Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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

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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

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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
Developmental Brown Bag: Adolescent Neurodevelopment in a Social and Policy Context (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62301 62301-15346455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Recent advances in the study of adolescent neurodevelopment have sparked both scientific and policy debates. “Drilling down” approaches have uncovered complexities within the “developmental maturity mismatch” (DMM) hypothesis that contrasts a rapidly developing, hyper-activated arousal/reward/incentive network and a more gradually developing prefrontal system. Current work focuses on integration across these networks, and with other circuits, challenging an overly simplistic “hot” system as a sole source of problematic risk behavior, and a “cold” system as the sole source of self-regulated behavior. “Ramping up” approaches take note of robust, convergent population findings evincing the similarity of key patterns: DMM (and its corollary of enhanced neuroplasticity up to about age 25 years); self-reported risk behavior (such as sensation seeking); and population level trends (such as the waxing and waning of behavioral misadventure, and the age-crime curve). The social and policy implications for adolescents of these developmental trajectories are profound: the excess mortality and morbidity resulting from health risk behavior/behavioral misadventure; justice system sanctions for juveniles, prominently in the Miller and Montgomery Supreme Court decisions regarding juvenile life without parole (JLWOP); early life and concurrent stress and adversity as they “get under the skin,” impacting a wide array of developmental health outcomes, including stress dysregulation, achievement, and mental and physical health. This talk focuses on the tension between convergent “ramping up” evidence and the drive for precision in neurodevelopmental models through “drilling down” – population science meets neuroscience – and how interpretations of that tension speak to choices in policy and prevention.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:40:15 -0400 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Keating
Biopsychology Colloquium: Under the Influence: probing the extended amygdala in the context of drugs, alcohol, and stress. (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59095 59095-14677971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:04:45 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation zoe
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: The role of Causal Attribution in the Relationship between Discrimination and Subjective Health (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60537 60537-14908092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:10:57 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation perry
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61044 61044-15024930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 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 09:23:41 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
EHAP Speaker Series:Psychological Mismatch at Work (March 28, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56767 56767-13997135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Are we “mismatched” to the modern world, particularly to the modern world of work? Does our evolved psychology still remain primarily adapted to life as hunter-gatherers? Although mismatch has commonly been associated with negative outcomes, it can have positive outcomes as well. In this talk, I explore the concept of psychological mismatch—what it is, what it is not, and its positive and negative effects. I illustrate some of the beneficial, harmful, and perplexing effects of mismatch with examples from research on natural views, animals, and friendship at work.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:14 -0400 2019-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Colarelli
Psychology Research & Service Learning Fair (March 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54282 54282-13563520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 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 2019-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Fair / Festival 2018 Research and service learning fair
Psychology Methods Hour: Using Growth Curve Modeling with Landmark Registration for the Analysis of Cortisol and Other Hormone Data (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59127 59127-14686293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Common approaches to modeling post-stress cortisol (Repeated Measures ANOVA, Growth Curve Modeling) assume limited individual variability in the timing of the responses, which can lead to incorrect interpretation of data when individual variability clusters among groups of interest. In this talk, Dr. Lopez-Duran will discuss the use of landmark registration to adjust for individual differences in the timing of cortisol responses and how this approach can also help in the simultaneous modeling of various dynamics of the cortisol response (activation intensity, duration, and recovery).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:45:28 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Lopez-Duran
CCN Forum: Let your fingers do the walking: Force-sensitive keyboards distinguish between competing accounts of cognitive control (March 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61675 61675-15170120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
Most experimental psychologists conduct studies using standard computer keyboards, which provide robust measures of reaction time and accuracy. However, this approach neglects the journey of the keypress, which starts while participants are waiting for a trial to begin, progresses after a stimulus appears, and ends with an actual response. In this talk, I will introduce a new approach for measuring the journey of the keypress, which employs force-sensitive keyboards similar to those used by video gamers. As an example, I will show how using such keyboards, which can detect changes in mass smaller than one gram at 200 Hz, has allowed me to distinguish between competing accounts of cognitive control. I will also discuss how such keyboards can be used to explore other psychological processes.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:09:11 -0400 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Weissman
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognition in Older Adults (April 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59067 59067-14677943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Chronic stress is a risk factor for negative health outcomes in late life, including cognitive impairment. The negative association between stress and cognition may be mediated by depressive symptoms, which separate studies have identified as both a consequence of chronic stress and a risk factor for cognitive decline. Pathways linking stress, depressive symptoms, and cognition may also be influenced by sociodemographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race & ethnicity) or modifiable psychosocial resources (i.e., social support, perceived control). Using data from the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project, the goal of this cross-sectional study was to enhance understanding of the mechanisms and modifiability of the stress-cognition link in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of older adults.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:11:25 -0400 2019-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Zaheed
Psychology/BCN Backpacking Party (April 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53383 53383-13355933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Course registration is just around the corner! Don't know what you need for your Psych or BCN major? Not sure which courses will be interesting to you? Drop in for some advice from current majors & course instructors. Snacks from Weber's Restaurant provided!

Please RSVP at: https://myumi.ch/LRlq1

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Other Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:23:02 -0500 2019-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Backpacking party flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium: Neurodevelopmental effects of cannabis and its epigenetic regulation (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59096 59096-14677974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:32:12 -0400 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation hurd
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SPEAKER SERIES - EAST HALL, CENTRAL CAMPUS (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62144 62144-15302370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Dr. Liu is the Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and a Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering. Areas of research include: (1) Investigation of resting-state brain connectivity with multi-modal imaging approaches (fMRI, MEG, and EEG); (2) Characterization and modeling of the hemodynamic response to neural activity, including the effects of drugs such as caffeine; (3) Development and optimization of arterial spin labeling MRI methods for the non-invasive measurement of cerebral blood flow; (4) Design and analysis of experiments for functional MRI (fMRI), with an emphasis on statistical optimization, nonlinear signal processing, and physiological noise reduction; and (5) Development of quantitative fMRI methods for the study of Alzheimer's disease and associated disorders

Presentation Title: The Global Signal, Vigilance Fluctuations, and Nuisance Regression in Resting State fMRI

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Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) is now a widely used method to assess the functional connectivity (FC) of the brain. However, the mechanisms underlying rsfMRI are still poorly understood. In this talk I will address several related aspects of the rsfMRI signal. The first is the global signal, which represents the whole brain average signal and has been widely used as a regressor for removing the effects of global variations in resting-state activity. I will discuss the controversy surrounding global signal regression and describe new approaches for minimizing global signal effects. A related topic concerns the origins of global activity in the brain. There is growing evidence that a considerable portion of this global activity arises from fluctuations in vigilance and arousal. I will discuss the recent findings in this area and discuss the implications for the analysis and interpretation of rsfMRI studies. Finally, I will describe recent empirical and theoretical work demonstrating the limitations of regression based methods that are widely used to minimize the effects of nuisance components in rsfMRI studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:27:50 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Dr. Liu
Functional MRI Speaker Series: The Gobal Signal, Vigilance Fluctuations, and Nuisance Regression in Resting State fMRI (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62700 62700-15431948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) is now a widely used method to assess the functional connectivity (FC) of the brain. However, the mechanisms underlying rsfMRI are still poorly understood. In this talk I will address several related aspects of the rsfMRI signal. The first is the global signal, which represents the whole brain average signal and has been widely used as a regressor for removing the effects of global variations in resting-state activity. I will discuss the controversy surrounding global signal regression and describe new approaches for minimizing global signal effects. A related topic concerns the origins of global activity in the brain. There is growing evidence that a considerable portion of this global activity arises from fluctuations in vigilance and arousal. I will discuss the recent findings in this area and discuss the implications for the analysis and interpretation of rsfMRI studies. Finally, I will describe recent empirical and theoretical work demonstrating the limitations of regression based methods that are widely used to minimize the effects of nuisance components in rsfMRI studies.

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Presentation Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:12:48 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Diversity Week Event - Graduate Student Organization Event: CONFRONTING SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHIN THE ACADEMY: UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES FROM PEOPLE OF COLOR (April 2, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62572 62572-15405811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this graduate student-only event, the Asian/Asian American Psychology Student Association (APSA), Black Student Psychological Association (BSPA), and Latinx Student Psychological Association (LSPA), in partnership with the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), will present a workshop discussing the unique challenges people of color face surrounding sexual assault within the academy. Food will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:38:29 -0400 2019-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag (April 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60538 60538-14908093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Koji Takahashi
Race and Emotional Expression in Appraisals of Ambiguous Racial Bias

Nick Michalak
Can anger cue coalition membership?

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:17:48 -0400 2019-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation koji
Diversity Week Event: Navigating our Differences Panel (April 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62573 62573-15405812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Room 4448 East Hall. In this panel discussion attendees will learn about the range of positive and negative academic experiences encountered by members of our community in relation to their social identities (including but not limited to socioeconomic status, language, culture, national origin, race, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religious commitments, age, (dis)ability status, and political perspective). The faculty and grad student panel will speak briefly about their perspectives followed by a Q&A with the audience. All members of the department are welcome and encouraged to attend.

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:32:24 -0400 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62432 62432-15364114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract: On the one hand, there's science: the clear-eyed, hard-nosed, the pragmatic empiricist. On the other hand, there's math: the poet, the dreamer, the hunter of wild abstractions. How do these two intellectual traditions regard one another? And why is it that the most useless-sounding math - from knot theory to meta-logic to non-Euclidean geometry - often turns out to be the most useful? Prerequisites: basic human curiosity; tolerance for bad drawings; the willingness to participate in a silly debate. In short: all are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:15:46 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Ben Orlin Public Lecture
Psychology Diversity Research Colloquium and Diversity Awards Presentation: Race and Cognitive Aging in Longitudinal Epidemiologic Cohort Studies at Rush (April 4, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62574 62574-15405813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:36:16 -0400 2019-04-04T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation barnes
EHAP Speaker Series: Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Health (April 4, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56768 56768-13997136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

A well-known sleep biologist once noted, “If sleep does not serve an absolute vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process ever made.” Indeed, over evolutionary time, sleep has become integrated with almost every dimension of biological function in mammals, including growth, cognition, immunity, and metabolism. Research across mammalian species has revealed how ecological factors, including sociality and predation, influence sleep characteristics. More recently, we have documented how many of these same selective forces have shaped the evolution of human sleep relative to other primates. I will present these evolutionary findings and discuss the follow-up research we have conducted in Madagascar and Tanzania to better understand the ecology of human sleep. Collectively, our findings suggest that risks and opportunity costs have shaped human sleep in terms of duration, quality, and social patterning. Perceptions of threat in our increasingly urban and stressful world are likely triggering many of these same effects, potentially leading to sleep disparities that drive health disparities in marginalized populations.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:32 -0400 2019-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation charles
Psychlogy Methods Hour: #Parenting Projects: Using Twitter to Understand Mothering and Fathering (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61612 61612-15152480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This presentation will mainly introduce a few different methodologies to study parenting using Twitter data. The presenters will provide some background information on the prevalence of parents' use of Twitter and then provide rationale for studying fathering and mothering, especially amongst stay-at-home fathers and mothers, using Twitter data. Specifically, the presenters will introduce a few studies their group has conducted to better understand topics and content stay-at-home parents discuss. The presentation will culminate in discussing a number of challenges and opportunities that arise when using Twitter to engage in parenting research. The presenters hope to generate and engage in subsequent discussions on these methodological and ethical issues.

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Presentation Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:55:34 -0400 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Psychology Methods Hour: #Parenting Projects: Using Twitter to Understand Mothering and Fathering (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59128 59128-14686294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:51:54 -0500 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Diversity Week Event: Celebrating Diversity Social (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62575 62575-15405814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Third floor terrace. Do you only know the people who work on your floor? Come get to know people from all corners of your department over delicious food. Faculty, Staff, and Grads are invited to this community-building event to meet the other people that make our department so great. Plus, we will have raffle prizes!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:38:13 -0400 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Social / Informal Gathering East Hall
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Facial Reactivity to Sucrose in Infancy as an Early Indicator for Obesity Risk (April 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59068 59068-14677944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In recent decades, obesity prevalence in the US remains high and has begun presenting earlier in the lifespan, with 10% of all children between birth and 2 years of age being categorized as high weight-for-length. Rapid weight gain (RWG) during infancy predicts greater risk of obesity, metabolic complications, and related medical problems throughout the lifespan. Despite these implications, underlying mechanisms of the infant that contribute to eating behaviors and weight status remain poorly understood. Individual differences in reward response may emerge very early in life and could underlie risk for RWG in infancy. A promising method for studying magnitude of reward in infants is through the analysis of well-established facial responses to sweet tastes (i.e. sucrose solutions) that indicate liking/pleasure. This study measured the frequency of liking-related facial responses to the delivery of sucrose solutions compared to water in 119 babies. Compared to prior research in small samples of newborns, the magnitude and range of facial responses to sucrose was reduced in older infants. Furthermore, this study did not find evidence that amplified facial responsivity to sucrose was predictive of RWG in the first 6 months of life.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:52:37 -0400 2019-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Julia
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 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 2019-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Developmental Brown Bag: (April 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59223 59223-14717527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Adam Hoffman
Title: Explaining the Link between Ethnic-Racial Identity and School Belonging:
Social Competencies as Mediating Mechanisms

Abstract:
Adolescence is theorized to represent an important time for ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development (Umaña-Taylor et al., 2014). Empirical evidence has consistently revealed positive associations between having a clearer and more positive ERI and academic, psychosocial, and health outcomes (Rivas-Drake et al., 2014). Although relations between ERI and these outcomes have been investigated, little is known about the mechanisms that can explain them.

