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DTSTAMP:20260817T091734
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260909T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Mind | Who Do You Trust? Trust at the Personal\, Community\, and Society Level
DESCRIPTION:Who do you trust? More people than you think. We know about trust among those in our closest relationships\, such as friends and family\, but we also trust strangers every day in transient relationships on a frequent basis\, as well as major institutions that govern our lives across our lifetime. Trust is the oxygen of social life and has tremendous implications. Marriages succeed or fail based on trust. A country’s health depends on trust in medicine and science\, and it prospers when their citizens don’t view each other with cynicism. In this talk\, I focus\, though\, on a vexing paradox about trust: Despite trust being essential for social life to thrive—try to have a relationship or run a civilization without it—powerful behavioral theories consider it irrational behavior\, and you should never do it. I discuss what research trying to resolve this paradox reveals about the ways the human species manages this multifaceted challenge of trusting each other\, allowing life to avoid being nasty\, brutish\, or short.\n\nAbout the speaker: David Dunning is Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen\, Jr.\, Professor of the Study of Human Understanding\, and Professor of Psychology\, at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford and his BA from Michigan State\, both in psychology. His expertise is in experimental social psychology\, focusing on the psychological processes underlying self-misbelief and social misunderstanding\, with applications to economics\, medicine\, organizations\, and the law. His most cited work\, supported over the years by the National Institute of Mental Health\, National Science Foundation\, and the John F. Templeton Foundation\, shows that people typically hold flattering self-opinions that cannot be justified from the objective evidence. He has written short pieces for more general audiences in Scientific American and the New York Times and appeared in the final episode of Adam Ruins Everything. With Justin Kruger\, he received the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the Society of Experimental Psychology Scientific Impact Award in 2023. In 2025\, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150318
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology,Psychology Departmental,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Program Room
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DTSTAMP:20260817T095039
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261005T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261005T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Mind | Growing Up Has Changed: How the Path to Adulthood Has Shifted Across Generations
DESCRIPTION:The path from adolescence to adulthood has changed dramatically over the past several decades. Compared with earlier generations\, today young adults spend more time in school\, enter careers later\, form long-term romantic partnerships in different ways\, delay marriage and parenthood\, and move in and out of adult roles with less predictability. These changes raise important questions: What does it mean to “grow up” today? Are young people simply taking longer to become adults\, or has the very nature of adulthood changed? In this talk\, I provide an overview of the modern transition to adulthood — what it is\, why it matters\, and how it has evolved across recent generations. I examine changes in education\, work\, relationships\, parenthood\, and health-related behaviors such as substance use. Rather than viewing young adulthood as a fixed stage that looks the same across time\, I consider how historical circumstances shape the opportunities\, challenges\, and expectations young people face. The goal is to better understand not only today’s young adults\, but also the changing social landscape in which each generation comes of age.\n\nAbout the speaker: Justin Jager is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. As a developmental psychologist\, he studies how young people grow into adulthood and how that process has changed across generations. His research looks at the many parts of life that shape this transition\, including family\, friends\, school\, work\, romantic relationships\, parenthood\, and health-related behaviors such as substance use. He is especially interested in how social and historical changes alter the opportunities\, expectations\, and challenges young people face as they move toward independence. By studying adolescence and young adulthood in its social and historical context\, his work helps shed light on what it means to “grow up” in a changing world.
UID:150331-21909011@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150331
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology,Psychology Departmental,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lower Level Program Room
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DTSTAMP:20260818T130946
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place both in person and virtually.\n\nStuart Kirsch\nRoy A. Rappaport Collegiate Professor of Anthropology\n\nLecture Title: Open Futures: Anthropology of the Postcarbon Transition.\n\nLecture Abstract: I introduce research that considers efforts to decarbonize concrete\, sequester\ncarbon in mangrove forests\, increase the circularity of metals\, and regulate global\nsupply chains\, including the practices of accounting that connect them.\n\nSarah Veatch\nDaniel Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Biophysics\n\nLecture Title: TBD\nLecture Abstract: TBD\n\nL. Monique Ward\nJacqueline S. Mattis Collegiate Professor of Psychology\n\nLecture Title: TBD\nLecture Abstract: TBD\n\nIf you are unable to join us in person\, please click the link below to join the webinar.\n\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, iPad\, or Android:\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99095807232\n\nPhone one-tap:\n+13017158592\,\,99095807232# US (Washington DC)\n+13052241968\,\,99095807232# US\n\nJoin via audio:\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 305 224 1968 US\n+1 309 205 3325 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)\n+1 646 931 3860 US\n+1 669 444 9171 US\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 689 278 1000 US\n+1 719 359 4580 US\n+1 253 205 0468 US\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 360 209 5623 US\n+1 386 347 5053 US\n+1 507 473 4847 US\n+1 564 217 2000 US\n+1 778 907 2071 Canada\n+1 780 666 0144 Canada\n+1 204 272 7920 Canada\n+1 438 809 7799 Canada\n+1 587 328 1099 Canada\n+1 647 374 4685 Canada\n+1 647 558 0588 Canada\nWebinar ID: 990 9580 7232\nInternational numbers available: https://umich.zoom.us/u/al2XftQSw
UID:150443-21909456@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150443
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology,Biophysics,Anthropology
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260625T134621
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:John Jonides Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Talk title and abstract TBA.\nThe talk will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149121
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Departmental,colloquium
LOCATION:East Hall - 4448
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DTSTAMP:20260625T134621
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T160000
SUMMARY:Presentation:John Jonides Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Talk title and abstract TBA.\nThe talk will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149121
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Departmental,colloquium
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260817T095648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Mind | Pleasure\, Desire\, and Addiction in the Brain
DESCRIPTION:How is pleasure (‘liking’) different from desire (‘wanting’)\, and how are they generated by the brain? Answering those questions is crucial to understanding addiction\, compulsivity\, and many other aspects of human behavior. Our work at Michigan helped show that the brain’s mesolimbic dopamine system is not a pleasure ‘liking’ mechanism as was once thought\, but rather only a motivational ‘wanting’ mechanism. Separate brain opioid hedonic hotspots generate feelings of ‘liking’.\n\nIn addiction\, drug-induced sensitization of dopamine systems in vulnerable individuals can amplify ‘wanting’ to arguably compulsive levels\, even when what is desired does not provide pleasure once obtained. A recent animal laboratory demonstration is ‘wanting what hurts:’ desiring experiences that give no pleasure at all\, as a prototype of how addictive compulsion works. Incentive sensitization helps explain how addiction can create a vulnerability to relapse that persists despite sincere desire to quit\, even long after drugs are no longer taken.\n\nAbout the speaker: Kent Berridge is James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Research in Berridge’s lab has aimed for better answers to questions such as: How is pleasure (‘liking’) generated by the brain? How is desire (‘wanting’) generated by the brain? How does wanting something differ from liking it? And how does addiction become compulsive?
UID:150333-21909012@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150333
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Addiction,Brain,Neuropsychology,Neuroscience,Psychology,Psychology Departmental
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Program Room
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DTSTAMP:20260818T100249
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cash Plus Psychosocial Interventions for Economic Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Thomas is an assistant professor of psychology and of organizational studies at the University of Michigan. She integrates the insights of social psychology\, lens of cultural psychology\, and tools of behavioral science to examine and intervene upon psychosocial drivers of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and around the globe. In particular\, her work interrogates relationships among agency\, dignity\, and economic mobility. In this work\, she conducts lab and field experiments across diverse low-income contexts\, including in the U.S.\, sub-Saharan Africa\, and South Asia\, and often through interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships with nonprofits and governments. Her work has been published in journals including Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in media outlets including Time and Foreign Affairs.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SW503). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions\, or you can watch the livestream on YouTube.
UID:150398-21909165@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150398
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Poverty,Psychology
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B780
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