Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Developmental Brown Bag (September 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53109 53109-13235265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Leigh Gayle Goetschius

Title: Amygdala-prefrontal cortex white matter tracts are widespread, variable and implicated in amygdala modulation in adolescents.

Abstract: The amygdala and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are fundamentally involved in emotion. The PFC is hypothesized to influence amygdala reactivity; however, extant research lacks anatomical specificity. Here, we used probabilistic tractography and functional MRI (fMRI) with 142 adolescents. Results revealed widespread, but variable, white matter connectivity between the amygdala and multiple PFC regions. Specifically, whereas the amygdala was structurally connected to all PFC regions examined, connectivity was greater in subgenual cingulate, orbitofrontal, and dorsomedial regions relative to dorsal cingulate and dorsolateral regions. Machine-learning demonstrated that greater amygdala-PFC connectivity was associated with less amygdala reactivity and that this association was driven by orbitofrontal and dorsomedial regions. By integrating probabilistic tractography with fMRI, this study helps elucidate the nature of this emotion-based circuit.

Dominic Kelly

Title: Capturing fluctuations in gendered cognition with novel intensive longitudinal measures

Abstract: Cognitive abilities are often assumed to be stable and are typically measured cross-sectionally, but compelling evidence shows that they vary with experience, biology, and psychological context. Most evidence, however, concerns executive function with limited investigation of gendered cognition, such as spatial and verbal abilities. This may be a function of measurement, as there are no validated instruments for intensive longitudinal assessment of abilities thought to show sex differences. The goal of this study is to fill that research gap by introducing and validating new 75-occasion measures of two such abilities: three dimensional mental rotations and delayed paired verbal recall. This goal was accomplished by conducting both between-person analyses (e.g., daily mean scores and correlations of daily performance with standard, criterion measures) and within-person analyses (i.e., linear growth curve models with random intercepts and slopes controlling for general intelligence) of 75-day diary data. Results suggest that both measures are valid, capture significant individual differences in levels and variability across days, and show sex differences, but sex differences were larger for mental rotations than verbal recall, and provided evidence of slight improvement across study days. Conclusions are consistent with the notion that gendered cognitive abilities are both stable and show daily fluctuation, encouraging future work with the newly-developed, freely-available measures.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:24:32 -0400 2018-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other kelly leigh
Biopsychology Colloquium (September 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54356 54356-13574516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Trauma Exposure and Neurobiology of Fear: Risk and Resilience

Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly prevalent in low-income urban populations. Our studies at the Grady Trauma Project in Atlanta, GA indicate that almost 90% of the inner-city population experience trauma, however not everyone will develop PTSD. This suggests risk and resilience factors for PTSD. We have found that brain-based biomarker can serve as intermediate phenotypes between genotype and psychopathology—this presentation will give an overview of the fear conditioning and functional MRI studies that describe such phenotypes. In addition, translational studies in rodents and developmental studies in humans will be presented to underscore the broad utility of intermediate phenotypes in clinical neuroscience research.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:09:07 -0400 2018-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation tanja
Diffusion Tensor Imaging workshop 2 (September 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55773 55773-13777542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative

I will be giving a brief demonstration of the MRtrix package, comparing it to traditional diffusion tensor model packages. I recommend that the attendees read this introductory paper about the toolbox to get acquainted with MRtrix's terminology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ima.22005

As further background here is a link to the August DTI workshop, which focused more on diffusion tensor fitting. However, it does give a relevant background on how diffusion weighted images are acquired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBUzR5bKCs

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Class / Instruction Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:28:58 -0400 2018-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative Class / Instruction East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag-"Primate self-control: from foraging to cooperation" (September 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54373 54373-13574548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:58:04 -0400 2018-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Rosati
The NAACP Presents ... NAACP Declassified School Survival Guide (September 26, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55882 55882-13798044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

We are expecting a packed room, containing some of the most brightest students at Michigan ranging from freshman to seniors, and are eager to hear from alum who has not only survived Michigan but are thriving in their fields. We aim to stress the importance and power of networking, in addition to discussing what it takes to survive being a student at The University of Michigan.

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Other Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:00:16 -0400 2018-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 East Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Other East Hall
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (September 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52791 52791-13079507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Gender/sex configurations via sexual configurations theory: A novel survey method for assessing diverse gender/sexes

The assessment of gender and/or sex is often confined to a binary choice between male and female or placement on single dimensions. These measures do not often facilitate investigations of the way gender and sex can branch or coincide, change over time and context, vary in importance to one’s self, be situated in relation to cultural norms, or exist outside binary understandings of gender/sex. To address this gap, we developed a novel method for assessing individual gender, sex, and gender/sex (i.e., “gender/sex configurations”) using diagrams adapted from sexual configurations theory (SCT; van Anders, 2015). SCT provides a way of understanding and describing gender/sex configurations that centers gender/sex diversity. However, SCT has yet to be adapted for use in survey research. In this presentation, I will describe a study in which we asked participants (N = 242) with diverse gender/sex identities to describe their gender/sex configurations with both textual descriptions and through marking and writing on the diagrams from SCT via an online platform. Participants also answered follow-up questions about their understanding of the concepts and their experience describing their gender/sex configurations. Results indicated that a) the diagrams were used in ways consistent with self-identified gender/sex and b) a level of nuance was captured that otherwise would have remained invisible. Furthermore, participants reported generally understanding the concepts, and though some found the diagrams unnecessarily complicated, many saw the utility of the survey, either for describing their own gender/sex, as a way to consider others’ identities, or as a tool for understanding gender/sex diversity in general. Taken together, these findings indicate that drawing on SCT diagrams proves a promising way to allow people of all identities to describe themselves in ways that have not yet been explored in psychological research, with numerous potential uses in scientific research, clinical settings, and for individual self-understanding.

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Presentation Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:34:51 -0400 2018-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation will
Decision Consortium (September 27, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54250 54250-13563448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Changes in Hormones During Intimate Partner Discussions

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:51:14 -0400 2018-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation robinchin
Ultrasound brain stimulation (September 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55774 55774-13777543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative

We know that some of you have an interest in combining fMRI imaging with stimulation techniques (e.g., TMS, tDCS). There are new developments in ultrasound stimulation that might make it an interesting modality to consider for research purposes combined with fMRI. Luis Hernandez-Garcia (fmri lab) and Tim Hall (biomedical engineering) will be organizing a seminar to describe developments on this front. Please join us you have an interest in this line of methodology.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:09:02 -0400 2018-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative Class / Instruction East Hall
Applying to Psychology PhD Programs (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53376 53376-13355928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Join us for a presentation and panel to discuss with current Psych PhD students:
-How to prepare as an undergraduate?
-Apply now or later?
-What does the application process look like? Timeline?
-How do I find a program?
-Clinical interviews and recruitment weekend

Please register for this event through Sessions @ UM: https://myumi.ch/JWM7R

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Other Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:15:50 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other East Hall
Psychology Methods Hour (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53049 53049-13211462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Methods Hour

Voodoo Correlations Revisited: Biased Analysis in Neuroimaging and Behavioral Data

Nearly a decade ago, Vul and colleagues (2009) published a paper criticizing then-current methods of region of interest (ROI) analysis. Their criticism focused on what is called biased or circular analysis, in which data is extracted from voxels that are already defined as statistically significant, leading to inflated effect sizes. In this talk I will outline the history of the debate, explain why it is still relevant in both neuroimaging and behavioral studies, and discuss ways you can prevent inadvertently doing biased analyses.

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Presentation Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:42:10 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Methods Hour Presentation jahn
Voodoo Correlations Revisited: Biased Analysis in Neuroimaging and Behavioral Data (September 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55782 55782-13777553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative

Part of Psychology Methods Hour.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:27:15 -0400 2018-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative Class / Instruction East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium (October 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54357 54357-13574517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Value coding in visual association cortex

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Presentation Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:45:29 -0400 2018-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation burgess
Van Eenam Lectures (October 2, 2018 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55377 55377-13722940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:10pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

October 2 - The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis NEW TIME: 5:10 p.m.
October 3 - Cover's Universal Portfolio, Stochastic Portfolio Theory and the Numeraire Portfolio
October 4 - A Trajectorial Intrepretation of Doob's Martingale Inequalities

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:44:32 -0400 2018-10-02T17:10:00-04:00 2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Van Eenam poster
Van Eenam Lectures (October 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55377 55377-13722941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

October 2 - The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis NEW TIME: 5:10 p.m.
October 3 - Cover's Universal Portfolio, Stochastic Portfolio Theory and the Numeraire Portfolio
October 4 - A Trajectorial Intrepretation of Doob's Martingale Inequalities

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:44:32 -0400 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Van Eenam poster
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (October 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52792 52792-13079508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Forms and processes of othering and belonging in the context of social hierarchies, differential power and inequality

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:05:08 -0400 2018-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation ozge
EHAP Speaker Series (October 4, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53720 53720-13452993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Dark Side of Light at Night: Biological Effects of Disrupted Circadian Rhythms


Life on Earth has evolved during the past several billion years under relatively bright days and relatively dark night conditions. Biological functions are exquisitely timed for optimal functioning; some processes occur at night and others during the day. The widespread adoption of electric lights during the past century exposed animals, including humans, to significant light at night for the first time in their evolutionary history. Endogenous circadian clocks depend on light to synchronize with the external day-night cycles. Thus, light at night can derange temporal adaptations. Indeed, disruption of naturally evolved responses to light-dark cycles results in several physiological and behavioral changes with potentially serious implications for fitness. The reasons for turning off your devices at night will be discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:47:49 -0400 2018-10-04T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation nelson
Decision Consortium (October 4, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54251 54251-13563449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Effect of Information Disclosure on Industry Payments to Physicians

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:36:50 -0400 2018-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation sriram
Van Eenam Lectures (October 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55377 55377-13722942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

October 2 - The Amazing Power of Dimensional Analysis in Finance: Market Impact and the Intraday Trading Invariance Hypothesis NEW TIME: 5:10 p.m.
October 3 - Cover's Universal Portfolio, Stochastic Portfolio Theory and the Numeraire Portfolio
October 4 - A Trajectorial Intrepretation of Doob's Martingale Inequalities

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:44:32 -0400 2018-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Van Eenam poster
Career Exploration with Psychology Alumni Event (October 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54110 54110-13530635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Four Psychology alumni from a variety of career fields will present information about their career path and share how they've used their psychology degree.

RSVP (space is limited!): https://myumi.ch/6k8vD

Between 1:30pm - 3:00pm, students will be able to sign up for individual appointments with alumni. Students can use this time to get feedback on their resume, receive mentoring or advice, and clarification on an alumni’s path to their current position. Please RSVP for these sessions here: https://myumi.ch/L31Z8

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:15:33 -0400 2018-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Careers / Jobs Career Exploration Psychology Alumni Event
Homecoming Picnic (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53105 53105-13235261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

• 2018 UM PSYCHOLOGY HOMECOMING PICNIC •
Friday, October 5, 2018
12 - 2 pm


PLEASE JOIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY FOR A HOMECOMING PICNIC.

Food, games and fun will be available from 12 - 2 pm!
The tailgate tent will be set up on East Engineering Mall
(between East Hall and Weiser Hall)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:24:26 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Social / Informal Gathering picnic
Psych Dept Career Exploration Event: One-on-one meetings with Alumni (October 5, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56103 56103-13832574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Please RSVP (https://myumi.ch/L31Z8) to make a 15 minute one on one appointment with one of our four alumni:

Michelle Weemhooff, M.S.W
Monique Honaman
Vinnie Babu
Amber (Chowdhri) Hussain, PA-C

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:20:28 -0400 2018-10-05T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Careers / Jobs Career Exploration Event
Explanation: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful (October 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54883 54883-13651912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Like scientists, children and adults are often motivated to explain the world around them, including why people behave in particular ways, why objects have some properties rather than others, and why events unfold as they do. Moreover, people have strong and systematic intuitions about what makes something a good (or beautiful) explanation. Why are we so driven to explain? And what accounts for our explanatory preferences? In this talk I’ll present evidence that both children and adults prefer explanations that are simple and have broad scope, consistent with many accounts of explanation from philosophy of science. The good news is that a preference for simple and broad explanations can sometimes improve learning and support effective inferences. The bad news is that under some conditions, these preferences can systematically lead children and adults astray.

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Presentation Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:23:48 -0400 2018-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Tania Lombrozo
Pavel Bochev: Compatible Mesh-Free Methods (October 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55826 55826-13779926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Particle and mesh-free methods offer significant computational advantages in settings where quality mesh generation required for many compatible PDE discretizations may be expensive or even intractable. At the same time, the lack of underlying geometric grid structure makes it more difficult to construct mesh-free methods mirroring the discrete vector calculus properties of mesh-based compatible and mimetic discretization methods. In this talk we survey ongoing efforts at Sandia National Laboratories to develop new classes of locally and globally compatible meshfree methods that attempt to recover some of the key properties of mimetic discretization methods.