In alignment with ecological development frameworks (e.g., Bronfenbrenner, 1989), scholars have indicated that friends and school are important to the relation between ERI and adolescent outcomes (Rivas-Drake & Umaña-Taylor, 2019). It is possible that youth with greater ERI resolution (i.e., the sense of clarity about the meaning of one’s ethnic-racial group membership) are likely to have greater social competencies and be friends with greater social competencies, subsequently youth with greater social competencies and who are in networks of friends with greater social competences are more likely to feel that they belong in their school. The study that will be presented advances new knowledge regarding the role of social competencies as a mediating mechanism in the link between ERI resolution and students' school belonging.

Michael Medina

Title: What’s in a friend? The role of friend group characteristics on the link
between ethnic-racial identity and academic adjustment.

Abstract:
Adolescence is a time of significant ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development—the meaning ascribed to one’s ethnic-racial groups and how it is maintained over time. For youth of color, this process has been found to be developmentally normative and linked to academic outcomes, such as school belonging. Little is known, however, of the extent to which social contexts shape this relationship over time. This presentation examines the role of one such highly salient context, school friend groups, which serve as significant sources of socioemotional and academic support throughout adolescence. Projects drawing from two longitudinal school-based studies will be presented that consider the potential role of three distinct friend group characteristics: aggregate ERI beliefs, ethnic-racial diversity, and relationship quality. Results indicate a promotive role of particular friend group characteristics, encouraging the consideration of youth’s developmental contexts in future research on positive ERI development and academic adjustment.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:19:07 -0400 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Hoffman Medina
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Biopsychology Colloquium: The male gelada chest patch: a visual signal of male quality (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59097 59097-14677975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The most striking feature of the gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is a flame-red patch of skin on the chest. Dominant males exhibit the brightest chest patches, suggesting this signal may function as a sexually selected handicap signal to ward off potential male competitors. However, little is known about the mechanism linking color intensity to male quality or the potential physiological costs to maintaining chest redness. In most systems, testosterone links signal intensity and the quality of the signaler as testosterone is metabolically costly and prevents low quality males from falsely signaling high quality. Despite a large sample size of chest patch photos and hormone samples, our research group has been unable to find a link between fecal testosterone levels and chest color in geladas. Here, I investigate the potential driving mechanisms and associated costs of chest patch coloration in a group of habituated geladas living in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:50:59 -0400 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation patsy
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SPEAKER SERIES - EAST HALL, CENTRAL CAMPUS (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61836 61836-15215051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Dr. Barense is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Barense has been trained in animal neuroscience, human neuropsychology, fMRI, and cognitive psychology and enjoys bringing these approaches together to study the neural underpinnings of memory.

Presentation Title: Understanding memory disorders: At the level of cognitive process representational content?

Abstract:

How does perception of an object relate to subsequent memory for that object? A central assumption in most modern theories of memory is that memory and perception are functionally and anatomically segregated. For example, amnesia resulting from medial temporal lobe (MTL) lesions is traditionally considered to be a selective deficit in long-term declarative memory with no effect on perceptual processes. This view is consistent with a popular paradigm in cognitive neuroscience, in which the brain is understood in terms of a modular organization of function based on cognitive process. The work I will present offers a new perspective. Guided by computational modelling complemented with neuropsychology and neuroimaging, I will provide support for the notion that memory and perception are inextricably intertwined throughout the MTL, relying on shared neural representations and computational mechanisms. I will then describe how this new framework can improve basic understanding of cognitive impairments observed in Alzheimer’s disease, as well as guide development of new diagnostic procedures for those at risk for dementia.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:44:49 -0400 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Dr. Barense
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:00am
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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Social Area Brown Bag (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60539 60539-14908094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Wilson Merrell:
Veblen on vacation: Experiential goods, conspicuous consumption, and mating-relevant signals.

Irene Melani:
Does Subliminal Relational Priming Make People More Holistic? An ERP Investigation

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Presentation Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:49:08 -0400 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61045 61045-15024931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 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 09:25:39 -0500 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: A tale of three monkeys: male-mediated prenatal loss explained (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59077 59077-14677951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Infanticide by males has been the subject of intense empirical and theoretical study for decades. However, a related phenomenon, male-mediated prenatal loss, has received considerably less attention. Male-mediated prenatal loss occurs when inseminated or pregnant females terminate reproductive effort following exposure to a non-sire male, either through implantation failure or pregnancy termination. Male-mediated prenatal loss encompasses two sub-phenomena: sexually selected feticide and the Bruce effect. In this talk, I will walk through three different evolutionary scenarios in three species of primate - the yellow baboon, the gelada, and the chacma baboon - to lay out a framework that explains the relationship between infanticide, feticide, and the Bruce effect and describes the proximate and ultimate mechanisms involved for each. I argue that male-mediated prenatal loss may have played a greater role in mammalian social evolution than has previously been documented.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:47:06 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation beehner
EHAP Speaker Series: When good people make bad decisions: Human evolutionary traps across behavioral contexts and spatial scales (April 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56770 56770-13997137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Evolutionary traps are scenarios in which wild animals are fooled by rapidly changing conditions into preferring poor-quality resources over those that better improve survival and reproductive success. Yet, this type of severely maladaptive behavior are also well-known and studied in the field of human psychology, clinical medicine and education. Sociologists, too, have demonstrated that group behaviors in the context of resource management can have major costs for individuals, possibly at the level of entire societies and in ways that can lead to their collapse. I bring together concepts and case studies from these diverse topical areas under the conceptual framework of evolutionary traps to discuss its efficacy and utility in describing, and addressing the causes of human maladaptive behavior.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:47 -0400 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation bruce
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
CCN Forum: Entrepreneurship as the future of science? The story of Backyard Brains, alternative academia and the Neurorevolution (April 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59050 59050-14675849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

More people have Ph.D.s than ever before, and yet the amount of traditional academic jobs at universities hasn’t increased with the supply. For many, the uncertainty of their academic careers can be overwhelming: often having to choose between leaving academia all together, or waiting a very long time for a position to open up. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? In this talk, Greg Gage argues for an alternate academic career—one where you can be a true academic outside of the university setting—by using entrepreneurship. You can perform original research, publish papers and present at conferences outside of the hallowed halls of an institution: and grad students are the perfect fit. Here, Gage will share how to take the ideas generated at school and turn them into a business. Now is a really great time to be an entrepreneur, and Gage will show you how.

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:33:30 -0400 2019-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation gage
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Relational Meaning in Life and Well-Being (April 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59069 59069-14677948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Meaning in life has long been argued and found to be important in psychological adjustment and well-being. While personal meaning in life has been well studied as a correlate and predictor of many personal well-being outcomes, it is unclear how relational meaning in life (i.e., the meaning in life that one has through their relationships with others) contributes to well-being, especially to other relational/interpersonal well-being outcomes (e.g., family life satisfaction, positive relationships, quality of relationships). In this presentation I will share some of the findings from my dissertations studies. Study 1 sought to examine for the factor structure and reliability of the Relational Meaning in Life Questionnaire (RMLQ). Study 2 sought to examine for the role of the RMLQ in predicting well-being and adjustment outcomes, above and beyond personal meaning in life. Finally, Study 3 sought to further examine for the role of the RMLQ in predicting variance in other well-being and adjustment outcomes above and beyond social support. Findings, implications, and future directions will be discussed.

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Presentation Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:28:52 -0400 2019-04-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Yu
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Developmental Brown Bag: Career Aspirations and Choices within Eccles et al. Expectancy-Value Theory (April 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59226 59226-14717530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Which occupation to pursue is one of the most consequential decisions people make, and represents a key developmental task, with long-term implications for job satisfaction, job performance, and psychological wellbeing. Accordingly, it is important to understand the underlying developmental processes associated with either individual or group differences in occupational choices. Programmatic research grounded in Eccles’ et al. expectancy-value theory (EVT) was designed to contribute towards a better understanding of such choices. The theory’s basic premise is that individuals choose to engage in tasks and activities that have high value to them and at which they expect to succeed. For instance, individuals who believe to be good at and expect to be successful in math, and who value math as an academic subject, should be more likely to pursue and attain math-intensive careers than individuals with less positive math self-perceptions. In addition, EVT specifies four components of subjective task value (intrinsic interest, utility, attainment value, and cost) and outlines a comprehensive set of their antecedents and consequences. I will present a set of studies, in which we use EVT to longitudinally investigate the relations between adolescents’ math- and language arts-related expectancy/value beliefs and career aspirations (reported at the end of high school), as well as pathways towards adult career attainment (reported about 15 years after high school). Furthermore, I will focus on potential gender differences in academic self-perceptions and career trajectories, in particular in math-intensive fields. Finally, drawing on both EVT and the Dimensional Comparison Theory (DCT) we will examine potential negative cross-domain influences in the prediction of individual career trajectories. For instance, prior evidence suggests that individuals with high math and high verbal abilities are less likely to attain math-intensive careers than individuals with high math, but only moderate verbal abilities; and actual and perceived verbal ability and academic values negatively predict math-related career aspirations. Our research expands upon this evidence by examining analogous longitudinal cross-domain effects for both math- and language arts-related career outcomes.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:38:48 -0400 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Lauermann
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:00am
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Biopsychology Colloquium: Incubation of drug craving after voluntary abstinence: behavior and circuit mechanisms (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59098 59098-14677976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lecture summary: In previous studies, we and others have used a rat model of drug relapse and craving to demonstrate time-dependent increases in drug seeking after experimenter-imposed (forced) abstinence from several drugs of abuse (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, nicotine), a phenomenon we termed incubation of drug craving (Grimm et al. Nature, 2001; Pickens et al. TINS, 2011). In these studies, the rats were removed from their drug self-administration environment during extended periods of forced abstinence. More recently, we have established a rat model in which we observe incubation of drug craving after extended periods of voluntary abstinence in the drug environment. Voluntary abstinence is achieved using a mutually exclusive discrete choice procedure in which food-sated male and female rats with prior extended history of intravenous methamphetamine or heroin self-administration can choose every day (20 trials per day) between the palatable food and the drug. In this lecture, I will present our behavioral, pharmacological, and brain circuit characterization of incubation of drug craving after voluntary abstinence. I will also introduce a novel relapse model in which voluntary abstinence is achieved by providing the rats an alternative social reward.



