Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Identity Contingency Cues in Employee Recruitment and Selection (January 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57827 57827-14321123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

For individuals who are members of socially stigmatized identity groups, recruitment and hiring processes can signal belonging, fairness and identity safety, or wariness and identity threat. This talk will focus on how the changing landscape of hiring processes, particularly the use of technology, can lead to subtle identity contingency cues affecting the experiences and performance of applicants. Results of studies on how demographic variability in assessment materials affects performance and assessments of organizational fit will be discussed as an illustration. Projections regarding how the use of avatars, algorithms, digital interviewing, mobile platforms, and other technological advances in hiring may affect identity safety and threat will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:36:06 -0500 2019-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Finding Meaning in Life (January 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58674 58674-14536537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Looking at what meaning is and how we can tap into it. The benefit of living a meaningful life. Dr. Amberg is a neuropsychologiest who has worked with meaning.
There are no books required. Active participation is expected.
This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Mondays from January 21 through April 8.
Instructor Dr. Amberg has worked with children as young as 2 years of age through old-age-related disorders. His range of teaching experience is from 1st grade through undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:04:56 -0500 2019-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59082 59082-14677959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:22:21 -0500 2019-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation roberts
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (January 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58198 58198-14441905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair
Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:59 -0500 2019-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Latinx Lunch Series (January 23, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58358 58358-14485813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Visit the Hatcher Gallery to participate in a lunch series focused on building community on campus for Latinx students while providing education and resources for mental health wellness. We'll have open discussions founded on principles of Positive Psychology, and hope it will be a space to build community, reduce stigma regarding mental health support, and promote resilience of Latinx Wolverines. Topics include the importance of connection, how to build self-compassion, and fostering hope.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:39:16 -0500 2019-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2019-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mi Gente Latinx Lunch Series
Social Area Brown Bag (January 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57986 57986-14383897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tyler Adkins:

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

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


Hyesue Jang

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

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

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

Valerie Freund
Title: Boredom by Sensation Seeking Interactions During Adolescence

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

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Freund
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59556 59556-14752317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 28, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“A Culture of Racism: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations.”

By Courtney Cogburn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:29:57 -0500 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
UM Psychology Community Talk (January 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52628 52628-12908319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Sickness and memory: How the immune system changes your brain.

ABSTRACT:
Memory is critical for the ability to function in the world. By storing and retrieving information about the relationships between places, events, and outcomes, our memories allow us to adjust our behavior to act in accordance with the current situation. We use our memory to navigate around our environment, efficiently finding our way to work and back home; to avoid dangerous places and things, to find food, and to recognize families, friends and colleagues. This central role of memory in our everyday lives means that disorders of memory are particularly impactful. Deficits in memory are one of the first and most notable symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, because they severely impact the ability for individuals to function independently in the world. Excessively strong memories are also problematic. For example, persistent memories of trauma contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder, leading to individuals avoiding places that trigger retrieval of those memory. But how do memory processes go bad? One thing we know about memory systems is that many different factors in our lives can change how well memory is stored. Stress can make some memories stronger, and some memories weaker. Illness also changes how well we can learn and remember information. This flexibility in how memory systems work also means that they are vulnerable to disruption by stress and sickness. In this talk I will describe how changes in immune signaling during sickness can interfere with memory formation and discuss this in terms of both post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.



BIO:
Natalie Tronson is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. After her undergraduate degree from the University of New South Wales, in Australia, Dr. Tronson moved to the United States and completed her PhD at Yale University, followed by a post-doctoral position at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how the brain stores and retrieves memory, how memory is changed during stress and illness, and sex differences in these processes. Dr. Tronson’s research combines behavioral approaches and molecular analyses in an animal model of memory, with the goal of identifying new ways to prevent and treat memory disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder and dementia.

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Presentation Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:27:54 -0500 2019-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation trpnspn
Biopsychology Colloquium (January 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59085 59085-14677961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Brain Extracellular Matrix: Not Just Fluffy Filler

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:47:17 -0500 2019-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation aoc
Bioethics Discussion: Gender (January 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49430 49430-11453774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who we are, who society sees, and who we want to be.

Readings to consider:
"Doing gender"
"For whom the burden tolls"
"Performative acts and gender constitution"
"The restroom revolution: unisex toilets and campus politics"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/024-gender/.

Take a look at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:29:55 -0400 2019-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2019-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Gender
PSC and GFP Brown Bags (January 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57631 57631-14244000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

Karthik Ganesan:

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

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

Dalia Khammash

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:33:05 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Pomerville
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59086 59086-14677962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Oral Contraceptives and Cognition: A Methodological Perspective on Heterogeneity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:56:07 -0500 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation man and woman in formal suit standing beside each other
Workplace Bullying, Mobbing, and Harassment: Demographic and Diversity Perspectives (February 8, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57984 57984-14383895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This talk will examine bullying, mobbing, and harassment at work, with an emphasis on demographics and diversity. It will briefly sketch out some basics, a sort of “Workplace bullying 101.” It will then look at the demographic and diversity dynamics of these behaviors overall, especially pertaining to aggressors and targets, especially in the context of organizational cultures. Finally, it will take a closer look at gendered aspects of bullying and related behaviors at work, including (1) linkages between bullying and sexual harassment in the midst of the #MeToo movement and (2) complicated issues of bullying-type behaviors between women at work. Plenty of time will be reserved for comments and questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:44:10 -0500 2019-02-08T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CCN Forum: The Functional Dissection of Wernicke’s Area (February 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59047 59047-14675846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:26:18 -0500 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Accentuate the Positive (February 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58967 58967-14628131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A six-week journey into the science and benefits of Positive Psychology. Victor Frankl said, “The events of our lives are not as important as the meaning we give them.” Did you know about the serious science demonstrating the benefits of positive feelings for your well-being, your health, and even your longevity? Positivity is not a “feel good” or smiley-face subject. Forget everything you know, and embrace the tremendous power of positivity - cultivated ways of expressing things like love and gratitude that are proven to broaden us and build us up. Cameron Powell said, “It’s the secret knowledge you keep buying books to discover.”

We’ll discuss several books and articles that give us insight into the science of positivity. Our main text will be Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading scholar within social psychology, affective science, and positive psychology.

