Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. UROP Brown Bag (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Clinical Science Brown Bag: PROGrESS: Neural Activation during Reappraisal and Assessment of Emotion Associated with PTSD (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59066 59066-14677942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:41:53 -0500 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Developmental Brown Bag: Adolescent Neurodevelopment in a Social and Policy Context (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62301 62301-15346455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:40:15 -0400 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Keating
UROP Brown Bag (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
UROP Brown Bag (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
UROP Brown Bag (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
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
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
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.

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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
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
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
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
Brown Bag: "The Folly and Madness of War" (May 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63621 63621-15816695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Dr. Sarah Swedberg will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America. Her project, "The Folly and Madness of War, 1775-1783" focuses on the ways the United States founding generation worried about irrationality as they worked to build a rational state.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 May 2019 10:59:18 -0400 2019-05-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Sarah Swedberg, PhD
Brown Bag: "Liverpool, Slavery and the Atlantic Cotton Frontier, 1763-1833" (July 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64169 64169-16177692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Alexey Krichtal will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Jacob M. Price Fellowship. A 5th year PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, Krichtal studies the development of cotton cultivation in the Americas and Liverpool's role as the linchpin of an Atlantic circuit for the distribution, marketing, and sale of that commodity.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:18:43 -0400 2019-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Atlantic Map 1788
Brown Bag: "Cinema of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their Imaginations Return to the Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63916 63916-15993697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Yasmine Espert will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the inaugural Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Her research this year is also supported by the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Fellowship for 20th Century Art. A PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, her dissertation research explores how artists of African and Afro-Asian descent map their dreams of the Caribbean.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:54:11 -0400 2019-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Caribbean map
Brown Bag: "Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1850" (August 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63782 63782-15873606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Madeline L. Zehnder will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Mary G. Stange Fellowship. A PhD candidate in the University of Virginia's Department of English, Zehnder is working on a dissertation about portable objects in early American literature and material culture.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 May 2019 10:59:48 -0400 2019-08-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Madeline Zehnder
Brown Bag: Exploiting Fur in the British Atlantic World, 1783-1821 (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64942 64942-16491259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. David Hope will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as a recipient of the Jacob M. Price Fellowship. Dr. Hope is an economic historian and Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow — a one-year postdoctoral position co-sponsored by the Economic History Society, Newcastle University (UK), and the Institute of Historical Research (University of London). He is working on a monograph situating the fur trade within the wider Atlantic economy, offering new insights into the organization of overseas trade, the distribution and consumption of global luxuries, and the synergy between environment and empire.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:56:30 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Plan of the Straits - Fur Trade cartouche (1761)
CCN Forum: Aiding Difficult and High-Stakes Medical Decision Making—Research on Tracheotomy Decisions for Critically Ill Children (September 13, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65028 65028-16507299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:52:18 -0400 2019-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
PSC Brownbag: Postdoc Introductions (September 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66766 66766-16776777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Keeping with tradition, we will welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Arianna Gard, Dr. Heejung Jang, Dr. Sarah Patterson. Each will give a brief description of their professional paths, present a summary of their doctoral work, overview of postdoctoral project and additional research interests, etc.

Please bring your lunch.

Monday, 9/16/2019, 12:00pm

Location: 6050 ISR Thompson St

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:01:57 -0400 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
2019 Summer Programs Reflection (September 17, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66608 66608-16767949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Galleria
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

Join the CEO team to reflect on Summer 2019 programs

> Wins and challenges of this year's summer programs
> Ideas for 2020 applications and recruitment strategies
> Program managers share key insights from around campus

Feel free to invite your colleagues and campus partners

September 17, 2019
CEO Galleria - RM 259
12:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch will be provided

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:53:01 -0400 2019-09-17T12:30:00-04:00 2019-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 Galleria Center for Educational Outreach Workshop / Seminar Summer programs reflection logo
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: White Identity Threats and Motivated Avoidance of Information about Race (September 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67111 67111-16803012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:30:50 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Clinical Science Brown Bag: Longitudinal studies of Bipolar Disorder (September 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66171 66171-16717501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:04:28 -0400 2019-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Improving Numerical Integration and Event Generation with Normalizing Flows (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67322 67322-16837722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

