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Brown Bag – Biology of Brain and Behavior
Emily Ward (Psychology) Title: TBD
Find out more »Colloquium Series: Jennifer Richeson (Yale)
Approaching “majority-minority” America: Social psychology underlies the racial and political dynamics of our increasingly diverse nation. Ongoing and projected demographic shifts in the racial composition of the United States have been heralded as necessitating, if…
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John Curtin (Psychology) Title: “Harnessing (somewhat) big data for harm reduction in alcohol and other drug use disorders”
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Stephen Gammie (Integrative Biology) Title: “Role of Nr1d1 in Social Reward”
Find out more »Colloquium Series: David Yeager
Colloquium Series: David Yeager (UT-Austin) Colloquium schedule for spring, 2018 Katie Hinde, February 1 Jennifer Richeson, April 5 David Yeager, April 19 Liz Phelps, April 26 Dedre Gentner, May 3 For information regarding…
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Jan Brascamp (Michigan State University) Title: TBD
Find out more »Colloquium Series: Liz Phelps (NYU)
Mechanisms of Threat Control Animal models of associative threat learning provide a basis for understanding human fears and anxiety. Building on research from animal models, we explore a range of means by which maladaptive defensive responses can be diminished…
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Journal club re: recent Cell papers on Arc (Ashley et al., 2018; Pastuzyn et al., 2018), its role in synaptic plasticity and retroviral-like ability for transmitting mRNA between neurons
Find out more »Colloquium Series: Dedre Gentner (Northwestern)
Analogy and Language in Relational Learning Relational learning and reasoning is central to higher-order cognition. It is essential in mathematics and science, and equally essential in social and ethical reasoning. Yet learning relational concepts is…
Find out more »Psychology Graduation Reception
The graduation reception is a time for our graduates to introduce their family and guests to faculty, staff, and fellow graduates from the Department of Psychology.
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