Instructor Mike Murray is a clinical psychologist and has taught many OLLI classes. These sessions for those 50 and above will meet on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. from February 13 through March 20.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:11:23 -0500 2019-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58029 58029-14392485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

Darwin Guevarra: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:57:04 -0500 2019-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Undergrad winter events
Sexpertise: Sexuality Through a Social Justice Lens (February 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61068 61068-15027196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Health Service

Sexpertise is a two-day series of workshops on February 12th and 13th, 2019, planned by and for students. It engages students, faculty, and community practitioners in discussion and learning about sexuality and relationships through a social justice lens. We'll explore topics of interest to U-M students including empowerment, identities, wellness, relationships, and more! All events are free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required, and you are invited to attend one, a few, or all sessions!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:23:55 -0500 2019-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Health Service Workshop / Seminar Sexpertise Flier
PSC & GFP Brown Bags (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57644 57644-14246157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:02:33 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Kelly-Ahmed
Startup Career Fair (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60363 60363-14866463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: MPowered Entrepreneurship

Interested in getting a job or internship at a startup? Come to Startup Career Fair to meet some of today's most exciting startups! All majors and years are welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be a variety of internship and full-time opportunities available.

Sign up here! https://tinyurl.com/yddgpnu9

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:13:47 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center MPowered Entrepreneurship Careers / Jobs Flyer
Disclosure Dilemmas: Hidden Benefits of Revealing Not So Hidden Stigmas at Work (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60661 60661-14937076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This talk will present findings from three sets of studies demonstrating the potential benefits of disclosing hidden stigmas at work. The first examines how vocal cues can differentiate heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals, and how these distinctions can ultimately lead to job-related discrimination. The second study examines how disclosing a non-heterosexual identity can improve interpersonal outcomes when stigmas become known through indirect cues. The third study meta-analytically examines both the intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits of disclosing/expressing a stigmatized identity, as well as the boundary conditions of these effects. These studies are representative of my general program of research in that they identify subtle forms of workplace discrimination as well as potential strategies that stigmatized targets can engage in to remediate these barriers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:47:59 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CCN Forum: Metacognition and the Ancient Problem of "Knowing Thyself" (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59854 59854-14795159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:02:28 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation ward
MICDE Seminar: Bridging the divide: fostering interdisciplinary collaborative research in computational cognitive neuroscience (February 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60858 60858-14979670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:20:25 -0500 2019-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59562 59562-14752321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 18, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Perinatal Mental Health: racial disparities and rural mental health needs.”

By Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Illinois

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:26 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Informal methods talk/roundtable: Current issues in computational neuroimaging of brain function (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60859 60859-14979671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:21:32 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (February 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53375 53375-14306149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Other Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:59:29 -0500 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Other Psych and CGIS study abroad co advising
NII/Psychology/fMRI Talk: Hyperalignment: modeling the shared information encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale cortical topographies. (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60860 60860-14979672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

Yuyan Han:
"Experts & Overconfidence"


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

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

Intersectionality: Connecting Gender with Race at Work.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:13:39 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation rosette
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60360 60360-14866456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This week's speaker is Federico Cella, who will present "Social generics; inferential asymmetry, negative framing and cross-linguistic evidence."

The Cognitive Science Seminar Series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:58:26 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58202 58202-14441912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by
David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies
all of Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:41:38 -0500 2019-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Dissonance Event Series: Genetics & Medical Apps: Ethics, Privacy, Law and Policy (February 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60952 60952-14990967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Information Assurance

Each new genetic test or medical app generates or collects more and more detailed health data, but may also raise serious issues for medicine, public health. Under what circumstances should a test be used, and how should it be implemented? Should people be allowed to choose or refuse a test, or should it be mandatory, as newborn screening is in some states? How should the data from these tests be used, and should individuals control access to the results of their tests? If test results are released to third parties, such as employers or insurers, what protections should be in place to protect individuals from unfair treatment based on test results, data collected, or genotype?

This Dissonance series event will take a multi-disciplinary look at these issues from a variety of theoretical and applied perspectives.

Panelists will include:
- Lori Andrews, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and, Technology at Chicago Kent Law School

- Jodyn Platt, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School

- Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Assistant Professor, U-M Medical School, Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM)

- Denise Anthony, Professor, U-M School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:08:57 -0500 2019-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Genetics & Medical Apps Panel Discussion
Biopsychology Colloquium (February 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59090 59090-14677968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:00:16 -0500 2019-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59564 59564-14752323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 11, 2019
Rm 6050, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Health Contextualized: Inequalities in Physical and Mental Well-Being at the Intersection of Race, Skin, and Place.”

By Taylor W. Hargrove, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:59:44 -0500 2019-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium (March 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59092 59092-14677969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Microstructure of Behavior and Brain Rhythms in Goal and Sign Trackers

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

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

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

Abstract:

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:10:55 -0500 2019-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Bioethics Discussion: Mental Health (March 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49433 49433-11456547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on our internal (dys)functions.

Readings to consider:
"The myth of mental illness"
"Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses"
"Diagnostic issues and controversies in DSM-5"
"How stigma interferes with mental health care"
"Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/027-mental-health/.

Please, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:07:55 -0500 2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-12T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Mental health
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60535 60535-14908090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:53:37 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation wang
Depression on College Campuses Conference (March 13, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58286 58286-14452841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

As counseling centers continue to be faced with an ever-increasing demand for services, colleges and universities must consider more effective and efficient strategies for providing support to a large population of students with unique and varying needs. Emerging strategies include precision health and stepped care approaches to better determine and provide the “right intervention for the right person at the right time.”

Join us for the 17th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference to learn about new research findings, model programs, and policies which highlight evidence-based approaches to identify and determine the level of intervention required to best match student need to improve health outcomes.

Registration is free for any student from any campus.

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Well-being Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:34:42 -0500 2019-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being DoCC
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (March 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61042 61042-15024928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:12:39 -0400 2019-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Peace Ethology: A Paradigm Shift in Peace Research (March 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61327 61327-15088048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

The Global Scholars Program in partnership with the Office of the Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts presents

Peace Ethology:
A Paradigm Shift in Peace Research

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 4 PM
2435 North Quad
105 South State Street, Ann Arbor

Free and open to the public

The popular belief persists that, by nature, humans are not predisposed to peace. However, archeological and paleontological evidence reveals that the vast majority of our time as a species has been spent in small hunter-gatherer bands that are basically peaceful and egalitarian in nature. We welcome Darcia Narvaez and Peter Verbeek to talk about humans' developmental niche for peace and findings from and future directions for peace ethology, the interdisciplinary science of peace.

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and integrates evolutionary, anthropological, neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her work. She is author of the award-winning Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom (W.W. Norton, 2014) and contributor to Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace (Wiley, 2018).

Peter Verbeek is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Anthropology of Peace and Human Rights at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and studies behavioral processes and systems of peace at the levels of species, individuals, groups, communities, and cultures. His work has been published in Science, Behaviour, and other scientific journals, and he is co-editor with Benjamin Peters of Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace (Wiley, 2018).