With the upcoming HL-LHC, the budget for computing will be insufficient to generate a sufficient amount of Monte-Carlo events for both signal and background predictions. The driving force behind these costs is the inefficiency of the Monte-Carlo phase space generators and the unweighting efficiencies.
After a short review of traditional algorithms, I will introduce a new Machine Learning algorithm that uses Normalizing Flows for efficient numerical integration and random sampling. This approach is especially efficient in high-dimensional integration spaces. I will show some preliminary results obtained with the matrix element generator of Sherpa and discuss different choices of hyperparameters and their influence on the result.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:36:53 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Information Targeting Increases the Weight of Stigma: Leveraging Relevance Backfires When Recipients Feel Judged (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67118 67118-16803019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:22:33 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Patrick Grzanka
Developmental Brown Bag: Introducing elevation to the study of children’s developing prosociality (September 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65644 65644-16627846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:23:35 -0400 2019-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - The devils we know and love: How relationships bias moral reasoning (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67117 67117-16803018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

Decolonizing and Feminist Interventions: Citizenship Crisis in Northeast India

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Presentation Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:28:54 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Urmitapa Dutta
CCN Forum: Age-related declines in neural distinctiveness and variability: Cause and Consequences (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65649 65649-16627852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:42:50 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Brown Bag: "Environmental History and Military Metabolism in the War of Independence" (October 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65581 65581-16619782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. David Hsiung will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Faith and Stephen Brown Fellowship. A U-M grad (PhD in History 1991), he is now the Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Hsiung is working on a book tentatively titled “One If By Land: An Environmental History of the Birth of American Independence and Its Consequences.”

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:37:24 -0400 2019-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Seat of war in the environs of Philadelphia (1777)
Social Area Brown Bag: Exposure to Residential Segregation and its Effects on Intergroup Cognition (October 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67164 67164-16805246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:29:34 -0400 2019-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ari Eason
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66208 66208-16719586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Grad Student Datablitz

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:49:42 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Examining Political Information and Behavior Online (October 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67134 67134-16805202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:08:16 -0400 2019-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ceren Budak
Developmental Brown Bag: Neurobiological Mechanisms Linking Poverty to Youth Socioemotional Development (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65645 65645-16627847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:18:50 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation gard
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: It’s risky, therefore I do it; Counterfinality as a source of perceived instrumentality of extreme behavior as means to goals (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67137 67137-16805203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

Recognizing Strength and Wellbeing within Refugee Communities

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:31:58 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Andrea Belgrade
CCN Forum: Brain dynamics of interactions between cognition, emotion, and motivation (October 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65652 65652-16627856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:04:42 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Booth
TBD PSC Brown Bag (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68120 68120-17011959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 10/28/2019, 12:00pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Logan will speak on recent work in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PSC 2009-11.

His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. He is currently extending his historical research agenda to include topics such as childhood health, mortality, morbidity, and racial disparities in health.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:46:06 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Trevon Logan
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Looking for Axion Dark Matter: from Dwarf Galaxies to Pulsars (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67394 67394-16846510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Axion and Axion-like particles are fascinating dark matter candidates and a great effort has been devoted to their study, both theoretically and experimentally. In this talk I will discuss two different astrophysical searches. One consists in looking with radio telescopes for the spontaneous decay of axion dark matter using different targets as Dwarf Galaxies, Clusters or the Galactic Center. The second one uses the parity violating axion interactions to exploit the extreme precision of pulsar timing measurements and look for oscillations in the polarization angle of the pulsar signal.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:51:02 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Quid pro quo in children: The origins of reciprocity (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67144 67144-16805221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

Race and Gender Differences in Benevolent Sexism

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:16 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Social Area Brown Bag: Are online survey participants motivated to provide high-quality data (and do they)? (November 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67150 67150-16805229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

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

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Presentation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:26:21 -0400 2019-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Nick Michalak
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66216 66216-16719598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:41 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
CCN Forum: Developmental tuning of action selection. (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65653 65653-16627857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:03:24 -0500 2019-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Wen
Michigan Neuroimaging Initiative: Fine-scale topographic organization of cortico-cerebellar networks for visual attention and working memory (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69253 69253-17275347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:55:31 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Qinggang Yu
Brown Bag: "Henry Clinton and British Strategy in the American Revolutionary War" (November 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68504 68504-17090629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Huw Davies will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship. His research focuses on re-evaluating the history of the British Army in Colonial and Revolutionary America, India, and Europe, 1750-1850.

In the space of seven decades between 1740 and 1810, the British Army fought wars on four continents, producing a unique accumulation of knowledge, experience and ideas about tactics, operations and strategy. Henry Clinton was at the centre of this knowledge network, and had vociferous opinions about how Britain should use its military power.

