Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Clinical Science Brown Bag: Inclusivity in Admissions and Training: Key to Workforce Diversification (September 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76317 76317-19687510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:00am
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Inclusive Admissions and Training

There is a gaping under-representation of minorities (Hispanic and African American, in particular) among practicing psychologists, which can compound the problem of mental health disparities in underserved communities (SAMSHA, 2018). National data from accredited doctoral programs offers little reassurance the phenomenon will resolve on its own (Callahan et al., 2018). Studies of the psychologist workforce pipeline make clear that graduate admissions is a major point of diversity constriction, although issues occur with retention as well. Programs within and beyond our discipline have tried multiple strategies to reverse this trend, but data on their efficacy varies in quality and scope. We selectively review findings on some of these strategies, present a case study from the clinical psychology program at UNT, and review how the program has sought to connect the issue of inclusiveness in graduate training with mental health disparities in federally designated health professional shortage areas in our community.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:22:58 -0400 2020-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jennifer Callahan and Camilo Ruggero
PSC Postdoctoral Fellows: Introductions and Updates (September 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77288 77288-19830140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Introductions and research updates from PSC's 2020-21 cohort of PSC Postdoctoral Fellows.

Heejung Jang
Sarah Patterson
Nicardo McInnis
Sarah Patterson
Jamie Budnick

Contact PSC Office for Zoom details.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:22:37 -0400 2020-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Flyer for Brown Bag seminar
Developmental Brown Bag: Gender Identity Development: A Social, Cognitive, Biological, and Contextual Journey (September 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77389 77389-19846077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this presentation I illustrate my background and training in socio-cognitive development and critical feminist theory by describing two of my previous published works. The first project is a qualitative analysis of the influence of gender and gender typicality on adolescent friendship dissolution. The second project is a qualitative analysis of young men’s narratives of resisting masculine gender norms. I finish the presentation with a brief description of the biological and contextual directions I am tackling here at the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:40:09 -0400 2020-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Nielson
Vehicle to Pavement Sensing for Lateral Lane Position Research Review (September 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76507 76507-19719168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

While autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer significant safety benefits for drivers, to gain widespread approval from the public and road agencies, redundant vehicle to infrastructure capabilities are necessary. This is especially true in areas with adverse weather conditions such as snow and ice.

Existing AV technology is able to send safety messages to roadside units (RSUs) and other vehicles (V2V), but communication with concrete and asphalt requires embedded sensors. This research proposes a passive sensing approach that detects local changes in the pavement’s electromagnetic signature so that vehicles can determine their lateral lane position. This free webinar will include a Q&A session. We hope that you can join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:41:30 -0400 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Social Brown Bag: (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77672 77672-19901706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Irene Melani

Title:
Knowing more than one can see: Investigating the apparent negligence of context for European Americans

Abstract:
The cumulative evidence in social psychology suggests that people engaged in Western cultures (Westerners) are typically negligent of contextual information while perceiving a focal object. However, the cognitive mechanism underlying this phenomenon has remained largely unexplored. In the present research, we proposed a directional activation hypothesis to suggest that, for Westerners, the activation of an object in cognition may be sufficient to activate the contextual inferences associated with the object. To test our hypothesis, we examined 24 European Americans within an EEG-based priming paradigm. In an object-prime condition, participants were first shown an object (e.g., an image of a crab), followed by a context that is either typical or atypical of the object (e.g., an image of a parking lot or ocean). In a context-prime condition, however, participants were first shown a context, followed by an object that is either typical or atypical of the context. We tested the event-related potential component of N400, which indexes the detection of violations of semantic expectations. In the context-prime condition, the typicality of the target objects showed no effect on the magnitude of N400, thus replicating prior evidence. However, in the object-prime condition, the N400 was significantly greater in magnitude when target contexts were atypical of the object primes than when they were typical of the latter. We concluded that the negligence of context, typically observed for Westerners, is partly because the object takes priority in perception to inform about relevant contexts. From their phenomenal point of view, they have inferred what the appropriate context is for a given object, even before seeing it.

Lauren White

Title:
Integrating Theory for Community Based Suicide Prevention

Abstract:
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans aged 10-34 and US suicide rates are increasing across almost every demographic. This is particularly apparent in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, where suicide rates are up to 20 times the national US average; some of the highest in the world. Despite increasing investments in suicide prevention via research and practice, the US suicide rate has increased 35% in the last 40 years. I assert that new approaches which foster the capacity of community support systems to address vulnerabilities of persons—ideally before they are suicidal—are desperately needed. I will share a brief background of US suicide trends and prevention approaches; a note on how Social Work Practice and Social Psychology theories may come together to inform new ways of thinking about community driven suicide prevention; and two studies from my work in the last year that demonstrate the promise of integrating theory across disciplines in the work with AIAN communities to promote mental wellness and prevent suicide.

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Presentation Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:37:38 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Irene Melani and Lauren White
Social Brown Bag: (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77673 77673-19901707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Koji Takahashi

Title:
Extraneous affect and selective attention to health information

Abstract:
Health messages often fail to reach their intended audiences. A major reason is that health messages evoke negative emotions, motivating people to divert their attention. Many efforts to promote attention involve changing message content to make information less threatening. For some information, however, the topic itself evokes negative emotions, making it difficult or impossible to remove threat from the messages. In this talk, I will discuss evidence that extraneous affect, or emotional states unrelated to a message, can be leveraged to promote attention to health messages. I will present results from four studies showing that using guided meditation to induce low-arousal positive affect leads to greater attention to and comprehension of health messages. Importantly, we find that the valence and arousal of extraneous affect impact message processing in different ways and that these effects do not depend on how threatening people otherwise find the health information.


Iris Wang

Title
Covid at the Ballot Box: How Covid-19 impacts perceptions of voting

Abstract
The Covid-19 outbreak has greatly challenged many aspects of American life, including its electoral system. One large debate that has stemmed from the crisis is how the 2020 election should be held in a safe way, given that the polls are socially dense places with high likelihood of disease transmission. Previous work on the behavioral immune system, a set of behaviors that are designed to prevent people from coming into contact with infectious disease, has shown that disease threat increases crowding perceptions of socially dense situations. In a recent study, we tested the hypothesis that Covid-19 threat would increase people's perceptions of polling places as dangerously crowded, and therefore increase people's support for alternative voting methods such as mail-in and extended early voting. This brownbag explores the findings from this recent study.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:07:40 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Koji Takashashi and Iris Wang
Learning from History at The Henry Ford – Two Perspectives (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77772 77772-19911886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This is a conversation where each participant will discuss a different project that they were involved with at The Henry Ford Museum. The presenters are:
- Bradley L. Taylor (Associate Director Emeritus, Museum Studies Program)
- Calder Fong (PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures)

Taylor's talk showcases Henry Ford’s efforts to preserve historic buildings by moving them from across the country and re-assembling them at Greenfield Village. The stories of three English structures brought to the Village will challenge assumptions about the nature of “originality” and “authenticity.”

Fong will trace the history of an 1887 Crossley Bros. internal combustion engine at The Henry Ford Museum. Along the journey he will discuss Henry Ford as an early pioneer of urbexing and explore the wide range of disciplines that intertwine at this museum of American innovation.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93045738463
Meeting ID: 930 4573 8463
Password: 103356

Full details can be found here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/learning-from-history-at-the-henry-ford-two-perspectives/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:08:28 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual The Henry Ford's Sir John Bennett Jewelry Store and the Deluxe Engine
Developmental Brown Bag: The effect of Foreigner Talk on Children's Evaluations of Addressees and Speakers (October 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78101 78101-19965450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
A growing literature suggests accent serves as an important social category for infants and young children. Children show early social preferences for native over non-native speakers, and this tendency may lay the foundation for future accent prejudice observed in adulthood. However, children do not hear non-native accents in a vacuum; instead, their experiences with accent are informed by a number of factors within a broader communicative context. One factor that may be of particular importance is the speech register typically associated with native speakers talking to non-native speakers-- a register known as Foreigner Talk. This talk reports on three studies that examine whether Foreigner Talk affects children's (ages 5-10, N = 308) and adults' (N = 216) evaluations of those speaking and receiving Foreigner Talk. The findings provide insight into how conversational choices may impact children's developing conceptions of non-native speakers specifically, and outgroup members more broadly.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:45:17 -0400 2020-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Danielle Labotka
Social Brown Bag: (October 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77674 77674-19901708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Julisa Lopez

Title
Racialized Representations: Differences in the Acceptability of Redface and Blackface

Abstract
There have been several high-profile instances of individuals being called out and sanctioned for the use of racialized representations -- representations that reflect stereotypical, caricaturizations of racial groups, such as blackface and redface. Notably, the incidents which led to the fiercest backlash were instances of blackface. Indeed, from 2014 to 2019, 104,097 news article titles included the term “blackface”, while only 614 news article titles include the term “redface”. This is especially concerning given the voracity at which Native people protest the continued use of redface every sport season. The current research explores how the lack of understanding of the lived experiences of Native people (i.e., viewing Natives as frozen in the past, denying Natives experiences with discrimination and racism) helps explain why blackface is understood as unacceptable, while redface is given far less attention and incur less social disapproval.

Amelie Rossmaier

Title
Do people conform more with the group during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Abstract
The current pandemic poses a threat to virtually everyone while producing enormous uncertainty in life. According to classic theories of social influence, the combination of an external threat and uncertainty should foster conformity to majority views. Here, we tested this possibility by taking advantage of a study on conformity of attitudes conducted in the fall of 2019 on a group of American undergraduates. We repeated this study in April 2020 during the pandemic. As predicted, we observed a significant increase of attitude shifts toward the national means during the pandemic, compared to the pre-pandemic period. We will discuss reasons for and possible implications of this effect and look at other factors that might make us conform more or less.

