Colloquium

End of Semester Event

Wednesday, December 7, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Join us in person for our end-of-semester event!

Student Presentations

Wednesday, November 30, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Join us for an exciting day as BASP students present their research!

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Faculty Meeting

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Jason Siegel

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Margaret Bull Kovera (John Jay College)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Kate Turetsky (Columbia University)

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Faculty Meeting

Wednesday, October 19, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Lori Hoggard (Rutgers University)

Wednesday, October 12, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Join us for Lori Hoggard’s talk entitled, "An Examination of African Americans' Perception of Police Officers and Neighborhood Watch Signs."

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Keith Maddox (Tufts University)

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Join us for Keith Maddox’s talk entitled: "We (Really) Need to Talk: Encouraging and Empowering Interracial Dialogue."

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Panel on Non-Academic Jobs and Internships

Wednesday, September 14, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Come and learn about career options outside of academia!

List of speakers:

• Katlyn Milless, Mathematica
• Darren Agboh, NSF
• Richard Smith, Meta
• Olivia Holmes, Praxis Labs

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Welcome Back!

Wednesday, September 7, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Welcome to the 2022-2023 academic year!

In-person attendance is in room 6304.1 at the Graduate Center

Faculty Meeting

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
4:15 PM 6:00 PM
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Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, May 11, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

BASP First Doctoral Exam Presentations

• Wednesday, May 4, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Join us for an exciting day as BASP students present their research for their First Doctoral Exams!

Alix Alto: “There could be actual freedom”: Radical imagination on the American left

Ricky Granderson: Brothers in arms: Physical touch in men’s homosocial friendships

Madeline Nickel: From injustice to inaction: The role of worldview threat in dampening collective action

 

Student Research Showcase

• Wednesday, April 27, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

BASP students showcase and discuss their most recent and fascinating research to date!

 

R Workshop

• Wednesday, April 13, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Join us as BASP student Ryan Tracy leads a workshop on data cleaning and visualization in R using ggplot2!

 

Mina Cikara Harvard University

• Wednesday, April 6, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: Causes and consequences of coalitional cognition

Abstract: What is a group? How do we know to which groups we belong? How do we assign others to groups? A great deal of theorizing across the social sciences has conceptualized ‘groups’ as synonymous with ‘categories,’ however there are a number of limitations to this approach: particularly for making predictions about novel intergroup contexts or about how intergroup dynamics will change over time. Here I present two projects that offer alternative frameworks for thinking about these questions. First I review some recent work elucidating the cognitive processes that give rise to the inference of coalitions (even in the absence of category labels). Then I'll discuss an ongoing project on the effects of social group reference dependence--which falls out of coalitional reasoning--on hate crimes in the U.S. between 1990 and 2010.

Assistant Professor

Bio: Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily on how group membership, competition, and prejudice disrupt the processes that allow people to see others as human and to empathize with others. She uses a wide range of tools—standard laboratory experiments, implicit and explicit behavioral measures, fMRI and psychophysiology—to examine failures of empathy, dehumanization, and misunderstanding between groups. She is equally interested in the behavioral consequences of these processes: discrimination, conflict, and harm. Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2010 and completed a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Before arriving to Harvard, she was an Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (2012-2014). Research interests: Intergroup bias, emotion, cognitive and affective neuroscience.

 

Larisa Heiphetz Columbia University

• Wednesday, March 30, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk Title: Redemption After Wrongdoing: Children's and Adults' Responses to Transgressions

Abstract: TBD

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Heiphetz focuses on moral cognition in children and adults. Some studies investigate topics of central interest to moral philosophy and psychology, such as the extent to which moral beliefs are similar to other mental states and the role of moral beliefs in identity. In addition to this line of work, she studies two topics related to moral psychology. First, because many people link religion and morality, she is interested in how individuals think about religious ideas and how they perceive religious out-group members. Second, because involvement in the criminal justice system is often associated with moral transgressions, she is interested in how individuals think about the justice system and about individuals who are involved in this system.

 

Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, March 23, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

 

Alumni Panel

• Wednesday, March 16, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Join us for a panel discussion on professional development and career trajectories led by BASP alumni!

Speakers:

• Inna Saboshchuk (’18) – Senior Data Product Manager, Levi Strauss & Co
• Matthew Goldberg (’18) – Associate Research Scientist, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
• Noelle Malvar (’20) – Senior Researcher, More in Common
• Maureen Coyle (’21) – incoming Assistant Professor, Widener University
• Maya Godbole (’21) – Consultant, Paradigm IQ

 

Amanda Gesselman Kinsey Institute Indiana University Bloomington

• Wednesday, March 9, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk Title: Love and Sex in Lockdown: Findings from 2 Years of the Pandemic

Abstract: TBD

Head of Research Analytics & Methodology

Bio: Dr. Amanda Gesselman a social–developmental psychologist with additional training in advanced methodology and statistics. She has been with the Kinsey Institute since 2014, and is now the Associate Director for Research at The Kinsey Institute and the inaugural Anita Aldrich Endowed Research Scientist at Indiana University.