Biography: Yavin Shaham received his BS and MA from the Hebrew U, Jerusalem, and his PhD from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. His postdoctoral training was at Concordia U, Montreal, in the laboratory of Dr. Jane Stewart. Prior to joining the NIDA Intramural Research Program as a tenure-track investigator, he was an investigator at the Addiction Research Center in Toronto. He is currently a tenured Branch Chief and a Senior Investigator. His major awards include the NIDA Director’s Award of Merit (2001), the Society of Neuroscience Jacob Waletzky award for innovative research in drug and alcohol addiction (2006), the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant Award (2016), and the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society Distinguished Achievement Award (2017). He has published over 200 empirical papers, reviews, and commentaries, and his papers were cited over 26,500 times (h-factor: 85; Google Scholar). In 2018, Shaham was named by The Web of Science as a “Highly Cited Researcher” (top 1%). He has served as a Reviewing and Senior Editor for The Journal of Neuroscience from 2008 to 2018 and is currently severs as a Reviewing Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology and eNeuro. He is also an editorial board member of Biological Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, and Addiction Biology. His group currently investigates mechanisms of relapse to heroin, oxycodone, cocaine, and methamphetamine, as assessed in rat models developed in his lab.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:42:42 -0400 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation yavin1
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Social Area Brown Bag (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60540 60540-14908095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

Soyeon Choi
Walking back in time: How environmental uncertainty affects past temporal depth
Julia Smith
Counterfactual Thinking in Response to Politically Charged Negative Events

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Presentation Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:34:49 -0400 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: White Conceptualizations of Race Dialogue, White Identity, and White Allyship (April 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57650 57650-14246162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:46:17 -0400 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation salazar
EHAP Speaker Series:Robo-parasites: How our evolved motivational systems get turned against us in by modern technology (April 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56771 56771-13997138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Human beings have a set of evolved motivational systems designed to deal with adaptive problems our ancestors faced: satisfying basic physiological needs such as hunger, protecting ourselves from the bad guys, making friends, winning status, finding mates, hanging on to those mates (a very different problem), and caring for our kin. My colleagues and I have arranged these different motives into a renovated version of Maslow’s classic pyramid. I’ll discuss some of the research that has been generated by this approach, and also consider a big problem: Although these systems were designed to function adaptively in ancestral environments, they are often mismatched to modern social ecologies. Indeed, they make us easy prey for parasitic exploitation by modern technologies that promise immediate gratification, but may have harmful long-term consequences. I’ll consider how Ben and Jerry’s chocolate-chip cookie-dough ice cream, scary New York Times headlines on our cellphones, Facebook, Fortnite, Ashley Madison, and iPads for our toddlers each generate immense profits by parasitizing our fundamental motivational systems in different ways. I’ll also consider some possible psychological interventions to defend ourselves.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:17:02 -0400 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation doug
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 18, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-18T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Improving Biomedical Practice (April 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62849 62849-15483796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Learn about simple and sensible changes that could improve our healthcare system.

Hear about research into ideas that affect our healthcare experiences and outcomes such as:
Hospital Patient Sleep
Family Member Presence in Emergency Areas
Real Impact of Healthcare Costs
Effects of "Waiting Room" Time on Our Health and Experiences

Refreshments provided!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:09:32 -0400 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T19:30:00-04:00 East Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Social Area Talk: Identity-Based Approaches to Improve Student Outcomes and Reduce Socioeconomic (April 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63245 63245-15601665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Please note that Mesmin is a Social Psychology Alum completing his degree in 2010.

Abstract: A growing number of social psychological studies provide new insight into understanding how a student’s socioeconomic status (SES) of origin influences educational experiences and outcomes. These studies also yield implications for subtle, research-based strategies to reframe how students experience their socioeconomic contexts in order to increase academic motivation and engagement. Destin's talk will describe a series of studies that illustrates how information and messages about opportunity in society and overcoming challenges can be utilized to increase student motivation during adolescence. He will also describe studies that examine the effectiveness of leveraging other social agents in students’ lives, like parents and near peers, to convey motivating identity-based messages. Finally, the research extends into higher education and reveals potential implications for broader notions of health, well-being, and public policy.

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Presentation Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:42:29 -0400 2019-04-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Mesmin
Psychology Research Forum (April 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53384 53384-13355934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event will be on Friday, April 19, 2019 from 2pm-4pm. Students will participate from 2-4pm to present a poster and research findings. Poster set-up will occur earlier in the day.

Participation in this event looks great on a resume and is a wonderful opportunity to review your peers’ research and get involved in the Department of Psychology! Thesis students are required to participate and other advanced research students are encouraged to as well. Participants must register in advance - a link to register will be posted closer to the event.

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Exhibition Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:01:50 -0400 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Exhibition Students presenting posters
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Addressing Barriers to Mental Health Care: The Development of the Mood Lifters Program (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59073 59073-14677949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Approximately half of all Americans will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Many more will cope with negative life events such as trauma, the death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, and physical illness. Unfortunately, research suggests that the current mental health care system in the United States (U.S.) is dramatically underutilized with only 43.1% of the 44.7 million Americans affected by mental illness receiving mental health care in the last year (NIMH, 2017). Many people experience significant barriers that prevent them from accessing care. In order to address some of the barriers to mental health care, researchers at the University of Michigan developed a novel intervention, Mood Lifters. Mood Lifters is a peer-led, low-cost, evidence-based program designed to improve mental wellness, decrease negative affect and increase positive affect. Mood Lifters weaves together the most effective biological, psychological and social techniques, based on the most recent research, to provide strategies that people can use to make changes, develop healthy habits and live the life they want. This talk will cover the development of the Mood Lifters program and the current scientific support for the program.

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Presentation Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:12:57 -0400 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Votta
Developmental Brown Bag: Development and neuroplasticity of selective attention in early childhood (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59224 59224-14717528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract

How do children attend selectively, focusing their attention on relevant information while simultaneously suppressing distractors? What neurobiological and contextual factors contribute to the development of selective attention in early childhood? In this talk, I will explore these questions, utilizing a multimethod approach that combines electroencephalography (EEG) with behavioral, experimental, and observational measures. In part 1, I will share findings from studies in which I examined the brain functions supporting selective attention in early childhood in the context of socioeconomic adversity. These studies emphasize that there is notable variability in the neurodevelopment of selective attention in children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds. In part 2, I will discuss pilot data and future directions for research on how neighborhood, household, and classroom auditory environments contribute to the development of selective attention as children transition to formal schooling. In addition, I will present my ongoing and planned work towards reproducible, replicable, and representative developmental EEG research, in the context of neurodevelopment of selective attention specifically, and for developmental research broadly.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:51:01 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Isbell
Biopsychology Colloquium: Treating the hyperphagia driving obesity: Neural mechansims of feeding inhibition with a focus on CNS GLP-1R as a target (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59099 59099-14677977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Obesity prevalence continues to climb worldwide providing significant pathophysiologic challenges to human health. Hyperphagia, the primary driver of this epidemic, results from the activating effects of hedonic sensory features of the food environment on specific, behavior-generating brain circuits. Feeding inhibition, by contrast, results from ingested food triggering GI satiation signals whose activational effects are conveyed via vagal afferents and processed by n. tractus solitarious (NTS) neurons that are also responsive to leptin and oxytocin. A focus on food intake inhibition neurobiology compels attention to roles for gastrointestinal satiation signals and provides an entry point in deciphering a circuit diagram for feeding inhibition that should be useful to the development of efficacious obesity phramacotherapies. It is interesting to note that GLP-1 released from intestinal enteroendocrine cells by digested food excites centrally projecting vagal afferents that in turn excite GLP-1-positive TH- positive and PrRP-positive NTS neurons. The rats’ ~500 GLP-1 NTS neurons send their axons to multiple and anatomically distributed GLP-1R expressing nuclei such that when activated by the consequences of food ingestion and other antecedents there is a brain wide increase in GLP-1R signaling that results in feeding inhibition. Others and we have individually probed function in various GLP-1R expressing nuclei with agonist and find a remarkable degree of redundancy across targets including reductions in: meal size, cumulative intake, food seeking and feeding motivation. GLP-1R targeted anti-obesity drug therapy works via brain penetrance of long acting modied agonists resulting in multisite activation of endogenous control circuits to reduce feeding and thereby body weight. Among their actions GLP-1R targeting therapies impact neural mediation of hedonic processes involved in food seeking and feeding motivation. Support from NIH DK-21397

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Presentation Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:06:47 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grill
Computational Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (April 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63347 63347-15651050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Discussion group addressing topics related to computational psycholinguistics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:23:45 -0400 2019-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T12:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Cognitive Neuroscience/Psycholinguistics Colloquium (April 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63324 63324-15642809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics and the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science are pleased to welcome Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky, University of South Australia, who will present a talk titled "Inter-individual differences in predictive coding during language processing." All are welcome!



ABSTRACT
Predictive coding provides a compelling theory of how the human brain processes information, with the potential to provide a unified explanation across a wide range of different cognitive domains. In spite of the prominence of predictive coding-based accounts in cognitive neuroscience, however, little is currently known about whether and how predictive coding mechanisms differ between individuals. In our laboratory, we have recently begun pursuing a research program that aims to systematically examine such inter-individual differences, with a particular focus on language processing as the cognitive domain of interest. Here, we will present what we have learned so far. Our results provide evidence for extensive inter-individual differences even in young, healthy adults. They further suggest that this variability is related to basic neurobiological influences on perceptual sampling and information processing (individual alpha frequency), as well as to the quality of an individual’s language model. We will discuss potential consequences of this variability for predictive coding architectures as well as implications for a lifespan-based perspective on the neurobiology of cognitive processing.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:56:16 -0400 2019-04-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-26T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
20th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (Day 1) (May 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63313 63313-15636677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The 20th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XX) will take place from May 22–24, 2019 at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It will be organized by the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering.

The conference will be preceded by a Summer school (May 20-21).

The IPCO conference is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society. It is held every year, except for those in which the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming takes place. The conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

Registration is now open.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:49:38 -0400 2019-05-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-22T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Conference / Symposium IPCO conference symbol
20th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (Day 2) (May 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63330 63330-15644852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The 20th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XX) will take place from May 22–24, 2019 at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It will be organized by the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering.

The conference will be preceded by a Summer school (May 20-21).

The IPCO conference is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society. It is held every year, except for those in which the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming takes place. The conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

Registration is now open.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:50:13 -0400 2019-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-23T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Conference / Symposium IPCO conference symbol
20th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (Day 3) (May 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63331 63331-15644853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The 20th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XX) will take place from May 22–24, 2019 at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It will be organized by the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering.

The conference will be preceded by a Summer school (May 20-21).

The IPCO conference is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society. It is held every year, except for those in which the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming takes place. The conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

Registration is now open.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:50:42 -0400 2019-05-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-05-24T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Conference / Symposium IPCO conference symbol
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Multi-Scale Problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (May 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63814 63814-15896408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The origin of structure in the proton still evades a detailed description by first-principles calculations. Instead, the structure is extracted from global fits to its data. In proton-proton collisions, the current extraction procedure relies on our ability to independently describe each proton. It has been predicted, however, that correlations between two protons prohibit an independent description of each proton in certain scattering processes. These correlations may provide a powerful source of insight into the origin of collective structures in strongly-bound few-body systems. In this talk, I will explain how to probe these correlations and present measurements by the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island, New York. Measurements are also planned by the LHCb experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 24 May 2019 09:06:38 -0400 2019-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Nonlinear Optical Effects in Weyl Semimetals (June 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63879 63879-15977780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Weyl semimetals lie at the intersection of strongly correlated materials and materials with nontrivial spin-orbit coupling. These topological materials have attracted a lot of interest in the last several years because of their wide variety of novel properties and resulting potential applications. In this talk, I will begin by presenting a brief overview of the unique band structure and topology of these materials. Then I will go on to examine a couple of their nonlinear optical properties and highlight past and proposed experiments to further explore this novel state of matter.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:30:43 -0400 2019-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-06T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | The Role of Cell-Cell Contacts in Pattern Formation in Tissues: from Juvenile Zebrafish to Mammalian Embryos (June 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63939 63939-16009598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Many physicists see biology as very complex and messy, and often it is. Certain problems in biology, though, serve as an elegant playground for physicists to develop quantitative AND predictive models. For example, problems in biology in which cells generate forces to perform some function allow physicists to make ourselves useful to biologists, our collaborators. In this talk, I will take you on a journey from the retinae of juvenile zebrafish to the outer tissue layer of developing mammalian embryos. In juvenile zebrafish, the cone photoreceptors in retinae form a precise crystalline lattice based on subtype (i.e., sensitivity to different wavelengths of light). We find that the defects in this lattice form lines, called grain boundaries, as the pattern forms, not by subsequent defect motion. Based on this observation, we propose a model in which cells of fixed fate (i.e., subtype) contact their neighbors of the same subtype, generating active forces for building the crystal. From there, I will take you to an example in which cell fate is not fixed. In this stem cell culture system, without any imposed chemical gradients and in the absence of many known endogenous gradients, cells of initially unspecified fate differentiate into two types, with one type localized to a ring at the boundary. We propose a model for this system in which mechanical stress biases fate and fate determines contractility. The role of cell-cell contacts and mechanics in pattern formation in developing tissues remains poorly understood. Luckily for us physicists, these problems provide endless intellectual stimulation.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:54:07 -0400 2019-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-13T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | Information Scrambling in Quantum Phases (June 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64033 64033-16089305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have become a widely-appreciated tool to measure the correlation build-up in space and time, and hence quantitatively characterize information scrambling in interacting many-body systems. Started off as a theoretical tool to understand quantum information in a black hole its impact quickly expanded to a wide variety of subjects including quantum chaos, many-body localization, quantum integrability and recently symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions. After giving a short introduction to information scrambling and out-of-time-order correlators, I will talk about the emergent relation between symmetry breaking quantum phase transitions and the information scrambling. I will introduce a new theoretical tool to study the physics encoded in an OTOC: dynamical decomposition method. I will show how this tool lets us analytically see the reasons and the mechanism of dynamical detection of symmetry-broken quantum phases via OTOCs. Based on the studies in literature and our numerical results in XXZ-model, our method seems to be universal in explaining the reasoning behind the relation between scrambling and the quantum criticality. If time permits, I will talk about an interesting numerical observation that led us to find a relation between the topological order (in 1D superconductor) at zero temperature and the OTOCs at infinite temperature.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:37:14 -0400 2019-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
Physics Graduate Student Symposium (PGSS) | The MicroBooNE Neutrino Experiment (June 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64062 64062-16113186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Despite its postulation in the 1930s and discovery in the 1950s, very little is known about the neutrino, a neutral fundamental particle with thousands of times less mass than the electron that can potentially answer some of the biggest questions in physics. MicroBooNE, an 85-active-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiment located at Fermilab in Batavia, IL, seeks to answer one such question: whether more than three types of neutrinos exist. Additionally, MicroBooNE is a means to study neutrino-argon scattering and perform R&D for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a large-scale LArTPC set to take data in the mid-2020s. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of neutrinos before describing MicroBooNE and its public physics results to date.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:01:20 -0400 2019-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-06-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department Colloquia Conference / Symposium East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-04T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-05T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 9, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-09T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 10, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Role of GABA in age-related decline of brain signal variability (September 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66632 66632-16768005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:37:26 -0400 2019-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

Staff Advising walk-ins are great for senior major releases, transfer credit, course selection and major progress.