Imani Burris

Title
Challenge Mindset: Leveraging Adversity as a Source of Strength

Abstract
Although adversity often undermines long-term wellbeing, successfully making meaning of adversity (i.e., understanding why adversity occurs) mitigates these negative effects. In the current work, I propose challenge mindset (i.e., the belief that adversity creates opportunities for personal growth and functions as a source of strength to confront future challenges) as a form of successful meaning-making. In particular, I theorize that endorsing a challenge mindset helps people cope with and, when possible, overcome adverse experiences. In this talk, I present two correlational studies (N = 522), which provide empirical evidence that challenge mindset is a reliable and valid construct. Further, I show that challenge mindset endorsements are meaningfully related to past and ongoing adverse experiences, as well as the use of adaptive coping strategies. I conclude my talk by discussing next steps and the practical implications of challenge mindset endorsements.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:56:32 -0400 2020-10-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Julia Lopez, Amelie Rossmaier, Imani Burris
Critical Conversations: #Politics (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76730 76730-19741036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2020-21. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:37:52 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Clinical Brown Bag: Applying a HiTOP(ian) approach to understanding clinical bias: Borderline personality disorder diagnosis among (SGM) Sexual and Gender Minority populations. (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78130 78130-19965482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a severe form of psychopathology associated with a host of negative outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests high prevalence of BPD diagnosis among sexual and gender minority samples. Non-cisgender identity has been historically equated with BPD diagnosis, the improper diagnosis of which imposes potential barriers to accessing appropriate gender affirming care. In addition, sexual and gender minority populations contend with greater psychosocial stress and exhibit higher rates of common forms of psychopathology than their heterosexual cisgender peers. Limited evidence suggests that higher prevalence of BPD diagnosis among sexual and gender minority individuals might not accurately index underlying BPD-pathology levels among these populations. Further, current conceptualization and treatment recommendations for BPD diagnosis diverge in subtle, yet potentially detrimental, ways from evidence-based treatment principles for sexual and gender minority individuals. In the current talk, I will present the results from 3 studies incorporating a transdiagnostic factors approach—consistent with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model—to examining bias in the diagnosis of BPD among sexual and gender minority individuals.

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Presentation Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:42:47 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Craig Rodriguez-Seijas
Developmental Brown Bag: (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78102 78102-19965452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:20:56 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Trina R. Shanks
Social Brown Bag: Black and White Meets Blue: How Institutional Interactions Erode Police-Community Trust Across Race (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77688 77688-19901722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Each year, approximately 19 million Americans are pulled over by the police. How do these everyday contacts contribute to persistent racial gaps in police-community trust in the U.S.? And how can we intervene to build trust between law enforcement and communities of color? I use a novel source of data — police body camera footage— to reveal racial disparities in police officers' interpersonal communication and their causal effects on citizens' institutional trust in the police. In turn, community members evaluate officers’ language and tone through the lens of their trust in law enforcement. I conclude with ongoing research on these cycles of racial inequity- and how we might break them.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:05:11 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Nick Camp
Using Social Media Data from Reddit to Examine the Concerns of Foster Families (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78222 78222-19994966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This webinar will present research on how foster families, including parents and children, are faring during COVID-19. Given the challenges involving child welfare workers accessing foster families during the pandemic, the current research relied on social media data from Reddit to better understand the most pressing concerns of foster families discuss on online forums during COVID-19. The research will shed light on areas child welfare workers, programs, and policies can intervene to ally some of the challenges foster families experience during this time.

One free social work CE is available to those who participate in the live webinar.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:49:45 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Livestream / Virtual Parenting in Context, October 28
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Polygenic Risk and Social Support in Predicting Depression Under Stress (November 2, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76748 76748-19743019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability in US adults. Potential contributors to depressive symptoms have been identified at the genomic and environmental levels, though the mechanisms by which these factors independently and jointly influence depression risk remain unclear. Although the recent development of genomic technology has fueled substantial progress in identifying the genomic variation associated with major depression, genes alone do not fully predict who will develop depression. As responsivity to social support varies between individuals, sensitivity to the social environment may be one mechanism linking identified genomic variation and depressive symptoms. This talk will present the results of two studies assessing whether changes in social support affect the likelihood of depression development differently across the spectrum of genomic risk, and discuss implications for understanding depressive symptom etiology and clinical practice.

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:16:12 -0400 2020-11-02T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T09:50:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jenny Cleary
Social Brown Bag: (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77692 77692-19901725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Rachel Fine:

Title: Boys Will Be Boys?: How gender essentialism relates to prejudice against gender nonconforming children

Abstract: With a study of 120 urban and 120 rural children, we found that more endorsement of gender essentialism (a belief that gender is an innate category) relates to more prejudice against gender nonconforming children. Although urban children were significantly less gender essentialist than their rural peers, and older children were less gender essentialist than younger children, we consistently found the main effect of higher gender essentialism relating to prejudice. Furthermore, essentialist beliefs about the immutability of gender were the most significant component of essentialism that relates to prejudice. These findings support the possibility that interventions can be created to lower gender essentialist beliefs in order reduce the prejudice against gender nonconforming children.

Bio: Rachel investigates how children and adults perceive non-discrete identities (for ex.being multiracial, gender nonconforming or a dual national) and how this relates to their beliefs about race, gender and nationality.

Zachery Reese:

Title: Competition within Relationships

Abstract: People in the U.S. strive for achievement, individuality, and glory while simultaneously striving to build and maintain close relationships. What happens when our desire to be "top dog" conflicts with our desire to support our loved ones? In this presentation, I will discuss several studies examining the roles competition and dominance play in our close relationships.

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Presentation Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:38:56 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Rachel Fine, Zach Reese
Developmental Brown Bag: (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78107 78107-19965465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jessica Montoro:

Title:
Latinx Adolescents Facing Multiple Daily Stressors and the Protective Role of Familismo

Abstract:
Familism, or familismo, is a highly endorsed Latinx cultural value that encompasses using family members as attitudinal and behavioral exemplars, turning to family members as sources of support, and prioritizing the family’s well-being over the individual’s (Stein et al., 2014). Although several studies have examined whether familismo protects youth from one type of stressor at a time (e.g. community violence exposure, discrimination, substance abuse), few scholars have compared the differential effects of both general and cultural stressors on Latinx youth’s psychological functioning (Ayón et al., 2010; Stein et al., 2012). This study examined the potentially protective effects of familismo among Latinx adolescents facing a myriad of stressors, both cultural and general. Survey data for this study were drawn from a sample of 224 low-income, Latinx 9th graders (age M = 14.5) attending 3 high schools in the Northeastern United States. When both cultural and general stressors were accounted for, greater material need was associated with increased depressive symptoms and a less positive future orientation. Moreover, familismo endorsement protected adolescents from depressive symptoms linked to material hardship. Results suggest that cultural stressors may be less distressing to Latinx adolescents than more general stressors, like financial hardship, and familismo is an important cultural value that may help Latinx adolescents navigate various types of stressors.

Yeonjee Bae:

Title:
Do firstborn children’s responses to mothers interacting with a baby doll predict jealousy of a newborn sibling?

Abstract:
The birth of an infant sibling is a normative life experience for many young children. Parents are particularly interested in how their firstborn children will react to the birth of the infant sibling, yet few resources exist to assist parents in managing their children’s jealousy across the transition to siblinghood. The current study used an infant doll simulator as a social rival during a mother-child-doll laboratory task to elicit children’s jealousy reactions which were then used to predict children’s jealousy of their 1-month-old newborn sibling. Thirty pregnant mothers and their firstborn children participated in a short-term longitudinal study using the infant doll simulator in the lab before the birth (Time 1) and home observations of mother-child-baby 1 month after the birth (Time 2). There were differences in children’s behaviors across the two times and children’s reactions to the baby doll did not appear to predict their reactions to their newborn sibling, suggesting there is little predictive validity in the use of a baby simulator to understand children’s jealousy of an infant sibling.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:12:14 -0500 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Jessica Montoro, Yeonjee Bae
HET Brown Bag Seminar | UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79274 79274-20262820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The persistence of the hierarchy problem points to a violation of effective field theory expectations. A compelling possibility is that this results from a physical violation of EFT, which may arise from correlations between UV and IR physics—as is broadly demanded by gravity. I will discuss Noncommutative Field Theory as a toy model of UV/IR mixing, where an emergent infrared scale is generated from ultraviolet dynamics. I’ll explore a variety of such theories to develop a picture of how this feature appears, and to glean lessons to guide the realization of UV/IR mixing in more realistic theories.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:23:52 -0500 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Social Brown Bag: (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77694 77694-19901727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Qinggang Yu

Title: Racial residential segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate the COVID-19 fatality in large American cities

Abstract:
The disproportionately high rates of both infections and deaths of underprivileged racial minorities in the U.S. during the current COVID-19 pandemic show that structural inequality can be lethal. However, the nature of this structural inequality is poorly understood in the context of the current pandemic. Here, we hypothesized that two features of the structural inequality, racial residential segregation and income inequality, contribute to numerous health-compromising conditions, which in turn exacerbate COVID-19 fatalities. These two features are particularly lethal when combined. To test this hypothesis, we examined the growth rate of both confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in an early period of the outbreak in the counties located in each of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. The growth curve for cases and deaths was steeper in counties located in metropolitan areas that residentially segregate Blacks and Hispanics. Moreover, this effect of racial residential segregation was augmented by income inequality within each county. The current evidence highlights the role of racial and economic disparity in producing the devastating human toll of the pandemic. It also offers important policy implications for making virus-resilient cities.


Yuyan Han

Title: Are Experts Aware Of What They Don’t Know?
Subtitle: A meta-calibration study on psychologists

Abstract:
The Confucius said, “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.” Experts are usually found having more accurate self-assessment of knowledge compared to the rest. What drives their better calibration? Simply a larger amount of knowledge, or superior meta-knowledge as the Confucius asserted? In the current study, we compared the self-assessment performance between psychologists recruited from the SPSP 2020 Conference and UM undergraduates through Intro Psych Subject Pool on the topic of P value in research.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:15:13 -0500 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Qinggang Yu, Yuyan Han
Developmental Brown Bag: The way “we” talk: Generic pronouns convey messages of togetherness (November 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78117 78117-19965466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Key to a well-functioning society is having rules of conduct that apply to everyone. This becomes especially important in times of crisis, when shared behaviors can protect the most vulnerable. How can we promote group norms over personal desires? In this talk I will present data from two studies showing that the generic pronouns “you” and “we” (“you/we always eat turkey at Thanksgiving”) might provide an effective way to convey such message. Adults and children (age 6-7 and 8-9) regard speakers using generic pronouns as conforming to group norms (Study 1) and showing greater compassion (Study 2) compared to speakers using specific pronouns (“I” or “she). These findings suggest that subtle shifts in the way “we” talk can dramatically change the message, from one of selfishness to one of togetherness.