Co-sponsored by the LSA Department of Psychology and the LSA Department of Anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:32:18 -0500 2019-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Global Scholars Program Lecture / Discussion GSP Peace Ethology
Clearing the Haze: Scientific Discussioins on Marijuana and Cannabinoids (March 13, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61856 61856-15221602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Scientists for Outreach on Addiction Research

The recent legalization of Marijuana in Michigan has led many to wonder: What exactly do we know? Is Marijuana additive? Is it an effective treatment for X? What about CBD? The list goes on.

This panel brings together experts from basic science and psychiatry to discuss the molecular mechanisms of marijuana and the effects/implications of use in human populations.

Attendees should expect a multifaceted discussion followed by an open question forum. Refreshments will be provided. Please spread the word!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:42:28 -0500 2019-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Scientists for Outreach on Addiction Research Lecture / Discussion SOAR Flier
BLI Engaged Leadership: Psychology of Creativity (March 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61624 61624-15154689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Prof. Seifert is an Arthur Tharnau Professor of Psychology, a Cognitive Scientist with and an authority on psychological research on creativity. 

She has received several awards for her research and teaching. Prof. Seifert’s workshop will focus on the relevance of current research on creativity for mindful and engaged leadership. 

BLI Engaged Leadership Sessions: The overarching goals of these workshops are: (a) to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on engaged leadership; (b) to learn about the complex dimensions of being an engaged leader; (c) to provide a variety of tools to cultivate leadership skills.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:55:33 -0400 2019-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Workshop / Seminar Engaged Leader
Depression on College Campuses Conference (March 14, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58286 58286-14452842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

As counseling centers continue to be faced with an ever-increasing demand for services, colleges and universities must consider more effective and efficient strategies for providing support to a large population of students with unique and varying needs. Emerging strategies include precision health and stepped care approaches to better determine and provide the “right intervention for the right person at the right time.”

Join us for the 17th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference to learn about new research findings, model programs, and policies which highlight evidence-based approaches to identify and determine the level of intervention required to best match student need to improve health outcomes.

Registration is free for any student from any campus.

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Well-being Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:34:42 -0500 2019-03-14T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Eisenberg Family Depression Center Well-being DoCC
PSC & GFP Brown Bags: Non-academic career paths and available UM resources (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57648 57648-14246160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:44:20 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation fredrick
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
LINK: Redefine Wellness. (March 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61580 61580-15143697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The idea behind LINK is to promote the exploration of other cultures through what connects us - our distinct perception and representation of strength, love, humanity, compassion, resilience, and creativity. We will be showcasing how mental health issues across campus represent these qualities through any and all creative talents and art, including but not limited to: photography, singing, dancing, acapella, visual art, film, writing, etc. Our goal is to be able raise awareness about mental health issues and the stigmatization that surrounds them.

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Exhibition Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:06:21 -0500 2019-03-14T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Exhibition Event Banner
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Parental Leaves and Gender Equality: The Effect of Parental Leaves on Women’s and Men’s Careers (March 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61538 61538-15126013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Parental leaves are critical for gender equality as they help employees manage both having careers and children, and recent trends in many countries including Canada entail encouraging longer parental leaves. Yet, past research shows that longer parental leaves can have unintended negative career impacts, especially for women, while the effects for men are less well understood. In this talk, I will present data examining the effect of parental leaves on both women’s and men’s careers. I will first present a set of studies examining effects of longer (one year and above) parental leaves on women’s careers. Given that past research shows that longer parental leaves may unintentionally harm women’s career progress, while they are also beneficial for the health of mothers and babies, here we sought to identify the mechanism underlying negative effects of longer (vs. shorter) maternity leaves: undermined perceptions of agency. That is, to enable mothers to do both, i.e., take longer maternity leaves and advance their careers, it was important to identify an underlying mechanism and consequently utilize this knowledge to test interventions that boost agency perceptions and mitigate negative effects of longer parental leaves. In a context of Canadian parental leave policies, we found that undermined perceptions of agency mediated the negative effects of a longer (i.e., one year) compared to a shorter (i.e., one month) maternity leave on job commitment (Study 1); providing information about a woman’s agency mitigates the unintended negative effects of a longer maternity leave (Study 2); and the usage of an organizational program that enables women to stay in touch with the workplace while on maternity leaves enhances agency perceptions and mitigates negative consequences (Study 3). Next, given that true gender equality involves men’s experiences as well, I will present findings from two studies on the effects of parental leaves on men’s career outcomes. Contrary to the negative effects of parental leaves on women’s careers, we theorized and found in a sample of undergraduate students (Study 4) and employees (Study 5) that the effects of parental leaves on men’s careers can be positive due to others’ enhanced perceptions of men’s “communality,” i.e., traits generally ascribed to women such as warmth, friendliness, and a sensitivity to the needs of others. Implications for theory, practice, and gender equality broadly are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:51:10 -0500 2019-03-15T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CCN Forum: Conspicuous Consumption in Close Relationships: A Signal of Relationship (March 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59048 59048-14675847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:16:41 -0400 2019-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Liu
Sexual Modernities Conference (March 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52291 52291-12590269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University) and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).

***Please note the following change from the original conference schedule: Heather Love is no longer able to attend the event, and her keynote on Thursday has been cancelled.***


Thursday, March 14 featured events:

2:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: Roundtable on "Queer Temporalities, Histories, and Futures" with Ingrid Diran (U-M), Sarah Ensor (U-M), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz)


Friday, March 15 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: roundtable on "Foucault's Impact on Sexuality Studies" with David Halperin (U-M), Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), and Helmut Puff (U-M)

4:30 p.m., Angell Hall 3154: keynote by Benjamin Kahan: "The Sexuality of Philosophy"


Saturday, March 16 featured events:

1:00 p.m., Angell Hall 3222: keynote by Marcia Ochoa: "Ungrateful Citizenship: On Translatinas, Participation, and Belonging in the Absence of Recognition"

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:54:29 -0400 2019-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Conference / Symposium sexual modernities
Clinical Science Brown Bag: DHEA moderates the impact of early trauma on the HPA axis response (March 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59065 59065-14677941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:07:10 -0400 2019-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation science
Principles of Mindfulness Part I (March 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58975 58975-14628140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A 6-week introduction to the theory and principles of mindfulness meditation. It offers participants: instruction in the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation; study of the psychological principles underpinning the practice; exploration of the contemplative spiritual traditions in which meditation practices originated; and guidance for applying meditative wisdom in daily life.

These sessions for those 50 and above will be led by Instructor Bernadette Beach. The Study Group meets Mondays from 10-11:30 a.m. and runs from March 18 through April 22.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:25:45 -0500 2019-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Developmental Brown Bag: Value-Based Decision-Making: A Valuable Model for Adolescent Behavior (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59220 59220-14717525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:32:22 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grissom
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59565 59565-14752325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, & U-M School of Social Work

Monday, March 19, 2019
Rm 1430, 2:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.”

