Events at: Room 200, Leonard S. Klinck Building

Colloquium with Dr. Joseph Simmons

FEATURING Dr. Joseph Simmons, Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. TITLE Life After P-Hacking ABSTRACT P-hacking is the practice of conducting many analyses on the same dataset until one achieves a reportable, statistically significant result (p < .05). P-hacking can lead researchers to believe in, and publish, findings that are false (i.e., not […]

Colloquium with Professor Sue Frantz

FEATURING Prof. Sue Frantz, Highline College TITLE Technology for Academics: Essential Tools for Teaching ABSTRACT Step up to the technology buffet. This spread of easy-to-use and (mostly) free tools has something for everybody. Looking to spice up your classroom? Want to make the hard-to-swallow tasks of an academic go down more smoothly? There are tools […]

CANCELLED: Psychology Colloquium with Dr. Lisa Feigenson, Johns Hopkins University | MICHAEL CHANDLER LECTURE

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this talk has been postponed. Stay tuned for more details. Dr. Lisa Feigenson, Johns Hopkins University Title: Constraints and flexibility in early quantification: Insights from infancy Abstract: Quantification (e.g., knowing how many objects are in a scene) requires selecting a relevant entity and storing it in working memory for further processing.  Critically, multiple kinds of […]

Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Jennifer Tackett, Northwestern University

FEATURING Dr. Jennifer Tackett, Northwestern University TITLE Who knows what about a kid? Adventures in measuring child personality. ABSTRACT Measuring personality in children is challenging, with self-report questionnaire data either impossible to collect or psychometrically problematic. Consequently, multi-informant, multi-method data is the norm, but this raises questions around how to combine the various sources of […]

Colloquium with Dr. Kate McLaughlin

FEATURING Dr. Kate McLaughlin, University of Washington TITLE Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms linking Environmental Experience with the Onset of Psychopathology ABSTRACT Children who have experienced environmental adversity—such as abuse, neglect, or poverty—are at markedly elevated risk for developing psychopathology.  What is less clear is how and why adverse early experiences exert such a profound influence on children’s mental […]

Colloquium with Dr. James MacKillop

FEATURING Dr. James MacKillop, McMaster University – Director, Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences. TITLE Applying behavioural economics and neuroeconomics to understand addiction: a translational approach ABSTRACT Behavioural economics refers to diverse lines of inquiry that integrate principles and methods from psychology and economics to understand decision making. More […]