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Other Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:01:46 -0400 2019-09-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other Walk in Advising
CGIS/Psychology Cross Advising (September 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64869 64869-16483032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS and the Psychology department for a walk-in advising event for all psychology students interested in studying abroad. Both a CGIS advisor and Psychology Advisor will be there to help answer questions on how to fit study abroad into your schedule, financial aid and scholarship options, and more!

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:56:11 -0400 2019-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (September 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63947 63947-16033415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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, 10 Jun 2019 09:35:49 -0400 2019-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other CGIS Psych flyer
CCN Forum: Aiding Difficult and High-Stakes Medical Decision Making—Research on Tracheotomy Decisions for Critically Ill Children (September 13, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65028 65028-16507299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Many challenges exist in medical decisions where there is a continuum of treatment possibilities. For instance, parents are sometimes faced with value-laden tracheotomy decisions, choosing between accepting a machine-dependent life for their child or allowing death. Both providers and parents find these decisions difficult to discuss and make. Thus, there is a need to understand and improve the decision process for promoting high-quality provider-parent communication and decision making. A series of qualitative and quantitative studies have revealed that parents lack understanding of long-term implications in order to accurately forecast possible outcomes. An experimental survey study has shown that other parents’ narratives of child’s long-term quality of life and home care challenges reduced the tendency to choose tracheotomy and increased concerns for future outcomes. These findings suggest that providing other parents’ experiences could be a feasible way to support parents to make informed decisions. An intervention development study is in progress to produce a variety of narratives for decision aiding.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:52:18 -0400 2019-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
What is Research? (September 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64424 64424-16349017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Explore the basics of research, ways to find research experience, and what to expect from an undergraduate research experience. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:14:21 -0400 2019-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium: (September 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66040 66040-16684589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Psychosocial Mechanisms of Dementia Inequalities

Abstract: In the United States, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is higher among certain racial and ethnic minority groups, even after controlling for socioeconomic status and vascular disease. Persistent and unexplained disparities suggest: (1) known AD risk factors exhibit differential impact across race/ethnicity and/or (2) novel risk factors for AD exist for racial and ethnic minorities. I will present data from multiple longitudinal studies of cognitive aging that support each of these possibilities.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:36:40 -0400 2019-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Laura Zahodne
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: White Identity Threats and Motivated Avoidance of Information about Race (September 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67111 67111-16803012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

White Americans are increasingly aware of how their racial identity is implicated in racism. Although many White people have anti-racist attitudes and endorse the belief that White people are culpable for racism, their identities can still be threatened when they encounter information about racism. Although decades of research indicate that people strongly prefer information that affirms their prior attitudes, it is less clear what happens when the information also threatens their identity. This talk will explore the impact of identity threats in motivated information selection among White Americans. I will present new data suggesting that identity threats, and not just attitudes, motivate Whites to avoid information about racism. I posit that testing the attitudinal and identity-based motivations in tandem helps to advance theory on attitudes and intergroup processes and shed light on contemporary racial-political divides.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:48:23 -0400 2019-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Koji Takahashi
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (September 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66204 66204-16719583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Read and discuss Prof. Grzanka’s research (group discussion prior to visit): Intersectionality & Feminist Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:30:50 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Career/Intern Opportunities working with Individuals with Autism (September 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66463 66463-16855679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

The New England Center for Children has 40 years of experience helping children with autism. Today, NECC is the global leader in providing effective, evidence-based educational services to children with autism. We rely on the science of applied behavior analysis to help children with autism reach their greatest potential.

This info session will explore the field of applied behavior analysis, autism, and education and how to get involved.


NECC will be recruiting for full-time roles and internship opportunities. Majors that may be are especially interested: Psychology, Sociology, Linguistics, Education, and related major. ALL MAJORS WELCOME!

Please RSVP here at this link: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/19354

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:04:11 -0400 2019-09-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Careers / Jobs Event flyer
Applying for Psychology PhD Programs (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64445 64445-16349030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Learn the process and timeline for applying to PhD programs from current Psychology Department graduate students. Please RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

Panelists include:
Crystal Carr - biopsychology
Ka Ip - clinical, developmental
Maira Areguin - gender & feminist psychology; personality & social contexts
Dalia Khammash - cognition & cognitive neuroscience
Nick Michalak - social
Xin Sun - combined program in education & psychology

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:20:40 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T11:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Longitudinal studies of Bipolar Disorder (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66171 66171-16717501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Bipolar disorder is characterized by recurrent mania and depressions. It is an illness of dynamic states and pathological changes in energy, emotion, and cognitions. The Prechter Bipolar Program studies the course and outcome of bipolar disorder from several vantage points and identifies 7 phenotypic sub-classes that contribute to the observed phenotype in a pluralistic manner. The classes include: disease, cognitive neuroscience (neuropsychology), psychology (personality), motivated behaviors, sleep and circadian, life story, and course / outcomes. Each of the phenotype sub-classes defines a scientific edge of research, each with contributions from several independent disciplines. The Prechter Bipolar Longitudinal Cohort consists over 1350 participants with clinical and biological data that will be available for collaborative research projects.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:49:17 -0400 2019-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Increasing the Scientific Rigor in Developmental Psychology (September 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65642 65642-16627845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In the last few years, the field of psychology has been challenged with a crisis in the rigor and reproducibility of science. The focus of these issues has primarily been in social, cognitive, and cognitive neuroscience psychology, however, the area of developmental research is not immune to these issues. This presentation provides an overview of the “replication crisis” and the choices made by researchers that are often not noted in methods, thus making the replication of studies more difficult. In this review, we discuss issues of researcher flexibility in the data design and selection of sample size, collection, and analysis stages of research. In each of these areas, we address examples of bias and how developmental researchers can address these issues in their own research.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:04:28 -0400 2019-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium: Social Cognition in Chimpanzees' Cooperative Decision-making (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66042 66042-16684591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Humans are a highly cooperative species. Over the last decades, research has heavily focused on the psychological underpinnings of human cooperation as well as their phylogenetic origins. One central approach in this regard has been to study chimpanzees, one of our two closest evolutionary relatives. Numerous findings have led to the view that, compared to humans, chimpanzees are substantially less willing to provide material benefits to conspecifics (especially when this comes at a personal cost) and largely do not take others’ mental states into account for cooperative purposes. In my talk, I will present a series of experimental studies that offer two amendments to this view. Unlike previously assumed, chimpanzees do seem motivated to benefit others materially but only after receiving their assistance. Moreover, chimpanzees do show the ability to adjust their actions in response to others’ mental states in the context of mutualistic cooperation. Together, these findings provide a better understanding of the similarities and differences between the psychological mechanisms underlying chimpanzee and human cooperation.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:06:25 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sebastian Gruneisen
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Information Targeting Increases the Weight of Stigma: Leveraging Relevance Backfires When Recipients Feel Judged (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67118 67118-16803019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Although relevance is viewed as a panacea for persuasion, there may be contexts in which attempts to leverage relevance backfire. Across two experiments, we investigated conditions under which signaling personal relevance, via targeting information to audiences based on identities, backfires. In particular, we assessed how activation of personal characteristics (e.g., identities, health goals, and both identities and goals), as well as context cues (e.g., time of year), impact persuasion. Because people with higher body mass indexes (BMIs) are frequently targets of weight stigma, particularly within health contexts, we expected that perceiving relevance based on weight identities would elicit identity threat and subsequently inhibit persuasion for people with higher, versus lower, BMIs. Across studies, participants were told they received information about obesity due to chance (control condition), or after providing their demographics (e.g., weight status; Studies 1–2), health goals (Study 2), or demographics and goals (Study 2). Findings revealed that, particularly for participants with higher BMIs, being targeted to receive information about obesity and obesity-related illness increased perceived relevance among recipients, which predicted increases in irritation and self-conscious emotions. Negative emotional responding produced heterogenous, but primarily deleterious, effects on self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to engage in healthy behavior because recipients felt unfairly judged (Study 2). Study 2 determined that targeting on goals and changes in context (e.g., stronger beliefs that change is possible at New Year's) decreased the link between perceived relevance and feeling judged. Collectively, this work shows that leveraging message relevance may inhibit persuasion for target audiences when they feel unfairly judged.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:05:09 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Veronica Derricks
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66205 66205-16719584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Finding Structural Intersectionality: Quantitative Methods and Complex Inequalities in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:22:33 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Patrick Grzanka
2019 Functional MRI Symposium (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63526 63526-15782015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

The Functional MRI Laboratory is dedicated to supporting research on the structures and functions of the brain that underlie cognitive and affective processes in normal and clinical populations, as well as research on non-invasive methods for functional MRI and associated research tools, including brain stimulation.

The day will be devoted to talks that cover a range of issues having to do with data analysis, and, of course, connecting these issues to relevant topics in psychology and neuroscience.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:58:47 -0400 2019-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Conference / Symposium Autumn reflections 23
Psychology Methods Hours: Tough Questions in Psychological Research Methods (September 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66672 66672-16770187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

There are many recent, nuanced, and challenging questions about psychological research methods and practices. How do we “fix” statistics? How do we handle mistakes in published research? Should journals have specialized statistical reviews? In this discussion-oriented session, Dr. Beltz will introduce these tough questions and facilitate conversation about how they relate to our day-to-day research practices, the extent to which they impact the validity and reliability of the work produced in our laboratories, and what they mean for the future of our science.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:41:39 -0400 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Adriene Beltz
Developmental Brown Bag: Introducing elevation to the study of children’s developing prosociality (September 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65644 65644-16627846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Social constructivism posits that helping behaviour emerges through young children’s interactions with others. This would result in a social motivation whereby children help others because they want to provide the help themselves. However, in a series of studies we find better support for an alternative explanation of children’s helping behaviour, one that emphasizes their prosocial motivation to maintain cooperative relationships with others, including their peers. To this end we studied a prosocial emotion that has thus far received little attention in the developmental literature: elevation. The central finding is that young children express positive emotions when seeing others being helped and more specifically when seeing others get the help they deserve. The pattern from a series of studies suggests that young children’s prosocial emotions are regulated not only by concern for their personal gain or by sympathy for others, but reflect an emerging sense of deservingness as determined by social comparison.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:23:35 -0400 2019-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Biopsychology Colloquium: Measuring motivations and emotions in children's and chimpanzees' social interactions using pupil diameter and posture tracking (October 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66072 66072-16686693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Studying the proximate mechanisms of social behaviour poses unique methodological and theoretical challenges. In a series of studies, we used pupillometry to design experimental paradigms that allow us to investigate physiological changes in the context of both children’s and chimpanzees’ social interactions. We applied these methods to study the underlying motivation of both prosocial behaviour and so-called inequity aversion. In young children, we have further included measures of positive emotions using motion sensor technology. Together, our results suggest that while specific social behaviours, such as helping, are a cross-species phenomenon among Great Apes, the underlying motivation may be distinctly different between humans and chimpanzees.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:32:16 -0400 2019-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Robert Hepach
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - The devils we know and love: How relationships bias moral reasoning (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67117 67117-16803018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Consider the following scenario—you witness your friend steal a TV and are approached by a police officer asking whether you saw anything. How would you respond? Would you protect or condemn your friend? What makes dilemmas like these so vexing is that they pit two fundamental drives against one another: protecting those we love versus abiding by universal rules. Here we demonstrate that when people are presented with scenarios forcing them to decide whether to protect or condemn the perpetrators of crimes, they demonstrate an extremely strong bias to protect close (vs. distant) others, and the size the of this effect increases along with the severity of the crime they observe. Moreover, using event-related potentials (ERPs) we show that the amplitude of the P300, an early neural component occurring around 300ms that is sensitive to expectancy violations, was greater when people thought about close (vs. distant) others committing crimes and predicted people’s decisions to protect versus condemn perpetrators’ behaviors. However, we show that the behavioral bias toward close others is attenuated by a brief self-distancing manipulation. Preliminary cross-cultural work shows that the bias is also present but attenuated among a Japanese sample, suggesting that cultural factors may modulate the balance between loyalty and justice. These findings underscore the importance of studying the role of close relationships in moral reasoning.