Davies will present a paper, using research conducted at the Clements Library, to illustrate Clinton’s thinking on war and how he influenced the direction of the British Army. Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:33:31 -0400 2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Battle of Monmouth, 28th June 1778, with notations by Henry Clinton.
Developmental Brown Bag: Understanding Ordinary Minds Leads to Understanding Extraordinary Ones: Adventures in Theory of Mind (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65648 65648-16627851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:32:32 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Cultural differences in the link between social anxiety and drinking (November 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67153 67153-16805226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:57 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Clinical Brown Bag: The Neuropsychology of Stuff (December 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69786 69786-17423618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:28:11 -0500 2019-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Preston
Social Area Brown Bag Talk: Do we know whom we can trust? The psychology of trustworthiness detection (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67163 67163-16805245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:44:34 -0500 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Detlef Fetchenhauer
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: #ArmMeWith: Analyzing Teacher Resource Needs Through Twitter (December 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66219 66219-16719600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Esra Ascigil and Lester Sim

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Presentation Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:03:10 -0500 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Christina Costa
Developmental Brown Bag: Can Food be Addictive? Implications for Children and Adolescents (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69877 69877-17480880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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Presentation Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:14:59 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Ashley Gearhardt
Social Area Brown Bag Talk (December 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67162 67162-16805244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Yuyan Han
Title: Experts and Overconfidence

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

Iris Wang
Title: How ecology impacts friendship choice

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

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Presentation Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:25:12 -0500 2019-12-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Yuyan Han and Iris Wang
Brown Bag: "The Radical Visual Rhetoric of Early Abolition" (December 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68700 68700-17138821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. Phillip Troutman will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Reese Fellowship in the Print Culture of the Americas. Dr. Troutman is a 2018-2019 Smithsonian Senior Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Writing and of History at the George Washington University. He is working on a book, drawing on visual theory, rhetoric, history, and art history to provide the first assessment of the American Anti-Slavery Society's visual program of periodicals, pamphlets, prints, and books in the 1830s, their formative decade. In contrast to other scholars of anti-slavery images, he argues that the AASS's visual rhetoric in the 1830s was innovative, specific, and radical, especially in its depiction of the subjectivity and agency of African Americans.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:37:19 -0400 2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "The Anti-Slavery Record," February 1836, courtesy American Antiquarian Society
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: Beliefs about gender/sex diversity: Links to prejudice and diversity-affirming interventions (January 9, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70171 70171-17540927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:08:02 -0500 2020-01-09T00:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T01:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Zach Schudson
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70172 70172-17540928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:11:22 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sara Chadwick
University Library Resources Open House (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70416 70416-17594469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Explore information services, research tools, and resources offered by the University of Michigan library.

There will be 2 presentations and a variety of other resources available.

PRESENTATIONS:

12:00 - 12:45: Measuring Research Impact
Presenters: Becky Welzenbach, Research Impact Librarian
Judy Smith, Informationist
Tyler Nix, Informationist

1:00 - 1:45: Data Visualization
Presenter: Justin Joque, Visualization Librarian

Resource booths include:

Deep Blue/RDM: Rachel Woodbrook, Data Curation Librarian and Martha Stuit, Repository Assistant
Mapping and GIS: Caroline Kayko, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian
Systematic Reviews: Whitney Townsend, Informationist
NIH Compliance and Open Access: Merle Rosenzweig, Informationist
ISR Information Resources: Yan Fun, Information Resources Manager


Lunch is provided during the presentations for attendees and library participants who RSVP to the presentations.

RSVP is required for this event: https://forms.gle/iC41v4ygK9UNmcTaA

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Other Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:53 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Other flyer
Accessible Presentations - A Brown Bag Talk (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70088 70088-17510056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Making in-person communication accessible—at meetings and during presentations— shows that you care who can access your ideas.

Stephanie Rosen, Accessibility Specialist at U-M Library, will provide an introduction to the how and why of making your presentations accessible to all of your colleagues and audiences.

The session will include a basic introduction to disability, principles for accessible presentations, and practical tips and resources you can use right away.

DACCD Accessibility Subcommittee White Paper on live captioning presentations: bit.ly/daccd-live-caption

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event.

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Presentation Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:02:24 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement for Accessible Presentations - A Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Social Brown Bag: (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69607 69607-17368322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Rachel Fine
Title: Let’s Talk (or Not) About Race and Gender: A new measure of gender and race disregard and acknowledgment

Abstract
We have been talking about color blind and multicultural attitudes toward race for quite a while. Could our measures need an update? Can we extend these attitudes to gender? I will present a new scale we have developed to look at how people use race and gender in both private and societal contexts and discuss how this measure may help address discrepancies in the literature.