Winkelman Lecture

By David Williams, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:36:02 -0500 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
OS Info Night (March 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61168 61168-15045289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Want to learn more about Organizational Studies?

Join us to hear more about this interdisciplinary major based in social sciences where students customize their own education. Enjoy a small community of dedicated and ambitious students with access to top-notch faculty and an engaged alumni network. You'll have the opportunity to hear from the Program Director, Major Advisor, Prospective Student Advisors, and a diverse panel of OS students!

Visit our website in the meantime for more information on the curriculum, application, or to sign-up for a prospective student advising meeting.

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Meeting Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:42:53 -0500 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 West Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Meeting Organizational Studies
Social Area Brown Bag (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60536 60536-14908091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:11:41 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Abagis
3rd Annual Cognitive Science Colloquium (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62236 62236-15335281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The third annual Cognitive Science Colloquium, hosted by the Cognitive Science Community student organization, will take place on Saturday March 23, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall. The colloquium features an undergraduate research showcase, a graduate and professional panel session, and presentations by guest speakers Jonathan Brennan (Linguistics), Nick Ellis (Psychology/Linguistics) and Nia Dowell (School of Information). The event is a great opportunity to learn about a variety of new ideas in cognitive science, opportunities in research, and career pathways, as well as a great way to engage with people in cognitive science from a wide range of different backgrounds. Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:48:57 -0400 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Conference / Symposium CogSci Colloquium flyer
Clinical Science Brown Bag: PROGrESS: Neural Activation during Reappraisal and Assessment of Emotion Associated with PTSD (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59066 59066-14677942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:41:53 -0500 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59566 59566-14752326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Physically Vulnerable, but Psychologically Resilient?: Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health.”

By Christy Erving, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:40:32 -0500 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
UM Psychology Community Talk: Enhancing Well-Being in School-aged Children (March 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52630 52630-12908321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS, 2017) reports that 1 in 5 children living in Michigan experiences a mental health problem and many do not get the services that they need to assist them. Government officials recently stated the need as “critically important” (MDHHS, 2017). Costs to individuals and to society are very high. For example, children with anxiety disorders are found to have poorer academic achievement, more interpersonal and social problems, and substance abuse relative to those without anxiety disorders. Further they are 3-5 times more likely to have doctor’s visits and 6 times more likely to be hospitalized than children without such anxiety. Research shows that childhood depression is a risk factor for trouble in school, social withdrawal, sleep problems, aggression, and feeling hopeless. Children with depression are at high risk for suicide in adolescence. It is important to note that many more children are prodromal – that is, they may have some signs of adjustment problems but have not yet reached the threshold of receiving a diagnosis – or are simply undiagnosed. Yet research studies show that children’s mental health problems are amenable to treatment. Clearly, more affordable and available services are necessary to meet this need, for without help, there is no doubt that the optimal development of children with such problems will be diminished. Further, we know that all children - even those without adjustment problems - can benefit from programs that enhance their coping skills, boost their self-esteem and empower them to be better at identifying and solving problems. This presentation describes a program designed to enhance the well-being of all school-aged children, whether they have symptoms of adjustment problem or not. There is incontrovertible evidence from research studies that children who are more able to manage their emotions and to use proven strategies to reduce stress and solve problems, have healthier lives, greater academic success, better mental health, and more satisfying social relationships. This presentation shows how the Kids’ Empowerment Program (KEP) is built on best practices that are derived from research studies and from the results of the successful Kids’ Club Program for children exposed to violence.

Sandra Graham-Bermann, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. As director of the Child Violence and Trauma Lab she studies resilient coping, and the behavioral and emotional adjustment of women and children, as well as interventions designed to assist them. Over 30 years she has developed measures of children’s fears and worries, traumatic stress, attitudes and beliefs about violence, family stereotyping, and conflict in sibling relationships. In addition to longitudinal studies of Head Start preschool children she has designed and evaluated interventions for women and children exposed to violence using randomized control trials. These interventions have been adapted for use with Spanish speaking women and children, Alaska Native and Alaskan Indian women and children, and Swedish families who experience intimate partner violence. With great support for their effectiveness in advancing well-being and reducing psychopathology, the programs are now used in 38 states and four countries. A fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), she serves on 4 journal editorial boards and is author of 125 peer-reviewed publications and 3 edited volumes. Dr. Graham-Bermann received the APA Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology, the APA Nicholas Hobbs Award for outstanding research contributions, as well as an honorary doctorate from the School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, at Örebro University in Sweden. Her current research is focused on enhancing the well-being of all school-aged children.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:52:14 -0400 2019-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation sandy
Biopsychology Colloquium: Under the Influence: probing the extended amygdala in the context of drugs, alcohol, and stress. (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59095 59095-14677971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:04:45 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation zoe
Bioethics Discussion: Eugenics (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49435 49435-11456548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who ought to be here.

Readings to consider:
"Eugenics: its definition, scope, and aims"
"The second international congress of eugenics"
"CC Little renaming resolution"
"Buck v. Bell Supreme Court opinion"
"Moderate eugenics and human enhancement"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/028-eugenics/.

Also, feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:10:19 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Eugenics
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): Charting How Wealth Shapes Educational Pathways from Childhood to Early Adulthood: A Process Model (March 27, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58699 58699-14544802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:59:34 -0500 2019-03-27T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) Workshop / Seminar Economics
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: The role of Causal Attribution in the Relationship between Discrimination and Subjective Health (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60537 60537-14908092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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Presentation Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:10:57 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Social Psychology Presentation perry
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61044 61044-15024930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:23:41 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
EHAP Speaker Series:Psychological Mismatch at Work (March 28, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56767 56767-13997135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:14 -0400 2019-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Colarelli
Psychology Research & Service Learning Fair (March 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54282 54282-13563520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