Over the last 10 years, Dr. Gesselman has been involved in a wide array of social­–behavioral research. Her current research interests are in new trends in the romantic and sexual lives of adults around the world, the influence of close relationships on health and well-being, and how technology can be used to facilitate meaningful connections.

Dr. Gesselman has served as a scientific or statistical consultant for various corporations, non-profit organizations, and academic collaborations. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and covered by international media outlets including TIME, VICE, and Netflix’s Explained.

 

Arnold Ho University of Michigan

• Wednesday, March 2, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center.

Talk Title: Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand Intergroup Relations: Multiracial Categorization as a Case Study

Abstract: Researchers have used social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity theories, to understand intergroup phenomena ranging from racial categorization to political movements. The result has been a growing understanding of how particular sociopolitical motives and contexts impact intergroup relations, without a unifying perspective to integrate these insights. Using research on multiracial categorization as a case study, I review evidence supporting each theory’s predictions concerning how monoracial perceivers categorize multiracial people that combine their ingroup with an outgroup, with attention to the moderating role of perceiver group status. I find most studies in the multiracial categorization literature cannot arbitrate between theories of intergroup relations and reveal additional gaps in the literature. To advance this research area, I introduce the Sociopolitical Motive x Intergroup Threat (SMIT) Model of Intergroup Relations that 1) clarifies which sociopolitical motives interact with which intergroup threats to predict categorization and 2) highlights the role of perceiver group status. Moreover, I consider how the SMIT model can help understand phenomena beyond racial categorization.

Associate Professor

Bio: Research in Dr. Ho’s lab examines why systems of group-based social inequality are ubiquitous and resistant to change. His current research centers around three major themes. The first is why individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one group (e.g., biracial people) are categorized and perceived as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Second is the nature of social dominance orientation (SDO), or individual differences in the preference for inequality between groups (e.g., race or caste groups). The third is the endorsement of ideologies and beliefs that justify group-based inequality and discrimination (that is, beliefs that make inequality seem fair or legitimate).

 

TBD

• Wednesday, February 23, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Keep this day open for a TBA professional development event!

 

SPSP Practice

• Wednesday, February 9, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center.

BASP students present their talks and posters in preparation for this year’s Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference in San Francisco, CA!

 

Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, February 2, 2022
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

 

Faculty meeting

• Wednesday, December 8, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

 

Industry, Applied, and Private Sector Careers Panel

• Wednesday, December 1, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Join us for a panel discussion on industry, applied research, and private sector careers applicable for social psychology PhDs!

Zoom link (for remote access)

In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Lightning talk presenters:

Alison Goldberg

Industry panelists:

Ron Friedman, PhD

Ron is an author, speaker, and founder of ignite80, a training company that helps smart leaders create extraordinary workplaces. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in social-personality psychology from the University of Rochester.

Brian Johnston, PhD

Brian is a Principal Data Scientist at IBM. He completed his PhD, with Demis Glasford as his advisor and a focus on understanding intergroup relations. He now applies data science solutions to improve HR at IBM.

Diego Reinero, PhD

Diego is a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, holding a Ph.D. in social psychology from New York University and dual B.S. in psychology and business from Skidmore College. Although Diego is still in the academic world, he has been dabbling with non-academic careers. He completed an internship at Airbnb this past summer as a Quantitative UX Researcher, and worked pro-bono with the behavioral science nonprofit, ideas42, the summer prior as a Behavioral Science Consultant. As a recent Ph.D. graduate, Diego is happy to discuss various things to consider during graduate school and his experience in both the academic and non-academic world.

Julian Wills, PhD

Julian is a Data Scientist at Facebook.

 

TBA (Professional Development)

• Wednesday, November 24, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Keep this day open for a TBA professional development event!

 

Robert MacCoun Stanford University

• Wednesday, November 17, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: Causal Lens Analysis of Judgments

Abstract: People construct and act on cognitive maps of relationships among variables in their environment. Egon Brunswick’s mid-20th century “lens model” provided a useful framework for studying this mapping process, facilitating a comparison between the correlates of outcomes in the world and the correlates of our predictions of those outcomes. While the framework has been invaluable for identifying biases and misjudgments, it has focused on patterns of association rather than causation. Recent theoretical and methodological advances suggest it might be fruitful to incorporate causal structure into the lens model. I sketch out a causal extension of the lens model (CLens) and discuss some of its potential benefits and challenges for theory construction, research design, and data interpretation.

Professor

Bio: Dr. MacCoun is a social psychologist and public policy analyst who has published numerous studies on a variety of topics, including illicit drug use, drug policy, judgment and decision-making, citizens’ assessments of fairness in the courts, social influence processes, and bias in the use and interpretation of research evidence by scientists, journalists and citizens. A preeminent scholar working at the border of law and psychology, his scholarship involves a mix of experimental and non-experimental empirical research as well as computational modeling and simulation.