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Presentation Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:32:17 -0500 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Giulia Ellia, Ph.D.
Social Brown Bag: (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77695 77695-19901731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Martha Berg

Title:
Contextualizing Moral Reasoning: How Close Relationships Shape Responses to Moral Transgressions

Abstract:
Consider the following scenario—you witness your friend steal a laptop at a cafe and a police officer asks whether you saw anything. How would you respond? What makes situations like these so vexing is that they pit two fundamental drives against one another: protecting those we love versus abiding by universal rules that govern society. Yet the overwhelming majority of research in moral psychology has ignored the influence of relationships, focusing instead on how people respond to the immoral acts of strangers. In this talk, I will review findings from an integrative program of research that demonstrates how close relationships powerfully shape the way people respond to moral transgressions. First, I will review research indicating that people are much more likely to protect close (vs. distant) others who act immorally, particularly when the acts they observe are severe. Next, I will address how cultural norms can influence the saw relationships have on moral reasoning. Finally, I will present initial work exploring how relationships between transgressor and victim influence the victim’s response. Together, these findings underscore the importance of taking context into account when studying moral reasoning.


Zach Reese

Title:
Competition within Relationships

Abstract:
People in the U.S. strive for achievement, individuality, and glory while simultaneously striving to build and maintain close relationships. What happens when our desire to be "top dog" conflicts with our desire to support our loved ones? In this presentation, I will discuss several studies examining the roles competition and dominance play in our close relationships.

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Presentation Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:54:45 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T14:30:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Martha Berg Zach Reese
Developmental Brown Bag: Why Developmental Psychology Should Care About Racial and Ethnic Diversity (November 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78104 78104-19965453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

The present talk/discussion addresses issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity within the discipline of psychology, in general, and the subfield of developmental psychology, in particular. I will present a very brief overview of data illuminating the lack of ethnic/racial diversity within both psychology and developmental psychology as well as provide a few recommendations to the field regarding the importance of ethnic/racial diversity. Afterwards, participants will engage in smaller group discussions to discuss the current status of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within both the Department of Psychology and the developmental area at the University of Michigan using the DEI goals of the University of Michigan’s DEI strategic plan as a conceptual frame for the discussions.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:05:28 -0500 2020-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Robert R. Sellers
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (December 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79519 79519-20349387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Ariana

Title: Unbalanced Expectations? Examining Graduate Students of Color’s Mentorship Expectations for Faculty of Color vs. White Faculty

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According to previous work, faculty of color report that students of color expect them to provide greater support and understanding of their concerns given their shared identities, compared to White faculty. My work examines these possible unbalanced expectations from the graduate students’ perspective. First, in a qualitative study, I examine which types of mentorship expectations are most important to graduate students (e.g., research, professional, socioemotional support, respect). In a second, correlational study I investigate whether graduate students of color report higher mentorship expectations for faculty advisors of color than White faculty advisors. Furthermore, this study examines whether these unbalanced expectations could be explained by the student’s perception that an advisor of color is more understanding of their situation and specific needs as a person of color in academia (i.e., perceived race-based empathy).

Desiree

Title: Assessing Perceptions of Leaders Who Use Anger in the Workplace: An Intersectional Approach

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In 2019, Women in the Workplace (the largest study of the state of women in cooperate America) reported that for every 100 entry-level men that are promoted to managerial positions, only 58 Black women are promoted. Why might this be the case? Standards for men in the workplace are very different than standards for women in the workplace. Past research demonstrates that women leaders who use anger in the workplace are penalized more than men leaders who use anger in the workplace. This might be because women are stereotyped and expected to show emotions like happiness, fear, and sympathy. Concurrently, men are stereotyped and believed to express emotions like anger and pride. Further, women leaders who demonstrate stereotype inconsistent behaviors are penalized professionally. What’s interesting however, is when we intersect gender and race, differing stereotypes about women and emotionality emerge. The Angry Black Woman (ABW) stereotypes characterizes Black women as being angry aggressive, unfeminine, and attitudinal. The intersection of race with gender presents a stereotype that directly contrasts stereotypes and beliefs about women’s emotions overall. If being angry is stereotype consistent with Black women, as it is with men, then we might expect Black women leaders to not be penalized for expressing anger in the workplace, as are men. In our work, we asked whether professional evaluations of leaders who use anger in the workplace depend on (1) the gender of the evaluator, (2) the gender of the leader, and/or (3) the race of the leader. White participants (N = 183) read a fake transcript in which a leader describes an interaction with an employee. In the interaction, the leader expressed anger or sympathy. The researchers manipulated the race and gender of the leader. Participants made professional evaluations of the leader. Overall, white men and white women participants rated White leaders similarly professionally regardless of the emotion expressed. However, for Black leaders, White women rated Black women leaders higher professionally than Black men leaders regardless of the emotion expressed. Additionally, White men rated Black men leaders higher professionally than Black women leaders regardless of the emotion expressed. These findings suggest that the perceiver gender impacts impression formation/maintenance of leaders in the workplace.

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Presentation Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:37:52 -0500 2020-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T13:20:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Ariana Munoz-Salgado, Desiree Aleibar
HET Brown Bag | Scattering Amplitudes for Monopoles: Pairwise Little Group and Pairwise Helicity (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79741 79741-20483901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

On-shell methods are particularly suited for exploring the scattering of electrically and magnetically charged objects, for which there is no local and Lorentz invariant Lagrangian description. In this talk we show how to construct a Lorentz-invariant S-matrix for the scattering of electrically and magnetically charged particles, without ever having to refer to a Dirac string. A key ingredient is a revision of our fundamental understanding of multi-particle representations of the Poincar\'e group. Surprisingly, the asymptotic states for electric-magnetic scattering transform with an additional little group phase, associated with pairs of electrically and magnetically charged particles. The corresponding ``pairwise helicity'' is identified with the quantized ``cross product'' of charges, e_1 g_2 - e_2 g_1, for every charge-monopole pair, and represents the extra angular momentum stored in the asymptotic electromagnetic field. We define a new kind of pairwise spinor-helicity variable, which serves as an additional building block for electric-magnetic scattering amplitudes. We then construct the most general 3-point S-matrix elements, as well as the full partial wave decomposition for the 2\to 2 fermion-monopole S-matrix. In particular, we derive the famous helicity flip in the lowest partial wave as a simple consequence of a generalized spin-helicity selection rule, as well as the full angular dependence for the higher partial waves. Our construction provides a significant new achievement for the on-shell program, succeeding where the Lagrangian description has so far failed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:53:41 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Social Psychology Brown Bag: Globalizing Psychology: Varieties of Interdependence Across Cultures (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79569 79569-20382971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Research in Psychology has predominantly focused on Western, largely North American and Western European populations. However, culture matters, as illustrated by the dramatic between-nation variation in vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this talk, I draw on prior work showing that unlike the West, which values the independence of the self, much of the non-West shares a view of the self as embedded in relationships or interdependent. Of importance, however, interdependence may be realized by using different strategies, depending on social, ecological, and historical conditions. That is, there may be substantial heterogeneity within the non-West. In particular, Latin American cultures are known to be as interdependent as East Asian cultures. However, I will report two new studies that show that Latin American cultures, but not East Asian cultures, use the expression of the self, including the expression of emotions, as the primary means of achieving the valued state of interdependence. First, using an EEG index of self-referential processing, I found that European Americans, but not East Asians, preferentially process self-enhancing information. Second, using behavioral outcomes, I also found that Latin Americans are more similar to European Americans on the dimension of self-enhancement, even though they are demonstrably more interdependent than the latter. I will conclude by underscoring the importance of globalizing the psychology literature.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:57:13 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:20:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Cristina Salvador
Twitter as a Tool for Connection and Advocacy During COVID-19: What We Know From Hundreds of Social Work Faculty (December 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79489 79489-20341506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This webinar, hosted by the Parenting in Context Lab, will present research on how social work faculty have used Twitter for connection and advocacy, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conditions of the pandemic have contributed to social isolation and stress among many social workers and the populations they serve. The role of technology and social media for social work practice are currently amplified. This presentation, drawing from data on hundreds of social work faculty, will describe how social workers can leverage Twitter as a professional resource for connection and advocacy.

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Presentation Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:45:47 -0500 2020-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Presentation Garrett T. Pace
HET Brown Bag | Looking forward to new Physics with FASER (December 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79760 79760-20486020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Physics searches and measurements at high-energy collider experiments traditionally focus on the high-pT region. However, if particles are light and weakly-coupled, this focus may be completely misguided: light particles are typically highly collimated around the beam line, allowing sensitive searches with small detectors, and even extremely weakly-coupled particles may be produced in large numbers there. The recently approved FASER experiment will use the opportunity and extend the LHC's physic potential by searching for long-lived particles and studying neutrino interactions at TeV energies. In this talk, I will present the physics potential of FASER for new physics searches, neutrino physics, QCD as well as cosmic ray and cosmic neutrino measurement, aiming to stimulate a fruitful discussion with my audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:19:12 -0500 2020-12-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Neutrino Oscillations: Where we are, where we’re going (January 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80667 80667-20769661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In the last several decades, neutrino oscillations have gone from an experimental anomaly to robust evidence for beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. While much has been learned since the first experiments, several aspects of oscillations remain unknown, including the degree to which CP is violated in the lepton sector. In this talk, I will explore our current knowledge of neutrino oscillations, and discuss how the next generation of experiments can further enlighten us. These upcoming experiments have the ability to test “standard” and BSM neutrino oscillation hypotheses, as well as a multitude of non-neutrino BSM physics scenarios.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:04:36 -0500 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Developmental Brown Bag: Modeling Cognitive Variation in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Understanding Domain-Specific Outcomes and Person-Specific Effects (January 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80346 80346-20705809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Cognitive processes such as executive functioning normatively develop over adolescence and well into young adulthood, but some aspects of cognition show domain- and person-specific associations with behavior and wellbeing. In my presentation, I highlight this in two studies. The first study examines how constellations of cognitive skills (e.g., inhibition, planning, emotion regulation) are associated with key developmental domains, finding that unique cognitive profiles have functional significance for academics, mental health, and health behaviors in adolescence. The second study illustrates three different techniques for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data on verbal recall with the purpose of delineating links between daily cognitive and contextual processes. The results provide insight into how mean-based, within-person, and person-specific analyses handle intensive longitudinal data and how this leads to disparate inferences about daily processes. Together, these studies highlight how levels of analysis (e.g., domain specificity of outcomes) and analytic techniques (e.g., degree of person specificity) matter for understanding individual differences in cognition across the lifespan.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:00:41 -0500 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Natasha Chaku
Social Psychology Brown Bag: Motivated Numeracy and Political Beliefs (January 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80353 80353-20705818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Do individuals selectively use their statistical expertise when making motivated evaluations of evidence? We investigate this motivated numeracy account of political decision making. Across 3 studies, participants interpreted numerical data about a hypothetical gun control intervention. We assessed participants’ ability to correctly interpret the data, information-seeking behavior, and decision rationale. Our findings show that participants were generally more accurate when the data were consistent with prior beliefs about gun control, but that this effect did not vary at different levels of numeracy.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:57:29 -0500 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Clint McKenna
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Adventures in Non-Supersymmetric String Theory (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81150 81150-20858312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