We will present two examples of recently developed “mimetic”-like meshfree methods. The first one is motivated by classical staggered discretization methods. We use the local connectivity graph of a discretization particle to define locally compatible discrete operators. In particular, the edge-to-vertex connectivity matrix of the local graph provides a topological gradient, whereas a generalized moving least-squares (GMLS) reconstruction from the edge midpoints defines a divergence operator. The second method can be viewed as a meshfree analogue of a finite volume type scheme. In this method, the metric information that would be normally provided by the mesh, such as cell volumes and face areas, is reconstructed algebraically, without a mesh. This reconstruction process effectively creates virtual cells having virtual faces and ensures a local conservation property matching that of mesh-based finite volumes. In contrast to similar recent efforts our approach does not involve a solution of a global optimization problem to find the virtual cell volumes and faces areas. Instead, we determine the necessary metric information by solving a graph Laplacian problem that can be effectively preconditioned by algebraic multigrid.

Several numerical examples will illustrate the mimetic properties of the new meshfree schemes. The talk will also review some of the ongoing work to build a modern software toolkit for mesh-free and particle discretizations that leverages Sandia’s Trillinos library and performance tools such as Kokkos.

Pavel Bochev is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque where he works in the Center for Computing Research. He joined Sandia in 2000 after six years of teaching and research at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:08:29 -0400 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Clinical Science Brown Bag - Transcending the “Everything but the Kitchen Sink”, “Here & Now”, and “Good & Bad” in Emotion Regulation (October 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53148 53148-13261129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The scientific study of emotion regulation is flourishing, providing fundamental insights to our understanding of healthy adaptation and clinical conditions. While clearly important, in this talk I zoom in on three major challenges in current theorizing and empirical evidence. The “Everything but the kitchen sink” problem refers to the tendency to categorize all emotional problems as originating from emotion dysregulation. The “good & bad” problem refers to the categorization of regulatory strategies as inherently adaptive or maladaptive. The “here & now” problem refers to concentration on a single regulatory stage that involves the actual execution or implementation of regulatory strategies. To address these challenges, I begin by differentiating between emotional problems that originate from emotion generation and those that originate from emotion regulation. I then provide a categorization that highlights the cost-benefit profile of different regulatory strategies. The main part of the talk involves presenting a broad conceptual framework that views emotion regulation as a multi-stage phenomenon. Considerable empirical evidence highlights the importance, determinants, consequences and broad developmental and clinical implications, of a pre-implementation selection stage that involves choosing between available regulatory options in a manner that is sensitive to differing situational demands. I end by highlighting the importance of transcending the selection stage, by describing a post-implementation monitoring stage that involves tracking implemented regulatory strategies across time.

Bio: Gal is an associate professor of psychology, the head of the clinical psychology graduate program, and the director of the Emotion and Self-Regulation Laboratory in the School of Psychological Sciences in Tel Aviv University. He is interested in the broad interdisciplinary understanding of core regulatory stages that control emotion and their relation to healthy adaptation and psychopathology. Gal holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (summa cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He then completed a two year postdoctoral training at the affective neuroscience program at Stanford University working with Dr. James Gross.

Gal has won the two most prestigious scholarships in Israel (i.e., Rothschild fellowship for postdoctoral fellows; Allon fellowship for outstanding young researchers), he received multiple competitive grants (from ISF, BSF, National Institute of Psychobiology, and NIMH), he published more than 40 articles in highly prestigious outlets (e.g., Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Psychological Science), and he served as Associate Editor in the APA flagship journal Emotion.

Gal is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with young kids and adults with various emotional problems.

Gal will spend a one year sabbatical at the University of Michigan working on various projects with Dr. Ethan Kross, and teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars in emotion regulation.

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Other Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:13:27 -0400 2018-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Sheppes
Developmental Brown Bag - Navigating Integrative Research in Developmental Science (October 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53111 53111-13235267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Joint Abstract

Kevin Constante and Jaime Munoz-Velazquez share their experiences under the T32 Developmental Training Grant. This training fellowship supports integrative research that aims to understand development by considering social context and biology. Kevin discusses his journey in integrating how youth’s connection to their ethnic group may shape the underlying neuro-correlates of risk-taking behaviors. Jaime discusses how race-based discrimination affect brain development and function. They discuss some of the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological challenges involved in doing integrative research, as well as their training in order to bridge distinct areas of research. Finally, recommendations for navigating interdisciplinary training during your PhD will be offered.

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Other Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:39:31 -0400 2018-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other c
Psych Dept Transfer Student Orientation (October 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52883 52883-13105643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Transfer students beginning Spring/Summer or Fall 2018 term with an interest in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN), Psychology, Neuroscience, or Cognitive Science majors are invited to an orientation session. We will review the majors, transfer credit procedures, how to find research, and website resources. You will also have a chance to speak with an Advisor from each major, Newnan/LSA General Advising, the Opportunity Hub, and the Career Center.

RSVP here by Oct 7th: http://myumi.ch/JYvPX

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Presentation Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:40:11 -0400 2018-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Presentation transfer orientation flyer
Elliott S. Valenstein Lecture - Biopsychology Colloquium (October 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55437 55437-13725313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Biopsychology

Title: We live in different taste worlds: Supertasters and common pathologies

I grew up in a small prairie town in South Dakota in an era when women in science were a curiosity. Maybe this had something to do with my early interest in differences in how we perceive the world. In taste, there are genetic differences as well as common pathologies that affect the intensities of taste sensations. Individuals we called “supertasters” experience taste sensations that are more than twice as intense as the taste experiences of others. Supertasting affects dietary choices that affect health. Common pathologies (middle ear infections, tonsillectomies) can damage taste. Taste damage can produce some unexpected effects since there are inhibitory connections among the central projections of both taste nerves and nerves mediating other oral sensations (touch, pain, retronasal olfaction). Thus damage to taste can actually intensify some oral sensations when inhibitory connections are abolished. Damage to taste can also produce phantoms: sensations in the absence of obvious stimulation. Most recently my lab is collaborating with horticultural scientists to identify volatiles that can affect taste messages centrally. These volatiles have practical benefits (e.g., enhancing sweet and salty tastes) as well as clinical benefits. We can use some volatiles to bypass peripheral taste damage and restore some normal taste sensations to patients.

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Presentation Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:39:27 -0400 2018-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Biopsychology Presentation linda
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: States and Stability in Human Brain Networks (October 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56488 56488-13930953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

(sponsored by fMRI Lab Speaker series)

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Presentation Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:01:49 -0400 2018-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag-"Transcending the “Here & Now”, and “Good & Bad” in Emotion Regulation" (October 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54379 54379-13574553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:58:40 -0400 2018-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sheppes
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (October 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52793 52793-13079509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

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Meeting Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:17:10 -0400 2018-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Meeting East Hall
EHAP Speaker Series (October 11, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53721 53721-13452994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Sculpting the Epigenome Across Generations


The transmission of characteristics to individuals that promote development, reproduction and survival is a critical feature of evolution and has traditionally focused on genetic variation as a substrate for inheritance. However, advances in our understanding of epigenetics has guided new perspectives on the biological factors that contribute to the inheritance of a broad range of characteristics – particularly those shaped by the environment. In this talk, I will describe research examining the impact of a broad range of parental experiences, including exposure to stress, toxins and altered nutrition, on offspring development and behavior and illustrate the complex and dynamic routes through which the transmission of characteristics across generations can be achieved.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:50:04 -0400 2018-10-11T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation champagne
Decision Consortium (October 11, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54252 54252-13563450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Male-mediated Fetal Loss Across Mammals: An Under Appreciated Evolutionary Force

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:37:06 -0400 2018-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Beehner
The Power of One: Using Relationships to Improve the Quality and Diversity of the Professorate (October 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55583 55583-13759171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Please joining the College of Pharmacy on October 12, 2018 at Noon in 1324 East Hall as we host Dr. Willie L. Davis, from the School of Pharmacy at Loma Linda University. This lecture is the College of Pharmacy’s DEI Week Signature Event.

Dr. Willie L. Davis is an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy at Loma Linda University, currently serving as director of academic support, and was most recently chair of the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Davis earned his doctorate in Biochemistry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:28:28 -0400 2018-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Willie Davis
Correcting misinformation: Anti-vaxxers beliefs about the cause of autism (October 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53779 53779-13461551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Individuals are susceptible to misinformation, such as the incorrect notion that vaccines cause autism. Despite strong evidence to the contrary, many individuals still believe that childhood vaccinations cause autism (DeStefano et al., 2013; Horne et al., 2015; Jain et al., 2015). Here, we examine the conditions under which this misconception may be eliminated. The current study is a replication of Horne et al. (2015), who found that communicating the risk of diseases targeted by vaccines was more effective than directly correcting misinformation. The findings from this study will provide the general public as well as public health officials with a scientific basis for how to successfully alter attitudes towards vaccines.

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Presentation Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:26:25 -0400 2018-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Alex Caple
Social Area Brown Bag (October 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54375 54375-13574550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:10:07 -0400 2018-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Weidman
PSC faculty meeting (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52794 52794-13079510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

PSC faculty meeting, EH 3254
PSC student meeting, EH 4464

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Meeting Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:53:17 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Meeting East Hall
Decision Consortium (October 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54253 54253-13563451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Upgrade Effect: Availability of New Products Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:38:04 -0400 2018-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation josh
Chris Peterson Memorial Lecture: Barry Schwartz, Ph.D., Swarthmore College (October 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52434 52434-12714441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Years ago, Herbert Simon suggested that the standard assumption of rational choice theory, that decision makers choose so as to maximize expected utility, is psychologically implausible, because maximization requires cognitive operations that exceed human capacity. Simon proposed, instead, that people “satisfice,” choosing “good enough” rather than the best options. The maximizing challenge is exacerbated when choice sets are large, as is the case with most of the decisions people face in modern, affluent societies. More recent work has identified individual differences in decision making, with some people aiming to maximize and others aiming to satisfice. Maximizers make better decisions than satisficers, but feel worse about them. In this talk, I will suggest that the goal of maximizing is not just a psychological mistake, but an epistemological one—that often it is not possible. I will also present new empirical work that shows that when choice sets are large, people view choices as self-expressive, making even seemingly trivial decisions (e.g., what jeans to buy) into significant ones, and that when this happens, it enhances the tendency to maximize in making these decisions. In other words, large choice sets raise the stakes of decisions, turning people into maximizers, which results in less satisfying decisions. I will finally suggest that perhaps viewing the self as “achieved” rather than as “ascribed,” or the self as “incremental” rather than as an “entity” may be a mixed psychological blessing. If there is a secret to happiness, it may be, as Aristotle said, in finding the mean between too much freedom and too little—between standards that are too high and standards that are too low. Chris Peterson taught us many invaluable lessons about happiness in his distinguished career, and I do not think he would be surprised by this one.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:38:39 -0400 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T14:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion BSchwartz
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty Meeting (October 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53794 53794-13461552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Meeting Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:36:08 -0400 2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Meeting East Hall
Clinical Science Brown Bag: The long reach of early parenting: a neurogenetics approach to the development of antisocial behavior (October 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53102 53102-13235258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Antisocial behaviors, such as aggression and rule breaking, cause incredible costs to society and alter the trajectory of many young lives. In this talk, I will briefly describe work from my lab examining the role of parenting in the development of antisocial behavior. First, I will describe a series of studies we have done to examine the development of early callous-unemotional behaviors, a developmental risk factor for psychopathy. These studies show that callous-unemotional behaviors can be identified in the preschool period and that parenting interacts with genetic background to predict the development of callous-unemotional behaviors. Second, I will discuss our work linking parenting in early childhood to neural reactivity and risk for antisocial behavior in adolescence and adulthood. Throughout the talk, I will highlight the ways in which experience and genetic background interact to affect the development of the brain and behavior.

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Other Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:14:13 -0400 2018-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Hyde
GFP faculty meeting (October 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52795 52795-13079511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Gender and Feminist Psychology

GFP faculty meeting, EH 2238

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Meeting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:36:12 -0400 2018-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T22:00:00-04:00 East Hall Gender and Feminist Psychology Meeting East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Socialization of children’s emotions (October 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53112 53112-13235268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Given that emotions are omnipresent in everyone’s lives and serve invaluable functions, it is critical for children to learn from socializers about different aspects of emotional expressions and ways to develop optimal emotion related capacities. In this talk, I will present 3 recent studies of mine that focused on children’s emotions and the socialization of children’s emotions. First, I will describe a study where I examined how the interaction of anger and sadness would be related to child persistence drawing on the functional theory of emotions. In the second study, I will present my research on the intergenerational transmission of emotion regulation, where my findings support how parents’ own emotion regulation is related to children’s regulation. Third, I was interested in examining the cultural differences in mothers’ emotion regulation and emotion socialization across the Chinese and American cultures. My findings highlight how social expectations are associated with differences in maternal emotion socialization patterns.

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Other Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:20:18 -0400 2018-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Tan
Biopsychology Colloquium - Cancelled (October 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54358 54358-13574518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Neuroendocrinology and Behavioral sequelae of sepsis: toward an understanding of post-intensive care syndrome


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Presentation Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:46:27 -0400 2018-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation joanna
CANCELLED - Transfer student/Graduate student Meet and Greet (October 23, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53377 53377-13355929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

--EVENT CANCELLED as of 10/22/18-- The Dept. of Psychology invites transfer students from any major to join our PhD students for a fun meet and greet! Students will rotate to meet as many PhD students as possible during this event. Hear about their research & academic/career plans. Learn about graduate school first-hand. Food provided!