Elizabeth Page-Gould University of Toronto

• Wednesday, November 10, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: The Intergroup Perspective on Cross-Group Friendship

Abstract: Cross-group friendship has long been considered a powerful component of positive intergroup relations, largely because cross-group friendship was assumed to be an “optimal” type of intergroup contact (Allport, 1954). While we recognize that cross-group friendship cannot exist in the absence of intergroup contact, we argue that cross-group friendship is something greater than extremely good contact. Cross-group friendship is the manifestation of intergroup cooperation at the individual level of scale. Describing our asymptotic model of intergroup contact (MacInnis & Page-Gould, 2015), we discuss how intergroup contact can improve or worsen prejudice. When contact involves repeated intergroup interactions with the same outgroup member, then a cross-group friendship has the potential to emerge. Drawing on complexity theory, we suggest that cross-group friendships are complex adaptive systems that emerge from repeated intergroup interactions with the same outgroup member. Cross-group friendships exhibit many features of complex adaptative systems, such as being chaotic, dynamic, and self-organizing. We organize our research on cross-group friendship into early, intermediate, and established stages of cross-group friendship development to explore this idea. We conclude that cross-group friendships are complex manifestations of intergroup relations at the individual level.

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Page-Gould’s research focuses on how social interactions between strangers and friends affect the way people think about and approach the world, particularly within the domain of intergroup relations. Her lab specializes in multi-person, longitudinal, psychophysiological, and behavioural data collection across both laboratory and field settings. The lab also specializes in advanced statistical analysis and quantitative innovation. Both the research conducted in SPRQL and the training environment the lab offers represent a unique combination of advanced research methods from social psychology, psychophysiology, and statistics.

 

Amy Muise York University

• Wednesday, November 3, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: Fanning the flame: The role of sexual communal motivation

Abstract: One important but challenging aspect of maintaining a satisfying romantic relationship is keeping the sexual spark alive. Research suggests the importance of a couple’s sexual connection in the maintenance of their relationship, but sustaining high levels of desire for a partner over the course of time can be difficult. In the current review, we argue that one novel approach to understanding how couples might maintain desire and satisfaction over the course of time in their relationships is applying theories of communal motivation to the domain of sexuality. In this line of research, we have demonstrated that people high in sexual communal strength – those who are motivated to be non-contingently responsive to their partners’ sexual needs – are able to sustain higher sexual desire over the course of time and navigate sexual disagreements in a way that maintains both partners’ relationship quality. Future research directions include broadening the view of sexual needs to include the need to decline or reject a partner’s sexual advances and investigating how partners manage unmet sexual needs.

Assistant Professor

Bio: Why are some couples able to keep their sexual spark alive and have fulfilling romantic partnerships over time while other couples are disconnected and discontent? Dr. Muise’s research focuses on understanding how couples can maintain happier relationships and have more fulfilling sex lives over time. In her research, she applies social psychological theories of close relationships and motivation to understand when and for whom sex is associated with benefits and when it might detract from the quality of relationships. She uses dyadic and longitudinal research methods and analyses (i.e., daily experience studies, multi-level modeling) to understand how sexual processes unfold to impact relationship well-being in the context of couples’ daily lives as well as over the course of time as relationships grow and develop.

Dr. Muise is interested in understanding these processes not only when couples are doing well, but also when they are navigating relationship transitions, such as the transition to parenthood or the COVID-19 pandemic, or coping with a clinical sexual issue, such as low sexual desire. Her interest lies in understanding the individual and relationship characteristics that help couples navigate relationship changes and challenges with greater success.

 

Laura Niemi Cornell University

• Wednesday, October 27, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

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In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: Principled or personal? Moral values and causal attribution

Abstract: Because they are implicated in punishment and blame, differences in causal attributions can be morally significant. In this talk, I’ll present research that addresses several open questions about causal attribution and moral judgment. Why don’t causal attributions straightforwardly reflect the moral principles in values? How much do the attributor’s own personal values really matter in attribution for moral violations? Do values interact with an attributor’s relationship to the violator? Findings from six preregistered studies (total N = 2,596) disambiguate influences on causal attribution for moral violations. The results indicate that causal attribution is both principled and personal, influenced by (1) principles intrinsic to attributors’ values, (2) individual differences in values, and (3) the attributors’ relationship to the violator.

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Niemi’s research examines the psychological underpinnings of why and how people morally judge each other, decide what is right and wrong, make choices to help or harm, and live out their values. Dr. Niemi also investigates how methods and findings from moral psychology research can be applied to address social issues.

 

Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, October 20, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

 

Professional Development: R Basics Workshop

• Wednesday, October 13, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Zoom link (for remote access)

In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Join us for a professional development day where BASP student Ryan Tracy will lead a workshop on the basics of data analysis using R!

Lightning talk presenters:

Katlyn Milless

Rachel Fikslin

 

Professional Development: Asking Questions at Conferences

• Wednesday, October 6, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Zoom link (for remote access)

In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Join us for a professional development event where we will discuss the ins and outs of asking questions at professional conferences! We will also have two students present their current research in a lightning talk!

