Talks/Colloquia

DR. JOHANNA PEETZ, Carleton University

• Psychology Proseminar Speaker Series
• Thursday, January 19, 2023, 11:30am - Humphrey Hall 228

Talk: Close Relationships Across Time: Biases in Memories and Forecasts (PDF, 2.4 MB)

DR. ETHAN KROSS, University of Michigan

• 2022-2023 Distinguished Lecturer Series
• Friday, December 2, 2022, 2:30pm - Dunning Hall 11

Talk: When I Become You: How Small Shifts in Language Promote Self-Control

DR. GORDON ASMUNDSON, University of Regina

• Friday, October 21 2022, 2:30 pm - Dunning 11

Talk: The Psychology of Pandemics: Emergence of a Distinct Psychological Research Field and Applied Science

DR. DAVID FORBES, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

• Thursday, May 19, 2020, 1:00 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: Current and future directions in facilitating recovery following psychological trauma

DR. RANDY AUERBACH, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Division of Clinical Developmental Neuroscience, Sackler Institute

• Friday, January 17, 2020, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology, Room 101

Talk: Depression and Suicide in Adolescents

DR. JACOB BURACK, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University

• Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 9:30 am - Botterell B147

Talk: Developmental and strength-based approaches to studying attention in persons with autism spectrum disorder: Toward a more rigorous and humanitarian science

DR. RANDY AUERBACH, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Division of Clinical Developmental Neuroscience, Sackler Institute

• Friday, January 17, 2020, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology, Room 101

Talk: Depression and Suicide in Adolescents

DR. SID SEGALOWITZ, Professor of Psychology, Brock University

• Friday, November 15, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology, Room 101

Talk: Free Will, Agency, and Strategies for Building Developmental Neural Models

DR. PHOEBE C. ELLSWORTH, Professor of Psychology and Law, University of Michigan

• Friday, November 1, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology, Room 101

Talk: Appraisal Theories of Emotion

DR. JESSICA CANTLON, Carnegie Mellon University

• Friday, October 4, 2019, 2:30 pm - Dunning Hall, Room 14

Talk: Monkeys, Math, and the Developing Brain

DR. NEIL LEWIS JR, Assistant Professor of Communication and Social Behavior, Cornell University

• Thursday, October 10, 2019, 1:00 pm - Kingston Hall, Lecture Theatre 201

Talk: Diversity Issues in Research

• Friday, October 11, 2019, 2:30 pm - Dunning Hall, Room 14

Talk: Stratified Cognition: How Social Stratification Shapes Meaning Making, Motivation, and Behavior

DR. KRISTINA OLSON, Princeton

• Friday, September 13, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology, Room 101

Talk: Childhood Gender Diversity: Latest Findings and Current Controversies

DR. YIQUN GAN, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University

• Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 10:30 am - Humphrey Hall, Room 228

Talk: Stress Management and Meaning Making: Theories and Interventions

DR. THOMAS ARMSTRONG, Whitman College

• Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 2:30 pm - Dupuis Hall, Room 215

Talk: How (not) to treat disgust in mental disorders: New insights from eye tracking

DR. ARA NORENZAYAN, (University of British Columbia)

• Friday, April 5, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: The Psychology of Theodiversity

DR. DANIEL WOLPERT, (Columbia University, New York)

• Friday, March 29, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making

DR. RUI C. CAMPOS, University of Évora, Portugal

• Friday, March 15, 2019, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: Taking a deeper look: Some considerations about the psychodynamics of suicide behaviours

DR. ISABELA GRANIC, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

• Friday, October 19, 2018, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: Bridging Developmental Science and Game Design to Create Biofeedback Games that Build Emotional Resilience

HON. MIKE LAKE, MP

• September 21, 2018, 1:00 pm - Botterel Hall B147

Talk: Expect More - An Autism Adventure

DR. MARC LEWIS, Emeritus at Radboud University in Nijmegen and University of Toronto

• Friday, September 14, 2018, 2:30 pm - Kinesiology 101

Talk: Addiction as learning (not disease): The view from embodied cognition

DR. PAUL HARRIS, Harvard University

• Friday, April 6, 2018, 2:30 pm - Dupuis 215

Talk: “I don’t know”: Ignorance and question-asking as engines for cognitive development

DR. SANDRA BYERS, University of New Brunswick

• Friday, March 23, 2018, 2:30 pm - Dupuis 215

Talk: Beyond the Birds and the Bees and Was It Good for You?: Thirty-five Years of Research on Sexual Communication

DR. MARCIA SPETCH, University of Alberta

• Friday, March 02, 2018, 2:30 pm - Dupuis 215

Talk: Navigating with mixed messages: How creatures great and small deal with spatial conflict