Space is limited - please RSVP at: https://myumi.ch/6pWkO

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Other Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:49:17 -0400 2018-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Transfer student event series
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Brain sandwiches: Fast and accurate modeling of longitudinal and repeated measures neuroimaging data (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56697 56697-13967635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:34:06 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
UPS Presents: Jonathan Citrin, Speaker & Behavioral Finance Expert (October 23, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56375 56375-13889949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

What if our perspective is what holds us back? What if tremendous success and progress are right in front of us, but our deep desire for control blocks the way? What if we could vastly improve performance through simple self-awareness?

Jonathan spent his career investigating control and the emotions that prevent us from seeing its fallacy. In "Giving Up Control," Jonathan offers a new light emphasizing how much we want control and providing an understanding of the world as never before. Empowering and surprisingly simple, Jonathan shows the power of self-awareness to literally transform our performance. Everything will be different and everything will finally make sense.

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/aZjnm

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:11:08 -0400 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Workshop / Seminar citrin photo
Social Area Brown Bag (October 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54376 54376-13574551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Rachel- Talk Title: "Transcending Gender Binaries and Transformative Tales: How Quality Contact with Gender Nonconforming Individuals May Change How Adults and Children Think about Gender"

Zach- Talk Title: "Social Comparison and Emotion Regulation: Merging Divergent Perspectives"

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Presentation Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:47:23 -0400 2018-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Fine and Reese
Social Work Info Session (October 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53034 53034-13209180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

This session will provide the opportunity to learn more about the field of social work and the UM MSW and PhD Programs. Topics covered will include: Field of social work, types of jobs/careers UM graduates go into, licensure; UM Curriculum Options, Dual Degree Programs, Application Process, Financial Aid, and more.

RSVP here by Oct 23: https://myumi.ch/JWM7R

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Meeting Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:39:48 -0400 2018-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Meeting Social Work Session
Decision Consortium (October 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54254 54254-13563452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Is One Secure Attachment Enough? Decisions Made by Mothers and Fathers on the Division of Infant Child Care in the First Year

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:39:33 -0400 2018-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation volling
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (October 25, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52796 52796-13079512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Intimate partner violence and reproductive health among Arab-American women

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:17:28 -0400 2018-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation yasamin
EHAP Speaker Series: Multiple Mechanisms Underlying Endocrine Control of Behavioral Transitions: Secretion,Transport, Response (October 25, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53722 53722-13452995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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All organisms must respond to environmental and social perturbations. Subsequent facultative hormonal cascades are key for rapid physiological and behavioral acclimation. Although many endocrine cascades are known to respond rapidly to environmental perturbations, it is only recently that we have discovered the plasticity of these responses over the life cycle. Mechanisms underlying modulation of physiological and behavioral responses to environmental change have triggered two major hypotheses. 1. the evolutionary constraints hypothesis which posits that endocrine systems are highly conserved and there are limited ways by which the responses can be modulated. 2. The evolutionary flexibility hypothesis suggesting that there are multiple ways by which endocrine systems can be modulated. This talk will focus on specific facultative hormonal responses and explore why and how these are modulated in relation to the two hypotheses.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:10:20 -0400 2018-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation wing
Psychology Methods Hour: Explaining the Benefits and Implementation of Bayesian Cognitive Modeling to Frequentist Reviewers (October 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54512 54512-13592088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Bayesian hierarchical modeling can provide novel insights into the mechanistic processes that allow humans to complete cognitive tasks. This method may be especially useful when cognitive models from experimental psychology are applied in clinical or neuroimaging research because it allows complex models to be fit even in situations where behavioral data from individual participants is sparse. This presentation will provide a general overview of Bayesian cognitive modeling methods, and of the sometimes challenging task of addressing concerns from reviewers who may be less familiar with them, using an example of a paper that Alex and his co-authors have recently been working through the review process with. Topics discussed will include assessing model fit in this framework and describing Bayesian methods for modeling and hypothesis testing to Frequentist readers.

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Presentation Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:52:24 -0400 2018-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum (October 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53796 53796-13461554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Diffusion models have shown great success in explaining choice response time in a wide variety of domains. However, to account for RT differences between correct and error responses, the model must assume random variability in parameters across trials. The first part of this talk presents mathematical results showing that, if this variability is unconstrained, then the model becomes unfalsifiable.

The second part presents a positive theory of intertrial variability that resolves this problem of excess flexibility, based on an integration of the diffusion model with reinforcement learning. These are arguably the two most successful frameworks in cognitive modeling, respectively describing within-trial and across-trial dynamics. I provide a Bayesian derivation that yields a natural synthesis of the two models and makes novel predictions about bidirectional influences between learning and decision making. Fits to data show the model simultaneously accounts for choice and RT within trials, learning across trials, and various interdependencies between these two timescales.

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Presentation Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:45:37 -0400 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Matt Jones
Developmental Brown Bag: It really does take a village: The role of neighborhood in the etiology of child antisocial behavior. (October 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53113 53113-13235269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

There is now considerable evidence that neighborhood disadvantage predicts child antisocial behavior, and that this effect may be causal, at least to an extent. However, the mechanisms underlying these contextual influences on child behavior remain unclear. In this talk, I will examine gene-environment interplay as one key possibility, evaluating how structural characteristics of the neighborhood shape the etiology of child antisocial behavior. The studies to be presented employed a number of state-of-the-science sampling, methodologic, and analytic techniques. Results provide compelling evidence regarding a key role for ‘bioecological gene-environment interactions’ and, when considered alongside other evidence in the field, point to a possible role for the ‘biological embedding’ of disadvantage. Implications and future work will be discussed.

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Other Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:33:53 -0400 2018-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Burt
Biopsychology Colloquium (October 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54359 54359-13574519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Pleasure and Disgust

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Presentation Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:40:40 -0400 2018-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation moreales
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Preprocessing (October 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57096 57096-14092920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:26:41 -0400 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
The Dangers of Dominance and the Pitfalls of Prestige (October 31, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54378 54378-13574552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:14:02 -0400 2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Case
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52797 52797-13079513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Title: Promoting Respect as a Solution to Workplace Sexual Harassment

Abstract: Despite, organizational policies aimed at sexual harassment prevention, harassing behaviors remain pervasive at work. Scholars have noted that anti-harassment policies may not be effective because they often focus heavily on unwanted sexual pursuit and sexual coercion and do little to tackle the broader climate of hostility and disrespect that sets the stage for sexual harassment. Thus, the present study examines whether anti-harassment efforts are more effective at reducing both sexual and hostile forms of harassment, for men and women, if expanded to emphasize positive, prosocial norms of respect. In a large military sample, we tested whether leader respect promotion uniquely predicted sexual advance harassment and gender harassment. In addition, we examined whether leader respect promotion moderates the relationship between leader harassment prevention behaviors (a previously established predictor) and the frequency of sexual advance and gender harassment. We found that leader respect promotion negatively predicted gender harassment and was not related to sexual advance harassment, for both men and women. In addition, leader respect promotion moderated the relationship between harassment prevention behaviors and gender harassment and sexual advance harassment (except for men) such that harassment was lowest when leaders promoted respect and prevented harassment. These results suggest that while traditional harassment prevention efforts remain important for deterring sexual harassment, a respectful climate is also an effective tool against sexual harassment.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:03:34 -0400 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation robotham
EHAP Speaker Series: Living Together: Burrows, Brains & Breeding (November 1, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53723 53723-13452996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Living in groups has profound impacts on numerous aspects of a species’ biology. As a result, understanding why groups form and why social relationships within groups vary are central themes in behavioral biology. This seminar will reveal how studies of largely unobservable subterranean rodents are generating new insights into the ecology, endocrinology, and evolution of group living. From naked mole-rats to tuco-tucos, tojos, and cururos, these often little-known animals are helping to reshape our understanding of animal social behavior.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:23:54 -0400 2018-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2018-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation eileen
Decision Consortium (November 1, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54255 54255-13563453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Oral Contraceptives and Cognition: A Methodological Perspective?

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:40:41 -0400 2018-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation beltz
22nd Annual Mathematics Career & Graduate Program Conference (November 2, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56946 56946-14032743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

All Students Welcome! Speak with U-M Mathematics Alumni and representatives from business, industry, education and financial and actuarial occupations, as well as U-M graduate programs. Faculty advisors will also be on hand to discuss declaring a major or minor in Mathematics! Refreshments Provided!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:08:05 -0400 2018-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Careers / Jobs Career Fair
On Taking Tests as a Learning Activity: Comprehension, Concept Maps, and Multiple Choice Quizzes (November 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53797 53797-13461556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The impact of retrieval practice, its underlying mechanisms, and the boundary conditions on its effective deployment have become topics of high interest in both basic and applied studies of academically-relevant learning. Results from a collaboration involving laboratory data collection at Michigan State University and Kalamazoo College and classroom data collection at Albion College show (a) comprehension of studied material is needed to gain the full benefits of retrieval practice on subsequent remembering, (b) when classroom topics are more difficult making comprehension a greater challenge, concept mapping becomes more effective than other retrieval-practice tools at producing potentially transferrable knowledge, but (c) better remembering does not in and of itself guarantee better transfer and application — you’ve got to remember the right material at the right time and realize its relevance.

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Presentation Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:38:53 -0400 2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Tom Carr
Clinical Science Brown Bag: ABPP/ABCN Board Certification– What You Should Know (November 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53717 53717-13452671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Summary: The current presentation will introduce organizations important in the board certification of psychologists. All specialty boards will be introduced, with a focus on neuropsychology. It will highlight the benefits of board certification to the individual provider as well as benefits to the profession and the general public. Common myths about the process of becoming certified will be clarified. The presentation will provide resources, advice, and strategies for managing the process and allow graduate students the opportunity to ask questions about their candidacy.

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Presentation Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:12:43 -0400 2018-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-05T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Votruba
Social Area Brown Bag (November 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54941 54941-13654197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Seeing clearly in the mind’s eye: The relationship of decentering to mood and anxiety disorders and health behavior change

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Presentation Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:37:11 -0500 2018-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Fresco
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (November 8, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52800 52800-13079516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Changes in Hormones During Intimate Partner Discussions

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:06:21 -0400 2018-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation chin
EHAP Speaker Series: The genetic basis of social behavior and life history tradeoffs in a wild primate population (November 8, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53725 53725-13452997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Are social behaviors heritable? If so, how are they likely to respond to selection? This talk addresses these questions for two important social behaviors — social grooming and aggressive behavior — in a well-studied wild primate population, the baboons of the Amboseli basin in southern Kenya. We took a quantitative genetics approach to this problem, using the large existing pedigree for this population to estimate both the heritability of these traits and to simultaneously examine how these traits are influenced by environmental variables. To frame our work in terms of its likely implications for understanding natural selection, we also examined key female life history traits and investigated the evidence for life history tradeoffs — between reproduction and survival, and between current and future reproduction — in our population.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:24:47 -0400 2018-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation alberts
Decision Consortium (November 8, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54256 54256-13563454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Genes, Phenotypes, and Behavior: An Experiment and Two Field Studies

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:42:37 -0400 2018-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation bagnou
Psychology Methods Hour: Mapping Cognition Using Dense Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (November 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54515 54515-13592089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Most neuroimaging studies average across heterogeneous individuals while they perform a small number of tasks, leading to imprecise and incomplete maps of neural architecture. This talk describes an alternative strategy, which is to densely image individual participants while they complete a large battery of tasks, in order to obtain a more accurate and complete understanding of person-specific neural architecture. Topics discussed will include assumptions and problems with group averaging, techniques available to parcellate or cluster the brain into functionally similar regions, and methods of assessing within- and between-subject parcellation reliability.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:21:58 -0500 2018-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Simmonite
Clinical Science Brown Bag - It really does take a village: The role of neighborhood in the etiology of child antisocial behavior (November 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53716 53716-13452670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

There is now considerable evidence that neighborhood disadvantage predicts child antisocial behavior, and that this effect may be causal, at least to an extent. However, the mechanisms underlying these contextual influences on child behavior remain unclear. In this talk, I will examine gene-environment interplay as one key possibility, evaluating how structural characteristics of the neighborhood shape the etiology of child antisocial behavior. The studies to be presented employed a number of state-of-the-science sampling, methodologic, and analytic techniques. Results provide compelling evidence regarding a key role for ‘bioecological gene-environment interactions’ and, when considered alongside other evidence in the field, point to a possible role for the ‘biological embedding’ of disadvantage. Implications and future work will be discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:09:54 -0400 2018-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Burt
GFP faculty meeting (November 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52804 52804-13079520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Gender and Feminist Psychology

GFP faculty meeting, EH 2238

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Meeting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:37:15 -0400 2018-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Gender and Feminist Psychology Meeting East Hall
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms for the Benefits of Stimulus-Driven Attention (November 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57573 57573-14217847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Working memory is enhanced for items that are prioritized via goal-driven attention. Stimulus-driven attention, or the guidance of attention based on the characteristics of a stimulus, can also benefit working memory when it is drawn to relevant information, but this mechanism is not yet understood. To this end, we proposed two hypotheses: first, that salience detection brain regions and processes would directly benefit working memory, and second, that working memory for information that elicits stimulus-driven attention would be improved indirectly through the enhancement of controlled processing. To test these ideas, we conducted two experiments using functional MRI and event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Our results showed increased activation only in cognitive control regions associated with the encoding of salient information. Our ERP results further corroborated this finding, showing larger amplitude in a parietal P3 potential associated with controlled processing of target information. Thus, we concluded that stimulus-driven attention can benefit working memory indirectly when cognitive control is enhanced to maintain task goals.