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

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

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Fair / Festival Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:10:07 -0400 2019-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Fair / Festival 2018 Research and service learning fair
Psychology Methods Hour: Using Growth Curve Modeling with Landmark Registration for the Analysis of Cortisol and Other Hormone Data (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59127 59127-14686293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:45:28 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Lopez-Duran
Tightness-Looseness: A Fractal Pattern of Human Difference (March 29, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57987 57987-14383898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Over the past century, we have explored the solar system, split the atom, and wired the Earth, but somehow, despite all of our technical prowess, we have struggled to understand something far more important: our own cultural differences. Using a variety of methodologies, my research has uncovered is that many cultural differences reflect a simple, but often invisible distinction: The strength of social norms. Tight cultures have strong social norms and little tolerance for deviance, while loose cultures have weak social norms and are highly permissive. The tightness or looseness of social norms turns out to be a Rosetta Stone for human groups. It illuminates similar patterns of difference across nations, states, organizations, and social class, and the template also explains differences among traditional societies. It’s also a global fault line: conflicts we encounter can spring from the structural stress of tight-loose tension, and our data show that they have important implications for success in international mergers & acquisitions and expatriate adjustment, and can also help to explain some of today’s most puzzling political trends and events. An understanding of this template can help us develop more empathy and to bridge out cultural divides.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:57:01 -0500 2019-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognition in Older Adults (April 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59067 59067-14677943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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Other Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:23:02 -0500 2019-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other Backpacking party flyer
Inaugural Lecture: Honoring Professor Robert M. Sellers on his Appointment to the Charles D. Moody Professorship in Psychology (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61606 61606-15152467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In his seminal work, "Souls of Black Folk", W. E. B. DuBois (1903) suggested the only way that African Americans can develop healthy self-concepts within American society is to come to "an understanding" within themselves regarding the duality of their status as African and American. We argue that the nature of "this understanding" varies across African Americans. Our research has attempted to explicate and describe the role that race plays in the psychological lives of African Americans. This research has focused on the racial identities that African Americans hold, the processes by which African Americans transmit attitudes and beliefs about the meaning of race across generations to their children, as well as documenting their experiences with racial discrimination and the consequences of such experiences. Our research program has attempted to place African American's experiences at the center and explicitly recognize their humanity as core assumptions of our analyses. The current presentation provides a brief overview of our work. In doing so, we also honor the legacy of Prof. Charles D. Moody.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:39:14 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion RSellers
Health Professions Education Day 2019 (April 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58107 58107-14426746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 8:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This annual event aims to spark interprofessional collaboration, networking, and inspiration for future research and practice for educational efforts across the health professions schools at University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:47:54 -0500 2019-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Learning Health Sciences Conference / Symposium HPE Day Logo
Biopsychology Colloquium: Neurodevelopmental effects of cannabis and its epigenetic regulation (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59096 59096-14677974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nick Michalak
Can anger cue coalition membership?

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

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

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:32:24 -0400 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
ISR Expo (April 4, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61492 61492-15117148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

You are invited to the Institute for Social Research EXPO:

Enjoy a variety of ​fun food​!​ (while supplies last)

Xplore the rich portfolio of ISR social science research projects​!​

Peruse a variety of training programs for students, postdocs and faculty​!​

Observe the many opportunities for involvement​ and ​engage​!​

Come learn more about the many exciting projects and programs housed within ISR.
Our featured programs and projects include:

Michigan Program in Survey Methodology AND Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques | Michigan Retirement Research Center | Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) | IRIS | M-CARES (Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study) | PSC Training Programs | LIFE-M (Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database | U-M HomeLab | Poverty Solutions | Panel Study of Income Dynamics | Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS)/ Program in Society, Population and Environment (SPE) | DACCD & Perspectives | ICPSR | ICPSR Summer Program | Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) | Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ​| Health and Retirement Study | American National Election Studies | Racism Lab | Staples Staff Development Fund

Please contact abeattie@umich.edu with any questions​ or if you need any accommodations to attend this event.​

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Fair / Festival Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500 2019-04-04T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Fair / Festival flyer
Psychology Diversity Research Colloquium and Diversity Awards Presentation: Race and Cognitive Aging in Longitudinal Epidemiologic Cohort Studies at Rush (April 4, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62574 62574-15405813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:16:32 -0400 2019-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation charles
Precision Health April Seminar (April 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61397 61397-15097071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Precision Health

Precision Health at the University of Michigan (U-M) invites you to hear a presentation by Helen Kales, MD, on Thursday, April 4. Kales, a professor in U-M's Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Positive Aging, will present "Using precision health to move the dementia care paradigm from sedation to person-centeredness." There will be time allotted for discussion after the presentation. Registration will close when full.

Abstract:
There are currently over 5 million people with dementia in the US and over 15 million family caregivers providing them care. While memory problems are the hallmark of dementia, the most problematic symptoms associated with the illness are behavioral and psychological. These include depression, anxiety, agitation, psychosis, aggression, wandering, sexually inappropriate behaviors, and many others. While multiple expert bodies endorse the use of behavioral and environmental strategies for these behaviors first line, the current treatment paradigm is largely one of knee-jerk sedation using psychotropics off-label. This is neither personalized nor precise. Kales will describe the creation and application of the DICE Approach to assessing and managing dementia behaviors as well as a web-based application of DICE called “The WeCareAdvisor.”

Bio:
Helen Kales, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a Research Investigator in the Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR) and the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) in the VA Ann Arbor Health System. She is a fellowship-trained, board-certified geriatric psychiatrist, and her research program is directly informed by her clinical work and experiences with patients, families, providers, and systems to diminish the barriers to effective and high-quality care for older patients with mental health issues or dementia. Kales has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, and her research has been continuously federally funded since 2004. In July 2019, Kales will become the Chair of Psychiatry and Joe Tupin Endowed Professor at the University of California, Davis, where she plans to establish a center on positive aging.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:37:24 -0400 2019-04-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Helen Kales
Psychlogy Methods Hour: #Parenting Projects: Using Twitter to Understand Mothering and Fathering (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61612 61612-15152480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:51:54 -0500 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Social Worth Affirmation (April 5, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61127 61127-15036281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Teams often fail to reach their potential because each member’s need to feel accepted prevents him or her from offering their unique perspective or information to the team. Drawing on self-affirmation theory, we propose that social worth affirmation – which we define as the process by which an individual’s unique contributions are affirmed by social relationships – can prepare individuals to contribute to team performance more effectively. We theorize that affirming team members’ social worth spills over to the new team context, thereby decreasing their social concerns about being accepted by other members. This, in turn, leads to better information exchange and performance in teams. In a first field experiment, we found that teams in which members experienced social worth affirmation prior to team formation performed better on a problem-solving task (compared to teams without social worth affirmation). In a second experiment, conducted using task-oriented teams in the U.S. military, we tested a full model that social worth affirmation influences information exchange and team performance by reducing members’ concerns about social acceptance. In the third experiment using virtual teams, we find that social worth affirmation improves teams’ ability to exchange information by sharing unique information cues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:36:33 -0500 2019-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Diversity Week Event: Celebrating Diversity Social (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62575 62575-15405814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:38:13 -0400 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Social / Informal Gathering East Hall
Making Connections: Data Science Approaches to Understanding Mood and Cognition in the Modern Era (April 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62825 62825-15477378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Abstract: In this talk Dr. Leow will share her reflections, as both a computational researcher and a practicing psychiatrist, on the current landscape of psychiatric neuroimaging research and where we go from here.

