Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Clinical Brown Bag: Clinical Supervision: best practices in a clinical science program (September 13, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85775 85775-21628983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yuyan

Title:
The Role of Guessing in the Mismeasure of Expertise

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

Cristina

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:18:16 -0400 2021-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation
Clinical Brown Bag: Why? (September 20, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85776 85776-21628984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
I will present an updated version of my SRP presidential address that reflects on the state of the field, reviews my work and looks to the future.

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Presentation Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:34:43 -0400 2021-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Patty Deldin
Developmental Brown Bag: Racism and Health: Reflections on Psychology, Public Health and Developmental Science (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87064 87064-21638558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Research on racism and health is critical to optimizing the health and development of Black American young people. Through research that integrates psychology, biology, developmental and family science, and public health, we have: 1) advanced our understanding of racism experiences among Black American youth; 2) delineated mechanisms that mitigate or exacerbate the health sequelae of racism; and 3) tested a biopsychosocial model of racism-related stress to identify opportunities for intervention and the eradication of racism. In this presentation, I will highlight recent key findings and reflect on the value of combining racism, public health, and developmental science frameworks to inform the next generation of research, alleviate the health consequences of racism, and promote health equity for Black and other marginalized youth.

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Presentation Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:07:54 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Enrique Neblett
How the Measurement and Meaning of Family Structure Shape Research on Young Adult Racial Inequality (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86249 86249-21632226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Abstract:
At the population level, Black and White youth in the United States enter adulthood after a lifetime of divergent family structure experiences. A substantial social science literature has investigated whether this variation in childhood family structure contributes to racial disparities in the timing, sequence, and context of events in the transition into adulthood. This discussion adopts a critical perspective on mainstream research on this topic. The panelists highlight opportunities in family demography, social stratification, human development, and race and ethnic studies to advance theory, measurement, and empirical modeling in order to more accurately reflect Black family organization and to situate Black and White families in the a broader context of racialized social, economic, and political inequality.

Speakers:
Paula Fomby is a research associate professor in the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in social demography from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research considers how family composition and family process contribute to variation in child and young adult well-being, particularly in the context of social inequality. Fomby is the associate director of the UM Population Studies Center, a co-investigator on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the associate director of the PSID Child Development Supplement.

Christina Cross is a postdoctoral fellow and incoming assistant professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at University of Michigan. Her research examines how family structure, change, and dynamics influence individual wellbeing across the life course, particularly among minority and/or low-income populations. Much of her work has focused on childhood as a key stage in the life course for the emergence and accumulation of social advantages or disadvantages.

Bethany Letiecq is an associate professor in the Human Development and Family Science program at George Mason University. - She received her PhD in health education/family studies and her MS in family and community development from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Letiecq employs community-based participatory and action research approaches to conduct research in partnership with families systematically marginalized by society to promote family health and justice. She is keenly interested in how social policies and practices facilitate or hinder family functioning and health across all families.