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Presentation Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:03:15 -0500 2018-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Cognitive development in the school context. (November 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53114 53114-13235270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

ABSTRACT: Children's ability to control their thoughts and behaviors is critical for school readiness and academic success. Children are constantly expected to pay attention, follow rules, and concentrate on various tasks. For young students, this means having to wait their turn to engage in activities, raise their hands before speaking, and resist becoming distracted by peers. Understanding how the early school context shapes the cognitive mechanisms underlying these behaviors is central to my research. Specifically, I study the development of executive function (EF) and self-regulatory abilities, and how they contribute to children's emerging academic skills during the transition to school. Grounded in an interdisciplinary developmental science perspective, and by employing longitudinal and experimental methodology, I will discuss three related lines of research related to EF development in the school context. In the first set of studies, I will present our recent efforts towards developing and validating a new set of school-based EF assessments in young children. The second line of research will focus on the importance of EF components, and their impact on children's academic achievement across development. I will also present our recent work examining the causal effect of preschool, and kindergarten on children's EF growth, using school cutoff, and regression discontinuity designs.

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Other Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:07:44 -0500 2018-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Ahmed
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (November 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53375 53375-13355927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Walk-in advising for students interested in studying abroad. Come with your questions to speak with both a Psych Advisor and CGIS Advisor in one session!

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Other Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2018-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Psych and CGIS study abroad co advising
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Characterizing the spectrum of task fMRI connectivity approaches (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57574 57574-14217848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Task-based functional connectivity (FC) approaches have typically sought to characterize the modulation of connectivity by task condition (e.g. PPI, beta-series correlation). However, other more “resting-state”-like approaches to task-based connectivity are gaining traction. These techniques examine FC over the entire task session and either leave in (AS Greene et al, Nat Comm 2018) or attempt to regress out (“background connectivity”, DA Fair et al, Neuroimage 2007) the effects of task stimuli. Existing somewhere between task-modulated FC and resting-state FC, what do these approaches have to offer our understanding of functional connectivity and -- more broadly -- cognition and disease? In my talk, I will:

outline the spectrum of task-based connectivity approaches, to get everyone on the same page identify the putative effects of leaving in or regressing out effects of task stimuli (and why this is a source of controversy) describe how these approaches are currently being used (in general, in aging/dementia research, and in our lab) ultimately stimulate a discussion of the research questions for which these techniques might be well-suited (or poorly-suited)

In sum, the talk as designed is methods-focused and built on a foundation of the concepts underlying the different approaches, but also tying in recent work actually using the approaches (including some of my work in Dr. Damoiseaux’s lab). As an aside, the Greene Nat Comm paper contains the data presented by Dustin Scheinost at UofM last April, so attendees of that talk will already have some background knowledge for this talk.

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Presentation Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:59:45 -0500 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Undergraduate Research Alumni Panel (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54289 54289-13563526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

How can research prepare you for your future career in a non-research field? What kinds of transferable skills can you gain from research? A panel of PhD students and alumni will explore these questions and more at this event.

Panelists Include:
Teague Simoncic '12 (MSW '14), Behavioral Health Care Manager
Caitlin Possilico, Current Biopsych PhD student, Academic Advisor, and Psych 220 GSI
Taylor Bruns, '15 (AMDP '16), Admissions Counselor
Annetta Joyce '16 (MSW '18), MSW Student & State Appellate Defender's Office Reentry Team Member

Please RSVP at: https://myumi.ch/LqeZK
This event is open to all majors, all years, and anyone interested in or currently involved in research.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:22:30 -0500 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar woman putting a stick note on the wall
Social Area Brown Bag (November 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54942 54942-13654200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:41:10 -0500 2018-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation FelsmanYu
Biopsychology Talk (November 14, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56974 56974-14057155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Biopsychology

Neural control of innate behaviors and motivation



Many complex behaviors are displayed without requirement of learning and are termed innate. Although traditionally the subject matter of ethology, innate behaviors offer a unique entry point for neuroscientists to dissect the physiological mechanisms governing complex behaviors and are becoming the forefront of neuroscience research with the advent of optogenetic and chemogenetic tools that allow cell-type specific dissection of the neural circuits. In the past several years, our groups have studied the role of distinctive populations of hypothalamic neurons in the control innate social behaviors including mating, parental care and territorial aggression. We are particularly interested in understanding how neurons underlying individual behaviors interact with each other to coherently modulate behavioral outputs in a state-dependent and adaptive manner.

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Presentation Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:28:55 -0400 2018-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Biopsychology Presentation xiao
Psychology Transfer Student Turkey and Talk (November 14, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53379 53379-13355930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Dept. of Psychology invites transfer students interested in Psych & BCN to come together for a catered Thanksgiving dinner, on us!

Space is limited - please RSVP at: https://myumi.ch/6pWkO

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Other Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:43:30 -0400 2018-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Transfer student series
Decision Consortium (November 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54257 54257-13563455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Testosterone and Economic Decision Making

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Presentation Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:44:26 -0400 2018-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation stanton
PSC faculty meeting (November 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52799 52799-13079515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

PSC faculty meeting, EH 3254
PSC student meeting, EH 4464

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Meeting Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:55:31 -0400 2018-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Meeting East Hall
EHAP Speaker Series: Behavioral & Hormonal Contributions to Territoriality (November 15, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53726 53726-13452999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:25:49 -0400 2018-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation marler
Psychology Research & Service Learning Fair (November 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54282 54282-13563519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Looking for psychology research positions or service learning courses? Labs and service learning courses attending this event are looking for undergraduate students!

Students RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/LRKrB

**Labs attending W19: http://myumi.ch/6jPm9**

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Fair / Festival Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:10:07 -0400 2018-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Fair / Festival 2018 Research and service learning fair
Developmental Brown Bag: Adversity, Resilience and the Developing Brain (November 19, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53115 53115-13235271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
Over the past four years, my colleagues and I have examined the effects of early adversity on brain development and mental health in longitudinal sample of adolescents followed since birth. In this talk, I will present the following: types and rates of adversity experienced, rates of specific forms of psychopathology, longitudinal correlates of specific forms of childhood adversity on adolescent brain development, and possible social as well as neurobiological pathways to resilience.


Bio
Chris is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. He is also a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at ISR and the Center for Human Growth and Development. Chris received his PhD in Child Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. He then went on to the NIMH Intramural Research Program where he was a postdoc and later a fellow. His research program involves two active and related lines of research. In the first line, he is examining how poverty-related stressors and the developmental timing of those stressors impact brain development, stress hormone regulation and anxiety as well as depression symptoms during adolescence. For the second line of research, he is investigating how effective treatments for anxiety (cognitive behavioral therapy or medication) alter brain function and how these brain alterations relate to clinical outcome in children and adolescents.

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Other Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:04:35 -0500 2018-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Monk
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 26, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Developmental Brown Bag (November 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53116 53116-13235272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Title: "How 'you' makes meaning."

Abstract:
Why do people say 'you' when they really mean 'me'? The answer reveals how our attempts to derive meaning from life experiences are woven into the fabric of everyday language. I will report our research finding that people--both adults and young children--spontaneously shift from a self-focused ("I") to a generalized ("you") perspective when thinking about norms or reflecting on difficult personal experiences. Using generic "you" helps people 'normalize' challenging events and achieve psychological distance. In this way, a simple linguistic mechanism serves a powerful meaning-making function.

Bio:
Susan is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics. She studies concepts and language in young children. She is especially interested in how children organize their experience into categories, how categories guide children's reasoning, how children discover and reason about non-obvious aspects of the world, and the role of language in these processes. These interests have led to the study of concepts ranging from gender to digital privacy, and to collaborations with colleagues in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, education, marketing, and pediatrics.

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Other Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:39:05 -0500 2018-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Gelman
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Biopsychology Colloquium (November 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54361 54361-13574521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Neural Basis for the Metabolic Control of Reproduction

It is well-established that a minimum amount of stored energy is required for normal pubertal development and for reproductive health in adult life. On the other hand, excess energy also negatively impacts the reproductive physiology. Elevated adiposity in women aggravates polycystic ovary syndrome, ovulatory dysfunction and decreases the reproductive capacity. In obese men, fertility is diminished due to altered activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis and defective steroidogenesis. The increasing rates of childhood obesity have been correlated with early puberty and its deleterious consequences. Earlier menarche in girls is associated with increased risk of adult obesity, type 2 Diabetes and breast cancer. Thus, changing levels of key metabolic cues is an essential signal to the onset of puberty and the adequate function of the reproductive system in adult life. The adipocyte hormone leptin signals the amount of energy stored to the HPG axis. Humans and mice with leptin signaling deficiency are obese and infertile, remaining in a pre-pubertal state. However, the neural basis for the primary reproductive actions of leptin remains unclear. Our laboratory has identified the hypothalamic ventral premammillary nucleus (PMV) as an essential relay of leptin action in reproductive physiology. Our working hypothesis is that the PMV has three distinct neuronal components, i.e., one excitatory, one inhibitory, and one synchronizer. The balance among them would determine the responses of the HPG axis to metabolic challenges. In this seminar, we will discuss the findings supporting our hypothesis. We have used viro- and chemo-genetic in mouse models to determine the roles of glutamate neurotransmission (excitatory component) and dopamine transporter-expressing neurons (inhibitory component) in reproductive control. We will also discuss preliminary and ongoing studies indicating the nitric oxide works as a synchronizer component in the activity of the PMV neuronal network.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:08:32 -0400 2018-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation carol
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-27T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Michigan Mentorship Program Information Session (November 27, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57548 57548-14211243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

The Michigan Mentorship Program is an experiential learning course designed to provide mentors for students in the Ann Arbor Public Schools who are at risk for low achievement. College students who can relate to younger students' concerns are a tremendous resource for their learning and motivation. Conversely, college students can learn a great deal from children and adolescents as they work together. The course will provide a personal relationship and useful academic information in order to help grade school students become more successful and more motivated in school.

Join us for this information session to learn more! Applications will be available at the meeting.
RSVP: https://myumi.ch/6wDnx

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Meeting Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:17:02 -0500 2018-11-27T20:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T20:30:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Meeting Michigan Mentorship Program
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 28, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-28T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Social Area Brown Bag (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54943 54943-13654201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:20:51 -0400 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation MichalakKoji
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times? How Our Social Relationships Can Help and Harm Our Health (November 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57960 57960-14381737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Humans are fundamentally social beings. Our connections with others offer opportunities for support and nurturance but can also be potent sources of stress and pain. In this talk, I will describe my research examining the psychological and biological mechanisms that connect negative interpersonal experiences to our physical health. First, using evidence from disease models of asthma and the common cold, I will show how potent interpersonal stressful events occurring during the first two decades of life contribute to both nearer-term and longer-term physical health outcomes. Specifically, I will focus on experiences of social rejection and family acrimony, emphasizing the role the immune system plays in carrying these negative experiences over time to affect health. Next, I will present work showing that receiving a hug may protect against the harmful psychological consequences of negative interpersonal experiences in daily life. I will conclude by discussing future research plans.

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Other Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:56:42 -0500 2018-11-28T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Michael Murphy
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 29, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-29T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (November 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52798 52798-13079514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

Internalized Stigma and Concealable Identity: Implications for Immediate and Lifelong Political Engagement

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Presentation Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:06:05 -0400 2018-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation ben
EHAP Speaker Series: The Neurobiology and Evolution of the Pair Bond (November 29, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53727 53727-13453000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Love is one of humanity’s most powerful emotions, inspiring some of the greatest art, literature and conquests of all time. While aspects of love are surely unique to our species, human romantic relationships are displays of a mating system characterized by pair bonding, likely built on ancient foundational neural mechanisms governing individual recognition, social reward, territorial behavior and maternal nurturing. Dr. Young will discuss his work on monogamous prairie voles that provide insights into neural mechanisms and evolution of pair bonding, and the implications for the neurobiology of Love.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:26:41 -0400 2018-11-29T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-29T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation larry
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Psychology Methods Hours (November 30, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54516 54516-13592091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Things I Wish I Knew About Methods Training When I Started Graduate School

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Presentation Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:23:39 -0400 2018-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Emotion, Policy, and Social Life: A Symposium Celebrating Phoebe C. Ellsworth (November 30, 2018 1:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56909 56909-14023818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 30, 2018 1:15pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Friday, November 30, 2018

Schedule of events:

1:15pm - 1:30pm: Opening Remarks
Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, Chair, Psychology Department
Elizabeth R. Cole, Interim Dean, College of LSA

1:30pm - 2:50pm: Appraisals of Emotion (Ethan Kross, moderator)
Craig Smith:
Why I don’t like pre-appraisals: The theoretical promise of a process-model of appraisal.
Ira Roseman:
Appraising Phoebe: Are you my mentor?
Ed O’Brien
Easier Seen Than Done
Dacher Keltner:
Complexities of Emotion: Insights from a Dimensional Perspective

2:50pm - 3:00pm Coffee Break

3:00pm-4:00pm: Law and Policy (Joshua Ackerman, moderator)
Richard Friedman, Opening Remarks
Sam Sommers:
The Phoebe Principle: Spend Your Time on Things that Matter
Barbara O’Brien:
Race and Jury Selection Post-Batson
Richard Gonzalez:
Making research meaningful: Law, decision making and methods

4:00pm - 4:10pm Coffee Break

4:10pm-5:30pm: Emotion and Beyond (Allison Earl, moderator)
Yu Niiya:
An Exploration of Japanese Amae in the U.S.
Patricia Chen:
Firm Ground on Which the House Was Built
Laura Kubzansky:
At the Heart of Mind-Body Dualism: Do Emotions Matter for Health?
Igor Grossmann:
Phoebe Ellsworth’s wisdom: The rational and the reasonable

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Presentation Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:48:54 -0500 2018-11-30T13:15:00-05:00 2018-11-30T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation phobe
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Emotion Regulation Therapy: Translating affect science principles to improve clinical outcomes for refractory disorders (December 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57629 57629-14243998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Despite extensive efficacy findings, a sizable subgroup of individuals remains refractory to CBT. In particular, patients with “distress disorders” (generalized anxiety disorder and/or major depressive disorder) evidence suboptimal treatment response coupled with reduced life functioning and satisfaction. These patients are often characterized by intense emotional experiences resulting in an inordinately cautious manner that favors protection over reward as well as perseverative cognition (i.e., worry, rumination) that disrupts new contextual learning. Using this hypothesized profile as a framework, Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) was developed as a theoretically-derived, evidence based, treatment integrating principles from traditional and contemporary CBT with basic and translational findings from affect science to offer a blueprint for improving intervention by focusing on the motivational responses and corresponding regulatory characteristics of individuals with distress disorders. This presentation will offer an introduction to ERT by reviewing open-label and randomized controlled trial findings as well as recent studies that begin to elucidate the neurobehavioral and peripheral psychophysiological markers for the proposed underlying mechanisms.