Cristine Salvador
Title:
Interdependence in Latin America: Self-assertive and Emotionally Expressive
Abstract:
Many cultures outside of Western European and North American cultures are typically described as interdependent and holistic, due to a stronger emphasis they supposedly place on social relations vs. personal selves. However, depending on social ecologies of different regions, there may be varying forms of interdependence across the globe. We expected Latin American culture to sanction both self-assertion (which is thought to be required to protect ingroups) and emotionally expression (which is required to relate socially in ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous groups). This is in stark contrast with East Asian cultures that value self-effacement and emotion suppression (both of which are thought to be conducive to social harmony). To address these possibilities, we tested Colombians, Japanese and European Americans (N=550) and observed that (i) Colombians are cognitively as holistic as Japanese (more so than Americans), (ii) they are as assertive as Americans (more so than Japanese), and (iii) they are emotionally as expressive as Americans (more so than Japanese). However, the types of emotions that Colombians express are primarily socially engaging, unlike Americans. Our findings provide the first comprehensive evidence that the form of interdependence common in Latin America is both self-assertive and emotionally expressive, in stark contrast against the East Asian form that is the most commonly tested in the current literature. They thereby underscores an urgent need to globalize psychological theories.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:18:31 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Fine and Salvador
Developmental Brown Bag: Testing developmental theories, busting myths and helping families (January 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69688 69688-17382656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In this talk, I will address a question recently posed by a mother expecting her second child: "Will I love my second child as much as I love my first?" This talk will describe how the narrow focus of current developmental theories of parenting and parent-child relationships limits are abilities to generate hypotheses to address this question. In turn, a number of myths continue to be perpetuated by both researchers and practitioners about child and family adjustment following the birth of a baby sibling. I will describe how such theoretical limitations drive research designs and data collection on mother-child dyads and in the end, make it nearly impossible to find data that can be analyzed to answer this mother's question to help her and other parents. I will present findings from three separate studies outlining our attempts to determine if this is a common belief among women expecting their second child, if such beliefs are a cause for concern, and what the outcomes are for babies if mothers are already asking this question before the infant is even born. The first study will present findings from the Family Transitions Study (FTS), a longitudinal investigation of 241 mothers and fathers making the transition from one child to two, to examine how frequently mothers reported having these worries, whether these worries covaried with other psychological and socio-contextual risks in the family, and whether such worries expressed during pregnancy predicted mothers' feelings of attachment to the baby after the birth and the security of the infant-mother attachment at the end of the first year. The second study will present findings from a web-based analysis of over 40,000 blog posts by mothers expecting their second child on the BabyCenter website to determine if this was a common concern discussed by women with other expectant mothers. The final study reports findings from a recent pilot program in which we asked 30 pregnant mothers if they worried about loving both children equally in an effort to replicate findings from the FTS, and in the end, to demonstrate how myths can be busted and science can be translated to help families across important developmental transitions.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:32:41 -0500 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Volling
Social Brown Bag: (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69608 69608-17368323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Todd Chan

Title:
Modesty or secrecy: The costs of being modest in close relationships

Abstract:
Modesty is regarded positively in social life, yet how it is evaluated by the person toward whom the modest behavior is directed and how it functions in close relationships has seldom been examined. In ten studies, I examine how refraining from self-disclosure out of modesty concerns can result in negative consequences in close relationships, possibly because modest behavior violates relational and conversational norms unique to close relationships. Yet, modest individuals tend to (incorrectly) believe that their friends would react more positively if they discovered positive news about them through means other than disclosure. I discuss why despite the generally positive perceptions of modesty, being modest with close friends can decrease trust and liking in close relationships.

Zach Reese

Title:
Social comparison within romantic relationships: Consequences for self-esteem and relationship satisfaction

Abstract:
We regularly compare our skills and abilities to those of our romantic partners. How do these comparisons impact the way we feel about ourselves and our relationship? Do gender and closeness moderate how we respond to our romantic partners' relative achievements? In this talk, I describe four studies designed to investigate these questions.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:18:09 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Chan and Reese
P&SC/G&GP Brown Bag: Changes in prenatal testosterone and sexual desire in expectant couples (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72238 72238-17963877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Jieun Chang