This event is an ISR Inclusive Research Matters presentation, sponsored by the Education Programs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team, the Population Studies Center and the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:45:07 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Social Brown Bag: How does culture shape responses to immoral behavior? (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86051 86051-21631242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Imagine witnessing your best friend committing a crime. Would you act out of loyalty to your friend, by protecting them from punishment, or loyalty to your society, by punishing their crime? Moral norms help us balance between the needs of the group and those of individuals, and societies across the globe vary in the balance they strike. Among Americans, the answer is clear: people reliably choose to protect close others who commit moral transgressions, thereby prioritizing individuals at the expense of society. How might this differ in collectivist cultural contexts? Decades of cultural psychology research present two compelling possibilities. On one hand, people in collectivist contexts may perceive outcomes to be shared among close others. Therefore, to avoid negative consequences for the self, they may protect close others even more strongly than Americans. On the other hand, people in collectivist contexts may prioritize the group over any individual, which would predict a weaker tendency to protect close others. Across three studies, we provide self-report and narrative evidence supporting the latter hypothesis. In Studies 1 and 2, we show that Japanese (vs. Americans) are more punitive toward close others who commit crimes, and that this is driven by societal (vs. individual) concerns. In Study 3, we show that this cultural difference disappears when society is less implicated in the crime. Together, this work underscores the importance of context in shaping interpersonal moral decisions.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:39:02 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Martha Berg
Clinical Brown Bag: Distinct Patterns of Functional Brain Network Connectivity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder versus Anxiety Disorders (October 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85777 85777-21628985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Despite the similarities across anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder, little is known about the neurobiological differences that might distinguish these two types of disorders. In this study, we directly compared the functional connectivity patterns of large-scale brain networks in a group of youth with OCD to a group of youth with non-OCD anxiety. Specifically, resting-state functional connectivity was used to determine connectivity strength within and between the orbitofrontal-striatal-thalamic (OST) circuit, the cingulo-opercular network (CON), and the default mode network (DMN). The results of the current study identified greater functional connectivity within the CON, as well as between the CON and OST, in the OCD group as compared to the anxiety and healthy control groups. These findings indicate that previously noted network connectivity differences in pediatric patients with OCD were likely not attributable to co-morbid anxiety disorders. Additional conclusions from these analyses and their relevance for improving clinical outcomes will be discussed, as well as limitations of the current project. This talk will also include a discussion of ongoing and future projects that are designed to build from this work, specifically exploring questions about the neurobiological correlates of psychopathology using alternative classification frameworks.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 08:24:25 -0400 2021-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Hannah Becker
Social Brown Bag: Regulatory Focus Theory as a Lens to Advance Indigenous Suicide Intervention Research (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86052 86052-21631243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) aged 15-24, and suicide rates among AIAN adolescents are highest of any US racial/ethnic group. To address this disparity, researchers often partner with tribal nations and institutions to develop and test suicide prevention interventions. Importantly, these interventions differ along the dimension of promotion-orientation (increasing and maintaining overall mental wellbeing) vs prevention-orientation (surveillance and early identification of those at highest risk). Regulatory focus theory specifies that the regulatory system motivates complex behaviors through promotion-focus (hopes and gains), or prevention-focus (safety and responsibility). This talk will explore results from two applications of Regulatory Focus Theory in this area: (1) A systematic review of interventions to prevent suicide in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities, comparing prevention versus promotion focused self-regulatory approaches for fit effects and examining alignment between interventions’ regulatory focus and respective outcomes selected. (2) A secondary data analysis of associations between beliefs about suicide prevention and self-reported promotion and/or prevention actions in a primarily Alaska Native sample.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:35:29 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lauren White
Clinical Brown Bag: Co-Occurrence of Food Addiction, High-Risk Substance Use, and Parental History of High-Risk Alcohol Use: Evidence for an Addictive-Like Eating Phenotype (October 11, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85804 85804-21629099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
An ongoing debate surrounds the existence of a phenotype for addiction to rewarding, highly processed (HP) food (commonly referred to as food addiction). The identification of shared risk factors for and high rates of co-occurrence between gambling and high-risk substance use was foundational to the recategorization of gambling as an addiction. Investigating shared risk factors such as family history of high-risk substance use and co-occurrence between food addiction and high-risk substance use may be an important area of research for informing whether this eating phenotype is consistent with an addictive model. In this study (n=357), we investigate rates of co-occurrence among food addiction, high-risk substance use (i.e., alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes, nicotine vaping), parental history of high-risk alcohol use, and obesity. Modified Poisson regression was used to calculate risk ratios unadjusted and adjusted for socio demographic covariates. Results of the current study indicated that risk of food addiction was higher in participants with high-risk alcohol use, cannabis use, smoking, vaping, and parental history of high-risk alcohol use. Obesity, in contrast, was not significantly associated with high-risk substance use and parental history of high-risk alcohol use indicating that food addiction and obesity are distinct phenotypes. Findings from this study support the conceptualization of food addiction as an addictive disorder and suggest that inclusion of food addiction as an addictive disorder in diagnostic frameworks is an important area for future consideration. This talk will include further discussion of conclusions from this study, including strengths and weaknesses of the current project, and future directions for work on this and related topics.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:29:05 -0400 2021-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Lindzey Hoover
Developmental Brown Bag: Positive Development and Well-Being among Black Youth: Reflections from the Field (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87065 87065-21638559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
During this Brown Bag, Dr. Shauna M. Cooper will highlight thematic contributions of research on Black families, children, and youth. In particular, this talk will emphasize key advancements in research that examines familial and fathering contexts of development. This talk will also highlight remaining gaps and recommendations for advancing developmental science research with Black families and racially- and ethnically-diverse children and families, more broadly.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:20:17 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Shauna Cooper
Social Brown Bag: Adherence to Norms for Emotions is Greater in more Individualist Cultures: Re-evaluating Cultural Individualism using large Cross-Cultural Datasets (October 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86053 86053-21631244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Social norms are the unwritten rules shared by members of a culture which guide social coordination and whose violation can lead to social sanctions. Adherence to social norms has been assumed to be weaker in more individualist cultures, which purportedly prioritize the individual over the group. However, an alternative perspective is that individualism is characterized by valuing subjective states such as emotions. If this perspective is correct, adherence to norms for emotions should be greater in more individualist cultures. I will present evidence from studies across several dozen countries and 200,000+ participants showing that: 1) adherence to emotion norms is greater in more individualist cultures; 2) deviating from the emotion norms of one’s culture is more detrimental to well-being in more individualist cultures; and 3) Immigrants from more individualist cultures adopt the emotion norms of natives faster. A final study further demonstrates that the association between individualism-collectivism and adherence to five distinct social norms is highly variable. Taken together, these findings suggest that individualism is characterized more by valuing and attending to subjective states than by prioritizing the individual over the group.