It has long been known that there exist strings with supersymmetry on the world sheet, but not in spacetime. These include the well-known Type 0 strings, as well as a series of seven heterotic strings, all of which are obtained by imposing unconventional GSO projections. Besides these classic examples, relatively little is known about the full space of non-SUSY theories. One of the reasons why non-SUSY strings have remained understudied is the fact that nearly all of them have closed string tachyons, and hence do not admit ten-dimensional flat space as a stable vacuum. The goal of this talk is two-fold. First, using recent advances in condensed matter theory, we will reinterpret GSO projections in terms of topological phases of matter, thereby providing a framework for the classification of non-SUSY strings. Having done so, we will show that for all non-SUSY theories in which a tachyon exists, it can be condensed to give a (meta)stable lower-dimensional vacuum. In many cases, these stable vacua will be two-dimensional string theories already known in the literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:22:43 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
HET Brown Bag | The black hole spectrum in (super)gravity (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81152 81152-20858314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The talk will focus on the spectrum of near-extremal black holes in gravity and near-BPS black holes in supergravity. For concreteness, we will study cases in asymptotically four-dimensional flat space and three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter. This will be done by analyzing quantum effects near the horizon captured by an emergent Jackiw-Teitelboim mode at low temperatures. This will allow us to systematically study questions such as the extremal degeneracy and the size of the gap in the black hole spectrum, which can be compared to some string theory constructions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:49:08 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Self-regulation forecasts physical health and preparedness for old age (February 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80344 80344-20705806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The ability to regulate one’s own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in early life sets the stage for many positive outcomes in later life, including longevity. In this talk, I will show that self-regulation also predicts how well people age. Leveraging longitudinal and nationwide-register data from two studies, I will (1) demonstrate how self-regulation in early life is linked to the pace of aging and aging preparedness in midlife, and (2) characterize the implications of self-regulation for population lifespan and healthspan.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:30:11 -0500 2021-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Leah Richmond-Rakerd
Developmental Brown Bag: A relational approach to ethnic-racial discrimination: Testing selection, influence, and group membership (February 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80744 80744-20783436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
The United States is becoming more diverse, yet ethnoracial segregation and discrimination remains problematic in schools today. During adolescence, peers become a socialization mechanism, and youth tend to befriend peers with a shared race-ethnicity. However, little is known about how relationships between same- and different- ethnoracial peers influence exposure to discrimination. This study explores how two main hypotheses—social selection and social influence—explain similarities and differences in exposure to discrimination among high school friends. Perceived discrimination may drive apart distinct ethnoracial groups and bring together ingroup members (vis-à-vis “attraction-repulsion”). Students may also be exposed to discrimination that their same ethnoracial friends experience as they are likely to be shared and discussed within social networks, consequently strengthening or validating their own experiences of discrimination. To disentangle these two mechanisms, we employed a network science perspective, using stochastic actor-oriented modeling (SAOM), in two ethnoracially diverse high school settings (N=4454; 9-12th grade; 50% boys). Confirming prior empirical observations, the networks in the two schools displayed significant ethnoracial homophily. Simultaneously, homogeneity in discrimination was greater among same-ethnic friends compared to cross-ethnic friends. Though some differences were observed between the ethnoracial groups, overall, the SOAM findings provide modest support for social selection while providing some additional support for social influence, in particular for ethnoracial minorities. We conclude that some of the observed homogeneity in discrimination among same-ethnic friends operates in part via social influence and to a lesser extent by social selection. The findings illustrate how perceptions of ethnic-racial discrimination operate across social networks.

Significance Statement
In an increasingly diverse and segregated US context, ethnic-racial discrimination remains problematic disproportionally affecting persons of color, including youth. Many studies have reported on the adverse health consequences that result from discrimination by peers and adults, but little is known about its relational consequences. Here, we employ a network science perspective to examine the relational consequences of exposure to discrimination in diverse high school settings. Our method reveals that some of the observed homogeneity in discrimination among same-ethnic friends is explained by the tendency to become more similar to same-ethnic friends over time and some by a tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers with shared perceptions of ethnic-racial discrimination. These findings illustrate how perceptions of ethnic-racial discrimination operate across social networks.

Keywords: race and ethnicity, segregation, homophily, discrimination, friendship, social networks

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Presentation Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:47:52 -0500 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ashwin Rambaran
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Supersymmetry and Computation (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81151 81151-20949383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss various aspects of the interplay between supersymmetry and the theory of classical and quantum computation. I will first introduce basic elements of computational complexity theory and show that the Witten index problem is #P-complete and thus intractable. I will then discuss the role of supersymmetry in defining a special subclass of quantum algorithms and describe the "quantum Witten machine," a quantum algorithm for the generalized Witten index.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:21:29 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Developmental Brown Bag: A Developmental Perspective on Friendship and Health (February 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80745 80745-20783437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This paper examines the presence and quality of friendship over 25 years. This analysis uses a subsample of the Survey of Social Relations which began in 1992 with a representative sample of Detroit area residents aged 8 to 93 (additional waves in 2005; 2015). Using latent class growth analyses, we identified three patterns of change in the proportion of friends in social networks (moderate and increasing; low and decreasing; high and increasing) and two patterns of change in positive friendship quality (high positive and decreasing; high positive and increasing) and negative friendship quality (low negative and steady, high negative and steady) over time. Neither, higher education and not being married was associated with social networks that in 1992 had the highest proportion of friends, that increased over time. Neither age nor gender were significantly associate with changing proportions or quality of friendship. Patterns of change in proportion of friends was not associated with self-rated health or depressive symptoms. However, results indicate that positive friendship trajectories, but not negative friendship trajectories, were associated with better self-rated health. The effects of increasingly positive quality friend relations over time are especially impactful on mental health earlier in the lifespan. People who are younger were more likely to report fewer depressive symptoms two waves later, if they have increasing friend positive relationship quality. This paper capitalizes on longitudinal data over twenty-five years to begin to identify the complexity of friendships and their effects over time.

Co-authors: Kristine Ajrouch, Noah Webster and Rita Hu

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Presentation Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:21:15 -0500 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Toni Antonucci
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (February 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81899 81899-20988903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Nadia

Title:
Incorporating Egalitarian Ideology in Models of Collective Action

Abstract:
We propose that egalitarianism is related to collective action and policy support meant to reduce racial inequity, and that this relationship is partly explained by egalitarian individuals’ increased recognition of racial discrimination. We test this pathway among groups of various positions within the US racial hierarchy and find support for the proposed model.

Wilson

Title:
A First Look at Infectious Disease Concealment

Abstract:
In March, 2020 a man hid his COVID-19 symptoms so that he could visit his wife and newborn child in the maternity ward of a Rochester, New York hospital. In addition to putting everyone in the hospital at risk of infection, his deception actually caused his wife to fall ill with the virus less than a week after giving birth. What psychological processes explain this kind of concealment behavior? Drawing on insights from the behavioral immune system and literature on concealable stigmatized identity, I will discuss the prevalence of disease concealment and its unique social costs and benefits. In our first two studies (N = 367), we find that a large majority of college students and adults freely report times when they concealed infectious disease in social situations, and that decisions to conceal depend on the audience they would be concealing from. In our next two studies (N = 307), we find that people report being less likely to conceal an illness when there is a higher risk of transmitting that illness to others, and when the symptoms they would pass along could be particularly debilitating. Together, these four studies set the foundation for further inquiry into mechanisms underlying infectious disease concealment

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Presentation Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:16:44 -0500 2021-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Nadia Vossoughi, Wilson Merrell
HET Brown Bag | Consistency of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (February 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82009 82009-21004775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk I will describe how the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes impose non-trivial constraints on the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT). For example, in the bosonic sector, I will explain how the bounds imply restrictions on the size of certain CP-odd operators by associated CP-even couplings. This result can be exploited to reveal a connection between constraints derived at colliders and limits on the neutron electric dipole moment. Further, I will demonstrate that in the fermionic sector, IR consistency requires that flavour violating operators are bounded by the flavour conserving variants. While most results will be presented for the SMEFT at dimension 8, I will also describe recent progress allowing a subset of the results to be lifted to dimension 6.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:19:30 -0500 2021-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Worldsheet g-function and AdS/CFT (February 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81216 81216-20872040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Recently there has been new progress in computing a class of observables in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions at finite 't Hooft coupling, ranging from correlation functions of "baryonic" operators to leading instanton effects at large N. All those examples share two common features: 1. At weak coupling, they can be computed by an overlap between a matrix product state and an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian of an integrable 1+1d spin chain. 2. Using AdS/CFT, they can be mapped to so-called g-functions on the string worldsheet and can be computed exactly as a function of 't Hooft coupling. After explaining the basic ideas, I will showcase several applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:23:17 -0500 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems and The Era of Big Data (February 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81738 81738-20949394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

As society enters the era of Big Data, and intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems begins to embrace it, researchers will rely more on data to train controllers or validate them from repeated simulations.

