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NYU Psychology Talks — 2012-2013

Departmental Colloquium

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

TBA

 

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Cognition & Perception Colloquia

On Thursdays in Psychology room 551 from 12:30-1:30 pm, unless otherwise noted. Here's a map with directions.


September 13
Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University
Title TBA

October 25
Nick Turk-Browne, Princeton University
Title TBA

November 1
Laura Schulz, MIT
Title TBA

November 15
Aude Oliva, MIT
Title TBA

November 29
Ione Fine, University of Washington
Title TBA

February 7
Randy Gallistel, Rutgers University
Title TBA

February 28
Mark D'Espositio, UC Berkeley
A blueprint for cognitive control: multiple neural mechanisms

March 28
Joseph Fruchter, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
Frequency as a window into language
Michael Grubb, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
Spatial attention in autism spectrum disorders

April 11
Stephanie Chen, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
Implicit and Explicit Processes in Category-Based Induction
Sarit Szpiro, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
Can irrelevant task training facilitate learning

May 2
Candace Raio, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
Neural mechanism of opportunity cost
Sara Constantino
, NYU Psychology Doctoral Student
The influence of stress on the regulation of fear


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Social Colloquia

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

October 18, 2012
Lee Jussim, Rutgers University
"I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?" Confessions, concessions, cautions, constructions, and conclusions of a politically incorrect social psychologist

December 13, 2012
David A. Kenny, University of Connecticut
Understanding How Events Change People

February 14, 2013
Eli Finkel, Northwestern University
Title TBA

March 28, 2013
Nilanjana Dasgupta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title TBA

All talks will be in Room 551 followed by a reception in 565 unless otherwise noted.


Social Neuroscience Colloquia

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


November 8
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
Inter-subject functional connectivity: a new tool for exploring the mechanisms of dyadic social interactions sensitivity promotes and impedes political engagement 

December 12
Regina Sullivan, NYU/Langone School of Medicine, Nathan Kline Institute
Title TBA

May 2
Amy Arnsten, Yale University
Taking Prefrontal Cortex "Off-Line" During Stress: The Molecular Switch

May 20
Roberto Caldara
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 18
Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago
The development of language as a social category

September 25
David Winter, University of Michigan
Taming Power: Should We? Can We? How?

October 2
Lila Davachi, NYU
Memory's Fate: Associative Memory Organization

October 9
Jessica L. Tracy, University of British Columbia
The Nature of Pride: From Self-Conscious Emotion to Social Status

October 23
Professional Development Workshop for Doctoral Students and Postdocs

November 6
Tobias Rothmund, University of Koblenz-Landau
Title TBD

November 13
Janet Ahn
Title TBA

November 27
Malia Mason, Columbia University
Goals gone wild: Taming a source of distration

December 4
Shana Cole
Title TBA
Amy Krosch
Title TBA

December 11
Joy Xu
Title TBA
Jenny Ray
Title TBA

January 29
Adam Galinsky
Towards a Theory of Gender Optimality: The Effect of Gendered Races on Interracial Dating, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation

February 12
Chadly Stern
"Ditto Heads": Do Conservatives Perceive a Greater Concensus within their Ranks than Liberals?

February 26
Lindy Gullett
Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members' evaluations of each other
Jenny Xiao
The end of automaticality? Social identity appraisal modulates rapid evaluation

March 5
David Kalkstein
Modeling Across Psychological Distance
Daniel Yudkin

Social Comparison to Near and Distant Others

March 12
Leor Hackel
Social identity alters mind perception: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence
Kate Reilly

Indulging in a desired future creates empty arousal

March 26
Eric Dickson
Title TBA

April 2
Seth Dickinson
Proactive Control of Racial Bias
Joanna Sterling

Terror Management in the 2012 Presidential Election

April 9
Stefan Huynh
If the hue fits: perceptual readiness for colors
Francesca Manzi
Updating impressions: the tenacity of stereotype-based expectations about women

April 16
Jenny DePierre
The effect of intergroup anxiety on control
Bryan Sim
Thinking small: The mental contrasting of daily subgoals

April 23
William Brady
See what you feel: emotion perception in romantic relationships
Rugile Tuskeviciute
Title TBA

April 30
Crystal Clarke
The Missing Link: Exploring the Association between Race and Class
Marika Yip-Bannicq
Relationship Conflict & Construal Level Theory

All dates subject to change.


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Job Talks



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CNS Job Talks

April 29
NYUSH Job Candidate
Andrew Maurer, University of Arizona
Short-time Scale Dynamics of the Hippocampus
12:30pm

May 1
NYUSH Job Candidate
Xing Ting, NYU
Predicting perceptual consequences from motor systems
4:00pm

 

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