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Presentation Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:31:41 -0400 2021-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Allon Vishkin
October is National Financial Planning Month || Kathryn Greiner ("Budget Guru"), presenting (October 21, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88456 88456-21654143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Getting ready to start a budget at home? Fed up with having more month than money? Is it time to start saving for the holidays? Want to ensure you are ready for retirement?

If so, then please join the "No Place Like Home" group as they invite Kathryn Greiner (Budget Guru) to discuss financial budgeting best practices.

Kathryn Greiner, Accredited Financial Counselor®
Retired Director of Credit Education, University of Michigan Credit Union

Called the “Budget Guru” by the Ann Arbor Observer, Kathryn Greiner has been helping people improve their budgeting skills since 1976. Kathryn provided budget counseling for members of the University of Michigan Credit Union for 25 years, and she retired in 2017.

Trained and certified as a credit counselor, Kathryn developed a Credit Education Program to teach consumers the skills needed to establish workable budgets, avoid bankruptcy and improve creditworthiness. In private counseling sessions, she taught how to control spending, reduce debt, begin to save - and still enjoy life! With her unique blend of compassion, realism and humor she helped them find sensible, workable answers to their financial problems. She is here today to share what she has learned from years of helping people create easy budgets.

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Meeting ID: 961 9669 4457
Passcode: 109191

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:14:45 -0400 2021-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location DCMB Seminar Series Livestream / Virtual
Developmental Brown Bag: Understanding the invisible: Children’s knowledge and misconceptions of COVID-19 transmission (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87066 87066-21638560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
As children have returned to the classroom, COVID-19 cases in children have increased, highlighting the importance of getting children to abide by health-promoting behaviors. Previous research has indicated that children are unlikely to abide by “Do’s and Don’ts” without a causal understanding of relevant processes. To that end, we investigated 5–12-year-old children’s (and their parents’) knowledge of COVID-19 transmission. In this talk, I will present preliminary data on common misconceptions children hold about COVID-19 transmission and discuss points of interest for future investigations and interventions.

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Presentation Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:21:48 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Labotka
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88052 88052-21648952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This talk examines the impact of mobile phone access on the containment of an epidemic. Speaker Elisa Maffioli et al. study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia. They found that having access to cell phone coverage leads to a 10.8 percentage point reduction in the likelihood that a village has an EVD case. Results from this novel survey collected following the epidemic suggest that this is mostly explained by cellphone access facilitating emergency care provision rather than improving access to outbreak-related information.

Dr. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research is in development economics, health economics and political economy, with a focus on infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and nutrition in lower income countries. She is currently working in Liberia, Myanmar, Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria, and has also conducted research in Lesotho, Kenya and India.


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

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:02:51 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Social Brown Bag: Motivated Reasoning and the Conjunction Fallacy (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86054 86054-21631245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

How does one’s motivation to reach a desired conclusion influence whether or not they make illogical probability judgements? In this talk, I consider the conjunction fallacy as a test case for motivated reasoning, or the process of evaluating information in a way that coheres with prior attitudes and beliefs. In 3 studies, participants with prior motivations (e.g., fans of a sports team) made judgments about the likelihood of future events. People committed the conjunction fallacy consistent with a desirability bias: scenarios that included a desirable outcome were judged as more likely to happen when compared to less desirable scenarios, even if logically incoherent.