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Presentation Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:58:47 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Martha Berg
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66206 66206-16719585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Decolonizing and Feminist Interventions: Citizenship Crisis in Northeast India

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Presentation Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:28:54 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Urmitapa Dutta
ABC's: Alumni, Brunch & Career Chats (October 4, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64189 64189-16203849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 9:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Meet Psychology Dept Alumni who will present their career path and share how they've used their degree.

9:30-11am: Alumni Panel with free brunch!
11am-12pm: Students can sign up to meet alumni for 15 min. one-on-one sessions.

RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4279

Lisa Smith, Health Coach, founder of Black Health Academy

After graduating from Michigan with a bachelors in psychology Lisa went on to work as a social worker for The State of Michigan for over four years, however after getting her MBA and discovering a passion for health and wellness she set her sights on entrepreneurship. Once Lisa aggressively conquered her physical health and regained her confidence she set herself on a purpose driven course which led her to launch Professionally Fit in July of 2015 and The Black Health Academy in October of 2017. Lisa also serves as the new Executive Director of the Plant Based Nutrition Support Group, a 6500 member nonprofit organization. Serial entrepreneur, health and wellness subject matter expert, plant based nutritionist, author, and professional speaker are all but a few titles to describe Lisa A. Smith. She now finds she is constantly applying her degree in psychology to her work in coaching, speaking and teaching life long behavior change in the health and wellness field. She has helped many to bridge the gap between their health and career, fight chronic disease and become Professionally Fit!

Stephanie (Colbert) Gaumer, Clinical Therapist at Counseling Centers of Michigan

Stephanie’s career path started at Michigan’s Psychology Department where she took a variety of classes surrounding the brain and child development. These interests led her to volunteering at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital where she learned that many employees had backgrounds in social work. She went on to pursue a Master in Social Work at Loyola University Chicago with a focus in health and a specialty in working with older adults. After graduate school, she worked at a neurofeedback provider for 3 years where she expanded her knowledge on the connection between the brain and mental health. In her desire to broaden her social work career, she moved to the more clinical approach at her current position as a Clinical Therapist at Counseling Centers of Michigan in Clarkston, MI. She has received training in a variety of therapeutic techniques and she works with clients of all ages surrounding mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, anger management and emotional regulation, as well as peak performance in sport and life. This position has been very rewarding to her as she develops relationships with clients and walks alongside them as they achieve their goals. While in Ann Arbor, she also competed for the Women’s Gymnastics team. Her experience within the athletic department showed her that athletes are a unique population that also experience a lot of the same mental health concerns as the general population with the added pressures of balancing sport and athletics. The sport and social work connection has become another passion of hers as she looks to help stress the importance of social workers being present within high schools, colleges and professional sports. She does this with the members of the Alliance of Social Workers in Sport where social workers around the country and Canada come together to discuss the latest advances in the field and how they can all work to expand the possibilities of social workers in a variety of settings.

Dyan Jenkins-Ali, Senior Project Manager for University HR Strategy and Planning

Dyan Jenkins-Ali is a Senior Project Manager for University HR Strategy and Planning, managing administrative and operational projects that impact the development of goals and initiatives designed to enhance multiple student, staff, patient and faculty health benefits and experiences. Her health care career spans more than 20 years, in which time she has worked in an executive capacity with M-CARE, Dental Dental, Providence Hospital and Health Alliance Plan. Dyan holds a State of Michigan Agent//Producer License in Life, Health and Disability, and is a certified phlebotomist. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Executives and National Association of Health Service Executives, treasurer of U-M's Letterwinners M Club Board, and a diplomat with the U-M Credit Union. Dyan received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master's degree in Health Services

Rebecca Marshall, Associate Director, Experience Analytics at Organic

As a lead in Marketing Intelligence at Organic, Rebecca has a passion for data and the blend of art and science that leads to great digital experiences. Her double major in Psychology and Economics at Michigan prepared her well for her career in digital marketing strategy and analytics.

Following graduation, Rebecca moved to Minneapolis, MN to start her career in Merchandising at Target Corporation. There, she focused on visual space optimization and how the arrangement of merchandise in the store could influence guests to make a purchase. After some time at Target, Rebecca became more interested in Marketing and moved home to Detroit to work in Digital Marketing Strategy and Analytics, first at Digitas LBI, and, presently, at Organic, Inc. an Omnicom Company.

Rebecca has been at Organic since 2014 and currently leads the campaign site analytics for Wells Fargo but has also had the opportunity to provide data driven solutions for a variety of brands including Art Van, Sephora and Hilton Worldwide. She’s constantly learning and tapping into an array of data sources, including site analytics, media performance, survey research, and social listening to name a few, enabling her to provide a fresh perspective on performance and actionable optimization recommendations for continuous improvement. When she's not working, she enjoys traveling and trying new restaurants in the fast growing city of Detroit and continues to cheer on the Wolverines in Ann Arbor during football season!

Fiona Nowlin, Product Manager at Humantech

Fiona Nowlin is a Product Manager at Humantech, a VelocityEHS solution, where she is responsible for leading all things related to the company’s office ergonomics software, including its successful relaunch in 2017. As an agile product owner, Fiona works with a global clientele that require inclusive and data-driven design.

Fiona began her career as a researcher in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology (CPEP) at the University of Michigan. In 2013 she joined the tech industry at Zaption, a San Francisco based start-up (acquired by WorkDay in 2016) where she learned the importance of creative, positive team cultures.

With this diverse background, Fiona has gained experience in the areas of technology, ergonomics + well-being, instructional design, customer success + support, and marketing. Her passions include change management, communication, and agile development. She continues to nurture her life-long love of learning by asking questions, seeking to understand, and continuously improve.

Fiona earned her Bachelor degree in psychology with honors from the University of Michigan in 2010, with a thesis exploring the effects of students’ first impressions of classroom teachers. She values curiosity, efficiency, and sustainability (& fun!).

Lindsey Hiemstra, Account Manager at Google

Lindsey Hiemstra studied psychology, Spanish literature, and business when she attended the University of Michigan for her undergraduate studies. Psychology has always been her true passion and combining it with business was the niche she knew she fit into the best. She feels lucky to have been offered a job at Google on the Ads side of the organization, and has been working with consumers on issues and opportunities. She recently started projects looking into market trends. She also leads team-cohesion based trainings for teams around the country, which is what gives her the most energy.

Christina Steinman, Engagement Manager at Gongos

Christina Steinman graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BA in Psychology with Honors and French. She obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Oxford (with a dissertation looking at the interactions of first, second, and third languages in trilinguals), and began a PhD in Second Language Studies at Indiana University before deciding to transition to a private sector career. She now works in market research, applying the research skills learned in Psychology and Linguistics studies to hands-on research work as a project manager.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:29:28 -0400 2019-10-04T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Careers / Jobs ABC Event Flyer
CCN Forum: Age-related declines in neural distinctiveness and variability: Cause and Consequences (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65649 65649-16627852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brief Abstract: Normal aging is typically associated with a pervasive decline in cognitive, motor and sensory function even in absence of pathology. Nevertheless, there are large individual differences in these declines: some older adults experience severe cognitive declines that impact their daily living and often are early markers of pathology, while others experience only mild impairments and lead a relatively healthy life. Understanding the neural bases of individual differences during aging is imperative in designing future interventions to slow, or even reverse some age-related cognitive impairments. My talk will focus on the cause and consequences of two such neural changes: age-related decline in neural distinctiveness and brain signal variability.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:42:50 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
LSA Transfer Focus: Humanities and Social Sciences (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67747 67747-16926557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

This event is only for students who entered LSA as transfer students.

Come talk to representatives from all of the humanities and social science departments to explore your choices for major and minors. Even if you have decided on a major, you may find another department you are interested in.

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Fair / Festival Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:37:19 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall LSA Transfer Student Center Fair / Festival East Hall
Psychology Department Transfer Student Orientation (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64054 64054-16113172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

We will review the department majors and resources on our website, as well as go over how to declare, apply transfer credit to the major, and how to get involved in research.We will also have representatives from various areas of campus, such as advisors from related majors, student organizations, and campus resources. FREE PIZZA!!!

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/6j5vw

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Well-being Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:13:14 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Well-being orientation flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium: Why did I eat that? Roles for striatal plasticity in obesity (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66074 66074-16686694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: While urges to eat are regulated by hunger, satiety, and energy demand, they are also strongly influenced by sights, sounds, and smells that are associated with food (food cues). Dr. Ferrario’s lab examines the neurobiological mechanisms of cue-triggered food craving and how these processes are influenced by consumption of sugary, fatty, “junk-food” diets and individual susceptibility to obesity. Her studies use a variety of approaches in preclinical models including behavior, biochemistry, and slice electrophysiology. In her talk, she will discuss how alterations in excitatory transmission within the brain's reward pathway influence cue-triggered food seeking behavior, and the relationship of these neurobehavioral alterations to aberrant vs. normative reward-seeking behaviors that contribute to obesity.

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Presentation Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:25:02 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Carrie Ferrario
Social Area Brown Bag: Exposure to Residential Segregation and its Effects on Intergroup Cognition (October 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67164 67164-16805246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In the U.S. today, racial segregation remains rampant in neighborhoods, schools, and even the workplace. Given the persistent inequity in terms of both race and social class in the U.S., my research utilizes perspectives from developmental, social, and cultural psychology to examine how features of our social and cultural contexts (e.g., racially segregated neighborhoods and classrooms) influence individuals’ thoughts and feelings about intergroup relations, and how these psychological outcomes in turn reify existing inequities. In this talk, I will examine how racial segregation shapes both perceptions of others’ racial attitudes throughout development. In addition, I discuss how these perceptions may be used to justify and ultimately perpetuate the persistence of racial segregation. By bringing to light these processes, we can better understand why change is more difficult and slow than expected.

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Presentation Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:29:34 -0400 2019-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ari Eason
Citadel Graduate Info Session, hosted by IEEE (October 9, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67958 67958-16975343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Come join IEEE and hear about the opportunities at Citadel for University of Michigan students!

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:42:27 -0400 2019-10-09T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T19:30:00-04:00 East Hall Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs East Hall
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66208 66208-16719586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Grad Student Datablitz

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:31:40 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
CCN Forum: Cognitive Neuroscience to Data Science: An Application of your Ph.D. in Tech (October 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65650 65650-16627853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: A Ph.D. is preparation for the professoriate in most disciplines, but many people with a Ph.D. find careers outside of academia. Data science is one of the wide range of non-academic career paths. Data science leverages skills trained in scientific disciplines including data interpretation, programming, and statistics to ask and answer industry-relevant questions. At Facebook, we rely on our data scientists to help us decide how to create products that ‘“give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.”

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Presentation Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:49:42 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
BME Talk: David Nordsletten (October 11, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68252 68252-17035297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

The human heart is a complex electromechanical pump, translating electrophysiological stimulation into tissue contraction and the ejection of blood from its chambers to drive cardiovascular blood flow. Despite being incredibly adaptable and robust, the human heart can experience a myriad of maladies leading to disruption and dysfunction. Core to cardiac physiology, and pathophysiology, is the efficient interaction between solid tissue and blood, translating mechanical work into blood flow. Understanding this interaction, principles of fluid mechanics, turbulence and fluid-structure interaction provide a core foundation. From recent work on image-based estimation of pressure loss, to analytic solutions and computational methods for fluid-structure interaction, to multigrid-in-time, this talk will explore some of the mathematical techniques useful for evaluating the behavior of blood and its impact on the heart.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:09:57 -0400 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:50:00-04:00 East Hall Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Examining Political Information and Behavior Online (October 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67134 67134-16805202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

With an increasing amount of data available online, we are now able to examine political information and behaviors through a new lens. In this talk, I will cover two studies that underline this promise for the study of news producers and citizens.