Lighting talk presenters:

Jaclyn Doherty

Ryan Tracy

 

Mina Cikara Harvard University

• Wednesday, September 29, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Zoom link (for remote access)

In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

Talk title: Context dependence in social preferences and categorization

Abstract: Many of society's most significant social decisions are made over sets of individuals: for example, evaluating a collection of job candidates when making a hiring decision. Rational theories of choice dictate that decision makers' preferences between any two options should remain the same irrespective of the number or quality of other options. And yet, people's preferences for each option in a choice set shift in predictable ways as a function of the available alternatives. These violations are well documented in consumer behavior contexts: for example, the decoy effect, in which introducing a third inferior product changes consumers' preferences for two original products. I will discuss two projects which shift the target of inquiry from products to people, and aim to harness insights from computational models of decision-making to examine how choice set construction can be used to change social preferences via attribute accumulation and intergroup categorization via latent structure learning.

Assistant Professor

Bio: Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily on how group membership, competition, and prejudice disrupt the processes that allow people to see others as human and to empathize with others. She uses a wide range of tools—standard laboratory experiments, implicit and explicit behavioral measures, fMRI and psychophysiology—to examine failures of empathy, dehumanization, and misunderstanding between groups. She is equally interested in the behavioral consequences of these processes: discrimination, conflict, and harm. Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2010 and completed a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Before arriving to Harvard, she was an Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (2012-2014). Research interests: Intergroup bias, emotion, cognitive and affective neuroscience.

 

Faculty meeting

• Wednesday, September 22, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

 

Welcome back!

• Wednesday, September 1, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Welcome to the 2021-2022 academic year!

In-person attendance is in room 9100 (Skylight Room) at the Graduate Center

BASP Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, May 12, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

BASP First Doctoral Research Presentations

• Wednesday, May 5, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Join us as BASP Students share the results from their First Doctoral Exam research projects!

Jaclyn Doherty: Preferences, predictors, and outcomes of interfaith dating relationships.

Grace Flores-Robles: What's love got to do with it? Understanding unique barriers in care workers' labor organizing.

Andre Oliver: Black + White = stereotypically Black: Visualizing mental representations of Black-White Biracial people.

Spring Showcase - Student Presentations

• Wednesday, April 28, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Join us for our Spring Showcase!

Current BASP students are invited to share new data, introduce new theories, or provide broad updates on ongoing projects!

Grant Writing Workshop (Part 2)

• Wednesday, April 21, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Eric Hehman McGill University

• Wednesday, April 14, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Talk Title: The structure of regional intergroup bias

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Eric Hehman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at McGill University and director of the Seeing Human Lab. Generally, Dr. Hehman’s research examines how individuals perceive and evaluate one another across group boundaries (e.g., race, gender, sexual-orientation, occupation, etc). To address these questions, he takes a multi-method approach, incorporating a broad range of behavioral (e.g., computer-mouse tracking, digital face modeling, group interactions) and statistical techniques (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, machine learning). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware working with Sam Gaertner, and worked as a post-doctoral scholar with Jon Freeman at Dartmouth College and New York University. He was an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto for three years before transitioning to McGill.

Jessica Flake McGill University

• Wednesday, April 7, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Talk Title: Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Jess Flake received a BS in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University in 2010, an MA in Quantitative Psychology from James Madison University in 2012, and a PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment from the University of Connecticut in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in quantitative psychology at York University and educational psychology at the University of Virginia. In 2018 she started her lab in the Quantitative Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at McGill University. JK Flake is also the Assistant Director for Methods at the Psychological Science Accelerator, and a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Enrollment Management Association. Her research interests include the development and application of latent variable models for use in educational and social psychological research and the improvement of measurement practices in psychology more broadly. When she isn't estimating variances, she is a casual powerlifter and chef.

BASP Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, March 24, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Gabriel Camacho John Jay College

• Wednesday, March 17, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Talk Title: Understanding stereotype threat: Vulnerability, consequences, and belief

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Gabriel Camacho is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He received his B.A. (2012) in Psychology from the University of Virginia and his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) from the University of Connecticut. He joined John Jay in 2020. His research interest centers on examining ethnic inequality from both the perpetrators’ and targets’ perspectives in order to obtain a better understanding of the causes and consequences of these disparities and of the lived experiences of stigmatized minority populations. He has pursued this research interest primarily by examining novel ways in which perceptions and experiences of stereotype threat—the risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s social group—contributes to inequality in academic achievement.

Dorainne Green Indiana University

• Wednesday, March 10, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Talk Title: Managing emotions in the face of discrimination: Implications for individual and group outcomes

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Dorainne Green was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University from 2016-2018. Following her fellowship with CRRES, she accepted a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University in 2016. Her research explores the pathways through which stigma-related stressors contribute to disparities in education and health between socially advantaged and socially disadvantaged individuals. A primary interest is the identification of strategies to help stigmatized individuals manage the challenges of navigating diverse spaces, including those with the potential to expose them to stigma-related stressors.