To this end, she argues that recent advances in data science and information technology will revolutionize the way we conceptualize psychiatric disorders and enable us to objectively quantify their symptomatology, which traditionally has been primarily based on self reports.

To illustrate, she will highlight two lines of ongoing research that apply data science approaches to the assessment of mood and cognition. In the first example, she will propose how EEG connectomics coupled with manifold learning and dimensionality reduction may allow us to measure the ‘speed of thinking’ on a sub-second time scale. In the second example, she will introduce her recent joint work with Dr. Melvin McInnis that seeks to unobtrusively turn smartphones into ‘stethoscopes’ of the brain, in real time and in the wild.



Bio: Dr. Alex Leow is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and an attending physician at the University of Illinois Hospital. With Dr. Olu Ajilore, Alex founded the Collaborative Neuroimaging Environment for Connectomics (CoNECt) at UIC. CoNECt is an inter-departmental research team devoted to the study of the human brain using multidisciplinary approaches of brain imaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, Big Data analytics, virtual-reality immersive visualization, and more recently mobile technologies.

Most relevant to this talk, Alex is honored to the project lead of the BiAffect project. BiAffect is the first scientific study that seeks to turn smartphones into “brain fitness trackers”, by unobtrusively inferring neuropsychological functioning using entirely passively-collected typing kinematics metadata (i.e., not what you type but how you type it) from a smartphone’s virtual keyboard. The iOS BiAffect study app now powers the first-ever crowd-sourced research study to unobtrusively measure mood and cognition in real-time using iPhones and Apple’s ResearchKit framework.

The CoNECt team’s research has been extensively featured in the news, including more recently in Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tonight, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press news, and the Rolling Stone.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:59:17 -0400 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Workshop / Seminar Alex Leow, MD, PhD
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Facial Reactivity to Sucrose in Infancy as an Early Indicator for Obesity Risk (April 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59068 59068-14677944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:52:37 -0400 2019-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Julia
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Developmental Brown Bag: (April 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59223 59223-14717527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

Michael Medina

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59568 59568-14752328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 8, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Psychosocial Stress, Health Behaviors and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans.”

By Mosi Ifatunji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for African American Research
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:49 -0500 2019-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract:

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:44:49 -0400 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Dr. Barense
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Social Area Brown Bag (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60539 60539-14908094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Social Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61045 61045-15024931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:25:39 -0500 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Race, Gender and Feminist Philosophy: Commentary Panel (April 15, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61058 61058-15027191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

SPEAKERS
Mercy Corredor (UM, Philosophy)
Sara Chadwick (UM, Psychology & Women's Studies)
Valerie Kutchko (UM, Psychology & Women's Studies)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:18:12 -0500 2019-04-15T14:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59570 59570-14752329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 15, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Health: Developmental Mechanisms During the Transition to Adulthood.”

By Enrique Neblett, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology-Child/Family Track, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:53:14 -0500 2019-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Dinner with... Mary Schlitt (April 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62946 62946-15520073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

For our final "Dinners with..." of the semester, BLI is thrilled to welcome Mary Schlitt, our very own BLI associate director!

As a LSA undergrad at the University of Michigan, Mary discovered both her capacity for leadership and love for the nonprofit sector during an internship at the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. After advancing the missions of four respected nonprofit organizations, Mary has returned to the University of Michigan and the Barger Leadership Institute to seek collaborations that generate opportunity and resources for undergraduates. In her most recent role as chief development officer at Food Gatherers, she was responsible for both the financial success of the organization and, as part of a leadership team, managed the day-to-day operations of the entire organization. As the BLI Associate Director, Mary will have primary operational responsibility for all aspects of the institute’s day to day management. She will develop relationships with and serve as liaison to partners on and off campus, and work with potential donors and stewardship of existing alumni relationships in partnership with LSA Advancement. Mary will additionally aid the Director in the strategic development and funding of new programs and opportunities in the region and around the world.

Mary, a 2017 +Lab Fellow, through the Center for Positive Organizations, Ross School of Business, holds holds a Master of Public Administration and a bachelor's in psychology from the University of Michigan.

Attendees MUST RSVP at the sessions link (see web links).

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Other Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:08:59 -0400 2019-04-16T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Other dinner w/ Mary
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies: One Final Jam: Emeritus professor of Psychology Richard Mann and the Future of Consciousness Studies (April 17, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62666 62666-15423235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Professor Richard Mann has been a pivotal figure in consciousness-related coursework and research on the U-M campus and far beyond. A revered
pedagogue and visionary, he has impacted hundreds of students from across fields as well as maintained national prominence through his writings and longtime position as editor of the cutting-edge SUNY series in Transpersonal Psychology. In conversation with PCCS Director Ed Sarath, this evening’s talk will commemorate Mann’s long and distinguished tenure at U-M and engage in far-reaching reflections about his personal work and what might lie ahead for the still-nascent field of consciousness studies. Topics will range from research and ideas pursued by organizations such as Society for Scientific Exploration, Institute for the Noetic Sciences, and the Integral Theory community that challenge materialist assumptions, to socio-political-environmental ramifications of consciousness understanding, to what a 21st century program in consciousness studies might look like.

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Presentation Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:10:02 -0400 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Psychology Presentation Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
LSA Psychology Walk-In Advising (April 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58576 58576-15230388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:50:59 -0500 2019-04-18T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Other three person pointing the silver laptop computer
Social Area Talk: Identity-Based Approaches to Improve Student Outcomes and Reduce Socioeconomic (April 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63245 63245-15601665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:42:29 -0400 2019-04-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Mesmin
“Cartoon Boy” and Other Stories of Children in Play Therapy (April 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58974 58974-14628139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In this course, you will read six stories of children who have lived through life events (illness, divorce, etc.) that hindered their development. The psychotherapy process involved primarily play, and opened up a new “playground” where these stressed inside feelings emerged. The feelings were lived out, and gradually new ways to cope were found. These stories have two aims: 1) To provide insight to the reader into these events, and 2) To model the play process so that a parent, relative, or close adult may use this healing process when circumstances permit.

Mr. Chethik is an Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Michigan.
These sessions for those 50 and above meet on Fridays from 1-2:30 p.m. and run from April 19 through May 24.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:38:56 -0500 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Psychology Research Forum (April 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53384 53384-13355934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract

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

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Presentation Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:51:01 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Isbell
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59572 59572-14752331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 22, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Discrimination and Cortisol: One Pathway to Health Disparities among Black Americans.”