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Presentation Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:19:44 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Clint McKenna
Clinical Brown Bag: Clinical Phenotyping of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: A Temporal Dynamics Approach to Understanding Heterogeneity (November 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88621 88621-21656208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dr. Sperry will discuss theoretical and methodological considerations for measuring heterogeneity in bipolar spectrum disorders. She will review her prior work using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine the intraindividual variability in emotion, cognition, and behavior in daily life and highlight future research here at the University of Michigan that will integrate these approaches to implement and test personalized interventions for bipolar disorder.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:15:53 -0400 2021-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Sperry
Consequences of Receiving Versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86164 86164-21631757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents:

Diana Greene Foster will discuss the context and findings of The Turnaway Study. The Turnaway Study answers the question, Does abortion hurt women? and the converse, What are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion? Dr. Foster will review the challenges of studying abortion and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will describe the study design of the Turnaway Study and present its major findings about women’s mental health, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She will describe the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about whether one can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy.

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion in the United States. She is currently collaborating with scientists on an NIH-funded Turnaway Study in Nepal. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University. She is the author of the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is the recipient of the 2021 Harriet B. Presser Award for the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America.

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

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:46:51 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Diana Greene Foster
Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88318 88318-21652407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Rod Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he also holds appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research. He has over 250 publications, notably on methods for the analysis of data with missing values and model-based survey inference, and the application of statistics to diverse scientific areas, including medicine, demography, economics, psychiatry, aging and the environment. Little is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2005, Little was awarded the American Statistical Association’s Wilks Medal for research contributions, and he gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer at the 2012 Joint Statistics Meetings.

On the Definition of Response Propensity

Nonresponse propensities play a central role in unit nonresponse adjustments from both design and model-based perspectives, but are often not clearly defined because of lack of clarity about the variables on which the propensities are conditioned. I propose a definition of response propensity for the purpose of nonresponse adjustments, where the conditioning is restricted to include the variables measured in the survey as well as design and auxiliary variables measured for respondents and nonrespondents. The proposed definition is justified from both design-based and model-based perspectives. The role of the missing at random assumption is discussed for both perspectives, for cross-sectional surveys and longitudinal surveys with attrition.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:53:30 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series
Social Brown Bag: Blame the System, Not the Victim: Understanding the lack of advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86055 86055-21631246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The U.S. is facing a crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Murder is the third leading cause among Native women and, compared to non-Hispanic White women, Native women are two times more likely to go missing and three times more likely to be murdered. Despite this, less than 5% of these cases are covered by national or international media (Lucchesi & Echo-Hawk, 2018). Across two studies we aim to identify the psychological factors that may help explain the lack of advocacy for MMIWG. Study 1 (N = 189) and Study 2 (a pre-registered replication; N = 4000) revealed that perceptions that Natives: 1) have vanished and 2) do not experience racism, leads people to blame MMIWG victims and overlook systems that maintain the crisis, ultimately increasing apathy and undermining advocacy efforts. These findings illuminate the detrimental effects stemming from societies lack of understanding for the lived experience of Native Peoples, in particular their contemporary existence and experiences with racism.

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Presentation Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:48:46 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Julisa Lopez
Clinical Brown Bag: When I become You: How small shifts in language promote self-control (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85806 85806-21629101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Although we all have an inner monologue that we engage in from time to time, people often refer to themselves in strikingly different ways when they engage in this introspective process. Whereas people typically use 1st person singular pronouns to refer to themselves during introspection (e.g., Why am I feeling this way?), they at times use their own name and other non-1st-person pronouns as well (e.g., Why is Ethan feeling this way or Why are you feeling this way?). In this talk I will review evidence from a multi-disciplinary line of research, which suggests that far from representing a simple quirk of speech or epiphenomenon, these linguistic shifts serve a powerful and potentially primitive self-control function, enhancing people’s ability to reason wisely and control their thoughts, feelings and behaviors under stress.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:07:39 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ethan Kross
Developmental Brown Bag: (November 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87068 87068-21638562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this talk, Dr.Benner will discuss research around three primary themes – measurement, intersectionality, and adolescent voices.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:28:53 -0400 2021-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Benner
Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data (November 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88675 88675-21656594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents Michael Mueller-Smith who will discuss, "Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data."

Mike Mueller-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), a new data infrastructure project joint with the U.S. Census Bureau that seeks to collect and link extensive amounts of criminal justice microdata with social and economic data held at the Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2015, and completed a NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Michigan’s Population Studies Center between 2015-2017.