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:10:29 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Lester Sim
Clinical Brown Bag: Positive Future Expectancies as Potential Protective Factors of Suicide Risk: Do Optimism and Hope Predict Suicidal Behaviors in Adult Primary Care Patients? (February 3, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69598 69598-17368313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Suicide represents a significant health concern in the United States, where the rate of deaths by suicide has grown substantially over the past two decades. Notably, in 2014 the World Health Organization called upon researchers to expand research on suicide to include examinations into both risk and protective factors. Therefore, the present study sought to examine optimism and hope as predictors of suicidal behaviors (viz., suicide ideation and suicide attempt) in a sample of 179 adult primary care patients. Furthermore, we aimed to determine if the combination of hope and optimism would account for additional variance in the prediction model for suicidal behaviors among this population. In this cross-sectional study, participants completed measures of hope (viz., agency and pathways), optimism, and suicidal behaviors, as well as a series of demographic questions. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the aforementioned hypotheses. Results indicated that hope and optimism were both significant and unique predictors of suicidal behaviors among adult primary care patients. However, the hope-by-optimism interaction terms were not found to be significant. Some implications of the present findings will be discussed.

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Presentation Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:29:05 -0500 2020-02-03T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Lucas
Social Brown Bag: (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69609 69609-17368324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Details forthcoming.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:39:00 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Albert
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: What predicts extradyadic sex in HIV positive and negative gay male couples? (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70174 70174-17540930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Christina Costa

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:09:45 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Esra Ascigil
Clinical Brown Bag: Development of the Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale for Children (February 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69599 69599-17368314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

Highly processed foods (with added fats and/or refined carbohydrates) may trigger an addictive-like process, including withdrawal when these foods are reduced. Withdrawal is marked by affective, cognitive, and physical symptoms that may hinder dietary change. A recently developed scale of highly processed food withdrawal in adults (ProWS) provides evidence for this construct. Children commonly consume highly processed foods, but no measures currently exist to examine highly processed food withdrawal in children. The purpose of this study was to develop a measure (ProWS-C) to assess for signs of highly processed food withdrawal in children.

Parents who had recently attempted to reduce their child’s highly processed food consumption were recruited through an online crowdsourcing platform. 304 parents (56.9% mothers) reported on their 3-11-year-old children (63.8% male). The ProWS-C was designed to reflect parents’ observations of child behavior. Internal consistency and validity were evaluated using the Dimensional Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0 for Children (dYFAS-C 2.0.), Children’s Food Neophobia Scale-Modified (CFNS), and body mass index (BMI) silhouettes.

Exploratory factor analysis revealed a one-factor structure with 21 items (α=0.94). The ProWS-C demonstrated convergent validity with more child food addiction symptoms (r=.55, p<.001) and higher child BMI (r=.24, p<.001) and discriminant validity with child food neophobia (r=-.10, p=.08). The ProWS-C was associated with less success in reducing child highly processed food intake independent of child addictive-like eating and BMI (p=.001).

The ProWS-C provides preliminary evidence for highly processed food withdrawal in children and appears to be a psychometrically sound tool for assessing parent-reported withdrawal symptoms in children. Illuminating specific challenges families face when reducing highly processed foods may improve parents’ ability to help their children make sustainable dietary changes.

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Presentation Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:51:44 -0500 2020-02-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Parnarouskis
Developmental Brown Bag: Child Literacy & Dyslexia: From Neurobiology to Intergenerational Transmission (February 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69689 69689-17382657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this talk, I will broadly present research on the latest neuroimaging findings of reading acquisition and dyslexia primarily from our group including new hypothesis of dyslexia “the neural noise hypothesis” (Hancock Pugh Hoeft. Trends in Cog Sci 2017).

Parents have large influence on offspring’s brain and cognitive development. The Intergenerational Multiple Deficit Model (iMDM [van Bergen et al. Front Hum Neurosci 2014]; or Cumulative Risk and Protection Model, CRAP Model) affords integration of parental influences as well as others, whether genetic or environmental, and whether risk or protective factors, to explain individual differences in reading ability and liability for developing dyslexia, a specific disorder of reading. Further, it has recently been suggested that most complex traits show intergenerational sex-specific transmission patterns, which could help uncover biological pathways of transmission. Macrocircuits using imaging may be an ideal target for investigations of intergenerational effects, where key causes may converge in ways that lead to complex phenotypes such as reading and dyslexia.