First, focusing on the news media, I will characterize the spread of fake news during the 2016 Presidential elections. Through the use of heterogenous data, I will examine the interplay between news media production and consumption, social media behavior, and the information the electorate retained about the presidential candidates leading up to the election. Second, turning to the citizens, I will examine how individuals conform to community norms in political discussions. Past research identifies many processes that contribute to maintaining stable norms, including self-selection, pre-entry learning, post-entry learning, and retention. What is the relative importance of these processes? I will answer this question through an analysis of political subreddits on Reddit with stable and distinctive toxicity levels.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:08:16 -0400 2019-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ceren Budak
Harvard Law School Information Session (October 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68309 68309-17045988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

A visiting admissions representative from Harvard Law School will host an admissions information session for all University of Michigan students and alumni interested in applying to Harvard Law. The session will include a short presentation and Q&A/discussion about Harvard’s programs, their acceptance of the GRE in admissions, and the Junior Deferral Program (JDP). Registration Requested: https://jdadmissions.law.harvard.edu/register/hls-at-umichigan-2019

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:58:12 -0400 2019-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 East Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Harvard Law Logo
Psychology Methods Hour: Integrating the Reference Point Effect into Normative Decision Theory: Purpose-Based Utility Functions (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67773 67773-16949868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

His presentation will introduce the Prescriptive Utility Reference POint (PURPOse) as a reference point which induces risk-aversion when the individual's true utility function is concave and risk-seeking when the utility is convex. When the individual utility function has multiple inflection points, this leads to a form of hedonic adaptation. When an individual has sufficiently exceeded their purpose, they adopt a new more demanding purpose and focus on achieving that purpose. But when an individual has sufficiently fallen short of that purpose, they switch to a less aggressive purpose. As a result, the utility function implicitly specifies a series of purposes which serve as milestones as the individual's maximizes their utility function. So, by integrating elements of prospect theory into utility theory, Dr. Bordley will demonstrate how utility theory can provide its own normative alternative to using goals to guide decision making.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:46:43 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
ASC Event. STEM V: Innovation and Appropriate Technology in Africa (October 18, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67781 67781-16949879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

“Appropriate Technology” refers here to efforts of scientists and engineers to help people on the Continent provide products and services for themselves from locally sourced and led efforts, as an alternative to “Global North” and other foreign suppliers whose products generally involve significant overhead in the international market. Appropriate technology is based on sound scientific and engineering fundamentals, and usually involves rethinking technical problems to come up with alternatives to the standard solutions. The emphasis is on close proximity of the engineer/scientist to the user population and a resulting intimate understanding of what their technical problems are. It is also based on a philosophy of creativity and “less can be more”, where designing solutions with, say, severe materials sourcing or distribution constraints, can be more challenging, but the results more transformative for the user population and rewarding for the engineer/scientist.

Dr. Musaazi has been a source of inspiration to STEM-Africa and African Studies Center since before even our founding ten years ago. He has been a long term collaborator on experiences for U-M students, especially undergraduates, who participated in joint appropriate technology projects with his team. Dr. Musaazi was driven by a concern to empower communities, to unlock their creative potential, circumventing systemic hurdles to such potential from the global marketplace or inequitable local mores. He was particularly sensitive to the problems of young women in developing societies whose communities’ traditions may not have adequately valued their advancement or their potential contributions to their societies.

The conference brings together some of the best practitioners from the continent and their collaborators at U-M to assess the current state of appropriate technology approaches, from the engineering/ scientific perspective, but also in terms of local innovation and entrepreneurship viewed as vital to the effective distribution of creative solutions to on the ground problems and empowerment of the user communities, and especially of women.

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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: asc-contact@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:17:53 -0400 2019-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium stemv_poster
Structural models of psychopathology and its relation to personality across the lifespan (October 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68350 68350-17069159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Personality traits emerge early in life and appear to reflect liability for various forms of psychopathology. At the same time, the nature and specificity of these associations remains unclear. I will present data establishing rapprochement between contemporary models of personality and psychopathology, integrating empirically based, hierarchically organized structural representations of both at phenotypic and etiologic levels. This work emphasizes the utility of broad higher-order factors (or spectra) of psychopathology (i.e., internalizing, externalizing), but not necessarily the p-factor or individual diagnostic entities, as valuable foci for targeting transdiagnostic mechanisms undergirding psychopathology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:58:12 -0400 2019-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion AWatts_2019
Developmental Brown Bag: Neurobiological Mechanisms Linking Poverty to Youth Socioemotional Development (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65645 65645-16627847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Nearly 20% of children in the United States live below the federal poverty line. Growing up in impoverished contexts is associated with myriad psychosocial adversities, all of which dramatically increase risk for psychopathology across the lifespan. One proposed mechanism by which environmental stress becomes biologically-embedded to predict maladaptive developmental outcomes is via alterations in brain function. In this practice job talk, I will present my research program linking poverty and poverty-related adversities to corticolimbic function during socioemotional processing. Using harsh parenting and neighborhood disadvantage as examples, I show that developmental timing is an important consideration for elucidating the effects of childhood adversity on corticolimbic development. Additionally, in an application of the model of Differential Susceptibility, I will highlight how amygdala reactivity during face processing may serve as a plasticity marker by moderating behavioral responses to socioeconomic resources.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:18:50 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation gard
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: It’s risky, therefore I do it; Counterfinality as a source of perceived instrumentality of extreme behavior as means to goals (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67137 67137-16805203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Why do people choose extreme behaviors as opposed to finding alternative means to fulfill their goals? I propose that extreme behaviors may be perceived as particularly instrumental to certain goals because of their potential negative consequences. This possibility is suggested by the principle of counterfinality whereby, a means is perceived as particularly instrumental to one’s goals to the extent to which it is detrimental to alternative goals. In line with this notion, we show that: 1) extreme behavior is more likely when its negative consequences are salient; 2) people who are more concerned with finding the “best” means to fulfill their goals (i.e. people high in a regulatory mode characterized by assessment) are more likely to engage in extreme behavior to fulfill relevant goals; 3) accessbility of relevant goals increases the likelihood of engagement in extreme behaviors by increasing their perceived riskiness and therefore their perceived instrumentality.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:51:11 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Catalina Kopetz
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66209 66209-16719587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Recognizing Strength and Wellbeing within Refugee Communities

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:31:58 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Andrea Belgrade
Yale Law School Information Session (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68529 68529-17096921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

A visiting admissions representative from Yale Law School will host an admissions information session for interested applicants from the University of Michigan community. The session will include a short presentation and Q&A/discussion about Yale Law’s programs.

Students will also have the opportunity to sign-up for 1-on-1 informational interviews with Yale Law Director of Admissions, Todd Rothman. Registration for interviews is required, space is limited: https://calendly.com/todd-rothman/meet-todd-rothman-director-of-admissions-on-c-clone?month=2019-10&date=2019-10-24

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:43:13 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Lecture / Discussion Newnan Advising Center Pre-Law
Undergraduate Research Panel (October 24, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64438 64438-16349019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Come learn more about the STAR Scholars Program from several program alumni who have gained research experience since participating in the program. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:02:44 -0400 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Research Panel
How Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology Can Inform Clinical Science: From Measurement to Minority Health (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68479 68479-17086380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dimensional models of psychopathology, that transcend diagnostic boundary, have gained traction within the clinical science literature as a means of overcoming the drawbacks of traditional psychiatric diagnostic systems. In this talk, I illustrate the ways in which my research program—aimed at understanding core dimensional factors of psychopathology—can transform clinical science research and practice. I additionally discuss how transdiagnostic dimensional models of psychopathology can inform understanding of health disparities among populations defined by marginalization and stigma.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:45:56 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion C.Rodriguez-Seijas
CCN Forum: Brain dynamics of interactions between cognition, emotion, and motivation (October 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65652 65652-16627856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

Research on the emotional and motivational brain often focuses on a few structures (such as the amygdala and the ventral striatum) thought to be central to this type of processing and separate from those that implement cognition. In this presentation, I will discuss research that embraces a distributed view of emotion/motivation circuits, and efforts to unravel the impact of emotion/motivation on large-scale brain networks that are important for perception, cognition, and action. In the framework presented, networks are viewed as dynamic processes and their organization unfolds temporally. In this dynamic view, emotion/motivation have broad, distributed effects that support complex behaviors.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:52:28 -0400 2019-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Pessoa
Developmental Brown Bag: How does the brain learn to read? (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67617 67617-16907161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Booth’s visit is being co-sponsored by the Department of Psychology Developmental Area and the Combined Program in Education and Psychology.

Abstract
Reading is fundamental to human society and the costs of illiteracy are enormous. In this lecture, I will discuss our attempts to uncover the mechanisms underlying the development of our amazing abilities to read. I will argue that general principles of brain development are key to reaching a deeper understanding in this field of inquiry. These principles suggest increases across development in (1) the specialization of brain regions for different computations and (2) the interaction between brain regions through enhanced connectivity. I will also review evidence suggesting that our growing knowledge of typical brain development is relevant for understanding why approximately 6% of children have reading disabilities. Finally, I will discuss our attempts at using brain imaging in clinical applications.

Biography
James R. Booth is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Educational Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. The main goals of his research are to understand the brain mechanisms of the development of language, reading and math in typical and atypical populations. Prof. Booth has been continuously funded for two decades and has published extensively in diverse journals. He has served in various roles both within and outside of the university, such as departmental chairperson, grant review panel member and associate journal editor. Prof Booth aims to facilitate the interaction between the fields of cognition, neuroscience and education.

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:04:42 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Booth
Biopsychology Colloquium: Investigations of attentional circuitry underlying cue-detection and cue-guided movement (October 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66075 66075-16686696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Transient activity of cholinergic projections from the basal forebrain to the prefrontal cortex is necessary for attentional performance and cue processing. Two lines of investigation aim to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying cue-processing and cue-guided movement. The first of these examined choline transporter (CHT) activity in the prefrontal cortex of mice expressing the human CHT coding variant, I89V. As choline reuptake is the rate-limiting factor in acetylcholine synthesis, CHT impairment was hypothesized to have a strong influence on cholinergic function in attentional circuits. Separately, a second series of experiments evaluated glutamatergic cortico-striatal projections during cue-guided movement in rats. In this way, we hope to further illuminate the contribution of cholinergically-driven striatal inputs in the completion of the attentional-motor circuit.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:09:37 -0400 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Eryn Donovan
Functional MRI Speaker Series (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67389 67389-16846424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Title: Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry University of Utah

Abstract: Rumination is a feature of major depressive disorder, that is considered a passive, negative, and recurrent thought patterns and habits. Like negative cognitive biases, rumination reflects the thought content (negative, potentially distorted) typical of depression. Unlike negative cognitive biases, rumination also includes habitual tendencies in responding to stressors (avoidance, passivity) which are not clearly or necessarily ascribed to negative thought patterns. As depressive rumination includes both content and habit it has been difficult to measure well. The fact that it may reflect a disengaged state from active cognitive processing means that it is often ascertained through the absence of certain mental states and behaviors, which also makes measurement challenging. The talk will focus on fMRI paradigms that are thought to capture the ruminative state and habit, behavioral correlates of increased rumination, and the relations of rumination to depression risk, poor treatment response, and frequent recurrence of depression. Moreover, it will cover strategies to intervene to change rumination, and resulting changes in resting state connectivity and task-based brain activation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:24:00 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Langenecker Photo
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Quid pro quo in children: The origins of reciprocity (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67144 67144-16805221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

While the importance of reciprocity has been shown in theoretical models and extensively studied in adults, little is known about the developmental trajectory of reciprocity in children. In the first part, I will provide a theoretical framework about the developmental trajectory of cooperative behaviors. In the second part, I will show a series of studies in which we adapted paradigms from adult research for studies with children, exploring when they begin to engage in tit-for-tat reciprocity, learn how to invest in a trust game, and bribe others.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:55:55 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Felix Warneken
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66210 66210-16719589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Race and Gender Differences in Benevolent Sexism

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:16 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Iran Beyond the Headlines (November 1, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68917 68917-17194956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Persian Student Association

Iran is one of the key elements in shaping America’s foreign policy..... yet it remains one of the most misrepresented countries in the American media. As Anthony Bourdain put it, “The Iran you see from the inside—once you walk the streets of Tehran; once you meet Iranians—is a very different place than the Iran you know from the news.”

Come join us for a presentation to debunk stereotypes, and get a better glimpse of Iranians and Iranian life.