This talk will describe autonomous and intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and how the availability of experimental testbeds has enabled discoveries applicable for societal-scale systems - one of which is the Cognitive and Autonomous Testbed Vehicle (CAT Vehicle). It has participated in several high-profile experiments regarding heterogeneous human-driven and semi-autonomous traffic flow. Dr. Sprinkle will detail ongoing efforts that explore how collaboration with researchers in application domain fields can dramatically expand available data sets. This also provides unique opportunities for exploring the security and privacy challenges that accompany societal-scale systems.
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About the speaker: Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle is the Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona and the Interim Director of the Transportation Research Institute. In 2020 he was named a Distinguished Scholar of the University of Arizona. From 2017-2019 he served as a Program Director in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart & Connected Communities at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. In 2013 he received the NSF CAREER award, and in 2009, he received the UA's Ed and Joan Biggers Faculty Support Grant for work in autonomous systems. His work has an emphasis on industry impact, and he was recognized with the UA "Catapult Award" by Tech Launch Arizona in 2014, and in 2012 his team won the NSF I-Corps Best Team award. His research interests and experience are in model-based approaches to cyber-physical systems, and he teaches courses ranging from software modeling to mobile application development and software engineering.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:43:23 -0500 2021-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Examining the Role of Affect in the Relationship Between Discrimination and Depression (March 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82383 82383-21090284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
This research talk will discuss the role that affect plays in the relationship between racial discrimination and depressive symptoms in Black college students. The data used in this study is taken from a longitudinal sample of 171 college students (69% female). This presentation will be discussing theoretical frameworks that inform the course of research, preliminary findings from the research study, as well as clinical and population-specific implications for working with Black college students.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:28:27 -0500 2021-03-01T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T21:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Aaron Neal
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82455 82455-21100209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Susannah

Title:
Face-to-face versus social media confrontation and the role of relationship closeness

Abstract:
In this talk, I will discuss and compare how two communication contexts -- face-to-face and on social media -- may differentially influence how people engage in confrontation, as well as the role of relationship closeness in influencing these effects. To this end, I will describe a series of experimental studies and one crowdsourcing study using Twitter data.

Laura

Title:
What We Would (but Shouldn't) Do for Those We Love: Universalism versus Partiality in Responding to Others' Moral Transgressions

Abstract:
Previous work shows that people say they are more likely to protect a close (versus distant) other who commits a serious moral transgression. But do people believe it is morally right to preferentially protect close others in this way? Across four studies, we show that people believe they should protect close others more than distant others. However, we also document a striking discrepancy between how people think they actually would act, and what they morally should do, when it comes to protecting close others. This suggests that moral decisions involving close relationships may be a context in which people are particularly likely to fail to do what they think is right.

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Presentation Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:20:46 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Susannah and Laura
Clinical Brown Bag: Associations Between Exposure to Community Violence and Neural Responses to Reward (March 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82613 82613-21145763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
An extensive literature has shown that exposure to adversity broadly, and to community violence specifically, is linked to maladaptive behavioral outcomes. However, research is only beginning to link adversity to brain function and little research has examined whether exposure to community violence predicts neural function. The current study examines associations between exposure to community violence and neural reactivity during reward processing in 451 twins sampled from neighborhoods with above average levels of poverty. Moreover, by leveraging a twin design, the study examines the extent to which these associations are environmental in origin.

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Presentation Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:04:54 -0500 2021-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Heidi Westerman
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Loops and Trees in Generic 4d EFT up to operator dimension 8 (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82342 82342-21068624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will talk about the tree and one-loop behavior in a generic 4d EFT of massless scalars, fermions, and vectors, with a particular eye to the high-energy limit of the Standard Model EFT at operator dimensions 6 and 8. First, I will show how to classify the possible Lorentz structures of operators and the subset of these that can arise at tree-level in a weakly coupled UV completion. Then I will show how operators contribute to tree and one-loop helicity amplitudes, exploring the impact of non-renormalization theorems through dimension 8 and helicity selection rules through the full one loop amplitude.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:22:56 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Social Psychology Brown Bag: (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82724 82724-21163662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Soyeon

Title:
College kids vs. the world: What differentially predicted social distancing behavior for college students and the general population early in the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract:
Social distancing is critical in preventing COVID-19, which mainly spreads among people who come in close contact. Public health authorities have encouraged social distancing and provided guidance on how to effectively keep your distance. However, there is wide variation in the extent to which someone follows the recommendations to limit physical contact with others. In this talk, I will examine what predicts social distancing behavior (a) across different populations (college students vs. community members) and (b) across time, mainly focusing on how being informed about COVID-19 versus being emotionally threatened about COVID-19 predicts social distancing behaviors.

Julia

Title:
Bad is More Specific Than Good

Abstract:
Previous research suggests that "bad is stronger than good" in the sense that negative stimuli and events are more psychologically impactful than their positive counterparts. In this talk, I will present evidence that bad is also more specific than good. In four studies, we found that when we asked participants rated their dislikes and challenges as being more specific than their likes and advantages.

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Presentation Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:59:52 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Soyeon Choi and Julia Smith
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Kaluza-Klein Spectrometry for String Theory Compactifications (March 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81153 81153-20858315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk, I will present a powerful new method for computing the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of string theory compactifications. This includes geometries with little to no remaining symmetries, hardly accessible to standard methods. I will discuss various applications of this method, including to non-supersymmetric AdS_4 vacua. As I will show, some of these AdS vacua are unstable due to tachyonic Kaluza-Klein modes, while others can be proven to be perturbatively stable. Finally, I will also discuss applications to supersymmetric AdS vacua and the AdS/CFT correspondence

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:10:26 -0400 2021-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Clinical Brown Bag: Qualitative Evaluation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (March 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82846 82846-21201317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: "The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), based on the DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorder, is the most commonly used measure of food addiction world wide. The YFAS has been quantitatively validated in numerous populations and consistently demonstrates strong psychometric properties including convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity across studies. However, the YFAS has never been examined qualitatively to determine if the scale accurately captures the lived experience of food addiction. The goals of the current study were threefold: 1.) To determine if the subjective understanding of individual items on the YFAS are being interpreted in a manner consistent with the clinical conceptualization of substance use disorder, 2.) To identify important aspects of the lived experience of food addiction that are NOT being captured by the YFAS, and 3.) To determine if items on the YFAS do not accurately reflect or are irrelevant to the lived experience of food addiction. Seventeen individuals who self-identified as addicted to food and met criteria for food addiction on the YFAS completed in-depth, qualitative interviews concerning their lived experience of food addiction as well as their experience completing the YFAS. Thematic analysis was used to identify prominent themes across interviews."

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Presentation Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:17:49 -0500 2021-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Emma Schiestl
Developmental Brown Bag: Neurobiology of Fear Inhibition and Trauma Exposure during Development: Role of Caregivers (March 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82311 82311-21066619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Trauma exposure is pervasive, with over 70% of people globally exposed to at least one traumatic event in their lifetimes and an average of >3 trauma exposures per person. These exposures have wide-ranging effects and are linked to neural, behavioral, epigenetic, physiological, and mental health effects in trauma-exposed individuals. The timing of trauma exposure is associated with long term risk, such that childhood trauma has particularly pervasive effects on neurobiology and health outcomes. A growing body of evidence now indicates the importance of caregivers trauma may also have intergenerational effects, such that parents’ trauma exposure can impact their offspring. Although a substantial body of evidence
suggests a link between parental trauma exposure and adverse child outcomes, the relevant mechanisms of transmission are still unclear. This presentation will describe neurobiological correlates of trauma exposure in children, focusing on fear circuitry and behavioral and psychophysiological measures of fear inhibition. The talk will include data from children’s direct exposure to violence, as well as the intergenerational impact of caregiver trauma. Potential buffering effects of caregivers will also be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:04:08 -0500 2021-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Tanja Jovanovic
Social Area Brown Bag: A Dyadic Perspective on Stress in Romantic Relationships (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82730 82730-21169588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Romantic relationships are one of the primary sources of support in adulthood. Prior work on stress in couples has primarily focused on understanding situations in which one partner is experiencing stress and the other partner is acting as the support provider, such as when one partner is taking a big exam, experiencing a chronic illness, or undergoing a stressor in the lab. In real life, however, couples are likely to also experience stress simultaneously, such as when two working parents have to juggle work, kids, and household duties. This concurrent stress creates potentially difficult situations in which both partners need to receive and provide support. In this talk, I present data on the role of concurrent stress in romantic relationships both before and during the pandemic. I also present a novel lab paradigm designed to help us understand how couples actually navigate these potential pain points in relationships.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:58:13 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Amie Gordon
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Financial Worry and White Matter Hyperintensities in Diverse Older Adults (March 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83033 83033-21257030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Socioeconomic status is known to affect brain health, and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in particular, through stress, inflammatory, and metabolic pathways. WMH reflect underlying small vessel ischemic damage and cardiovascular disease and are an important predictor for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Interestingly, prior research indicates that the association between socioeconomic status and WMH differs across race and ethnicity. This study examines how a unique measure of socioeconomic status - financial worry - is associated with WMH and whether these associations differ across race and ethnicity in a sample of older non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White adults in northern Manhattan. Theoretical background, findings, and implications of the results will be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:01:51 -0400 2021-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Emily Morris
Developmental Brown Bag: Navigating Fraught Claims and Science Communication: The Politics of Doing Social Justice in Developmental Psychology (March 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82312 82312-21066620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Scientific research often promises a better life, and increasingly, is being used to understand social problems such as poverty and inequality. Researchers who address questions with social and political significance may find themselves in fraught positions where they must defend their ethics and morality, disciplinary training, and status as objective investigators. In this talk, I show how a subfield of researchers who have strong moral and social obligations to improving the lives of vulnerable children through scientific research become the center of controversy, drawing criticism from both progressives and conservatives alike. These neuroscientists and developmental psychologists study the impact of poverty and adversity on the developing brain and suggest that children’s cognitive abilities and mental health are affected by experiences in early childhood; they argue that their studies are powerful evidence that add to the literature on the social determinants of health. Despite these good intentions, scientists face criticism from progressives that their research is racist and eugenicist, and from conservatives that they are hijacking objective science to further their political ends. I detail the different ways that scientists respond to these claims using conceptions of hope, plasticity, and anti-determinism. Their experiences suggest that scientists doing research with great social and political significance are likely to face controversy where their objectivity and morality are questioned. I argue we should not back away from contentious topics, but instead engage with expert communities and lay publics to negotiate the kinds of political science and social justice we conduct in the university.