Based on these notions, we are currently examining how parental cognitive and neuroimaging patterns are associated with offspring’s reading and related imaging patterns (e.g. Black et al. NeuroImage 2012, Hosseini et al. NeuroImage 2013, Hoeft & Hancock. Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis, 30 years Later 2017, Chang et al. under prep). We first establish the feasibility of this novel approach, intergenerational neuroimaging, by confirming matrilineal transmission patterns in the cortico-limbic system that is well established in gene expression and behavioral studies of animals and humans (Yamagata et al. J Neurosci 2016). We then interrogate network patterns related to reading, and show intergenerational transmission patterns. We also show results indicating how paternal age may negatively predict reading outcome and the potential neural mechanism (e.g. attention, thalamic development, de novo mutation [Xia et al. under review]). We discuss preliminary findings in light of historical and latest causal theories of dyslexia. We also introduce our new research program utilizing a natural cross-fostering design will allow us to dissociate genetic, prenatal and postnatal environmental influences, which has traditionally not been feasible in humans, but is critically important in dissecting neurobiological mechanisms underlying reading and dyslexia (Ho et al. Trends in Neuroscience. 2016).

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Presentation Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:18:12 -0500 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Hoeft
Social Brown Bag: (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69610 69610-17368326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Wilson Merrell:

Title: Exploring Fundamental Social Motives in Older Adults

Abstract: The United States population is aging at a rapid pace, with the number of Americans 65 and older projected to more than double over the next 40 years. This demographic shift highlights the increasing importance of fully explaining the mechanisms that drive changes in outcomes relevant to older adults. Merging evolutionary perspectives on fundamental social motivations with current aging research, we propose a framework for understanding cognitive and behavioral outcomes in older adults from an ultimate, threat-based perspective. Using publically available secondary IAT data from Project Implicit (N = 552,288), we present a disease-specific test case for our framework. Preliminary results reveal flexible, specific responses to different disease-relevant targets across the lifespan that may be tied to age-dependent threats.

Nadia Vossoughi:

Title: Witnessing microaggressions in an engineering context harms learning and participation.

Abstract: Experiencing microaggressions—defined as subtle verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights directed towards someone due to their social category (Sue, 2010)—impedes academic success among marginalized students in science and engineering (e.g., Moss-Racusin et al., 2018; Adams et al., 2006). Most research examining the consequences of microaggressions has focused on directly experiencing microaggressions, but we propose that just witnessing microaggressions may create a negative environment that also impedes academic success. Using an experimental design, we showed undergraduate science and engineering students (n=208) video footage of a mixed gender group working on a design project that participants believed they would later join. From the video footage participants either witnessed subtle bias directed at a woman by a man (microaggression condition) or subtle bias did not occur in the interactions (control condition). We find that just witnessing microaggressions leads to lower memory retention of engineering material, and decreased desire to join their group (ps<.05). The negative effect of witnessing microaggressions was present for both men and women and remained significant after controlling for confidence in one’s engineering abilities and rejection sensitivity. Results indicate that the presence of microaggressions contributes to a negative environment that is detrimental to everyone’s academic learning and participation.

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:55:17 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Merrell and Vossoughi
Clinical Brown Bag: Early Risk Pathways to Substance Use Problems in Emerging Adulthood (February 17, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69600 69600-17368315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Problematic substance use(alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; ATOD) increases dramatically duringadolescence and emerging adulthood. These problems carry extremely high social,psychological, and economic costs for individuals, families, communities andsociety at large. Although substance use is common among adolescents and youngadults, there are substantial individual differences in susceptibility to substanceuse problems. Why do some adolescents show persistent substance use problemsacross the transition to early adulthood, whereas others show decliningpatterns of use? Currently, there are significant gaps in our understanding ofhow adverse experiences in early childhood may become translated into latersubstance use problems, an issue that has strong relevance for prevention.Using new data from our 17-year prospectivelongitudinal study, we tested the hypothesis that individual differences in theseverity of ATOD among emerging adults may reflect complex transactions betweenchildren’s adverse social experiences and regulatory vulnerabilities that beginin the early preschool years.

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Presentation Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:43:44 -0500 2020-02-17T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Olson Ip
Developmental Brown Bag: Measuring the brain and behavior during child-caregiver interaction: What can we learn about language and neurodevelopmental disorders? (February 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69690 69690-17382658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Infants and toddlers learn language through dynamic, reciprocal interactions with their caregivers. Often, language development is studied using tasks that seem far from the engaging, natural context of the child’s everyday world. This is typically even more true of studies that examine the brain, because our brain imaging technologies like MRI and EEG typically require one person to engage in a repetitive task in front of a screen, with restricted motion. In this talk, I describe our work that aims assess language and brain measures in children with or at-risk for language disorders using innovative naturalistic, dyadic behavior and brain measures. One line of research uses a multi-dimensional approach to assess risk for later language disorder in late-talking children, including assessing irritability (a key indicator of later mental health risk), parent-child interaction, and the child’s brain and parent-child brain synchrony in the lab. Our EEG measures of the brain are collected from both toddlers and their mothers while they interact naturally, during activities such as watching a movie or completing a puzzle together. We use a micro-coding approach to identify different behavioral states and compare features of the child’s brain (such as EEG power in bands of interest) and similarity or synchrony between the child and parent’s brain (inter-brain power correlation and phase locking) across these states. We also assess children longitudinally via videochat, recording the parent and child at home, to enable additional timepoints of data while minimizing participant burden. A second project compares these brain measures in toddlers with autism and parents with the broader autism phenotype (sub-clinical autism-like symptoms). Together, these studies highlight the challenges and promises of using dyadic methods to give a more complete picture of a child’s language development.


Bio:
Elizabeth Norton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University, where she directs the Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience (or “LEARN”) Lab. Her research combines behavioral and brain measures and seeks to understand typical development as well as reading, language, and neurodevelopmental disorders. She currently leads two NIH-funded research projects investigating early brain and behavior atypicalities and markers of prognosis in children with language delay or autism spectrum disorder. As a former high school teacher for students with dyslexia, she is particularly interested in understanding individual differences and working toward early identification and intervention for language and reading disabilities. Norton obtained her B.A. in Language and Brain Development at Dartmouth College, her Ph.D. at Tufts University in Child Study and Human Development, and postdoctoral training in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Visit sponsors: Department of Psychology Developmental Area, Combined Program in Education & Psychology, Language & Literacy Laboratory (Director: Ioulia Kovelman, Psychology)

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Presentation Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:09:20 -0500 2020-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Norton
Social Brown Bag: (February 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69611 69611-17368327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Kaidi Wu

Title: Are Social Privileges Invisible to Those Who Have Them?

Abstract: Social privileges are invisible to those who have them. Men, Whites, and the right-handed were hypocognitive, or less schematic, of everyday burdens (e.g., safety precautions, daily hassles) experienced by women, non-Whites, and the left-handed. This hypocognition, in turn, underlay disagreements about social privilege and perceived discrimination across social groups.


Izzy Gainsburg

Title: Is Compassion Limited or Unlimited? Lay beliefs about compassion and their influence on emotional experience, moral concern, and helping behavior

Abstract: When people witness tragedy or suffering, they often feel compassion--feelings of concern for victims and a desire to help them. However, research also shows that people often feel less compassion as the number of people suffering increases (i.e., compassion fade), and that people's compassion response weakens with repeated exposure to suffering (i.e., compassion fatigue). It is possible, however, that compassion fade and fatigue are influenced a belief that compassion is a limited resource. In other words, it is possible that lay beliefs about compassion as limited and fatiguing result in a self-fulfilling prophecy that reinforces compassion fade and fatigue. If so, then changing people's beliefs that compassion is unlimited and energizing may short-circuit this process and allow people to continue to feel compassion in response to large amounts of suffering. In today's presentation, I review a new investigation into whether beliefs about compassion as limited (vs. unlimited) affect people's experience of compassion fatigue, their moral concern for distant entities, and their helping behavior.

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Presentation Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:21:53 -0500 2020-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Wu and Gainsburg
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: White individuals’ perceptions of Latinx individuals: The roles of social dominance orientation and local demographics (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70176 70176-17540932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Tannie Davis

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:11:01 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Maria Areguin
Developmental Brown Bag: (February 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69691 69691-17382659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Michael Demidenko

Title:
Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors: Convergent, Discriminant and Predictive Validity of Self-Report and Cognitive Measures

Abstract:
Self-report and cognitive tasks of reward sensitivity and self-regulation have influenced several developmental models that may explain the heightened engagement in risk behaviors during adolescence. Despite some inconsistencies across studies, few studies have explored the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of self-report and cognitive measures of these psychological characteristics in adolescence. The present study evaluated the convergent and discriminant validity of self-report and cognitive measures of reward sensitivity and self-regulation among 2017 adolescents (age M = 16.8, SD = 1.1; 56% female; 55% White, 22% Black, 8% Hispanic, 15% other race/ethnic; 49% 10th grade and 51% 12th grade). This study compared the predictive validity of an omnibus measure and specific measures of risk engagement. Convergent and discriminant validity from self-report to cognitive tasks were as predicted, although with weak convergent relationships. As hypothesized, compared to cognitive tasks, self-report measures consistently predicted risky behaviors and explained more variance in the models. These results demonstrate that while cognitive tasks can significantly predict certain risk behaviors, they require increased power to find the very small effects, raising questions about their use as implicit proxies for real world risk behavior.

Lolita Moss

Title:
Connecting Media Use and Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence Among Black Young Adults

Abstract:
Although scholars have found connections between mainstream media consumption and acceptance of intimate partner violence (IPV), little is known about the specific mechanisms that connect media use to endorsement of such violence. Understanding this connection is particularly relevant for Black Americans because Black women report higher rates of intimate partner violence than do White women (Al’Uqdah, Maxwell, & Hill, 2016), and Black Americans consume more media than the general population (Rideout, Lauricella, & Wartella, 2011). Accordingly, this study tested these connections among Black adults, investigating contributions of their consumption of movies, music videos, and 52 popular television programs to their acceptance of dating violence. Our survey of 369 Black young adults also tested three potential mediators using SEM: sexual objectification, heterosexual script, and two stereotypes about Black women, the Sapphire and the Jezebel. Results from parallel mediation analyses indicated that heavier exposure to all three media predicted higher levels of the three mediators, which in turn predicted greater acceptance of IPV.

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Presentation Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:04:59 -0500 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Demidenko and Moss
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: Linking sexual harassment with negative outcomes in health care: Power, inclusion, and masculinity (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70177 70177-17540933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Introduced by Kathy Robotham

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:11:48 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Sheila Brassel
Social Brown Bag: Julia Smith: Visible and invisible privileges: An interpersonal positive/negative asymmetry; Laura Soter: Knowing What You Shouldn't Do: Differences in Normative and Predictive Moral Judgments (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69612 69612-17368328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Julia Smith:

Abstract:
People tend to notice the barriers that make life harder for them and overlook the blessings that make life easier. When they do notice the blessings, however, they disproportionately notice other people who have helped them reach their goals rather than positive personal characteristics or structural benefits. The opposite pattern emerges for barriers: people report structural barriers but rarely mention harmful interpersonal relationships. In this talk, I will outline this phenomenon and discuss the possibility that it is due to a social norm that obliges people to pay close attention to the help they receive from others, but not the advantages they receive from non-interpersonal life circumstances.












Laura Soter:

Abstract:
Normative moral judgments - judgments about what's right and wrong, or judgments about what we should or shouldn't do - are meant to be action-guiding. Yet, recent work has found that people's normative judgments about what they should do don't always align with what they actually do. There are a number of possible explanations for why people might fail in the moment to act as they think they should, including failures of affective forecasting or weakness of will. Across four studies, we test an alternative hypothesis: that people may be reflectively aware that they won't always act in accordance with their moral judgments. Our findings show that in relational "loyalty dilemmas," there are consistent patterns of differences when people are asked what they would do, as opposed to what they should do.

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Presentation Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:17:39 -0500 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Smith and Soter
CANCELED - P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: Kiebler: Perceptions of class in the context of gender-based mistreatment & Miller-Tejacda: “It’s who I am”: Examining ethnic identity resolution in Latinx adolescents (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70178 70178-17540935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note that this event has been canceled.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:38:47 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Jessica Kiebler and Stephanie Miller-Tejada
CANCELLED Developmental Brown Bag: (March 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69695 69695-17382663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Note this event has been cancelled.

Andrea Mora

Title:
Neighborhood Dangers Facing Adolescents: Community Violence and Gender-Based Harassment

Abstract:
Ample research examines community violence as a serious public health problem that disproportionately affects minority adolescents (World Health Organization, 2002). Although a rising public health concern as well (Kaltiala-Heino et al., 2016), less research investigates adolescents’ experiences of gender-based harassment in poor, urban neighborhoods. Using data from 416 urban, low-income Latino/a adolescents (53% female; Mage = 15.5), this study examined the relations between community violence exposure (CVE), gender-based harassment, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and the moderating role of parent-child cohesion. Findings revealed that greater exposure to both CVE and gender-based harassment was associated with greater PTSD symptoms. Notably, the effect of gender-based harassment on PTSD symptoms was far greater than the effect of community violence. Additionally, the association between gender-based harassment and PTSD symptoms was exacerbated when parent-child cohesion was high, compared to when it was low or average. Findings highlight the importance of examining gender-based harassment when studying violence in neighborhoods to fully capture urban adolescents' experiences in their communities.

Jessica Montoro

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:37:17 -0400 2020-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Mora and Montoro