****Free Persian dinner provided!****

Please RSVP at the following link: https://forms.gle/NX33EWj5YmtDTgcF8

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Presentation Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:42:07 -0400 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 East Hall Persian Student Association Presentation Iran Beyond the Headlines
Biopsychology Colloquium: The neurobiology of empathy in the prairie vole (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66076 66076-16686697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Empathy for the pain and suffering of others is widespread among social animals, and can provide a motivation for prosocial behaviors, including consolation. Here, I describe a definition-free approach to studying empathy using consoling behavior in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). I use a series of behavioral assays to demonstrate empathy-related characteristics and capacities in prairie vole, including pro-social contact, social buffering, emotional contagion, state matching, and familiarity bias. I then explore the neurobiology of empathy using this model, implicating the anterior cingulate cortex and the neurohormone oxytocin. Finally, I demonstrate how empathy-related behaviors in rodents can be used to assess autism phenotypes by discussing my experiments looking at behavioral and neurological effects of developmental toxin exposure in mice. Animal models of empathy hold significant promise as outcome measures relevant to autism research.

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Presentation Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:05:36 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation James Burkett
Finding Research: Using the Psychology Research Opportunity Tool (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68186 68186-17026794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

The Psychology Department has a new online tool for helping students find research. This interactive workshop will teach you how the tool works and provide tips for making a competitive profile. Bring your laptop to actively work on your profile during this session. There will also be FREE PIZZA! Please RSVP to help us order enough: https://myumi.ch/jxgrN

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:37:23 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Obtaining a research position flyer
Social Area Brown Bag: Are online survey participants motivated to provide high-quality data (and do they)? (November 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67150 67150-16805229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

Researchers want high-quality data from their participants. As long as many researchers across the social sciences have been collecting large amounts of data from online convenience samples like MTurk and Prolific, some have expressed skepticism whether data from these sources are high-quality. Such skepticism stems in part from the fact that online survey compensation is often low (e.g., 10 cents per minute) and the fact that a concerning percentage of participants fail English language comprehension questions as well as attention checks. Despite plausible reasons to expect low-quality, researchers have replicated online the psychometric properties of well-known personality and individual differences instruments (e.g., Big Five, Adult Attachment) as well as classic experimental findings (e.g., framing and anchoring effects). Such findings suggest high-quality. But how? We wondered whether these data are of high quality in part because participants are simply motivated to thoughtfully and honestly respond to surveys for reasons other than money. Across four convenience samples, we assessed data quality, survey-taking motivation, and self-reported engagement in surveys. I will present and discuss the results during my talk.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:26:21 -0400 2019-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Nick Michalak
Democracy Inaction: Why our elections are unfair (November 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68999 68999-17211733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Public Lecture
American presidential primaries are examples of multicandidate elections in which plurality usually determines the winner. Is this the "best" way to decide who wins? While plurality is a common procedure, it has serious flaws. Are there alternative procedures that are in some sense more "fair?" How do we determine the "fairness" of an election procedure? With no more mathematics than arithmetic (to count votes), we will examine some alternate procedures and fairness criteria.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:39:08 -0400 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Public Lecture
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66216 66216-16719598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brotherhood Runs Deep: The Sexual Harassment of Men in the Military

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:41 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Psychology Methods Hours: Methods and Applications of Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67382 67382-16846418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

During this talk, Dr. Martz will provide an overview of real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) and its clinical and research applications. She will also discuss her recently funded K01 grant that will examine developmental and sex differences in volitional control over reward responding using rtfMRI-nf. As a group, discussion will focus on better understanding the methodology of rtfMRI-nf and its potential as a tool to study neural correlates of self-regulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:26:06 -0500 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
CGIS/Psychology Cross Advising (November 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64869 64869-16483034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS and the Psychology department for a walk-in advising event for all psychology students interested in studying abroad. Both a CGIS advisor and Psychology Advisor will be there to help answer questions on how to fit study abroad into your schedule, financial aid and scholarship options, and more!

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:56:11 -0400 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (November 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63947 63947-16033417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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, 10 Jun 2019 09:35:49 -0400 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other CGIS Psych flyer
CCN Forum: Developmental tuning of action selection. (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65653 65653-16627857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Computational reinforcement learning models provide a framework for understanding how individuals can evaluate which actions are beneficial and which are best avoided. To date, these models have primarily been leveraged to understand learning and decision-making in adults. In this talk, I will present studies characterizing developmental changes, from childhood to adulthood, in the cognitive representations and computations engaged to evaluate and select actions. I will discuss how these changes may optimize behavior for an individual’s developmental stage and unique life experiences.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:07:51 -0400 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Hartley
Developmental Brown Bag: The Development of Ritual (November 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65647 65647-16627849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Cultural conventions such as rituals are a psychologically understudied yet pervasive feature of human culture. Studying the emergence of rituals in childhood provides insight into the complex dynamics of social group cognition. This talk will examine how children identify and acquire ritual to affiliate with social groups, how evaluations of ritual performance may differ across cultures, and initial work uncovering the relationship between ritual and cooperation. The results provide insight into the early-developing preference for in-group members and are consistent with the proposal that rituals facilitate in-group cohesion. I propose humans are psychologically prepared to engage in ritual as a means of in-group affiliation and inclusion.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:03:24 -0500 2019-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Wen
Finding Summer Research Opportunities (November 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64442 64442-16349026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Learn tips and tricks for finding summer research opportunities! Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:33:56 -0400 2019-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium: Selective forces shaping the evolution of intelligence (November 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66077 66077-16686699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Although intelligence should theoretically evolve to help animals solve specific types of problems posed by the environment, it is unclear which environmental challenges favor enhanced cognition, or how general intelligence evolves from domain-specific cognition. The social intelligence hypothesis posits that big brains & great intelligence have evolved to cope with the labile behavior of group-mates. Here we exploit the remarkable convergence in social complexity between cercopithecine primates and spotted hyenas to test predictions of the social intelligence hypothesis in regard to both cognition and brain size. Behavioral data indicate that there has been considerable convergence between primates and hyenas with respect to their social cognitive abilities. Moreover, compared to other hyena species, spotted hyenas have larger brains and expanded frontal cortex, as predicted by the social intelligence hypothesis. However it appears unlikely that domain-general intelligence can evolve exclusively in response to selection pressures imposed specifically in the social domain.

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:22:47 -0400 2019-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Kay Holekamp
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Fine-scale topographic organization of cortico-cerebellar networks for visual attention and working memory (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69253 69253-17275347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Attention and working memory (WM) are processes that enable the efficient prioritization or storage of a subset of available information. A substantial body of work has sought to determine the specific brain structures that support attention and WM. To date, this literature has predominantly focused on the contributions of a limited set of cortical areas referred to as the dorsal attention network (DAN). The cerebellum, a subcortical structure traditionally implicated in motor control, has received scant consideration as a locus of attentional control, despite findings of robust anatomical and functional connectivity between cerebellum and DAN areas. In this talk, I will present the findings of a series of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments aimed at elucidating the role the cerebellum in attention and WM. Taken together, the results of these experiments argue for the reconceptualization of the DAN as a cortico-cerebellar network.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:41:36 -0500 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag: Does a healthy body come with a healthy brain? An exploration with the functional connectivity of the whole-brain network (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67152 67152-16805224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
An ancient Latin phrase said “Mens sana in corpore sano”, which translates to “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. Consistent with this wisdom, social scientists have shown that poverty and other adversities in life often lead to worse physical health as well as impaired cognitive performances. Similarly, aging is linked to deteriorating physical health and cognitive decline. Physical exercise, on the other hand, often improves cognition. So far, however, the nature of this link between the body and the brain is underexplored. In this talk, I will present our recent research examining if biological health risk is associated with functional connectivity of the resting state whole-brain network. Results and implications of the findings will be discussed.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:55:31 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Qinggang Yu
CANCELLED: Psychology Research & Service Learning Fair (November 14, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68137 68137-17011977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Looking for psychology research positions? You can still search and apply for position online through our Research website below "How Can I Find a Research Position?"

https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/undergraduates/research.html

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Fair / Festival Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:34:01 -0400 2019-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T15:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Fair / Festival 2019 Research and service learning fair
LSA Transfer Focus: Natural Science and Quantitative Majors (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68169 68169-17020452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: LSA Transfer Student Center

Spend an afternoon on the University of Michigan’s campus to explore all that a natural science and quantitative majors from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts can offer you.

The day includes:
>>Information on the LSA degree requirements and the admissions process
>> A chance to explore LSA departments, including meeting with faculty and current transfer students
>> Meet with co-curricular programs that can add important real-world experience to your liberal arts degree
>> A visit to a lab to learn more about how research can be part of your undergraduate degree

An optional campus tour

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Fair / Festival Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:08:20 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall LSA Transfer Student Center Fair / Festival East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Understanding Ordinary Minds Leads to Understanding Extraordinary Ones: Adventures in Theory of Mind (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65648 65648-16627851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Theory of mind is classically studied with younger children and focused on their understanding of “ordinary minds”—understanding people in terms of their thoughts, knowledge, desires, and goals which are often limited in being mistaken, uninformed, self serving. But children, and especially older children wrestle with “extraordinary minds” too. Artificial intelligence and robots for example, but also minds of superheroes, gods, and more. My collaborators and I have a long program of research on children’s developing conceptions of —robots, God, mind-after death, and extraordinary communications. I will overview several strands of this research to exemplify our approach and findings: developing conceptions of ordinary-human knowing versus omniscience, developing conceptions of death and an afterlife, developing conceptions of prayer in contrast to ordinary spoken communications. Some of our studies include “culture” in the sense of comparing, for example, children in the U.S. and those in China. But still more include the equally informative perspective obtained by comparing differing cultural and religious groups within the U.S., including mainstream samples (80-90%whom believe in God), devout Muslin groups, and devout fundamentalist Christians.

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Presentation Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:32:32 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
2019 James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship Lecture and Reception (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68195 68195-17026820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Patricia Gurin, 2019 recipient of the James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship, will present her lecture, "Collectivity, Community, and Connections in the Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion." A reception will be held immediately afterward. Please RSVP using the link below.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:30:55 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Patricia Gurin
Collectivity, Community, and Connections in the Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68133 68133-17011974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) are pleased to announce that Dr. Patricia Gurin — the Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies — was selected as the 2019 recipient of the James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship.

Please join us for Dr. Gurin's lecture in honor of her award.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:56:23 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Image of Patricia Gurin
Biopsychology Colloquium: Simultaneous measurement of morphology, molecular markers, and connectivity. (November 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66078 66078-17105361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Neurons have incredibly diverse properties that underlie their distinct functions. Proper classification is challenging as neurons can be defined by many different criteria, including anatomy, molecular identity, and electrophysiology. Moving forward, it’ll be fundamentally important to perform multi-modal measurements of neuron properties to ameliorate conflicting definitions of cell types. To address this correspondence problem, we have developed a Multi-Round immunostaining expansion microscopy (MiRiEx) strategy that can be combined with multicolor genetic labeling strategies (Brainbow) to simultaneously interrogate morphology, molecular identity, and connectivity in brain sections. The capacity for 3-4x linear expansion of the tissue specimen gives us the ability to perform “super-resolution” imaging to untangle densely labeled neurons and trace their neurites using nTracer, a custom ImageJ software. By optimizing the preservation of antigens in a hydrogel, we are able to carry out multiple rounds of immunostaining for Brainbow fluorophores and cell type markers. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate that MiRiEx can be applied to Brainbow labeled inhibitory neurons in the basolateral amygdala to correlate inhibitory neuron cell types with their morphologies and local anatomy network. Furthermore we show that Brainbow immunostaining can be combined with synaptic markers to count inhibitory and excitatory inputs on interneurons. We envision MiRiEx combined with Brainbow to be a powerful tool researchers can use to perform multi-modal analysis of neuronal structure, molecular identity, and connectivity.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:12:25 -0500 2019-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Fred Shen
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Cultural differences in the link between social anxiety and drinking (November 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67153 67153-16805226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Social anxiety disorder is a risk factor for developing alcohol use disorders. This link is in part due to the expectation that alcohol reduces feelings of social anxiety. Despite wide variations in cultural norms for drinking, little work has examined the social anxiety-alcohol association across cultural groups. Our present work with epidemiological data suggests that there is a stronger link between social anxiety and drinking in Asian Americans compared with non-Hispanic whites. Future directions for research on cultural differences in alcohol expectancies are also discussed.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:14:59 -0500 2019-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sakura Takahashi
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66213 66213-16719595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Why Might Improving the Status of Women Tame Power and Prevent War?

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:57 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Wilbert (Bill) J. McKeachie Symposium (November 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65894 65894-16668206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Join the Department of Psychology as we celebrate the life & distinguished career of Wilbert (Bill) J. McKeachie.