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:21:30 -0500 2021-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Kasia Tolwinski
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Freeze-in versus Glaciation: freezing into a thermalized hidden sector (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82238 82238-21060438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The standard freeze-in paradigm has a hidden UV sensitivity in that the initial DM population is assumed to be exactly zero. We explore how a pre-existing population of DM, either alone or as part of a thermalized dark sector, affects the dynamics of freeze-in. The UV sensitivity of this more general scenario, which we dub “glaciation”, is manifested in the dependence of the late-time relic abundance on the size of the initial population. We dispense rather quickly with the case of a stand-alone initial DM abundance, which simply leads to an offset in the relic abundance compared to the standard scenario, but we find rich and interesting dynamics in the case of a pre-existing thermalized dark sector. Our results have important consequences for direct detection experiments searching for freeze-in dark matter.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:15:28 -0400 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Social Area Brown Bag: Leader Emotional Unpredictability Tears Teams Apart: Effects on Power Struggles and Team Performance (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82731 82731-21169589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Emotional displays of leaders convey social information to followers that can help bolster their motivation and understanding of the situation, thereby facilitating team performance. An implicit assumption in previous theorizing and research using this social-functional approach to leader emotions has been that leaders’ emotional expressions logically follow from the situation for followers and thus help followers who observe these expressions to better understand the situation. However, leaders’ emotional expressions are not always predictable to followers. We extend the social-functional approach by investigating what happens when leader emotional displays are perceived as unpredictable by followers. We propose that leader emotional unpredictability sparks uncertainty among followers about how the leader allocates ranks and resources within the team, which triggers intra-team power struggles. Such power struggles—intra-team conflicts over resources among followers—in turn undermine team performance. Using a multi-method approach, we find support for our model in three studies, including two laboratory experiments and a field study of 246 retail teams. The findings inform our understanding of how leaders’ emotional displays influence team performance, extending the social-functional approach to emotion by illuminating how the perceived unpredictability of leaders’ emotional expressions can be dysfunctional for teams.

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Presentation Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:08:34 -0500 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Lindy Greer
Developmental Brown Bag: (March 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83053 83053-21259024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lexie

Title:
Early Grammatical Marking Development in Mandarin-speaking Toddlers

Abstract:
The current study examined specific and in-depth early grammatical marking development in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI-P) with two waves of data collection including 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 females) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 females) at Time 2. Our data showed a clear order of grammatical marking acquisition among these children and supported findings on the linguistic-specificity of morphological development such that early-and late-acquired markers in English are not acquired in that same order in Mandarin. Negative mei2, bu4, Posessive -de, Classifiers, and the Aspect marker- le were the earliest acquired markers, followed by Modal, Negative bie2, Adverb, Sentence Final Particles, Resultative Verb Compound, and Aspect markers guo4 and yao4. Complex Clauses and the Aspect marker zheng4 were acquired the latest. Furthermore, consistent with previous cross-linguistic studies, the development patterns of a wide range of Mandarin grammatical markers indicate that markers that are more perceptually salient, obligatory, have clear form-meaning mappings and often appear in isolation or utterance-final position ware acquired earlier than others.

Chi-Lin

Title:
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions

Abstract:
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children born to hearing parents have
profound theory-of-mind (ToM) delays, yet little is known about how providing hearing assistance early in life, through cochlear implants and hearing aids, influences their ToM development. We thus addressed (a) whether young DHH children with early hearing provision developed ToM differently than older children did in previous research and (b) what ToM understandings characterize this understudied population. Findings from 84 three- to six-year-old DHH
children primarily acquiring spoken language demonstrated that accumulated hearing experience influenced their ToM, as measured by a five- step ToM scale. Moreover, language abilities mediated this developmental relationship: Children with more advanced language abilities, because of more time using cochlear implants and hearing aids, had better ToM growth. These findings demonstrate the crucial relationships among hearing, language, and ToM for DHH children
acquiring spoken language, thereby addressing theoretical and practical questions about ToM development.

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Presentation Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:17:55 -0400 2021-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lexie Huang and Chi-Lin Yu
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Twisting with a flip (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81280 81280-20879918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will consider N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on 4D compact manifolds with a Killing vector field with isolated fixed points. Studying the realization of supersymmetry in these theories leads to consider a generalization of the notion of self-duality on manifolds with a vector field. This allows to construct a framework unifying equivariant Donaldson-Witten theory and Pestun's theory on S4 and its generalizations. I will also discuss the action of S-duality in these theories.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:39:06 -0400 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Clinical Science Brown Bag: EEG Indices of Affective Impulsivity in Bipolar Disorder (April 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83047 83047-21259018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract
Bipolar I Disorder (BD) is characterized by emotion lability and behavior with high potential for negative consequences (e.g., unrestrained spending, risky financial decisions, sexual indiscretions, recklessness, substance use). These behaviors, which often persist into the euthymic phase of BD, lead to severe functional impairment in individuals with BD. However, limited knowledge about neurobiological mechanisms associated with BD presents significant challenges for developing appropriate and precise treatments for improving clinical and functional outcomes. Extant literature suggests that impulsivity, especially in emotional contexts, contributes to these features of BD. Impulsivity can be conceptualized as a deficit in response inhibition, which is impaired in BD during behavioral Go-NoGo tasks. Theta band EEG activity is a psychophysiological marker which has been shown to index response inhibition in traditional Go-NoGo paradigms, but has yet to be examined in affective contexts in BD. This study aims to delineate the role of theta activity in the context of affective response inhibition in individuals with bipolar I disorder relative to healthy control participants utilizing an emotional Go-NoGo paradigm. Further, this study will explore potential relevance of theta activity for clinical and functional outcomes in BD. Implications of these analyses for targeted interventions to improve clinical and functional outcomes will be discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:12:02 -0400 2021-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Carolyn Andrews
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83050 83050-21259021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Imani

Title:
Investigating the Role of Black Parents’ Challenge Mindsets in Shaping Children’s Outcomes

Abstract:
Black families have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, making Black children especially vulnerable to experiencing poorer wellbeing and academic outcomes. However, parents’ beliefs about and responses to adversity can alleviate the negative consequences that stressors have on children, largely due to parents’ socialization practices. In this talk, I will be presenting preliminary findings from a study examining whether Black parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset (i.e., the belief that experiencing adversity promotes personal growth and strength) predict more positive changes in children’s mood, behavior, and academics since the pandemic began (i.e., March 2020). Lastly, I will share results investigating whether Black parents’ socialization of challenge mindset beliefs mediate the relationship between parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset and children’s outcomes. Next steps for this study will be discussed at the end of this talk.

Julisa

Title:
Omissions and Commissions: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Natives' Psychological Wellbeing

Abstract:
Representations of Native Peoples are routinely omitted from consequential domains of society, and in the rare cases Natives are represented, they are portrayed in ways that are both stereotypical and historical. For example, less than 1% of characters on television, films, book and video games are Native American, of those characters, they are primarily depicted as historical. Recent theorizing suggests that both acts of omission (e.g., no representations) and commission (e.g., negative or inaccurate representations) have consequences for the everyday experiences of Native Peoples. To explore this, across two nationally representative samples, we tested whether perceptions of omissions and perceptions of commissions are related to psychological wellbeing outcomes, and whether these relationships are mediated by perceptions of discrimination.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:21:30 -0400 2021-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Imani Burris, Julisa Lopez
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Geometric constraints on the space of 4d theories (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83263 83263-21328373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The geometry of the moduli space of four dimensional superconformal theories is uniquely constrained by complex geometry and it thus represents an ideal set up for a bottom up classification program. I will describe these peculiar features, provide an update on a series of new exciting results and outline a variety of open questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:21:46 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
P&SC/G&FP Colloquium: Legacy of Slavery or Extreme Poverty: Narrating Black Pessimism (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83548 83548-21420819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract: The focus of the current work is the long-held assumption that captive Africans exited slavery exhibiting a level of cultural and psychological backwardness that made adjustment to freedom problematic. This legacy of slavery trope is said to be a major factor causing contemporary black-on-black violence. As a counter narrative, extreme poverty, revealed from the perspective of black political economy covering the Great Depression to the present, is shown to provide a better platform from which to understand challenges faced by black people.