By Eleanor K. Seaton, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Center for Child and Family Success
Associate Professor, Social and Family Dynamics, T. Denny Sanford School of (SSFD)
Arizona State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:58:31 -0500 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Biopsychology Colloquium: Treating the hyperphagia driving obesity: Neural mechansims of feeding inhibition with a focus on CNS GLP-1R as a target (April 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59099 59099-14677977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:06:47 -0400 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation grill
Panel: Viewpoint Diversity and the Future of Intellectual Discourse (April 23, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62901 62901-15492418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

We live in increasingly polarized times, and partisan animosity is at a high. Against this backdrop, it is tempting to sort ourselves into echo-chambers. What effects might this have on future discourse about important scientific, ethical, and policy matters? How does polarization affect the academy? Can viewpoint diversity increase the quality of research in politically relevant fields like social psychology, sociology, or political philosophy? Join us for a panel discussion with Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology at Rutgers, and Hrishikesh Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan. All are welcome. Coffee and snacks will be provided!

Hosted by the Freedom and Flourishing Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:29:14 -0400 2019-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion F&F Panel
Principles of Mindfulness Part II (April 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59035 59035-14659267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course is meant to deepen your experience of mindfulness meditation and enhance the qualities of a mindful life; expand your understanding and guidance in the nine attitudes of mindfulness; and expand your capacity of meditation. This will be done by cultivating mindful awareness in everyday life. This Study Group led by Bernadette Beach is for those 50 and over and will meet Mondays, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., April 29 - June 3.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:21:02 -0500 2019-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
UM Psychology Community Talk: Adversity, Resilience and the Developing Brain (April 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52631 52631-12910440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Abstract
Childhood adversity, such as growing up in poverty or experiencing parental neglect, is associated with a host of negative outcomes, including depression and low educational attainment. Although it is understood that these types of adversity alter the brain and increase the risk for problems, it is not known what forms of adversity are most pernicious and how they affect the brain. In the presentation, Dr. Monk will describe a study comprised of predominantly adolescents from low-income backgrounds who have been followed since birth. Using brain imaging methods, Dr. Monk shows how two specific and chronic forms of adversity, violence exposure and social deprivation, impact brain development in different ways. At the same time, the adolescents show a striking degree of resilience, despite the challenging circumstances. Dr. Monk will discuss both social and biological mechanisms that might explain the resilience.


Bio

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

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Presentation Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:53:04 -0400 2019-04-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation monk
Psychology Commencement Ceremony (May 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61073 61073-15027211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Crisler Arena
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Psychology & BCN graduates from Fall-18, Winter-19, and Spr/Su-19 are invited to participate in our ceremony. An invitation will be sent to your permanent address over Spring Break. Please invite your family and friends to celebrate! No tickets required, no limit on guests.

Students RSVP here by March 29th: http://myumi.ch/LoVvn
*You will be asked to complete a 5 minute Exit Survey first.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:04:05 -0500 2019-05-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-05-03T12:00:00-04:00 Crisler Arena Department of Psychology Ceremony / Service commencement flyer
Public Speaking Skills (May 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59036 59036-14659268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Have you ever wanted to improve your public speaking? This course will guide you to finally allow yourself to perform speeches while having fun doing it! You will have the opportunity to help other participants by giving feedback on their speeches, and to perform leadership roles.
The speeches can help you articulate in impromptu situations using a fun 1-2 minute table topic question-answer format, or allow you to perform 5-7 minute speeches with your own stories on any subject. The goal of this study group is to be that confident, effective speaker you always wanted to be! Then if you want to continue this study group, the lecturer will help you and your participants to form an ongoing group to meet regularly with a structured agenda where each participant will have a self-paced curriculum with milestones and awards for improvement. Eric George instructor received his BA in Computer Systems at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is currently working toward an MA in Health Services Administration at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Mondays, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., May 6-June 10.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:32:09 -0500 2019-05-06T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
2nd Annual Eisenberg Prize and Lecture (May 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63424 63424-15692042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

The 2nd Annual Eisenberg Prize Lecture will take place in the BSRB Kahn Auditorium, and there will be a reception following the lecture. Dr. Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D. will give a talk titled, “Translational Approaches to Understanding Depression and PTSD: From the Neural Circuits of Threat to Negative Valence Syndromes.” Dr. Ressler is chief scientific officer at Mclean Hospital.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:56:54 -0400 2019-05-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-05-08T17:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SEMINAR - RACHEL UPJOHN BUILDING (July 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64164 64164-16171657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will introduce a new website for learning how to analyze fMRI data (https://andysbrainbook.readthedocs.io). The site is intended for the training of new graduate students and RA's in different aspects of imaging analysis, while also making it convenient to cross-reference related topics such as scripting and Unix. Animations and videos are provided in order to visualize abstract concepts, and exercises help the reader consolidate what they have just learned. I will discuss how the website is organized, how readers can make edits, and which topics will be added in the future - for example, tutorials for SPM and AFNI, and more advanced techniques such as diffusion and MVPA.



The talk will be recorded and uploaded to Andy’s YouTube channel http://tinyurl.com/y2zbzseu

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:09:36 -0400 2019-07-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-19T10:00:00-04:00 Functional MRI Lab Workshop / Seminar
U-M Ideas Lab: Informational Webinar on Predicting Human Performance (July 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64096 64096-16147464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Attend this webinar to learn more about the 2019 Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab: Predicting Human Performance.

Experts will:
- present background surrounding the Ideas Lab
- explore the topic in depth
- answer questions live from the audience

Questions may be sent ahead of time to biosciences@umich.edu.
Registration for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e93ed8dbfacf569acde7dc3c8da9331e
On-line attendance- please register yourself and utilize your individual link for the meeting.
In-person attendance- you may register on-line or when you arrive.

About U-M Ideas Lab:
The Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab is your chance to pursue high-risk, high-reward, creative ideas and solutions to broad biosciences challenges alongside colleagues with diverse areas of expertise. Use this interactive think tank funding opportunity to pursue innovative research while still focusing on your current program and other duties.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:01:40 -0400 2019-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar Ideas Lab Banner
LSA Psychology Walk-in Advising (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65573 65573-16613773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Other Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:35:49 -0400 2019-09-13T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other CGIS Psych flyer
Why Ignorance Fails to Recognize Itself (September 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65368 65368-16573565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

