FEATURING Dr. Regan Gurung, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay TITLE Cultivating Learning: Capitalizing on Psychological Science ABSTRACT What are the best ways to increase student learning? While there are numerous opinions to answer this question, there is also a rich body of evidence-based techniques that educators can rely on. We now know the most important predictors […]
FEATURING Dr. William Cunningham, University of Toronto TITLE The inevitability of prejudice? ABSTRACT Early research from social cognitive neuroscience bolstered an already pessimistic view of intergroup cognition and emotion. Brain responses to outgroup members occurred quickly (within 100s of milliseconds) and to stimuli that people reported not being able to see. Although control was possible, […]
FEATURING Dr. Rena Repetti, UCLA TITLE Putting Family Relationships under the Microscope ABSTRACT Families are not frozen dioramas; they are alive, active and changing. An intensive repeated measures approach reaches beyond static representations of the family toward more dynamic models that depict “life as it is lived.” Research using diaries and biological sampling in everyday […]
FEATURING Dr. John Cacioppo, University of Chicago TITLE Social Neuroscience Through the Lens of Social Isolation ABSTRACT Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to specify the behavioral, neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underlying social structures and processes and to identify the effects of social structures and processes on neural, hormonal, cellular and […]