Kate Ratliff University of Florida

• Wednesday, March 3, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Talk Title: Understanding implicit bias: Experimental evaluation of an online implicit bias education program

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Kate Ratliff is the director of the Attitudes and Social Cognition (ASC) Lab at the University of Florida and the executive director of Project Implicit, a non-profit with the goal to educate the public about implicit biases, to develop methodological tools to measure implicit bias, and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.

Writing Workshop

• Wednesday, February 24, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

*** This event has been rescheduled to later in the semester! ***

Join us for a writer’s workshop!

Grant Writing Workshop (Part 1)

• Wednesday, February 17, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

BASP Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, February 10, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Welcome Back!

• Wednesday, February 3, 2021
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
• The Graduate Center (map)

Welcome back for the Spring 2021 semester!

BASP Faculty Meeting

• Wednesday, December 9, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

BASP First Doctoral Research Presentations

• Wednesday, December 2, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Join us as BASP Students share the results from their First Doctoral Exam research projects!

Alison Goldberg: “He said, she said”: The effect of perspective on perception of ambiguously consensual encounters.

Jackie Katzman: Evidence-based suspicion: Evidence strength affects officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.

Melanie Fessinger: From whose perspective? Differences between actors and observers in determining the voluntariness of guilty pleas.

Ryan Tracy: Would he really do that? Face–behavior congruence moderates spontaneous inferences.

BASP writing workshop

• Wednesday, November 18, 2020
• 3:00 AM 5:00 AM

** Update: this event has been canceled. Join us December 2nd for student First Doctoral Exam presentations! **

The BASP writing workshop will be led by Justin Storbeck.

Tiffany Ito University of Colorado, Boulder

• Wednesday, November 11, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Talk Title: Fitting in to move forward: Understanding gender disparities in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM)

Professor

Bio: Dr. Tiffany Ito completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. Her research addresses social psychological issues using a multi-level approach that integrates social psychological and neuroscience perspectives. Topics of interest include prejudice, stereotyping, attitudes, emotion, and face perception. Recent projects have used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure affective and cognitive processes associated with person perception, including early social categorization processes and mechanisms by which prejudice and stereotype activation are detected and inhibited.

Virtual Open House for Prospective Students

• Wednesday, November 4, 2020
• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

To learn more about our program and how to apply, please register for the Zoom link at: https://tinyurl.com/BASPOH

Eva Pietri India University - Perdue University Indianapolis

• Wednesday, October 28, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Talk Title: Media Matters: Exploring the unique benefits of video interventions for promoting diversity in STEM

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Eva Pietri is the Principal Investigator of the Pietri Social Intervention & Attitudes lab and an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the Ohio State University. After receiving her PhD., Dr. Pietri completed a postdoctoral position at Yale University, during which she worked in the Psychology department and in the Center for Scientific Teaching. Dr. Pietri is motivated in her research on the importance of role models with intersectional identities. Although she did not pursue a career in the arts (her mother was an artist and her father was a poet and part of Nuyorican Poetry movement), her upbringing has fueled her interest in using art and media as diversity interventions. Lastly, Dr. Pietri is a big (and sometimes zealous) Ohio State football fan.

Barry Cohen New York University

• Wednesday, October 21, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Talk Title: Mental Pain

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Barry Cohen is a research affiliate in the Steinhardt school, and, along with Joshua Aronson, he directs the Mindful Education Lab. Recently, he retired as a clinical associate professor, and had been director of NYU's GSAS M.A. program in psychology for more than a decade. He has taught statistics and research design at the graduate level for more than 25 years, and is the author of three statistics text books currently in print. He received a B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in general psychology from Queens College, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from NYU. He completed two years of post-doctoral research under the guidance of Richard Davidson at Purchase College in New York. His current research is focused in two main areas: the subjective and neural correlates of inner speech; and the cognitive, affective, and physiological changes produced by the regular practice of meditation and related mental exercises.

William J Brady Yale University

• Wednesday, October 7, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Talk Title: Natural language processing basics in R (workshop)

Bio: Will is a social psychologist interested in how digital social environments shape human emotions, morality and politics. His research includes multiple methodologies such as behavioral experiments, social media analytics, and language processing. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University. Currently, he is a NSF postdoctoral fellow in the psychology department at Yale University.

Jon Zadra The Sorensen Impact Center

• Wednesday, September 30, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Talk Title: Data, policy, and performance innovation

Director, Sorensen Impact Center

Bio: Dr. Jon Zadra is a Director at the Sorenson Impact Center over Data, Policy, and Performance Innovation, where he works with non-profit and government clients to design rigorous evaluations and build quantitative models for complex social data. Before joining the Sorenson team, he was most recently an adjunct professor with the University of Utah Department of Psychology as well as Future Generations Graduate School where, among other things, he taught quantitative methods courses. Prior to this he completed postdoctoral research in Australia at Curtin University and University of Queensland. Jon completed Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s at San Diego State University. His research focused on visual perception and bioenergetic aspects of cognitive neuroscience. While in graduate school, he was also a volunteer EMT and captain at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, one of the busiest all-volunteer squads in the nation, and is now a member of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.