Bio: William E. Cross, Jr., PhD received his doctorate in social psychology from Princeton University and is the author of Shades of Black, an important book on black identity published by Temple University Press in 1991. Dr. Cross’s new book Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia (view publisher page; view book flyer) will be published by Temple University Press in June 2021. In 2017 Dr. Cross was accorded emeritus status by the University of Denver, where he held a joint appointment in Counseling Psychology and Higher Education. The first twenty years of his academic career were spent at the African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. There followed appointments at Penn State, UMass-Amherst, and UNLV, and ten years with the Critical Psychology Program at the Graduate Center-CUNY, in New York City.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:36:08 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Livestream / Virtual William Cross
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Event-related potentials during affective response inhibition in individuals with bipolar I disorder & schizophrenia (April 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83048 83048-21259019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Individuals with bipolar I disorder and psychotic disorders experience difficulties with executive control, relative to healthy individuals without a psychiatric diagnosis. Prior research suggests that impairments in response inhibition, a subcomponent of executive control, contribute to clinical symptoms and adverse outcomes. Alterations in event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during response inhibition tasks (e.g. go/no-go) hold promise for informing shared and disorder-specific neural and cognitive mechanisms of these disorders. The current study examines the N200 and P300 ERPs during an emotional face go/no-go task in healthy individuals and individuals diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia. Findings can inform similarities and differences across these disorders as well as targeted intervention to improve inhibitory control. Background, methodology, preliminary results, next directions, and implications will be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:26:02 -0400 2021-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Margo Menkes
Developmental Brown Bag: Social Neuroscience of Racial Bias (April 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80708 80708-20775569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Currently and historically, there exists an inequitable and unfair division of burdens and rewards based on social group membership. Major barriers that contribute to these disparities include prejudice and stereotyping. In this talk, I will focus on factors that give rise to these disparities and potential mechanisms for intervention, drawing from research in affective science, social psychology, and neuroscience. Using EEG, I investigate the time course of intergroup impression formation, providing evidence that individuals process social group membership quickly even when other socially relevant information is available. Next, I discuss intergroup decision-making, demonstrating that individuals punish negative behavior of minority members even when doing so comes at a personal cost. Given that social group membership influences impression formation and our decisions about others, it becomes paramount to address potential ways to mitigate intergroup disparities. To this end, I will review my research exploring promising intervention techniques aimed at diminishing negative intergroup evaluations.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:37:00 -0500 2021-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Jennifer Kubotka
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82059 82059-21014663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The dark photon is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model which can mix with the regular photon. This mixing is enhanced whenever the dark photon mass matches the primordial plasma frequency, leading to resonant conversions between photons and dark photons. These conversions can produce observable cosmological signatures, including distortions to the cosmic radiation background. In this talk, I will discuss a new analytic formalism for these conversions that can account for the inhomogeneous distribution of matter in our universe, leading to new and revised limits on the mixing parameter of light dark photons derived from the COBE/FIRAS measurement of the cosmic microwave background spectrum. I will then describe some ongoing work on a dark sector model that can explain the longstanding ARCADE radio background excess through resonant conversions of dark photons.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:32:35 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83051 83051-21259022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Ariana

Title:
Examining witnesses’ backlash against the target’s response to gender microaggressions

Abstract:
Research on witnessing microaggressions has found that people who witness gender microaggressions against a target subsequently evaluate the target more negatively (e.g., less competent). Relatedly, previous work has found that when targets respond to or confront the microaggression, their response is often criticized (e.g., they are seen as overreacting or troublemakers). In this talk, I will present results from a pilot study that investigated witnesses’ criticism of a target’s response to gender microaggressions and whether that criticism predicted more negative evaluations about the target. I also examine whether the witness’ gender plays a role in the kinds of criticism given (e.g., should have defended herself, took things personally) and in the evaluations they make (e.g., competence, negative agency).

Desiree

Title:
Assessing Men’s Proclivity to Recognizing Subtle Gender Bias Against Women in STEM

Abstract:
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) frequently encounter gender bias (e.g., questioning of their STEM ability, assignment to secretarial roles). Given the subtle and ambiguous nature of contemporary sexism, people vary in their likelihood of recognizing subtly sexist interactions. Past research demonstrates that women are more sensitive to gender bias and more readily recognize it when it occurs. However, there remains a dearth of research related to men’s experiences in witnessing bias. In the present research, we ask: (1) what are the individual difference measures that contribute to men’s proclivity in recognizing subtle gender bias, (2) what are the affective consequences of recognizing subtle gender bias during group tasks, and (3) how do men’s affective states after witnessing subtle gender bias influence their interest in working with women in mixed-gendered groups? STEM-identified men read a fake transcript depicting a conversation between 3 STEM-identified college students (1 woman, 2 men). Participants were exposed to a transcript in which a man demonstrates subtle gender bias against a woman. After reading the transcript, participants completed measures related to their affect (state and collective), their impressions of the interaction (open and closed-ended), and behavioral measures related to the students in the transcript. Open-ended responses were coded to determine recognition of bias. Findings and implications for this work are discussed.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:52:28 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ariana Munoz-Salgado, Desiree Aleibar
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Developmental Cascade Models Linking Contextual Risks, Parenting, and Internalizing Symptoms: A 17-year Longitudinal Study from Early Childhood to Emerging Adulthood (April 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83049 83049-21259020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Internalizing problems, such as depression and anxiety, are the most common forms of psychological distress among adolescents and young adults. Although internalizing symptoms have a rapid spike in adolescence, they have precursors in multiple risk domains established during childhood and early adolescence. Therefore, exploring childhood pathways to depression and anxiety in early adulthood is an important research issue that has strong implications for prevention. In the current prospective longitudinal study, I examined cascading pathways leading to depression and anxiety symptoms from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Using an ecological-transactional framework, I focused on mediation pathways across different risk domains, including environmental adversities that affected the entire family, parenting quality, and child and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Findings suggest a nuanced picture of developmental pathways leading to depression and anxiety and provide hints for early identification and prevention. Theoretical background, findings, and implications of the results will be discussed.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:04:30 -0400 2021-04-19T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sujin Lee
Developmental Brown Bag: (April 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83421 83421-21375693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Sarah

Title:
Eye can Help! A Novel Tool for Exploring Infant Prosocial Behavior

Abstract:
While helping typically begins in the toddler years, little is known about prosocial behavior in infancy: are infants motivated to help others and simply unable to due to their poor motor skills? To explore this question, I have developed a novel tool for studying helping in infancy that utilizes eye-tracking and gaze-contingency. In this talk, I will discuss the development of this gaze-contingent paradigm, where infants can "help" an on-screen character by looking at particular buttons on the screen. While data collection for this study has been paused due to COVID-19, I will discuss initial insights from our first 30 pilot participants and plans for future directions.

Kaitlin

Title:
Mothers’ socioeconomic status and non-violent discipline use: A longitudinal multilevel examination.

Abstract:
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has called for member states to promote parental nonviolent discipline use across the globe. However, scant research has explored the predictors of nonviolent discipline use, and even less has explored how parents’ nonviolent discipline use changes across early childhood. This study examines 1) the associations between mothers’ socioeconomic status (SES) and nonviolent discipline use, and 2) the trajectory of mothers’ nonviolent discipline use across early childhood (i.e., child ages 3, 5, and 9). Data came from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,898) and were analyzed using longitudinal multilevel ordinal logistic regression. SES was measured using maternal educational attainment, maternal-reported household income, and maternal employment status. Nonviolent forms of discipline included verbal reasoning, taking away privileges, time-out, and distraction. Results showed higher maternal educational attainment was related to greater use of all nonviolent forms of discipline; household income was associated with greater use of verbal reasoning, time-out, and distraction; and maternal employment was associated with greater use of verbal reasoning. On average, mothers’ nonviolent discipline use was highest at child ages 3 and 5, and lowest at child age 9. Results suggest maternal education may be a particularly important socioeconomic predictor of nonviolent discipline use. Results also suggest mothers’ nonviolent discipline use is nonlinear across early childhood. To inform parenting policies and interventions, further research is needed to examine the mechanisms linking mothers’ SES and nonviolent discipline use.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:52:56 -0400 2021-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Probst, Kaitlin P. Ward
Earnings Assimilation of Second-and Later-Generation Men: Evidence from Administrative Records (April 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80921 80921-20824848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Dr Andrés Villarreal (University of California, Los Angeles) will discuss "Earnings Assimilation of Second-and Later-Generation Men: Evidence from Administrative Records"

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Abstract: The systematic study of immigrants’ economic assimilation requires an analysis of both intra- and intergenerational mobility, that is, of the progress made by each immigrant generation over the course of their own lives and relative to their parents. In this study we examine both types of mobility using a unique dataset linking respondents of multiple waves of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to their longitudinal tax records. This longitudinal information allows us follow individuals’ earnings trajectories and measure the extent to which second-generation men are able to reduce the earnings gap with later generations during their lifetimes. To overcome the limitations of previous studies examining intergenerational mobility we match a sample of second- and later-generation children to their actual parents. Our matching strategy allows us to identify the exact third generation and to evaluate the contribution of ethnic attrition. We find large ethnoracial disparities in earnings mobility consistent with segmented assimilation theory. The earnings assimilation of Hispanic men stalls or reverses during the course of the second generation rather than in the third generation as previously thought. Once the lower earnings of first-generation parents are taken into account, second-generation Hispanic men experience lower intergenerational earnings mobility.



BIO:
Andrés Villarreal is a sociologist and social demographer specializing in the areas of international migration, race and ethnicity, social stratification, and health in social context. Much of his research focuses on Latin America and the Latin American-origin population in the U.S. Within the area of immigration he seeks to understand how population movements are driven by economic changes, and the consequences that these movements have for social wellbeing. In an ongoing research project he is examining the long-term economic assimilation of immigrants in the U.S. using administrative data. In a new line of research he is exploring the social and demographic consequences of the opioid epidemic.

Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:18:11 -0400 2021-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Andrés Villarreal
Social Area Brown Bag: (April 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83052 83052-21259023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Jamie Yellowtail

Title:
Explanations for sexual violence: Do they differ for Native and White women?

Abstract:
Native American women experience higher rates of sexual violence than women of any other race or ethnicity in the United States. Over half of Native American women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime and approximately 1 in 3 Native American women have been raped, a rate almost twice that reported by non-Hispanic White women (Rosay, 2016). Yet, Native women are often overlooked in national conversations about sexual violence (e.g., the #MeToo movement). This omission precludes understanding of why Native women face disproportionately high rates of violence and what interventions are needed to end this violence. We theorized that the reluctance to address the disproportionate sexual violence Native women experience stems in part from differences in how people explain experiences of rape among Native compared to other women. For example, prior research demonstrates that negative racial stereotypes shape the extent to which people perceive women of color to be “legitimate” victims. We anticipated that explanations of Native (compared to White) women’s experiences of rape would similarly reflect racial biases. Using a mixed method design, we explored individuals’ beliefs about why Native (versus White) women experience high rates of sexual violence. Although data collection is still ongoing (target N = 600 non-Native US adults), this talk will showcase preliminary findings and implications for support for action, reform, and resources for victims.

Savannah Adams

Title:
Investigating the roles of moral dimensions in social selection

Abstract:
The goal of this research is to investigate how people consider morality when choosing individuals to fill the various social roles in their lives. Current research on morality recognizes the existence of various dimensions of moral behavior, however the implications of these moral motivations for behavior pose new questions about what effects these might have on selecting good social partners. For example, are some morality dimensions more important than others when forming social judgments? Additionally, in the instance of potential conflict between these moral dimensions, are certain moral dimensions given priority when forming opinions of others? This talk will explore these questions and present the current state of stimuli development for a chain of studies that aims to glean how morality informs social selection across contexts.