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Presentation Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:46:35 -0500 2018-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation David Fresco
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 3, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Unseen Influences: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding the Links between Social and Biological Processes (December 3, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57962 57962-14381738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In what ways are social experiences affected by biological states—how tired, hungry, sick, or physiologically aroused we are? In turn, how do social experiences impact biological processes? Are these effects contagious, spreading across people? In this talk, I explore these questions, focusing on one particular biological process, sleep. More than 69% of U.S. adults get less sleep than they need, making sleep problems an increasingly ubiquitous and problematic issue. In Part 1, I examine the reciprocal relationship between sleep and social rejection, including discrimination. In Part 2, I take a dyadic perspective, considering the ways in which people are influenced not only by their own sleep, but by their romantic partner’s sleep as well. Across studies, I highlight physiological and cognitive mechanisms underlying these links, as well as identify individual differences that make people more or less vulnerable to them. These studies utilize a multi-method approach, combining self-report, observational, and behavioral measures with autonomic nervous system reactivity and neuroendocrine responses in both naturalistic (longitudinal, daily experience) and experimental (lab- and field-based) designs. Together, these studies highlight the ways in which social and biological processes can exert potentially unseen influence on each other, creating the possibility of a vicious cycle, not just within one individual, but across people as well.

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Other Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:13:17 -0500 2018-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Amie Gordon
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 4, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Biopsychology Colloquium (December 4, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54362 54362-13574528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Generation and manipulation of combinatorial connectivity for olfactory perception

Animals navigate complex and changing environments by combining instinct with memories of past experiences. The structures of neural circuits that represent sensory information for innate and learned interpretation are different from one another, with innate interpretations generated by circuits with predictable wiring, and flexible learned interpretations generated by circuits with unpredictable wiring. I will present the Clowney lab's progress in interrogating how neurons of the insect olfactory learning center acquire sparse and unpredictable olfactory inputs during development.

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Presentation Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:52:40 -0500 2018-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation josie
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-05T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Social influence under the skin: Physiological linkage during dyadic and group interactions (December 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57964 57964-14381740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

During social interactions, people influence each other in a variety of subtle and overt ways—for example, through their tone of voice, nonverbal behaviors, and facial expressions. In this talk, I will describe a particular case of social influence—physiological linkage—which occurs when one person’s physiological response predicts another person’s physiological response at a future time point. First, I will present a theoretical framework for understanding how physiological linkage occurs and the psychological inferences that can be drawn from it. Next, I will describe a set of studies examining physiological linkage alongside dyadic behaviors, group outcomes, and country-level measures of social relationships. Across these studies, I will show that linkage is conditional and occurs when people are socially attuned to one another. Finally, I will discuss the importance of physiological linkage for understanding dyadic and group behavior, as well as implications of these findings for health and well-being.

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Other Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:27:03 -0500 2018-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Kate Thorson
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-05T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 6, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (December 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52801 52801-13079517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

No big deal'? Contextualizing college women’s dismissals of sexual assault

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Presentation Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:18:20 -0500 2018-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Presentation leanna
EHAP Speaker Series: The Sound of Fear: A Journey from Mountain Marmots to Hollywood (December 6, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53730 53730-13453002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

What makes certain sounds scary? I will describe insights gained from over three decades of studying alarm calls and fear screams in marmots (which are large, mostly-alpine, ground squirrels) throughout the northern hemisphere. Fear screams are remarkably similar across taxa and they seem to be particularly evocative to many species. My studies of non-humans suggest that it is the noise and non-linearities in them that is what evokes negative emotions and heighted responses in those hearing them. I formalize this in ‘the non-linearity and fear hypothesis’ and discuss my tests of the hypothesis in studies of marmots, birds, film soundtracks, and humans. The sound of fear is non-linear.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:27:45 -0400 2018-12-06T13:30:00-05:00 2018-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation dan
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52993 52993-13176866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:43:08 -0400 2018-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other photo
Age Differences in Vestibular Processing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence (December 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54887 54887-13651915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:10:24 -0500 2018-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 2018-12-07T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation noohi
Clinical Science Brown Bag: (December 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57630 57630-14243999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

How to capture a moment? : Momentary state-oriented approach to studying and intervening emotion regulation


There are several existing measures of emotion regulation which mainly rely upon retrospective, trait-oriented self-report. However, characteristics of emotion and emotion regulation are more likely to manifest in a specific context within a short period of time. In this presentation, therefore, I would like to introduce three studies focused on in-the-moment state-based approaches including (i) ERP investigation on attentional disengagement of individuals with suicidality, (ii) ecological momentary assessment of mood of individuals with depression, and (3) effectiveness of immediate intervention through mobile application.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:15:04 -0500 2018-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
GFP faculty meeting (December 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52803 52803-13079519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Gender and Feminist Psychology

GFP faculty meeting, EH 2238

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Meeting Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:37:39 -0400 2018-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Gender and Feminist Psychology Meeting East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag (December 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53117 53117-13235273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Ka Ip

Title: Are children’s neurobiological systems of stress sensitive to culture?
Abstract:Human beliefs, practices and behaviors are shaped by culture. Evolutionary theories suggest that biology and culture co-evolved, such that a symbiotic relationship exists between biology and culture. In order to adapt to the cultural environment, throughout development, human biology may have to become more sensitive to contexts that are most salient (or threatening) to one’s culture. Can we observe such a neurobiological sensitivity to cultural contexts in young children? Through assessments of preschoolers in the US, China and Japan, I will determine whether children’s neurobiological systems of stress are differentially sensitive to cultural contexts. By using three different stress paradigms designed to induce challenges that are relevant to their corresponding cultural contexts, I will examine whether children’s 4-year-old children’s salivary cortisol reactivity is more reactive to psychosocial stressors that are salient in their cultures. These findings are discussed as part of understanding how culture may shape children’s regulation at different levels of processing (emotion expressions, cortisol, motor activity).
Bio: Ka is a 5th year PhD student in developmental psychology and clinical science. His research focuses on examining the developmental, neurobiological and cultural processes underlying early self-regulation.

Nick Waters

Title: Socioeconomic Differences in Kindergartners’ Performance Monitoring: An ERP Investigation
Abstract: Extensive research has documented relations between socioeconomic status (SES)—comprised of parent educational attainment, occupation, and family income—and the development of children’s self-regulation skills. However, only recently have researchers begun investigating the neural mechanisms underlying these relations. One facet of self-regulation—performance monitoring—can be indexed at the level of electrophysiological activity and has demonstrated measurement reliability in young children. The goal of this study was to investigate relations between components of SES and event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with performance monitoring, including the error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe), measured in a sample of kindergarten children during a child friendly Go/No-Go task. Results indicated that family income-to-needs predicted the magnitude of children’s Pe responses, whereas neither indicator of SES predicted the magnitude of the ERN. Given the Pe reflects the awareness of committing an error, affective responses to erring, and processes related to adaptive performance following mistake responses, these results provoke future investigation as to whether the Pe may be a potential mechanism linking SES to performance differences in assessments of children’s self-regulation.
Bio: Nick is a third-year Ph.D. candidate working with Pam Davis-Kean, Fred Morrison and, as a member of the developmental training grant, Bill Gehring. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on understanding the role of contextual factors, including socioeconomic status and parenting, in shaping the development of children’s executive functioning and academic skills.

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Other Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:49:41 -0500 2018-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other kaipwaters
Biopsychology Colloquium (December 11, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54365 54365-13574529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The costs and benefits of cognitive control and motivation: the curious case of choking under pressure

“Don’t overthink it! Just do it!” These phrases are commonly uttered to skilled individuals just before a performance. Many people have the intuition that exerting too much control over well-learned actions can be harmful, especially when under pressure to perform. This effect can be demonstrated experimentally by manipulating participants’ attentional focus and/or inducing performance pressure via monetary incentives. At the same time, most day-to-day activities clearly benefit from goal-directed cognitive control and enhanced motivation. Further, training regimes and coaching often make use of explicit, reflective instruction to augment performance. How do the mechanisms of cognitive control and motivation both support and potentially hamper the activity of neural systems needed for successful performance? This question is explored in a variety of studies using functional neuroimaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, behavioral studies, and computational modeling.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:53:16 -0500 2018-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation taraz
PSC faculty meeting (December 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52802 52802-13079518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Personality and Social Contexts

PSC faculty meeting, EH 3254
PSC student meeting, EH 4464

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Meeting Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:55:45 -0400 2018-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2018-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Personality and Social Contexts Meeting East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-07T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-07T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-07T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
PSC/GFP Brown Bag (January 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57223 57223-14130946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jen Frederick, Zach Schudson, Janelle Goodwill, Sara Chadwick, Ozge Savas, Esra Ascigil

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:04:05 -0500 2019-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (January 11, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53375 53375-14306148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Walk-in advising for students interested in studying abroad. Come with your questions to speak with both a Psych Advisor and CGIS Advisor in one session!

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Other Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2019-01-11T11:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Psych and CGIS study abroad co advising
CCN Forum (January 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58024 58024-14392480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Talk Title: From Talkers to Readers: Developing a Reading Brain in Kindergarten

Abstract: A universal marker of proficient reading is print-speech neural convergence, or the integration of visual and auditory language processing in the brain. How and when does this convergence emerge? What drives the development of the print-speech network, setting the stage for successful reading acquisition in young children?

In this talk, we will examine the relationship between spoken language proficiency and the emergence of print-speech convergence in beginning readers. fMRI neuroimaging of kindergarteners (ages 5-6) demonstrates that print-speech convergence is preceded and predicted by language proficiency, which in turn predicts reading ability one year later. These findings suggest that children’s language ability is a core mechanism guiding neural plasticity for learning to read. Results extend our understanding of brain development for literacy to the earliest stages of reading, and bridge theoretical perspectives across developmental psychology, education, and neuroscience.

Bio: Rebecca is a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013 with a degree in Philosophy, Neuroscience & Psychology. While there, she conducted research on language and social cognition in bilingual preschoolers. After graduating, she taught with Teach for America, where she saw her research interest in language development and bilingualism translated to the classroom context. She now works with Dr. Ioulia Kovelman, as well as Fumiko Hoeft (NOTE: PRONOUNCED HAY-FT) at the University of Connecticut, to understand language and literacy development in linguistically diverse youth.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:15:53 -0500 2019-01-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-11T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation marks
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Summer Camp for Social Scientists: An Overview of the ICPSR Summer Program (January 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59110 59110-14684204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Founded in 1963, the ICPSR Summer Program offers rigorous, hands-on training in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis for researchers of all skill levels and backgrounds. From May through August 2019, the Summer Program will offer more than 80 courses, including introductory statistics, categorical data analysis, Bayesian analysis, maximum likelihood estimation, network analysis, time series analysis, regression analysis, structural equation models, longitudinal analysis, machine learning, and more. The Summer Program is unique because it offers a casual learning environment and unparalleled networking opportunities with students, faculty, and researchers from across the US and around the world.

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:50:08 -0500 2019-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 14, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59240 59240-14719621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Biopsychology Colloquium:
Using Avian Genomics to Innovate the Study of Stress-Induced Reproductive Dysfunction

Brief synopsis:
Stress is a well-known cause of reproductive dysfunction in many species, including birds, rodents, and humans, though stereotypical males and females often respond differently. A powerful way to investigate how stress affects reproduction is by examining its effects on a biological system essential for regulating reproduction, the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. Join Dr. Calisi Rodríguez as she uses avian models to test causal and sex-typical effects of stress on genomic transcription of the HPG axis. By doing so, her lab has been creating an extensive genomic foundation on which to innovate the study of stress-induced reproductive dysfunction, with the potential to transform the fields of stress and reproductive biology.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:45:55 -0500 2019-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation rebecca
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-17T10:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
PSC/GFP Brown Bag (January 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57224 57224-14130948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Best Practices in Graduate Research Q&A with Profs. Myles Durkee, Robin Edelstein, and Sara McClelland

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:07:19 -0500 2019-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation profs
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (January 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-14511762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Peer Advising Walk-Ins great for declaring, registration and waitlist questions, major progress and course selection, finding research, careers/grad school, and general questions.

