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Psychology Department Events
To post an event to the Psychology Department website, please send
an email to
Cynthia Goddard. In addition, faculty, staff, students, and
alumni are encouraged to submit events to the Tufts University
Events Calendar. To submit an event the the Tufts University Events
Calendar,
click here.
Fall 2009
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Event |
Event Information |
September 21
Monday
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Departmental Brown Bag Talk
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Speaker: Meagan Curtis
Title: "The Pitch Patterns of Emotional Speech Mirror Those Used
in the Musical Communication of Emotion"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00pm, Kreplick Conference Room, Psychology
Department, 490 Boston Ave..
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September 21
Monday
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Departmental Brown Bag Talk
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Speaker: Martin Paczynsk
Title: "Use of Animacy Information in Language Processing"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00pm, Kreplick Conference Room, Psychology
Department, 490 Boston Ave.. |
September 25
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Prof. Robert Cook, Psychology Department
Title: "The Bird's Eye View"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
Social preceding talk at 3:00 pm in lobby
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October 2
Friday
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Diversity Science Series |
Speaker: Dr. Robert Livingston, Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University
Title: "The Teddy Bear Effect: Does babyfaceness benefit Black CEOs?"
Time & Location: Friday 10/2, 4:00 p.m., Crane Room (Paige Hall)
Learn more >
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October 5
Monday
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Department Brown Bag Talk |
Speaker: Jeffrey Birk, Psychology
Department
Title: "Modulation of the
Executive Control of Attention by Vigilance to Threat During Anxious
Mood"
Speaker: Matthew Murphy, Psychology Department
Title: "Spatial Frequency Use in Picture Processing in Pigeons (Columba livia)"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave..
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October 9
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Dan Dennett, Philosophy Department
Title: "Rethinking the computational architecture of the brain: just
how competitive can the parts be?"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave..
Snacks at 3:30 pm in lobby
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October 16
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Dr. Kirk Daffner, Chief of the Division of Cognitive
and Behavioral Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Title: "Distinguishing Successful from Average Cognitive Aging:
How Curious."
Time & Location: Friday, 10/16, 4:00 p.m., 1st Floor
Conference Room, Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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October 26
Monday
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Department Brown Bag Talk |
Speaker: Katie Handwerger, Psychology Department
Title: "The Neural Correlates of Emotional Memory in PTSD"
Speaker: Carl Hagmann, Psychology Department
Title: "Discrimination of occluded line segments by pigeons"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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October 30
Friday
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Department Colloquium |
Speaker: Sam Sommers, Psychology Department
Title: "Diversity, Cognition, & Behavior: Situational and Strategic Considerations in Intergroup Interaction"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
Social preceding talk at 3:30 pm
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November 6
Friday
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Department Colloquium
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Speaker: Gina Kuperberg, Psychology Department
Title: "What can ERPs and fMRI tell us about language processing in the brain?"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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November 9
Monday
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Department Brown Bag Talk |
Speaker: Laura Babbitt, Psychology Department
Title: "Somewhat surprising effects of gender diversity on cognition"
Speaker: Kristin Dukes, Psychology Department
Title: "Invisible Women? Exploring Stereotypes of Black Women"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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November 13
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Dr. Marcel Kinsbourne, New School Psychology Faculty
Title: "Hemisphere specialization for emotion and action; experimental studies"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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November 20
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Dr. Jesse Snedeker, Harvard Psychology Faculty
Title: "Fast, smart and out of control"
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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November 23
Monday
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Department Brown Bag Talk |
Speaker: Prof. Robin Kanarek, Psychology Department
Title: "Interactions between exercise and psychoactive drugs"
Speaker: Phil Opitz
Title: "Age differences in physiological and neuropsychological
correlates of gaze-directed cognitive reappraisal"
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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December 4
Friday
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CBS Series |
Speaker: Paul Dizio, Brandeis, Psychology Faculty
Title: TBA
Time & Location: 4:00 pm, location TBA
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December 7
Monday
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Department Brown Bag Talk |
Speakers: Holly Taylor, Negin Toosi, Psychology Department
Title: TBA
Time & Location: 12:00-1:00 pm, Kreplick Conference Room,
Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave.
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February 19
Friday
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Diversity Science Series |
Speaker: Dr. Amy Cuddy, Harvard Business School
Title: TBA
Time & Location: Friday 2/19, 4:00 p.m., location TBA
Learn more >
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April 2
Friday |
Diversity Science Series |
Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Ito, Department of Psychology,
University of Colorado
Title: TBA
Time & Location: Friday 4/2, 4:00 p.m., location TBA
Learn more >
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April 23
Friday |
Diversity Science Series |
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Kaiser, Department of
Psychology, University of Washington
Title: TBA
Time & Location: Friday 4/23, 4:00 p.m., location TBA
Learn more >
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