Tong Suo

Title:
Will Purpose in Life Buffer Stress? Moderation by Culture and Social Status

Abstract:
Prior evidence suggests that people who hold a purpose in life are more resilient to adversity. So far, however, this evidence is limited to either self-reported negative emotion or lab-based physiological assessment. It is thus unclear whether purpose in life might predict
reduced physiological stress responses in daily life. Moreover, little is known about who might benefit most from the purpose in life. Here, we addressed these gaps by examining the flattening of diurnal cortisol slopes in Americans and Japanese (N = 989 in total). For Americans, purpose in life predicted a steeper diurnal cortisol slope (indicative of lower daily stress). Moreover, this effect was particularly pronounced for those low in social status. For Japanese, there was no effect of purpose regardless of social status. Our evidence shows that purpose in life can buffer stress, but its stress-buffering potential depends crucially on both culture and social status.

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Presentation Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:47:17 -0400 2021-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jamie Yellowtail, Savannah Adams, Tong Suo
HET Brown Bag Seminar | On 1D, N = 4 Supersymmetric SYK-Type Models (April 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83423 83423-21375696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Proposals are made to describe 1D, N = 4 supersymmetrical systems that extend SYK models by compactifying from 4D, N = 1 supersymmetric Lagrangians involving chiral, vector, and tensor supermultiplets. Quartic fermionic vertices are generated via intergrals over the whole superspace, while 2(q-1)-point fermionic vertices are generated via superpotentials. The coupling constants in the superfield Lagrangians are arbitrary, and can be chosen to be Gaussian random. In that case, these 1D, N = 4 supersymmetric SYK models would exhibit Wishart-Laguerre randomness, which share the same feature among other 1D supersymmetric SYK models in literature. One difference with 1D, N = 1 and N = 2 models though, is our models contain dynamical bosons, but this is consistent with other 1D, N = 4 and 2D, N = 2 models in literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:24:45 -0400 2021-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Lagranian Control at Large and Local Scales in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flows (May 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83812 83812-21538223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

The CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns this May with Professor Alexandre Bayen, the Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley! This talk investigates Lagrangian (mobile) control of traffic flow at local scale (vehicular level), and how self-driving vehicles will change traffic flow patterns. Professor Bayen describes approaches based on deep, reinforcement learning presented in the context of enabling mixed-autonomy mobility. This lecture also explores the gradual and complex integration of automated vehicles into the existing traffic system. Attendees will learn the potential impact of a small fraction of automated vehicles on low-level traffic flow dynamics, using novel techniques in model-free, deep reinforcement learning, in which the automated vehicles act as mobile (Lagrangian) controllers to traffic flow.

Illustrative examples will be presented in the context of a new, open-source computational platform called FLOW, which integrates state-of-the-art microsimulation tools with deep-RL libraries on AWS EC2. Interesting behavior of mixed autonomy traffic will be revealed in the context of emergent behavior of traffic: https://flow-project.github.io/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:42:19 -0400 2021-05-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image
Safety Assessment of Autonomous Vehicles with a Naturalistic and Adversarial Driving Environment (June 9, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84039 84039-21619637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Safety performance testing is critical to the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The prevailing approach life-like simulations of our driving environment. However, due to its high dimensionality and the rareness of safety-critical events, hundreds of millions of miles would be required to demonstrate an AV's safety performance.

The research in this presentation proposes a naturalistic and adversarial driving environment that can significantly reduce the required number of miles driven while simultaneously maintaining unbiasedness. Drs. Henry Liu and Shuo Feng will demonstrate the effectiveness of this in a highway-driving simulation.

Learn more about the proposed research: https://myumi.ch/BoQ2Q

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About the speakers:
Dr. Henry Liu is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). Professor Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). He has published more than 120 refereed journal papers on these topics and his work has been widely recognized in the public media for promoting smart transportation innovations. He has appeared on media outlets including CNBC, Forbes, Technode, and more. In 2019, Professor Liu was invited to testify on the nation's transportation research agenda in front of the US House Subcommittee on Research and Technology. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his Ph.D. students and postdocs have joined first-class universities such as Columbia, Purdue, and RPI. Professor Liu is also the managing editor of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Dr. Shuo Feng is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019. His research interests lie in the testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), cooperative automation, and traffic environment modeling. Dr. Feng has published around 20 articles in refereed journals including Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. He has served as a member in the SAE ORAD V&V committee and workshop organizer of the IEEE 2021 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. He received the “Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award” from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) in 2020.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 13:32:49 -0400 2021-06-09T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Livestream / Virtual Decorative Image of the CCAT Research Review which features the speaker's headshots
CEW+ Financial Wellness: Estate Planning And Giving – Establishing Goals | Sponsored by Fidelity (June 10, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84205 84205-21620762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/cew-financial-wellness-estate-planning-and-giving-establishing-goals-sponsored-by-fidelity

Join CEW+ Director Tiffany Marra for our next Financial Wellness event sponsored by Fidelity. Do you have questions about estate planning, wealth transfer, and strategic charitable giving? The next workshop in the CEW+ Financial Wellness Series highlights strategies and tips to set and reach your goals. Join Tiffany in conversation with special guest Pamela Lipnicky, Virtual Education Consultant for Fidelity Investments, as well as Michael Welton, Fidelity Retirement Planner, and Ciara C. Merriman, CEW+ Leadership Council Member, U-M Alumna, and Fidelity Retirement Planner.

This workshop is designed to help you:

- Understand the basics of estate planning strategies and why having an estate plan is important.
- Learn about how to plan for strategic charitable giving.
- Discuss and answer questions you may have regarding wealth transfer strategies.
- Understand how Fidelity can help put your strategy in motion.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:16:40 -0400 2021-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Small green plant growing out of a pile of coins
Personal Statements 101: Let's Talk Shop (June 22, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84093 84093-21620026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Writing Consulting at Newnan

Meet the Newnan Writing Consultants, and invited specialized advisors, for general advice on framing and drafting your personal statement. While we will be unable to review individual writing at this session, you will be able to pose your questions and concerns (anonymously, if you wish), to the group, regarding personal statements for graduate, medical or law schools. For next steps, students will be directed to other resources and personal statement support on campus.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:01:33 -0400 2021-06-22T09:00:00-04:00 2021-06-22T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Writing Consulting at Newnan Livestream / Virtual reflect_mirror_stick_fig
Clinical Brown Bag: Clinical Supervision: best practices in a clinical science program (September 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85775 85775-21628983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Clinical supervision provides a vital foundation for effective clinical training during graduate school. In fact, all trainees will undergo thousands of supervised hours during years of training before being license eligible. Supervision is recognized as a core competency domain for psychologists and a distinct activity in the literature. However, little empirical attention has been given to the process, content and outcomes of clinical supervision. This talk will discuss current guidelines for clinical supervision, highlight some key points of high-quality supervision, and discuss opportunities for UM students to learn more about supervision during graduate school.

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Presentation Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:40:40 -0400 2021-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sarah Jonovich
PSC Postdoctoral Training Program: Introductions and Updates (September 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86257 86257-21632296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The PSC Brown Bag Series will kick off on Monday, September 13 with introductions and updates from our PSC postdoctoral fellows (details below). Please join us to welcome our new fellows and celebrate the achievements of our returning cohort!

2021-22 PSC postdoctoral fellow cohort:
Jamie Budnick (NICHD, 2nd year, PhD: University of Michigan, Sociology, Mentor: Rob Stephenson)

Bobbie Johannes (NIA, 2nd year, PhD: Penn State, Health Policy and Administration, Mentor: Mary Janevic)

Emily Parker (NIA, 1st year, PhD: Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management, Mentors: Paula Fomby and Natasha Pilkauskas)

Margaret Whitley, (NIA, 1st year, PhD: University of California Irvine, Public Health, Mentors: Sarah Burgard and David Johnson)

Weidi Qin (NIA, 1st year, PhD: Case Western Reserve University, Social Welfare, Mentors: Belinda Needham and Briana Mezuk)

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:35:52 -0400 2021-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster
Social Brown Bag: (September 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86042 86042-21631233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan

Title:
The Role of Guessing in the Mismeasure of Expertise

Abstract:
Under traditional testing methods, luck in guessing can lead some people to display both false expertise in their performance and apparent bias in self-assessments of that performance. Some people guess their way to top performance but understand that they are merely guessing, and so appear to underestimate their expertise. Conversely, because some people guess wrong, traditional testing methods make them appear overconfident even though they are perfectly aware of their poor knowledge. With a revised performance measure that takes guessing into account, we examined biased self-assessment, focusing on the Dunning-Kruger effect, in which people—particularly poor performers—misestimate their expertise. Via mathematical simulations and eight empirical studies (n = 1041), we tested how much the effect is produced because lucky or unlucky guessing generates performance levels that stray from self-aware judgments of that performance. After accounting for guessing, the effect is partially reduced, especially for top performers, but not eliminated. Overall, the Dunning Kruger effect arose more when participants were “misinformed” (i.e., reaching wrong answers through faulty beliefs or reasoning) than when they were “uninformed” (i.e., wrong because they were merely guessing).

Cristina

Title:
Relational Mobility Predicts a Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study

Abstract:
It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 is transmitted between individuals. It stands to reason that the spread of the virus depends on sociocultural ecologies that facilitate or inhibit social contact. In particular, the community-level tendency to engage with strangers and freely choose friends, called relational mobility, creates increased opportunities to interact with a larger and more variable range of other people. It may therefore be associated with a faster spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Here, we tested this possibility by analyzing growth curves of confirmed cases of and deaths due to COVID-19 in the first 30 days of the outbreaks in 39 countries. We found that growth was significantly accelerated as a function of a country-wise measure of relational mobility. This relationship was robust either with or without a set of control variables, including demographic variables, reporting bias, testing availability, and cultural dimensions of individualism, tightness, and government efficiency. Policy implications are also discussed.

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Presentation Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:18:16 -0400 2021-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation