black: Racism, Liberation, and Health in Online Environments"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
The online context provides challenges and opportunities for Black young adults' oppression, liberation, and subsequent health. Yet a majority of...
Jan
26
2024
Prof. Jon Krosnick: Psychology Colloquium Series, "Is Danny Kahneman Right? An Evaluation of Using Surveys to Measure Economic Values"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
One view of democracy suggests that in order to be viewed as legitimate, a government must take into account the...
Nov
17
2023
Prof. Philip Corlett: Psychology Colloquium Series, "Translational Models for Psychosis Research"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Join us for our next colloquium event with Dr. Philip Corlett! There will be a reception after the event. Title: Translational...
Nov
3
2023
Prof. Mary Hegarty: Psychology Colloquium Series, "Individual Differences in Navigation"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
In this talk, I will review evidence for large individual differences in human navigation ability, or what is commonly referred...
Oct
13
2023
Prof. Carol Gilligan: Psychology Colloquium Series, "In a Human Voice"
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Forty years after the publication of In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution,” Gilligan returns to...
Sep
27
2023
The Essential Role of Social Mobilization in Confronting the Climate Crisis
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Trienens Institute
Join us in welcoming Professor Adam Aron from the University of California San Diego and City of Evanston Mayor Daniel...
May
12
2023
Prof. Neil Lewis, Jr.: Psychology Colloquium Series, Cultivating Unequal Minds: Meaning Making in a Fragmented Democracy
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
The United States has long been, and continues to be, a highly segregated society. When societies separate groups of people...
Apr
14
2023
Prof. William Warren: Psychology Colloquium Series, "Flocks, schools, and crowds: Behavioral dynamics of collective motion"
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Balletic displays of coordinated motion in bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds are believed to emerge from local interactions...
Mar
10
2023
Prof. David Chae: Psychology Colloquium Series, “Causes of Death: Racism and Other Macro-Social Determinants of Health and Psychobiological Mechanisms of Disease”
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
David Chae, Sc.D., M.A., is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Director of the Society,...
Jan
13
2023
Prof. Gina Poe: Psychology Colloquium Series, Mechanisms at work during sleep that serve memory and mental health
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Mounting evidence from human and animal studies supports the idea that during sleep the brain is busy eliminating debris and...
Dec
9
2022
Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: Psychology Colloquium Series, Emotions, the Brain, and Meaning-Making
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
This talk integrates evolutionary, biological, psychological and cultural perspectives to explore a novel hypothesis: that emotions are flexible biological categories...
Nov
11
2022
Prof. Adriana Galvan: Psychology Colloquium Series, Neural Sensitivity to Messaging in Adolescents and Adults
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Exposure to media content is ubiquitous in daily life. Contemporary adolescents and young adults are particularly engaged with content that...
Sep
16
2022
Psychology New Graduate Student Orientation
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Welcome new psychology graduate students!
Jun
3
2022
Dr. Elaine F Walker - Emory University - Psychosis: The origins of vulnerability and the developmental course.
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Psychosis: The origins of vulnerability and the developmental course. Abstract: After decades of seeking to identify the specific gene or cognitive...
May
20
2022
Prof Shakira Suglia - Emory University - Early life adversity and cardiometabolic health: Examining mediators and modifiers
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Psychology
Early life adversities which include experiences such as child maltreatment, household dysfunction, bullying, exposure to crime, discrimination, bias, and victimization...