MICHAEL CHANDLER LECTURE FEATURING Dr. Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University TITLE Children’s Effortful Self-Regulation: Conceptualization and Relations to Adjustment and Maladjustment ABSTRACT Recently there has been an increasing appreciation of the role of emotion and its regulation in children’s socioemotional functioning in both typical and atypical samples. I will discuss different conceptualizations of emotion-related self-regulation, and […]
FEATURING Michael Miller, University of California, Santa Barbara TITLE Barack Obama, John Dean & Other Criterion Shifters ABSTRACT We make many decisions throughout a day that require setting a criterion (i.e., deciding how strong the evidence must be), from the mundane (“Have I read that article before?”) to the more critical (“Can I cross the […]
FEATURING Dr. Jane Risen, University of Chicago TITLE Believing What We Know Isn’t So: Acquiescence to Superstitious Beliefs and Other Powerful Intuitions ABSTRACT Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe superstitions that they recognize are not rational. Dual process models, such as the corrective model advocated by Kahneman & Frederick (2002; 2005), are useful for illustrating […]
An annual tradition, Psychfest is an all-day event during which second-year UBC Psychology MA students and new PhD students present their research in a 7-minute talk. It’s an opportunity for our graduate students to share their work with the entire psychology department. This year’s theme is RealTalk! View the 2017 Psychfest RealTalk Brochure for the abstacts and titles of […]