Due to coronavirus precautions and the need for social distancing, all colloquium speakers for Spring 2020 have been canceled

Jessi Smith University of Colorado Colorado Springs & Dustin Tomin San Diego State University

• Wednesday, April 29, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

TALK CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS

Talk Title: TBD

Jessi Smith

Professor

Bio: Dr. Smith is a Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah and spent much of her academic career at Montana State University where she served as the primary investigator of the NSF funded ADVANCE Project TRACS, which aimed to broaden the participation of women faculty in STEM and behavioral science fields in ways that foster excellence for the entire campus community. Dr. Smith’s primary research interest is on how societal norms and stereotypes undermine or support an individual’s motivational experience; Her research specializes in social psychological aspects of gender and culture that advance the success of people at risk in education, business, and health.

Dustin Thoman

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Thoman is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University. His training is in social psychology, with expertise in quantitative analysis. Dr. Thoman’s research is both theoretical and applied, focusing on the development of student interest and the influence of stereotypes and social identities in shaping the development of students’ educational and career interests. Through consulting and program development, he also works to improve educational programs, particularly those designed to broaden participation and promote diversity in science and math education, through theoretically and empirically-grounded approaches.

Keith Maddox Tufts University

• Wednesday, April 22, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

TALK CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS

Associate Professor

Talk Title: TBD

Dr. Keith Maddox is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Tufts University Social Cognition Lab. He received his A.B. (1991) in psychology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His lab is focused on research programs examining social cognitive aspects of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination – seeking to understand topics such as: cognitive representations and stereotypes of African Americans based on variation in skin tone and other phenotypic characteristics; how stereotypes and prejudice influence perceptions of those who claim to be the targets of discrimination; stereotype threat among members of socially marginalized groups; and the role of social categories in spatial representation.

Bonita London Stony Brook University

• Wednesday, April 1, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

TALK CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS

Associate Professor

Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Dr. London is an Associate Professor in the Stony Brook University Department of Psychology. Her research aims to identify and explore the individual, psychosocial and institutional mechanisms associated with social identity threat on the academic, intergroup and psychosocial well-being of historically marginalized groups (on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation). Utilizing social-cognitive models of status-based rejection sensitivity (gender, race, sexual orientation), lay theories of personality and competence, and perceived identity compatibility, Dr. London’s work explores the social and developmental mechanisms of how people anticipate, perceive, and cope with cues of identity and competence threat.

Barry Cohen New York University

• Wednesday, March 18, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

TALK CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS

Associate Professor

Talk title: Reducing stress and the mental pain of everyday life​

Bio: Dr. Cohen is a research affiliate in the Steinhardt school, and, along with Joshua Aronson, he directs the Mindful Education Lab. Recently, he retired as a clinical associate professor, and had been director of NYU's GSAS M.A. program in psychology for more than a decade. He has taught statistics and research design at the graduate level for more than 25 years, and is the author of three statistics text books currently in print. He received a B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in general psychology from Queens College, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from NYU. He completed two years of post-doctoral research under the guidance of Richard Davidson at Purchase College in New York. His current research is focused in two main areas: the subjective and neural correlates of inner speech; and the cognitive, affective, and physiological changes produced by the regular practice of meditation and related mental exercises.

Valerie Purdie Greenaway Columbia University

• Wednesday, March 11, 2020
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

TALK CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS

Associate Professor

Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Dr. Purdie Greenaway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Her lab lab promotes the development of research regarding people with threatened identities, and examines the consequences of their experiences for intergroup relations. The ultimate goal of her research is to deepen our understanding of culture and intergroup relations in society and to eventually inform educational and public policy.

BASP First Doctoral Research Presentations and End of Year Social

• Wednesday, December 11, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Michael Gill Lehigh University

• Wednesday, November 20, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Associate Professor

Talk Title: Historicist narratives and the mitigation of blame: Evidence for racial bias and its amelioration

Bio: Dr. Gill is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Lehigh University. His research investigates the psychology of blame and punishment, with a particular focus on how to temper people's tendency to respond to wrongdoing in overly harsh, counterproductive ways.

Nechumi Yaffe Princeton University

• Wednesday, November 13, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Postdoctoral Researcher

Talk Title: God, sex, and money: Mating preferences in the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community

An examination of mating preferences in the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community confirms many predictions from an evolutionary perspective and departs only in that women do not show a preference for mates with good financial prospects, but rather,  women display a preference for men of strong religious devotion. Implications and broader consequences will be discussed. 

Bio: Nechumi Yaffe, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with Princeton’s Department of Sociology and the University Center for Human Values. Nechumi’s research examines, from a social psychology perspective, how identity, social norms, and authority play a role in creating and preserving poverty. Her work focuses on the ultra-orthodox (Haredi) community in Israel, a population currently understudied. Current and future publications consider the perceptions and heuristics that shape community members’ decisions in the face of scarcity. This project aims to inform and improve policymakers’ decisions and to expand the understanding of the intricacy of poverty. Nechumi earned a PhD in political science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is the first women from Israel’s ultra-orthodox community to achieve a postdoctoral position.

Joshua Aronson New York University

• Wednesday, November 6, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Associate Professor

Talk Title: How to make children smarter, happier, and nicer with social psychology

Can schools make poor children happier, smarter, and nicer to one another? Some schools do this exquisitely and much of their success is best understood with social psychology. I show that the answer can be yes, and one of the keys to doing so is a bag of social psychological tricks.

Bio: Dr. Aronson is an associate professor of developmental, social, and educational psychology at New York University. Along with Barry Cohen, PhD, Joshua directs the Mindful Education Lab, a group of psychologists and neuroscientists dedicated to using research to improve the psychological functioning and learning of children confronted with stress.

Andy Elliot University of Rochester

• Wednesday, October 30, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Professor

Talk Title: The role of perceived environmental competitiveness in motivation and behavior

Competitiveness is a fundamental motivation and is ubiquitous in daily life. Competitiveness may be manifest in three ways – as a dispositional tendency, as a perception of the environment, and as a manipulated state. In my talk, I will focus on the role of perceived environmental competitiveness (PEC) as a key variable in several different motivation-relevant phenomena. Specifically, I will present data from several different series of empirical studies showing a) the relation between PEC and achievement (both meta-analytically and in a new study), b) the projection of trait competitiveness onto PEC, c) the mediational role of PEC in the link between objective income inequality and downstream outcomes, d) the mediational role of PEC in the link between objective racial income inequality and downstream outcomes, and e) the causal role of PEC in predicting downstream outcomes. I will also briefly note ongoing work on daily diary reports of PEC and wellbeing among adolescents, and the projection of competition-based achievement goals onto one’s classmates among undergraduates. I will close with applied comments on the positive vs. negative nature of PEC.

Bio: Andrew J. Elliot, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester where he has taught and conducted research for 25 years. He has held one-year Visiting Professor positions at the University of Munich (2003-2004), the University of Cambridge (2008-2009), and the University of Oxford (2013-2014). His research focuses on achievement motivation, especially in educational settings; he has published well over 200 papers and given research lectures/addresses in 23 countries. He has won several research and teaching awards, and has been named a Fellow in five different professional organizations. He has served as Associate Editor at five different journals and is currently editor of Advances in Motivation Science. Dr. Elliot has served or is serving on several not-for-profit boards, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Calvin University, and Verbree International. He started and oversees a school library building program for H.O.P.E., a NGO in rural Haiti. He and his wife Juli have three children ages 30, 28, and 26.

Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan

• Wednesday, October 16, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Professor

Talk Title: How culture shapes the mind: A cultural neuroscience perspective

Culture is to humans as water is to fish. This epithet illustrates how important culture is to human adaptation. At the same time, however, it also raises a fundamental question of how culture might achieve this vital function. In the present talk, I argue that culture is composed of various scripted behaviors designed to address core values, such as independence and interdependence. These behavioral scripts are called cultural tasks. As people grow up, they develop their identities by adopting some subset of the tasks available in their culture. They will then repeatedly engage in the selected tasks. This process will eventually yield neural pathways that are optimally attuned to carry out these tasks, with their brains plastically rewired accordingly. These culturally mediated neural changes will enable people to perform their cultural tasks automatically, without conscious monitoring. For them, to act naturally is already to act by their culture’s norms and values. This process of neural rewiring may provide an important basis for both social and biological adaptation. Recent evidence for the plastic change of brain structure through culture will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Kitayama is Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He examines the mutual constitution between culture and mental processes, such as self, cognition, and emotion. His research draws on diverse methods in psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and epigenetics. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of his field, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. He is president-elect of the Association for Psychological Science and a recent recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and the Humboldt Research Award. This year, he is spending a year at the Russell Sage Foundation as a residential fellow.

Matthew Goldberg Yale University

• Wednesday, October 2, 2019
• 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Postdoctoral Associate

Talk Title: Resistance to persuasion and approaches to effective communication

How do people defend their deeply held beliefs? Part one of this talk examines the methods people use to resist persuasion, and how these methods shift depending on how difficult it is to defend the belief. What does belief defense tell us about how to communicate effectively? Part two of the talk uses lessons from part one to examine how to best communicate about controversial issues, including appeals to morality, identity, and social norms.

Bio: Matthew is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. He is an expert in the social psychological subfields of attitudes and persuasion, motivated reasoning, and ideology. His research has focused on defensiveness and the methods by which people defend their beliefs. He has investigated several factors that influence belief defense such as argument quality, perceptions of public opinion, social network agreement, and language complexity. Matthew holds a BA in Psychology from Hofstra University and received his PhD in Psychology in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology program at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Danielle Berke, Hunter College

• Wednesday, April 17, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

The Role of Masculinity in Gender-Based Violence: Functions, Consequences, and Opportunities for Prevention and Intervention

Lisa Rosenthal, Pace University

• Wednesday, April 10, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Polyculturalism: Implications of Endorsing Cross-Cultural Influences and Connections

Yanine Hess, SUNY at Purchase

• Wednesday, April 3, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Examining Motives After Rejection

Rainer Romero-Canyas, Environmental Defense Fund

• Wednesday, March 13, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

The Concerns of Others: Harnessing Social Influence in Climate Change Advocacy

Angelo DiBello, Brooklyn College

• Wednesday, February 20, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

When Theory Meets Practice: Intervention Development and Health Behavior Change

Ana Gantman, Brooklyn College

• Wednesday, February 13, 2019

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Morality in Context

BASP First Doctoral Research Presentations and End of Year Social

• Wednesday, December 5, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Damian Stanley, Adelphi University

• Wednesday, November 14, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Model-Based Approaches to Social Learning and Decision-Making

Paul Stillman, Yale University School of Management

• Wednesday, November 7, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Resisting Temptation: Tracking How Self-Control Conflicts are Successfully Resolved in Real-Time

Anna Newheiser, SUNY Albany

• Wednesday, October 24, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Who Deserves Due Process? Examining the Perceived Acceptability of Rights Violations in the Justice System

Ben Wagner, St. Thomas Aquinas College

• Wednesday, October 10, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Teaching and Conducting Research at a Small, Liberal Arts College

Jessica Carnevale, SUNY Purchase

• Wednesday, October 3, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Regulating Motivation in Goal Pursuit

Welcome Back Reception

• Wednesday, September 12, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Join us in room 6304 for wine and cheese as we celebrate the start of another year of BASP!

Madeline Heilman, New York University

• Wednesday, May 9, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Same Behavior, Different Consequences: Gender Bias at Work

Modupe Akinola, Columbia University

• Wednesday, May 2, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Diversity Isn't What It Used to Be...

Spring Social

• Wednesday, April 25, 2018

• 4:00 PM 6:00 PM

Danette A. Morrison, Drexel University

• Wednesday, March 28, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Friendships of High-Achieving African American Adolescents: Relation to Ethnic Identity and Achievement Values

Camilla S. Overup, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• Wednesday, March 14, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Presenting Different Selves to Different People: The Interpersonal Side of Self-Presentation

Spring Social

• Wednesday, February 21, 2018

• 4:00 PM 6:00 PM

Stacey Scott, Stony Brook University

• Wednesday, February 14, 2018

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Adult Development & Aging in Context: Time & Place

BASP First Doctoral Research Project Presentations

• Wednesday, December 6, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Joanna Sterling, Princeton University

• Wednesday, November 8, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Political Psycholinguistics: Ideological Differences in the Expression of Basic Values and Psychological Motives

Kent Harber, Rutgers University – Newark

• Wednesday, November 1, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment

Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Canisius College

• Wednesday, October 25, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

The Development of Personality Content and Clarity in Adulthood

Sam Gosling, University of Texas

• Wednesday, October 18, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

Putting personality in its place: The expression of personality in everyday life

Joanne Davila, SUNY Stonybrook

• Wednesday, October 11, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Romantic Competence: What is it and can it be learned?

Greg Webster, University of Florida

• Wednesday, October 4, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Sexual Satisfaction and Relationship Satisfaction in Couples

Welcome Back Reception

• Wednesday, September 6, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Berni Leidner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Wednesday, May 10, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

International (In-)Justice

 

Jon Rendina, Hunter College, CUNY

• Wednesday, April 26, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

More than individual differences: Testing event-level models of mental health and health behavior

 

Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, University of Connecticut

• Wednesday, April 5, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Hablo Inglés y Español: The Bilingual Brain as a Function of Culture and Language

 

Marianne LaFrance, Yale University

• Wednesday, March 15, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Who Counts as Human? Initial Investigations into Androcentrism

 

Ana Gantman, Princeton University

• Wednesday, March 8, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

What Do Thomas Paine and Tony Soprano Have in Common? Process vs. Content in Moral Psychology

 

Phil Goff, John Jay College, CUNY

• Wednesday, February 15, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Colin Wayne Leach, University of Connecticut

• Wednesday, February 8, 2017

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Visceral Visuals: Race and the Signification of Police and Protest

 

First Doctoral Exam Research Talks

• Wednesday, December 14, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

 

Elisabeth Brauner, Brooklyn College CUNY

• Wednesday, November 30, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

 

Daniel Wisneski, Saint Peter's University

• Wednesday, November 16, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

The Causes and Consequences of a Moral Frame of Mind

 

John Paul Wilson, Montclair State University

• Wednesday, November 9, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Race and Trait Inferences in Person Judgment: From Perception to Punishment

 

Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent

• Wednesday, October 19, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Tracking Character and Reputation: Links between Disgust, Shame and Other Unpleasant Emotions

 

Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester

• Wednesday, September 21, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM

Competition and Achievement-relevant Outcomes: A Hierarchical Motivational Analysis

 

Welcome Back Reception

• Wednesday, September 7, 2016

• 3:00 PM 4:30 PM