For more information on the Schedule of Events follow the McKeachie Symposium link at the bottom of the page.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:01:37 -0500 2019-11-22T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Conference / Symposium McKeachie Symposium
Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-11-25T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Biopsychology Colloquium: The influence of locomotion on sound processing in the auditory cortex. (November 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66080 66080-16686702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Locomotor activity has a substantial influence on incoming sensory input and on the manner by which this input is processed. In the visual modality, locomotion has been shown to increase responses to visual stimuli in the visual cortex. Interestingly, within the auditory modality locomotion has been associated with inhibited spontaneous and sound-evoked responses in pyramidal cells, with the strongest inhibition observed in response to reafferent, self-generated sounds. However, previous studies have focused on the effect of locomotion on the activity of single cells, while the effect of locomotion on local network dynamics in the auditory cortex remains largely unknown. To address this knowledge gap we used two-photon calcium imaging to monitor activity in local neuronal ensembles in the auditory cortex of awake head-fixed Thy1-GCaMP6f mice that were free to stand, walk or run on a treadmill. Using this approach we analyzed single-cell and network response properties of excitatory pyramidal neurons to different sounds under different behavioral states. Our preliminary results demonstrate substantial heterogeneity of locomotion-related modulation of neural activity within local neural ensembles. Neighboring neurons exhibited differential and often divergent influence by locomotion: while some neurons exhibited reduced activity during locomotion as expected, responses of other neurons within the same ensemble were often strongly enhanced. Furthermore, heterogeneity in the effect of locomotion was observed on both spontaneous and sound-evoked responses, and for neural responses to different types of sound stimuli. These results may offer clues to the nature of network-level sound processing that underlie the perception of hearing during locomotion.

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Presentation Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:38:44 -0500 2019-11-26T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Vivaldo
Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-11-26T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (November 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Clinical Brown Bag: The Neuropsychology of Stuff (December 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69786 69786-17423618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
In our current, Western context of abundance, we are surrounded by stuff. We are fortunate to have access to so many affordable items. Far from being simple utilitarian tools, we have deeply personal, emotional, and sometimes even contentious relationships with our stuff, as we do with other people. Most research on this topic resides either in the context of shopping and the way people overvalue their own stuff or clinical hoarding disorder, in which people accumulate and failure to discard goods to the point of distress and impairment. Our interdisciplinary research instead assumes that all of these phenomena reflect a common, neural and affective system that evolved to guide us toward rewarding items that we care for and protect. This system is largely adaptive, but it can lead to bad consequences in a modern context of superabundance, stress, and chronic psychopathology. This talk summarizes our work in the ecological neuroscience laboratory, which demonstrates a role for both positive and negative affect in our drive to acquire and keep goods, which is subserved by ancient neural systems for allocating resources and produces individual differences across typical and disordered populations alike.

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Presentation Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:28:11 -0500 2019-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Preston
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 2, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Biopsychology Colloquium: Causes and consequences of social structure in male chimpanzees (December 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66079 66079-16686701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Among group-living animals, social systems are expected to evolve via selection on individuals to maximize the benefits of group membership while minimizing the costs imposed by group mates. When costs of group membership increase relative to benefits, this can result in dramatic, permanent changes to group composition via group fission events, or more subtle changes to social structure. At the same time, research in animal behavior is increasingly focused on the ways that the social environment influences individual behavior and fitness. I will discuss work using long-term data on chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, analyzing the precursors of unique community fission event, as well as longitudinal changes to social network structure, to better understand the costs and benefits of group membership among males. Additionally, I will discuss the consequences of social structure on aggression between males as it relates to in-group biases in chimpanzees.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:13:13 -0500 2019-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Feldblum
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Functional MRI Speaker Series (December 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69390 69390-17316499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Title: A Dynamic Processing Model of Working Memory: Evidence from Behavior, Neuroimaging, and Neurostimulation

Abstract: Recent shifts in the understanding of how the mind and brain retain information in working memory (WM) call for revision to canonical theory. Evidence for the existence of dynamic, “activity-silent” short-term retention processes in the brain diverge from traditional models that have argued that items in WM are retained by sustained representation in buffers or activated states. Such evidence comes from the use of machine-learning analytic approaches to decode patterns of brain activity and the simultaneous administration of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to causally manipulate brain activity in specific areas and time-points. TMS has been used to 'ping' brain areas and reactivate latent representations retained in WM and affect memory performance, but only when the information is still relevant for the current trial. These findings argue for a supplement to the sustained retention mechanisms associated with attending to information in WM. Brain decoding methods reveal dynamic, hierarchical levels of representation in WM that vary according to task context, from perceptual/sensory codes in posterior areas to more conceptual/abstract codes distributed across frontal-parietal regions. A Dynamic Processing Model of WM is advanced to account for the overall pattern of results.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:52:45 -0500 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Rose Photo
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-04T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Do we know whom we can trust? The psychology of trustworthiness detection (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67163 67163-16805245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Do humans have an intuitive understanding of whom they can trust? Research on the accuracy of trustworthiness detection abilities has produced mixed results. However, most studies have limited themselves to trustworthiness detection from static photographs of strangers or short videotapes and ignored interactions between people that already know each other. Thus, we investigated trustworthiness detection in situations that more closely resemble real-life trust interactions. In seven studies involving 580 participants and about 13.000 individual trust game interactions we found that trustworthiness detection was inaccurate among strangers either after watching short video-clips of potential trustees or after short personal interactions during a group task with potential trustees. In contrast, trustworthiness estimates were better than chance among already acquainted participants. Furthermore, we found evidence that people successfully use the relationship quality they have with a potential trustee as a “fast and frugal heuristic” when estimating another person’s trustworthiness.

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Presentation Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:44:34 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Detlef Fetchenhauer
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-05T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: #ArmMeWith: Analyzing Teacher Resource Needs Through Twitter (December 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66219 66219-16719600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Esra Ascigil and Lester Sim

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Presentation Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:03:10 -0500 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Christina Costa
Psychology Walk-In Advising (December 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 69363-17310313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Other Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:10:35 -0500 2019-12-05T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Searching
Life of a Doctor (but not that kind!) (December 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64444 64444-16349029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Learn about what types of career paths are available for those with a PhD in Psychology. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:35:55 -0400 2019-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:30:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
CCN Forum: Mental Health Challenges in the Academe (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69455 69455-17324774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Research, teaching, and service are rewarding experiences. However, the stresses of academic life can contribute to a variety of mental health issues. In this interactive, discussion-based forum, we will discuss the prevalence of mental health issues in the academe, anonymously survey the audience to identify the mental health issues experienced by faculty and students in our Area, and review strategies for coping with these issues to enhance well-being.

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Presentation Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:34:48 -0500 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Patricia Deldin and William Gehring
Anna Vainchtein: Strictly supersonic solitary waves in lattices (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69225 69225-17269229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

Abstract:We consider a nonlinear mass-spring chain with first and second-neighbor interactions and show that there is a parameter range where solitary waves in this system are strictly supersonic. In these regimes standard quasicontinuum theories, targeting long-wave limits of lattice models, are not adequate since even weak strictly supersonic solitary waves are of envelope type and crucially involve a microscopic scale in addition to the mesoscopic scale of the envelope. To capture this effect in a continuum setting it is necessary to employ unconventional, higher-order quasicontinuum approximations carrying more than one length scale. This talk is based on recent joint work with Lev Truskinovsky (ESPCI).

Bio: Anna Vainchtein is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is generally interested in mathematical modeling and analysis of nonlinear phenomena in materials science, physics and biology.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:06:09 -0500 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Workshop / Seminar A. Vainchtein
Developmental Brown Bag: Can Food be Addictive? Implications for Children and Adolescents (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69877 69877-17480880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Our food environment has changed drastically in the last 50 years. Highly processed (HP) foods that strongly activate reward and motivation systems have become cheap, easily accessible, and heavily marketed. Rising levels of overeating and difficulties controlling food intake have accompanied these changes to our food system. There is growing evidence from animal models and biobehavioral research in humans that HP foods may be capable of triggering neurobiological and psychological responses that parallel those associated with drugs of abuse. This has led to a growing interest in the role of addictive processes in certain types of eating pathology. Unlike traditional drugs of abuse, HP foods are typically consumed very early in development (often in the first year of life). In this talk, the evidence that addictive processes may be playing a role in certain types of pathological eating will be evaluated and implications for children and adolescents will be discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:14:59 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ashley Gearhardt
Biopsychology Colloquium: Longitudinal plasticity of neuronal ensemble representations in the auditory cortex (December 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70131 70131-17538848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Humans and other animals rely on familiarity with common sensory cues in the environment to guide behavior, while adapting to behaviorally relevant changing conditions. To support this adaptive behavior, sensory brain circuits balance competing needs for maintaining a stable and coherent representation of the external environment, while reorganizing in response following salient experiences. In the auditory cortex, neurons exhibit robust, consistent and selective responses to sound stimuli. On the other hand, experience can cause changes in the response properties of individual auditory cortical neurons as well as in the large-scale functional organization of the auditory cortex. However, little is known about the degree of longitudinal ensemble-level stability or plasticity of auditory cortical sound representations. To address this gap, we carried out longitudinal two-photon calcium imaging in the auditory cortex of awake mice to derive the response properties of identified neuronal ensembles to simple and complex sounds across days. Our preliminary results suggest a surprising degree of plasticity of sound-evoked responses within local neuronal ensembles in the auditory cortex.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:39:32 -0500 2019-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (December 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67162 67162-16805244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan Han
Title: Experts and Overconfidence

Abstract: What makes an expert different from the general population in self-assessment? Just the amount of knowledge, or metacognition as well? How will they behave when facing something they don't know and is that deviated from people's expectations for them?

Iris Wang
Title: How ecology impacts friendship choice

Abstract: Social relationships are an essential part of human survival. Friendship evolved as a means of social coordination among non-kin to help people meet fitness goals. Although friendships afford people many opportunities, they can also come with their own set of problems. Given this propensity for friends to both hurt and help our fitness goals, how do people choose these social partners? People seem to pay close attention to traits associated with cooperation such as honesty, trustworthiness, and sincerity At the same time, people also seem able to tailor trait preferences to different group contexts based on the affordances of those contexts. However, although this work touches on the importance of group context, no work has ever examined what the role of ecologies play in shaping social partner preferences. In short, this work is designed to test whether people tailor these preferences to the environments in which they inhabit.

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Presentation Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:25:12 -0500 2019-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Yuyan Han and Iris Wang
Walk-In Advising (January 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70811 70811-17650498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:09 -0500 2020-01-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-06T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70812 70812-17650506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:37 -0500 2020-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-06T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70811 70811-17650499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:09 -0500 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70812 70812-17650507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:00pm
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:37 -0500 2020-01-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70811 70811-17650500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 10:00am
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:09 -0500 2020-01-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70812 70812-17650508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:37 -0500 2020-01-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: Beliefs about gender/sex diversity: Links to prejudice and diversity-affirming interventions (January 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70171 70171-17540927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:08:02 -0500 2020-01-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T01:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Zach Schudson
Walk-In Advising (January 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70811 70811-17650501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 10:00am
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:09 -0500 2020-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70812 70812-17650509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:37 -0500 2020-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70814 70814-17650518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 10:00am
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:13:10 -0500 2020-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70815 70815-17650522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 2:00pm
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:15:46 -0500 2020-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Walk-In Advising (January 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70814 70814-17650519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Hall
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:13:10 -0500 2020-01-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising
Biopsychology Colloquium: The unique rhythms of the retrosplenial cortex (January 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66082 66082-16686703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: Memory and spatial navigation are complex functions that involve multiple brain regions. We study one such brain region – the retrosplenial cortex. Though there is compelling evidence for the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial memory formation and retrieval, little is known about how this brain region executes these functions. To understand the neural code employed by the retrosplenial cortex, we performed large-scale electrophysiological recordings during sleep and wake states. Here, we show that there exists a novel, fast, 140 Hz brain rhythm in the retrosplenial cortex during REM sleep and active behaviors. These rhythms demarcate high activity frames during REM sleep. Using whole cell physiology and computational modeling, we show that these retrosplenial rhythms are mechanistically distinct from previously recognized fast rhythms such as ripples and gamma. Finally, we show that retrosplenial 140 Hz rhythms are precisely modulated by running speed, highlighting their central role in shaping the critical navigation and spatial memory functions of the retrosplenial cortex.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:28:44 -0500 2020-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Megha Ghosh
Walk-In Advising (January 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70815 70815-17650523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 2:00pm
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Other Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:15:46 -0500 2020-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other walk-in advising