I discuss the flawed evaluator problem, which asks how well can people assess their own intellectual and social skills, as well as those of others, when their expertise inevitably contains gaps and defects? I discuss how these imperfections lead people to misjudge themselves, often causing them to miss their own incompetence and gullability (the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect), and misjudge others, often prompting failures to recognize top-level competence and virtuosity among their peers (the Cassandra Quandary). I discuss the implications of the flawed evaluator problem for personal issues as well as society at large.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:01:16 -0400 2019-09-13T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Life of a Doctor (but not that kind!) (September 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64444 64444-16829031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:35:55 -0400 2019-09-16T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
What is Research? (September 16, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64424 64424-16349017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:14:21 -0400 2019-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
Cognitive Science Community (September 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66808 66808-16779002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Interested in consciousness and the mind? Artificial intelligence? How humans and animals make decisions? If so, join the Cognitive Science Community every other Thursday, starting September 19, to participate in student- and professor-led discussions exploring the latest topics in the cognitive sciences where psychology, philosophy of mind, linguistics, and computational modeling converge.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:23:21 -0400 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Cognitive Science Community logo
Career/Intern Opportunities working with Individuals with Autism (September 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66463 66463-16855679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:20:40 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T11:30:00-04:00 East Hall Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar East Hall
Workplace Discrimination at the Intersection of Race and Gender (September 20, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65291 65291-16565510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Issues related to discrimination, belonging, and harassment in the workplace are intersectional (Cole 2009; Crenshaw 1989). That is, people are harassed, excluded, and discriminated against for a variety of social identities (e.g., class, sexuality, gender, age, race, size) which intersect and interrelate. In social and organizational psychology, efforts to understand and end workplace discrimination thus far have tended to focus on single dimensions of marginalization or privilege (e.g., gender), giving us an incomplete picture of how discrimination is enacted and experienced. In this talk, I will discuss research from the PWR (Power, Women, and Relationships) Lab that has used intersectionality theory and the stereotype content model to understand how discrimination manifests for employees based on their combined racial and gender identities. First, I will discuss published quantitative research with students Jessica Saunders and Ryan Jacobson on how STEM professors evaluate post-doc candidates based on the candidates’ race and gender, together. Next, I will discuss published and unpublished qualitative research with student Anna Kallschmidt on identity management and belonging among White men employees from working class and impoverished backgrounds. Finally, I will discuss work student Sarah Robinson and I are pursuing on how the use of certain dialectical styles (White American, urban African American, and Southern American) effects ratings of men employees in individual-structured telephone interviews. Implications of intersectional approaches for fair and just hiring practices and for diversity trainings and interventions will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:36:51 -0400 2019-09-20T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
4-Week Basic Mindfulness Class (September 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65736 65736-16643982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness is a 4 session course that will teach you the skill of mindfulness. It will also help you build the habit of using it in your life on a regular basis. We’ve found that folks get a lot more out of Koru if they stick with it from beginning to end, therefore attendance at all 4 sessions is required. So double check your calendar and then sign up here: https://dashboard.korumindfulness.org/web/index.php?r=course%2Fsignup&id=2337
If you have any questions, you can contact the instructor at jeselzer@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:54:30 -0400 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T16:15:00-04:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Class / Instruction Koru Logo
UM Psychology Community Talk: Understanding Memory: How it Works and How to Improve it (September 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64329 64329-16316438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Exploring the Mind

Abstract: Human beings store away huge quantities of information in memory. We remember countless facts about the world (e.g., birds have wings, 2+2=4, there are 26 letters in the alphabet) as well specific information about our own lives (e.g., what we had for lunch, where we went for our last vacation, our first kiss). How does that work? How do we store information away into memory and then retrieve exactly the information we need minutes, days, or even years later? Conversely, why do we so often forget someone’s name or where we put our keys? And perhaps most importantly, is there anything we can do to improve our memory and keep it sharp? In this talk, we’ll dive into the psychological and neural mechanisms that underlie our amazing ability to remember. And we’ll also discuss ways to maximize our memory by applying techniques that have been scientifically demonstrated to improve retention.

Bio: Professor Thad A. Polk is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. His research combines functional imaging of the human brain with computational modeling and behavioral methods to investigate the neural architecture underlying cognition. Some of his major projects have investigated changes in neural representations as we age, contributions of nature versus nurture to neural organization and differences in the brains of smokers who quit compared with those who do not. Dr. Polk has taught well over 6,000 UM students over the past 20 years and has developed three neuroscience courses aimed at the general public for The Great Courses (The Addictive Brain, The Aging Brain, The Learning Brain). In 2012 Princeton Review included him on its list of the Best 300 Professors in the U.S.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:56:44 -0400 2019-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Exploring the Mind Presentation Thad Polk
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66679 66679-16770194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Improving Data Quality for Web Surveys in Real Time through Predictive Modeling Using Paradata

Paradata are a rich source of data that are collected through little additional effort by researchers. However, paradata are often underutilized. This study suggests a novel approach to use paradata to alter the survey itself in real time in order to improve data quality.

Through a predictive model, paradata about the responses will be utilized to alter the presentation of the survey questions themselves. First, if respondents straight-line through a grid section of the survey, following grids could be changed to single item questions in order to discourage straight-lining. Second, if respondents display multiple indicators of poor data quality, key questions could be moved forward in the survey to present earlier. This second option reduces survey length, lowers cognitive burden for respondents that are taking short cuts, and prevents drop-offs. Both of these techniques could help to improve data quality.

Though programming a survey to adapt in real time may involve a large effort in the beginning, once employed it could be used across projects for little additional cost. Improving data quality should be a goal of everyone in the survey research community. As web surveys continue to increase in frequency of implementation, the focus on data quality of this mode should be a priority.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:22:32 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
Precision Health Seminar: Sept. 2019 (September 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65102 65102-16517518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Precision Health

Presenters:
Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, and Co-PI of Precision Health mental health research project

Corey Lester, MS, PhD, PharmD, Research Assistant Professor, Pharmacy

Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Chair for Research and Research Faculty Development; Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences; and Co-PI of Precision Health mental health research project

More than any other advancement that has emerged in the past four decades, mobile technology has the potential to address the dual problems of limited clinical capacity and inadequate and untimely data in mental health care. As part of Precision Health at the University of Michigan, this project will test wearable and mobile technology as a means to reduce mental health symptoms among patients waiting for mental health care. Furthermore, data derived from mobile technology, genomics, and patient reports will be used to predict response to clinic-based treatments.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:40:16 -0400 2019-09-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 University Hospitals Precision Health Workshop / Seminar Precision Health Seminar Series
2019 Functional MRI Symposium (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63526 63526-15782015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:41:39 -0400 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Adriene Beltz
4-Week Basic Mindfulness Class (September 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65736 65736-16643983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Koru Mindfulness @ U-M

Koru Mindfulness is a 4 session course that will teach you the skill of mindfulness. It will also help you build the habit of using it in your life on a regular basis. We’ve found that folks get a lot more out of Koru if they stick with it from beginning to end, therefore attendance at all 4 sessions is required. So double check your calendar and then sign up here: https://dashboard.korumindfulness.org/web/index.php?r=course%2Fsignup&id=2337
If you have any questions, you can contact the instructor at jeselzer@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:54:30 -0400 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T16:15:00-04:00 School of Education Koru Mindfulness @ U-M Class / Instruction Koru Logo