Staff Advising Walk-Ins great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Martin Luther King, Jr. Linguistics Colloquium: "Sociolinguistic Justice and Transgender Lives" (January 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58460 58460-14502390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Please join the Linguistics Department for a special MLK Colloquium featuring Lal Zimman, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, who will speak on "Sociolinguistic Justice and Transgender Lives."

A reception will immediately follow on the third-floor terrace of East Hall (just below room 4448).

ABSTRACT
Sociolinguistic Justice and Transgender Lives

Over the past decade, transgender people have moved from a marginalized position in American society to a level of visibility that Time magazine characterized in 2015 as a “transgender tipping point.” With this growth in visibility, we can see both increased sensitivity to trans people’s experiences and increased vulnerability to widescale transphobia, particularly at the institutional level. While trans issues were hardly on the political radar in the 1990s and 2000s, trans communities today have become a major target of exclusionary laws and practices.

Language has played a major role in the uncertain place of trans communities in contemporary American society; indeed, being trans is as much about language as it is about clothing, hairstyles, and medical interventions. We can see the crystallization of linguistic conflict on college campuses in particular, where discussions of names, pronouns, and identity labels have led to national, and even international, debates on questions like whether people should be given the power to select the pronouns others should use when talking about them. Yet Linguists have only rarely weighed in on these issues on the broad scale, despite possessing a number of tools and principles that can help us understand the language reform efforts in which trans people are engaged.

This talk focuses on three domains of language in order to explore the critiques being levied by trans language reform activists, the responses to those critiques by non-trans people, and how linguistics might inform these debates. The first aspect of language discussed is the English pronoun system – the highest profile and perhaps most contentious aspect of trans language reform in the United States. I discuss the political discourses surrounding pronoun practices and how trans activists are pushing not only for new pronouns, but new ways of thinking and talking about pronouns. The second linguistic issue is talk about the body. While self-identification is increasingly recognized as determining a person’s social gender, bodies are typically seen as having an “objective truth” that is not susceptible to self-definition. Here I explore the ways trans people are advancing alternative models for understanding “biological sex” that recognizes the highly social nature of human embodiment. The final aspect of linguistic structure discussed here is grammatical gender systems in languages that display much more extensive marking of gender than English does. Here I also reflect on language pedagogy and how the strategies for teaching these languages perpetuates trans exclusion.

Each aspect of language discussed in this talk highlights the material impacts that language has on trans lives. We can draw a direct line between language and trans people’s oppression, and for this reason we each have a moral obligation to consider the implications of our own language use. The talk concludes with a discussion of the relationship between linguistics and transgender communities, arguing that the relative absence of trans people from our discipline should push us to consider the potential exclusionary effects of our models of language and how our academic work might be used to empower this still highly marginalized community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:42:49 -0500 2019-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium (January 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59659 59659-14777893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract:
One can only imagine what it was like for Marjorie Lee Browne as she pursued her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1950. As the first African-American woman to come through the doctoral program in Mathematics at U of M, she would have had to navigate and clear her own unique path to take her place at the table. Forty-five years later, the speaker earned a PhD from the same department and acknowledges that Dr. Browne’s achievements made space for her success.

This talk will give an overview of the speaker’s my professional life with a highlight on her work in building partnerships between universities and industry. She will also talk about the efforts to ensure that a more diverse generation of young people with a diverse range of interests take their rightful place in mathematics communities, and that there is welcoming space for them. A reception for the speaker will be held in the Mathematics Atrium immediately following the talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:59:22 -0500 2019-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59082 59082-14677959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

VIP and NPY neurons in the auditory midbrain: Identification of two classes of principal neurons that project to auditory and non-auditory areas

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:22:21 -0500 2019-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation roberts
Social Area Brown Bag (January 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57986 57986-14383897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Cristina Salvador
Title: Alpha Oscillations and Self-referential processing: Implications for Cultural variation in the Self

Abstract:
Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed that at rest the brain shows high activation in a network of cortical regions known as the default mode network. Consistent with this work, electrocortical studies demonstrate that alpha, a neural oscillation, similarly increases in power during rest and when people engage in self-referential processing. However, there are substantial individual and cultural differences in alpha power during rest. Here, we tested whether variation in alpha power could be explained by culture and self-construal. Previous cross-cultural work established that American culture tends to emphasize the autonomy of the self (independence), whereas Asian culture tends to emphasize the self in reference to others (interdependence). We hypothesized that alpha power would be greater among Americans than Asians and should increase as a function of independent versus interdependent self-construal. To test these predictions, we collected data from a total 172 participants and compared Japanese to European Americans (Study 1) and Taiwanese to European Americans (Study 2). In both studies, we found greater parietal versus frontal alpha power among American participants compared to the two Asian groups. Importantly, the magnitude of alpha power was highly correlated with self-construal across cultures, such that more independent and less interdependent people showed greater alpha at rest. This effect in part explained the cultural difference in alpha power. Our findings provide evidence that alpha oscillations may in part underlie cultural variation in self-construal and highlight the promise of alpha oscillations to understand self-referential processing and variation across groups.

Clinton McKenna
Smartening up or dumbing down? The role of numeracy in motivated reasoning

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:52:30 -0500 2019-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation salvador.mckenna
Psychology Methods Hour: Context effects in Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) – obvious and no-so-obvious issues using a simple data example (January 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59123 59123-14686289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Context effects are a common element in testing hypotheses involving nested data structures: Do students learn better if they are surrounded by high achieving students? Is the association between unemployment and depression stronger in affluent neighborhoods? Unfortunately, it is not always clear how to specify a context effect correctly in hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). Dr. Cortina will demonstrate that the different options of centering predictor variables can be confusing and often leads to inconsistent statistical conclusions. While there are special cases that require more complex models, he argues that most empirical studies in psychological research follow a straightforward definition of context effects.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:40:52 -0500 2019-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Kai Cortina
CCN Forum - Development Talks (January 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58026 58026-14392482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Tyler Adkins:

Title:
Rewards enhance multi-voxel decoding of lightly trained motor sequences

Abstract:
Prospective rewards lead to improvements in motor skill performance via an unknown neural mechanism. We hypothesize that these reward-related behavioral improvements are mediated by reward-related enhancements in neural codes which represent upcoming actions. We measured the fidelity of action-related neural codes using machine learning classifiers which attempt to decode action identity from patterns of brain activity preceding actions. We found that prospective rewards had a positive linear effect on the fidelity of action-related neural codes in canonical preparatory motor regions. However, this effect is only present for neural codes representing actions that were lightly trained—the codes for heavily trained actions were unaffected by prospective rewards. Future research should investigate this interaction between depth of training and reward.


Hyesue Jang

Title:
Losing Money and Motivation: Younger and older adults’ response to loss incentive

Abstract:
Would you be more likely to keep your New Year’s resolution if breaking it cost you $20? Loss-based incentives are common in everyday life (e.g., job/financial security, health, driving) especially for older adults. Many laboratory studies report that loss-based incentives do not affect the performance of older adults. This is often interpreted as an example of the age-related positivity effect described by Carstensen and colleagues. However, the tasks used in many laboratory studies have constraints (e.g., fast-passed trials, salient targets, frequent responses) that keep attention focused on the task. This is very different from many real-life situations. Using a more open-ended, low-salience task, we found that loss incentives reduced performance and attention to the task in older adults (Lin et al., in revision). We suggested this might reflect disengagement in response to negative feedback. In this talk, we examine the effects of loss incentive on a more traditionally-formatted task, and also examine the effects on participants’ subjective reports of task engagement, motivation, and related variables.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:55:33 -0500 2019-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation adkins.jang
Developmental Brown Bag: (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59216 59216-14717521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Valerie Freund
Title: Boredom by Sensation Seeking Interactions During Adolescence

Abstract: The experience of boredom is linked to several adverse outcomes including substance use, risk taking, and psychopathology. Despite evidence that boredom levels peak during adolescence, little work has been done to understand how it interacts with individual traits and its impact on adolescent psychosocial functioning and behavior. In a multi-cohort, national sample of 8th and 10th grade students from the Monitoring the Future study, latent moderated structural equation modeling was used to estimate the associations of boredom, sensation seeking, and their interaction, with substance use, externalizing behavior, and internalizing symptomology. Moderation by gender was also tested. The results of this study demonstrate the generalizability of boredom associations and the significance of boredom by sensation seeking interactions across multiple domains during adolescence.

Young-en Lee
Title: Children’s Evaluations of Third-party Responses to Unfairness: Children Prefer Compensation over Punishment

Abstract: Humans are willing to punish individuals who violate fairness norms, even if they have to pay a cost and are not directly affected. This so-called third-party punishment is a way to intervene against transgressions and is known to stabilize norms. However, punishment is not the only way to restore justice in such situations. Rather than punishing a perpetrator, a third-party could also compensate a victim for their loss. To date, there is no research that investigated children’s evaluations of punishers in comparison with compensators. In the current research, we examined children's evaluations of third-party punishers and compensators. Five- to 9-year-old children heard a story in which a divider distributes candies selfishly between the self and a recipient. Then, a third-party punisher takes candies from the unfair divider, whereas a third-party compensator gives candies to the victim. We measured children’s liking for each third-party on a Likert scale and their forced-choice preference. Results revealed that children evaluated both third parties positively, but they preferred compensators over punishers. The current research has implications for the development of understanding on justice restoration.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Freund
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59085 59085-14677961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brain Extracellular Matrix: Not Just Fluffy Filler

Neurons and glia don’t just float in empty space; like all other organs, the brain contains a complex meshwork of sugars and proteins known as the extracellular matrix (ECM). Understanding how brain ECM contributes to neural functioning, disease states and animal behaviours is a growing field of research, and one that holds a great deal of therapeutic potential. This talk will briefly cover the history of brain ECM work, explain how brain ECM can contribute to cognitive and anxiety-like behaviours, and give insight into this relatively understudied but important biological substrate.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:47:17 -0500 2019-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation aoc
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (January 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57631 57631-14244000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The complexity of We-ness: Interpersonal determinants of health among sexual and gender minority couples

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Presentation Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:15:15 -0500 2019-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-31T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation gamarel
Psychology Methods Hour: From Adaptive to Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions in Mobile Health: Experimental Design Considerations (February 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59124 59124-14686290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

An adaptive intervention (AI) is an intervention design that seeks to address not only the unique, but also the changing needs of individuals as they progress through an intervention. AIs are intended to guide the efforts by therapists, teachers, and other clinical and/or academic staff to provide individualized intervention to individuals in practice. A Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) is a special form of an adaptive intervention that often capitalizes on advances in wireless and mobile devices to address the rapidly changing needs of individuals. In recent years there has been increased interest in developing empirically-informed AIs and JITAIs to address a wide range of behavioral health issues, including depression, anxiety, alcohol use, substance use and sedentary lifestyles. These intervention approaches play an important role in various domains of psychology, including clinical, educational, organizational and health psychology. The goal of this talk is to provide an introduction to AIs and JITAIs, and discuss novel experimental approaches for optimizing these interventions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:07:46 -0500 2019-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Inbal
CCN Forum - Development Talks (February 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58027 58027-14392484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Karthik Ganesan:

Title:
Silent lip reading generates speech signals in auditory cortex: Evidence from intracranially implanted electrodes in humans

Abstract:
Audiovisual integration plays a vital role in speech perception, especially during face-to-face communication. Crossmodal activation of auditory processes by visual stimuli is an important aspect of natural speech perception. It has been previously shown that lip reading activates areas areas in the primary auditory cortex (PAC) including the superior temporal gyrus (STG). Though visual stimuli have been shown to influence neural representations in auditory cortex, it has not been conclusively shown whether auditory and visual stimuli activate the same population of neurons in the PAC. Here, we examine the spatial distribution of silent lip reading signals in the PAC in a large cohort of patients to study if this is indeed the case. We recorded electrocorticographic (ECoG) activity from macroscopic depth electrodes implanted within the STG of 13 patients with epilepsy. On each trial, patients were presented with one of three types of stimuli: (1) single phonemes, (2) videos showing the lip movements articulating each phoneme (visemes), or (3) videos showing audio-visual speech movements. Group-level analyses using parametric statistics were performed to show that visual lip -reading generates neural responses broadly along the PAC, spatially overlapping with the distribution of phoneme responses. Furthermore, we also investigated whether the identity of these phonemes and visemes could be discriminated from neural responses in auditory areas. Several electrodes across patients reliably discriminated between specific instances of the phonemes or visemes. However, preliminary analyses indicate that auditory and visual speech information are encoded at distinct areas of the STG. These results demonstrate that observing silent visual speech crossmodally activates speech-processing areas in a content-specific manner in the PAC. It is also shown that maximum information for phoneme discrimination in the PAC is carried in the frequency band of 4-8 hz.

Dalia Khammash

Title:
Probing cortical inhibition in visual cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation

Abstract:
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive method to stimulate localized brain regions. Despite widespread use in motor cortex, TMS is seldom performed in sensory areas due to variable, qualitative metrics. Our objective was to assess the reliability and validity of tracing TMS-induced phosphenes (short-lived artificial percepts) to investigate the stimulation parameters necessary to elicit decreased visual cortex excitability with paired-pulse TMS at short inter-stimulus intervals.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:05:27 -0500 2019-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ganesan.khammash
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Using Sequential Mixed Methods Research to Develop Research Partnerships: An Example from Urban Indian Mental Health (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59054 59054-14677930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The Indian Health Service of the United States government oversees 34 Urban Indian Health Organizations, charged with providing mental health services to American Indians living in major US cities. Starting in 2014, University of Michigan researchers in the Department of Psychology began contacting these sites, largely through cold calls, to participate in brief surveys regarding their available mental health services. Using this initial contact as a springboard to develop a relationship, a four-year project including multiple visits to several of these health centers was ultimately conducted. This presentation will discuss how a sequential mixed methods approach to research can be applied in the development of long-term research relationships while also improving the depth and quality of the research itself, using this multi-year project in urban Indian health to illustrate these points.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:33:05 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Pomerville
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59086 59086-14677962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Oral Contraceptives and Cognition: A Methodological Perspective on Heterogeneity

Eighty-five percent of women in the United States will use oral contraceptives (OCs) for at least 5 years of their life. Given its prevalence, surprisingly little is known about the psychological and cognitive consequences of “the pill” – consequences that may influence women’s decisions to initiate, continue, or discontinue pill use. Relatively consistent findings are beginning to emerge with respect to memory and spatial abilities, but research on the cognitive correlates of OC use is challenging and riddled with limitations. A primary challenge is heterogeneity: Women are biologically and socially unique, and they use different types of OCs for different reasons. This suggests that the cognitive effects of OC use may also be unique – to subgroups of users or even to individual women! In this talk, I will present methodological innovations that overcome past heterogeneity-related research limitations in order to capture the effects of OC use on cognition, highlighting effects that are relatively uniform across users and those that are unique to individuals. I will accomplish this by: (1) discrediting the notion that differences in personal characteristics between OC users and naturally cycling women are responsible for differences in cognition, (2) removing heterogeneity among OC users by placing them into homogeneous groups (based on the active ingredients in their pills) before examining effects on cognition, and (3) capitalizing on heterogeneity by applying person-specific temporal network models to 75-day diary and cognitive testing data from naturally cycling women and women using different types of OCs.

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Presentation Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:34:01 -0500 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation beltz
PSC & GFP Brown Bags (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57646 57646-14246158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Actions speak louder than words: How mixed-methods action research promotes student-oriented policy

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:35:39 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation lorraine
Grainger: Corporate Info Session & Resume Review (February 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60000 60000-14812530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Hear from two Michigan alumni about what Grainger does, how our Michigan educations prepared us for success in both supply chain and business, and what opportunities are available. A resume review will follow the presentation.

We will be looking for talent to join the team for our Summer 2019 intern program and for full time roles starting Summer 2020.

RSVP by 2/6: https://myumi.ch/6xAkm

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:56:07 -0500 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation man and woman in formal suit standing beside each other
CCN Forum: The Functional Dissection of Wernicke’s Area (February 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59047 59047-14675846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In his talk, he will review recent scientific advances in our understanding of the human language region called Wernicke’s Area. New methods of detailed neurophysiologic recordings are revealing how speech sounds, and their phonetic and prosodic properties, are encoded by local cortical activity. We propose a new model of the functional map within Wernicke’s Areas, one that integrates selectivity for speech inputs with internal state.

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Presentation Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:39 -0500 2019-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Chang
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Linking Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) into Developmental Psychopathology: Self-regulation and its Neural Correlates as Intervention Targets in Early Childhood (February 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59055 59055-14677940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Early childhood interventions might help prevent progression towards chronic impairment. However, current treatments for child psychopathology are often ineffective and difficult to access, with as many as 50% of children continuing to suffer from mental health problems even after treatment. To pave the way for more effective treatment and prevention strategies, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project launched by the National Institute of Mental Health has been championed as a systematic framework for linking symptoms (e.g., internalizing), across the normal to abnormal range, to behavior and neural circuits indexing constructs of relevance to psychopathology. Nonetheless, integrating RDoC into developmental psychopathology, especially the application of RDoC to early childhood, has been understudied.

To fulfill the promise of RDoC and integrate RDoC into developmental psychopathology, I argue that it is critical to 1) identify and establish early behavioral markers that could differentiate typical vs atypical development over time; 2) link these early behavioral markers to neurobiological mechanisms that are associated with emotional maladjustment; and 3) understand how these behavioral and neural markers could be modulated via intervention. In this talk, I will first examine whether specific self-regulation skills at age 3 are related to the development of internalizing and externalizing trajectories across time. Then I will link identified self-regulation vulnerabilities to neural correlates (i.e., error-related negativity; ERN) to understand the development of internalizing problems among preschoolers. Finally, I will conclude with my ongoing direction of targeting self-regulation and its neural correlates via self-regulation trainings as novel intervention for children with internalizing problems.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:26:51 -0500 2019-02-11T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ip
Developmental Brown Bag: Computational psychiatry approaches to understanding developmental risk factors for externalizing psychopathology (February 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59217 59217-14717522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Several recent and ongoing large-scale studies of child and adolescent development have succeeded in collecting rich longitudinal data from psychosocial, behavioral and neural levels of analysis. Although these projects offer researchers an unprecedented opportunity to investigate developmental factors that contribute to mental health outcomes, they also present significant challenges due to the need to draw interpretable conclusions from high-dimensional data and integrate measurements over several levels of analysis. The emerging field of computational psychiatry, which emphasizes the use of mathematically-specified models for measuring clinically-relevant mechanistic processes that underlie observed behavioral and/or neural data, offers potential solutions. I will present a brief overview of this approach and two specific applications. The first involves the use of a mathematical model of go/no-go task performance to clarify mechanistic processes indexed by task-related neural activations in late adolescence and inform the prediction of substance use in emerging adulthood. The second involves efforts to use linear growth modeling to assess relationships between pubertal timing, risk for substance abuse in adolescence, and individual differences in reward evaluation circuitry which may mediate that risk. These lines of research suggest that quantitative model-based approaches can facilitate the use of large-scale longitudinal data sets to better understand and predict externalizing psychopathology.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:07:17 -0500 2019-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Weigard
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59088 59088-14677963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:26:18 -0500 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58029 58029-14392485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Martha Berg: "Loyal friend or dutiful citizen? Cultural variation in moral leniency toward close others"

Ariana Orvell: “You” and “I” in a foreign land: Examining the normative force of generic-you"

Darwin Guevarra: TBA

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:11:07 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation berg.guevarra
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (February 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61039 61039-15024925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:16:11 -0500 2019-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Psychology Transfer Student BBQ Dinner (February 13, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53381 53381-13355932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The Dept. of Psychology invites transfer students interested in Psych & BCN to come together for a summer-themed BBQ dinner, on us!

Space is limited - please RSVP at: https://myumi.ch/6pWkO

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:57:04 -0500 2019-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Undergrad winter events
PSC & GFP Brown Bags (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57644 57644-14246157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

“Getting through those ups and downs”: Resources within Black/African American married couples’ advice on how to make marriage work

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Presentation Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:53:03 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation sparks
EHAP Speaker Series: Hormonal Contraceptives and Breast Cancer: A Case of Evoluntionary Mismatch (February 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56620 56620-13958283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In the evolutionary past, women of reproductive age rarely menstruated as they were usually pregnant or breast-feeding. In modern societies, the evolutionarily novel pattern of frequent menses, and the associated increase in endogenous hormonal exposure, is a risk factor for breast cancer. It is unclear, however, whether oral contraceptives further increase or actually decrease hormonal exposure. My collaborators and I examined variation in hormonal exposure across frequently prescribed oral contraceptive (OC) formulations with the goal of providing a quantitative comparison of endogenous and exogenous hormonal exposure. Endogenous data came from 12 published studies of serum estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) in European or American women. Exogenous data came from pharmacokinetic package insert data for seven different OC formulations. We found that, with the exception of one formulation, median ethinyl estradiol (a synthetic estrogen) exposure over one menstrual cycle was similar to median E2 exposure. However, median exposure from progestins (synthetic progesterone) was 4-fold higher than the median endogenous exposure from P4. Given that breast cancer risk has a dose-response relationship to hormonal exposure, these findings are cause for concern. Not all formulations produce the same exposures, making these findings also pertinent to contraceptive choice. Our results are discussed in the light of a recent Danish study on hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:08:09 -0500 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Strassman
Psychology Methods Hour: Meta-Analyses in the Replication Crisis Era: Steps, Challenges and Best Practices (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59125 59125-14686291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In recent years, discourse in psychology has been substantially affected by the 'replication crisis' - the realization in our field that many of its most prominent studies do not reliably replicate. Although large scale replication efforts and highly publicized failures to replicate have been the most notable ways of assessing and showcasing the reproducibility of psychological research, meta-analyses can be a useful option for evaluating the rates of replicability in a population of studies in the literature. However, since their inception, meta-analyses have also been the subject of censure. There is the issue of publication bias causing inflated effects, the problem of the inclusion of the results of under-powered studies and the overlooked complication of heterogeneity. In this talk, Dominic and Sammy show how meta-analyses can be improved, including the use of p-curve analyses and continuously cumulating meta-analysis. They then go on to discuss how meta-analyses can serve as diagnostic tools for assessing statistical power, selective reporting bias, and between-study heterogeneity and ultimately, how meta-analyses can themselves be used as way quantify the degree of replicability in psychological science.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:02:33 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Kelly-Ahmed
CCN Forum: Metacognition and the Ancient Problem of "Knowing Thyself" (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59854 59854-14795159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

I describe research at the intersection of cognitive and social psychology investigating how accurately people evaluate their intellectual, professional, and social performances—a task not only at the heart of meta-cognition but also the ancient Western exhortation to “know thyself.” In particular, I discuss the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect, which asserts that inexpert and unknowledgeable individuals fail to recognize (scratch that, cannot be expected to recognize) just how severe their deficits are. I discuss the mechanisms underlying the effect, and also its social cognitive extension: People in general not only have difficulty identifying intellectual weaknesses in themselves but also genius and virtuosity in other people.

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Presentation Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:59:12 -0500 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Dunning
Developmental Brown Bag: The Costs of Sexy: Exploring the Impact of Media’s Sexualization of Girls and Women (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59218 59218-14717523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

ABSTRACT
The mainstream media have emerged as a prominent force in the sexual socialization of American youth, with teens consuming nearly 7.5 hours of media a day. However, media portrayals of women are often quite limited, with heavy emphasis on their beauty, sexiness, and sexual appeal. How might regular exposure to this content shape how young women view themselves and their abilities? Most of the existing research testing this question has focused on traditional media, mainly magazines, and on consequences for young women’s mental health. In this talk, I present findings from several studies that extend this work by testing contributions of traditional and social media, and consequences for girls’ and young women’s sexual health, experiences of intimate partner violence, and academic cognitions.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:02:28 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ward
Informal methods talk/roundtable: Current issues in computational neuroimaging of brain function (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60859 60859-14979671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:21:32 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
NII/Psychology/fMRI Talk: Hyperalignment: modeling the shared information encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale cortical topographies. (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60860 60860-14979672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:20:46 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60532 60532-14908087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan Han:
"Experts & Overconfidence"


Susannah Albert-Chandhok:
"Does actively using social media improve mood? It depends on how you use it"

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Presentation Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:23:41 -0500 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation albert
GFP/PSC colloquium speaker (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57647 57647-14246159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Intersectionality: Connecting Gender with Race at Work.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:13:39 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation rosette
EHAP Speaker Series (February 21, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56623 56623-13958286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:54:10 -0400 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Marco
Psychology Recruitment Weekend (February 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53189 53189-13278544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Opportunity for invited applicants to the PhD program to meet with the faculty, staff, and current students of the Department of Psychology. Activities may include individual sessions with area faculty and students, presentations on current graduate student research and graduate curriculum and funding, lab tours and a social event with current students.

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Other Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:50:11 -0400 2019-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other East Hall
Psychology Recruitment Weekend (February 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53190 53190-13278545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Opportunity for invited applicants to the PhD program to meet with the faculty, staff, and current students of the Department of Psychology. Activities may include individual sessions with area faculty and students, presentations on current graduate student research and graduate curriculum and funding, lab tours and a social event with current students.

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Other Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:51:39 -0400 2019-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59090 59090-14677968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Neuroendocrinology and Behavioral sequelae of sepsis: toward an understanding of post-intensive care syndrome

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:38:51 -0500 2019-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation joanna
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60533 60533-14908088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Izzy Gainsburg:
"Beliefs About Beauty: A Subset of Beliefs about whether Value is Objective or Subjective"

Todd Chan:
"I'm not with them: Defensive othering of co-ethnics in response to American identity denial"

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Presentation Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:04:14 -0500 2019-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation izzy
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (February 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61040 61040-15024926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:19:05 -0500 2019-02-27T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
EHAP Speaker Series: Paleolithic or Paleomythic? Learning from 21st century hunter-gatherers about the evolution of the human diet (February 28, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56665 56665-13960664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The world’s few remaining foraging populations are often used as referential models of human evolution and ancestral health – with topics ranging from the so-called “Paleolithic Diet” to the “hunter-gatherer workout” or even “re-wilding the microbiome”. We live in a time when our industrialized modes of subsistence have never been more dissimilar to those of our past, the Neolithic farmers or the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Despite this, there has been an increase in public curiosity and a revitalized effort on the part of scientists to better understand the lifeway that has characterized 95% of human evolution – that of nomadic foraging for wild foods. But what can modern day hunter-gatherers really tell us about our evolutionary past? Here, I discuss the ways in which data collected among the Hadza foragers of Tanzania are critical for evolutionary reconstructions of nutrition and behavior. I explore foraging profiles across the lifespan, seasonal differences in diet composition, and the phylogenetic diversity of Hadza gut microbiota. I discuss how these findings may have implications for understanding human health and behavior in the post-industrialized west. As we are increasingly aware of the role that microbes play in biology, evolution, and in health and disease patterns, it is important to properly contextualize data collected from the world’s most vulnerable small scale societies – particularly as there is great potential for the commercialization of microbiome research. Furthermore, as shifts in diet composition are often linked to many key milestones in human evolution (like brain expansion, cooperation, and family formation), it is necessary to clearly articulate how data from hunter-gatherers can inform our understanding of both our evolutionary past and our contemporary present.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:07:24 -0500 2019-02-28T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ALYSSA
Psychology Methods Hour: Estimating and Visualizing Interactions Between Endogenous Latent Variables (March 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59126 59126-14686292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

A common assumption of latent variables is that their means are zero and their variances are one. In practice, this assumption is not always true, particularly in the case of endogenous latent variables. At the same time, visual representations of latent variable interactions often rely on plotting effects at values corresponding to standard deviations of the latent moderating variable. This discussion draws attention to this often unmet assumption, highlights some potential consequences of failing to meet it, and offers a generalized solution to estimating the mean and variance of endogenous latent variables.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:00:55 -0500 2019-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2019-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag:How might Improving Methodology Improve Policy? The Case of Special Education Research (March 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59219 59219-14717524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: An often underlooked issue is the importance of using the right methods to answer research questions that have significant policy implications. Specialized policies may be required to address issues specific to certain at-risk populations. Though understanding these populations is important, they can be difficult to study. A prime example are children with disabilities, who are legally entitled to a free and appropriate education in U.S. schools, usually through the receipt of special education services. Researchers have long struggled with the lack of an appropriate comparison group to children with disabilities, especially when assessing best-evidence practices or the impact of receiving specialized services. As a result, research on the education of children with disabilities has largely relied on correlational or descriptive statistics, which are then used to make decisions about laws, regulations, and funding allocations. In this talk, Dr. Woods explains how improving methodological choices about specialized populations can substantively change the conclusions we draw about how (in)effective specialized services might be. Obtaining a better understanding of how education impacts at-risk populations like children with disabilities would not only improve policy, but could also alter the way we value the education of children with disabilities.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:00:16 -0500 2019-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59092 59092-14677969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Microstructure of Behavior and Brain Rhythms in Goal and Sign Trackers

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Presentation Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:43:50 -0500 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation siu
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SPEAKER SERIES - EAST HALL, CENTRAL CAMPUS (March 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61828 61828-15212857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Dr. Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Cohen studies how functional brain networks interact and reconfigure when confronted with changing cognitive demands, when experiencing transformations across development, and when facing disruptions in healthy functioning due to disease.

Presentation Title: Functional Brain Network Organization and Dynamics in Health and Disease

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The brain’s ability to adaptively engage different functional networks in the face of a changing environment is an important characteristic that enables a wide variety of behaviors. The goal of my research program is to understand how distinct brain networks interact with each other and flexibly reconfigure when confronted with a dynamic environment, as well as how network integration contributes to individual differences in behavior in both health and disease. In my talk, I will first discuss adaptive reconfiguration of functional brain network organization in response to changes in cognitive demands, followed by a depiction of situations in which stable brain network organization is adaptive. I will end by describing how dysfunctional brain network organization in ADHD underlies symptoms and cognitive deficits. Together, this research provides evidence that the healthy brain systematically reconfigures to adapt to current demands, and that dysfunction in this dynamic network behavior underlies ADHD.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:10:55 -0500 2019-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60535 60535-14908090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Iris Wang:
Who makes a good advisor? Decision making styles as cues of advice quality

Kaidi Wu:
Hypocognition: Implications for Everyday Objects and Social Privilege

Meg Seymour:
The biological cost of childhood sexual abuse is exacerbated by positive self-views.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:53:37 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation wang
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (March 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61042 61042-15024928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:12:39 -0400 2019-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Parental Ethnotheories and the Parenting: A Cross-cultural View (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61807 61807-15188668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

CHGD Hosting Visiting Speaker:

Dr. Harkness will present findings and reflections from her cross-cultural collaborative research about parents and children in Africa, Asia, Europe and the U.S.

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:24:28 -0500 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Harkness
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: Non-academic career paths and available UM resources (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57648 57648-14246160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:44:20 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation fredrick
EHAP Speaker Series: Evolutionary mismatch and the rise of benign intestinal worms: A new and more effective approach to clinical immunology? (March 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61806 61806-15188651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Parker’s lecture will address “Biome Depletion Theory” and the potential medical implications of this theory. The dramatic reduction of complex eukaryotic symbionts, primarily helminths and protists, from the ecosystem of the human body in Western society has contributed to a wide range of chronic inflammatory-related diseases. Such diseases include allergic conditions, many digestive disorders, and autoimmune conditions. Emerging evidence is pointing toward a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, including migraine headaches, chronic fatigue, and anxiety disorders as being associated with biome depletion. Work toward restoring the biome for health will be discussed.

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Presentation Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:10:13 -0500 2019-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation parker
CCN Forum: Conspicuous Consumption in Close Relationships: A Signal of Relationship (March 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59048 59048-14675847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Most male songbirds use their song to attract females, including extra-pair partners. In male humans, conspicuous consumption—the consumption and display of luxury goods as an ostentatious expression of wealth and status—serves similar functions. Conspicuous consumption in humans has been found to increase sexual selection, costly signaling of mating qualities, and the perception of heterosexual men’s mate attraction motives. Because the literature has focused more on the conspicuous consumption of single men, the function of men’s conspicuous consumption within a committed romantic relationship has been overlooked. Through three studies, the current research explores the association between heterosexual men’s conspicuous consumption, self-reported satisfaction of their current committed romantic relationship, and their female partners’ beliefs and behavioral reactions to this consumption. The current study adds to the previous literature by providing a framework to understand men’s motivation to consume luxury products and women’s response to their conspicuous consumption within a committed romantic relationship.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:16:41 -0400 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Liu
Clinical Science Brown Bag: DHEA moderates the impact of early trauma on the HPA axis response (March 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59065 59065-14677941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

BACKGROUND: Early trauma can lead to long-term downregulation of the HPA axis. However, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) has neuroprotective effects that may reduce the need for downregulation of the axis in response to stress. Furthermore, high DHEA/cortisol ratios are often conceptualized as reflecting a protective profile due to high availability of DHEA. In this study we explored if DHEA and DHEA/cortisol ratios moderated the association between early trauma and the cortisol response.

METHODS: The sample consisted of 80 adolescents (aged 12-16) who completed the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Trier Social Stress Test. Cortisol was modeled using saliva samples at seven timepoints after the start of the TSST. Cortisol and DHEA ratios were examined at baseline and 35 minutes post-stress initiation.

RESULTS: Early trauma was associated with lower activation slope and peak levels but DHEA moderated this effect. Specifically, at high levels of DHEA, the impact of CTQ on cortisol peak levels was no longer significant. High DHEA/cortisol ratios were associated with an intensification of the impact of CTQ on peak levels.

CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that DHEA can limit blunting of the HPA axis in response to early trauma. However, this protective effect was not reflected in high DHEA/cortisol ratios. Instead, high ratios were associated with a greater effect of early trauma. Therefore, high DHEA and high DHEA/cortisol ratios may reflect
different, and often opposite, processes. Our findings indicate that DHEA/cortisol ratios do not necessarily reflect a protective neuroendocrine profile.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:07:10 -0400 2019-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation science
Developmental Brown Bag: Value-Based Decision-Making: A Valuable Model for Adolescent Behavior (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59220 59220-14717525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lay theories of adolescence see this period as a vulnerable time of risk-taking and susceptibility peer influence. A more novel perspective views adolescence as a stage optimized for exploration, including of new motivations and emerging identities in ways that foster both autonomy and connectedness. While the dominant neurodevelopmental approaches have relied on dual-systems and imbalance models to explain adolescent behavior, I will argue that motivated behavior during adolescence can be modeled by a general value-based decision-making process centered around value accumulation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Interestingly, neuroimaging studies of self-related processes demonstrate enhanced engagement of the vmPFC in adolescence, which may both facilitate and reflect the development of identity by integrating the value of potential actions and choices. This approach advances models of adolescent neurodevelopment that focus on reward sensitivity and cognitive control by considering more diverse value inputs, including contributions of developing social processes related to self and identity. It also considers adolescent decision making and behavior from adolescents' point of view rather than adults' perspectives on what adolescents should value or how they should behave.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:01:50 -0400 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium: Let me try that again: how sex influences learning, decision making, and modeling autism (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59094 59094-14677970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:32:22 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grissom
Social Area Brown Bag (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60536 60536-14908091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

"Nadia Vossoughi:
"Intraminority Intergroup Relations between Mono- and Multi-racial people""

Sakura Takahashi:
“Cultural differences in the association of habitual use of emotion regulation strategies with depression""

Veronica Derricks: "Examining the Impact of Witnessing Gender Bias on Academic Outcomes"

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:20:21 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation nadia
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: Being the Blue Butterfly: How to forge a non-traditional path through research and practice (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57649 57649-14246161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Ngo is fully licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Injury Prevention Center. She will present her intervention research, funded by a Career Development Award through the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ngo will present her trauma-informed, technology enhanced, contemplative therapy intervention to reduce problem drinking and intimate partner violence. Using her own research trajectory, Dr. Ngo will illustrate the strategies and skills which psychologists (and others) can apply to navigate the professional world to forge their own path, despite the pressures and challenges they may face.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:45:20 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ngo
EHAP Speaker Series: Psychological correlates of uric acid: An evolutionary mismatch hypothesis. (March 21, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56667 56667-13960676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Uric acid (UA), the final metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides in the primates including humans, presents a paradox that may best be understood as an evolutionary mismatch. Whereas it is known as a substantial risk for gout and cardiovascular malfunctioning, it also serves as a major agent that de-oxidizes the brain. We may therefore hypothesize that UA increases when vigorous actions including culturally sanctioned behaviors are carried out. Through this effect, UA may facilitate such behaviors, leading to psychological and social benefits. These benefits of UA may, in turn, could override its cost in the health domains. In this talk, I will outline this hypothesis, and provide initial evidence for it with data from Japanese adults.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:15:57 -0400 2019-03-21T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation K
CCN Forum: (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59049 59049-14675848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:17:21 -0500 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Abagis
CCN Forum: Reducing task distraction in adults with and without ADHD through non-stimulant medication interventions (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59918 59918-14797385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often considered to be a disorder in children and adolescents, but is in fact diagnosed in 2.5% of adults. A main behavioral correlate of ADHD is heightened levels of distractibility by external irrelevant stimuli, causing difficulties staying focused on the current task. We conducted a visual search training regimen over five daily sessions with participants diagnosed with ADHD and healthy controls. In the task, irrelevant color singleton distractors appeared during self-timed visual search on 50% of trials. Participants completed transfer tasks before and after training and at a follow-up session one month later. In this talk I will discuss: the findings from an initial behavioral study establishing differences in distraction between control and ADHD participants; the current preliminary findings from the training study; and a proposal for an upcoming study to investigate the neural and behavioral correlates of tDCS and visual attention training.

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:11:41 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Abagis
Clinical Science Brown Bag: PROGrESS: Neural Activation during Reappraisal and Assessment of Emotion Associated with PTSD (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59066 59066-14677942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition often associated with deficits in regulating emotion, particularly in reappraising negative emotions. These deficits have been associated with differences in neural activation in emotion processing regions such as the amygdala and regulatory medial (mPFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices (dlPFC). This study assessed neural mechanisms associated with emotion regulation and appraisal in veterans following treatment for PTSD symptoms. Thirty six veterans with PTSD were assigned to evidence-based treatments and completed a series of emotion regulation and appraisal tasks while undergoing fMRI scanning prior to and following treatment. The Emotion Regulation Task (ERT) assessed neural activation during passive viewing, maintenance of emotional response, and reappraisal of emotional response to distressing images. PTSD symptom ratings were also taken for participants prior to and following treatment. ERT results for activation during “maintain” trials subtracted from activation during “reappraise” trials revealed that individuals with PTSD (M = 0.24, SD = 0.43) showed greater dmPFC activation than trauma-exposed combat controls (CC; M= 0.04, SD = 0.38; t(51.89)= 2.01, p = .05). In concert, symptom improvement over time was inversely related (F(3, 36) = 3.66, p = .02, R2 = .17) to activation in the dmPFC (t(39)= -2.84, p < .01), bilateral amygdala (t(39) = -2.38, p = .02), and dlPFC (t(39) = -2.26, p = .03). Present findings suggest that those who demonstrate greater reduction of symptoms over time with treatment may exhibit less pretreatment activation in the amygdala and prefrontal regions of interest during cognitive reappraisal compared to maintenance of emotion. . This is one of the first studies to examine neural activation across different treatments for PTSD and provides greater insight into emotion regulation and processing in PTSD.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:23:53 -0400 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Joshi
Developmental Brown Bag: (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59221 59221-14717526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:41:53 -0500 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall