The Social Determinants of Choice Quality
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Policy makers increasingly offer choice or rely on markets for the provision of impure public goods like insurance, retirement savings or education. Though choice allows for improved...
3rd Year Talks
Please join us for our 3rd Year Talks! Two of our 3rd Year Clinical Science Doctoral students will be giving presentations on their current research.
"The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on dementia caregivers" By Breanna Bullard
"Emotion Beliefs and Depressive Symptoms in...
Helping the Powerless for Personal Gain
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Power hierarchies emerge in virtually every organizational context. Therefore, most interpersonal interactions are set against a backdrop of power differences. For prosocial acts...
3rd Year Talks
"Parent Emotion Talk with Preschoolers from Low-income Mexican American and Chinese American Families: Links to Sociocultural Factors" By Megan Chan
"Classification and Prediction of Nightly Sleep"
By Jiyoung Song
Online Gender Stereotypes are Stronger in Images than Text
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Advancements in natural language processing have spurred the proliferation of studies examining gender stereotypes in online texts, including news and social media. Yet, while these...
Social Emotions and Mental Labor
Interpersonal emotional processes like empathy and compassion often motivate and predict cooperative tendencies. According to motivated emotions perspectives, people increase and decrease these responses depending on whether they perceive rewards or costs with their experiences. However, a...
Stigma, Strengths, and Social Change
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Social change is rife with dynamic challenges, it can require empowering marginalized social groups and securing intergroup buy-in from dominant social groups. This talk...
Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand Intergroup Relations
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Researchers have used theories of social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity to understand intergroup phenomena ranging from racial...
ICBS Colloquium
I will present the results of a behavioral experiment investigating how problem-solving algorithms evolve as they are transmitted from person to person via social learning. Thousands of participants completed a sequential decision-making task (sorting a sequence of unknown numbers) and...
Clinical Science Colloquium
Please join us as Assistant Professor Keanan Joyner presents: "Understanding the Role of Neural Processes and Within-Subject Mechanisms on Experiences of Psychopathology"