2022-2023 Talks and Colloquia
DR. MELANIE DIRKS, McGill University
- Psychology Distinguished Lecturer Series
- Friday, March 31, 2023, 2:30pm - Dunning Hall 11
Talk: With or Without You: Maintenance and Dissolution in the Friendships of Young Adults (PDF, 126 KB)
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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