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

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:44:30 -0400 2021-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System (poster)
HET Brown Bag Seminar | Modular forms and zeta-values in string amplitudes (November 9, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88953 88953-21659252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 11:30am
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Several rich mathematical objects appear in superstring scattering amplitudes, such as modular graph forms and Riemann zeta-values. Modular graph forms are modular forms associated with vacuum Feynman graphs. Both modular graph forms and zeta-values admit a grading by their transcendental weight. I shall review the transcendental structure of superstring amplitudes, including the conjectured uniform transcendentality of genus-one amplitudes in Type II superstring theory. I shall also describe recent work with Eric D’Hoker (arXiv:2110.06237) in which we evaluated the integrals of several infinite families of modular graph functions over genus-one moduli space.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 05:10:02 -0400 2021-11-09T11:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T12:30:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Social Brown Bag: (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86056 86056-21631247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Qinggang Yu

Title:
Perceived Discrimination and Mortality Risk Among White and African Americans: The Role of Purpose in Life

Abstract:
Although it is commonly believed that perceived discrimination serves as a stressor that compromises health, numerous studies have found that it sometimes predicts better health, especially among racial minorities in the US. Several lines of theorizing has thus suggested that when discrimination undeniably exists, acknowledging and reporting the discrimination may promote effective coping among members of stigmatized groups, compared to suppression and denial. Extending this speculation, the present work tested the possibility that among racial minorities, perceiving and recognizing group-based discrimination may promote the sense of purpose in life, that for improving the group's standing and fighting for social justice. This purpose in life in turn has a salubrious effect on health. Using a large longitudinal sample of White and African Americans in the US, I will present evidence that (1) perceived discrimination was associated with reduced purpose in life among White Americans, but the effect tended to reverse among African Americans; (2) perceived discrimination predicted increased risk of mortality among White Americans, but it predicted reduced risk of mortality among African Americans; and (3) purpose in life played an important role in the relationship between perceived discrimination and mortality. The present work reinforces the idea that perceptions of discrimination may afford unique meaning for racial minority groups.

Rachel Fine

Title:
Contact with Gender Nonconforming Identities and its Relation to Gender Essentialism in Children

Abstract:
I will briefly discuss the two studies that comprise my dissertation: the development of the Gender Essentialism Scale for Children, and how indirect contact with transgender identities through stories may influence children’s gender essentialism and understanding of trans identities.

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Presentation Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:02:50 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Qinggang Yu and Rachel Fine
Clinical Brown Bag: Benefits of and Barriers to Prosociality in Romantic Relationships (November 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85865 85865-21629403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
High-quality close relationships are one of the strongest predictors of health and well-being, yet much is still unknown about how we create and maintain them. In an effort to understand how we can have relationships that do not just survive, but thrive, I will present some of my research that (1) considers the role of prosocial processes, such as gratitude and responsiveness, in helping us to maintain high quality relationships and (2) identifies barriers to this prosociality. In particular, I focus on contextual barriers that are external the relationship, namely, poor sleep and stress.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:04:23 -0400 2021-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Amie Gordon
Developmental Brown Bag: Developmental Science with a Social Justice Lens (November 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87069 87069-21638563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In my research, I approach developmental science with an explicit social justice lens. My empirical research and translational writing has three overarching goals: to reduce bias among children, to protect children from others’ biases, and to reduce structural biases in children’s lives. In this talk, I will provide examples of how each of those goals are tackled within my work. I will also discuss the benefits (and challenges) of taking a broad, multidimensional, intersectional look at discrimination and bias.

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Presentation Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:37:30 -0400 2021-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Christa Spears Brown
Social Brown Bag: (November 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86057 86057-21631248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Wilson

Title:
It ain’t (just) about how hard you hit: Perceived pain sensitivity and race as determinants of physical formidability

Abstract:
Formidability is a set of summary evaluations that help individuals assess the physical threats posed by potentially agonistic others. Previous work has demonstrated a constellation of situational (e.g., whether someone is holding a weapon) and individual (e.g., target sex) factors that contribute to formidability representations. In this talk, I will focus on how two other factors, perceived sensitivity to pain and target race, jointly fit into this constellation. Pulling from evolutionary theories on threat management, I will present three studies that demonstrate (1) there is a bi-directional relationship between perceptions of pain sensitivity and physical formidability and (2) this relationship is represented in negative racialized stereotypes about Black men.

Sakura

Title:
Stress Among International Students in Japan During COVID: Thematic Analysis

Abstract:
International students are thought to be particularly hard-hit by the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although students at Japanese language institutes (i.e. schools that primarily teach Japanese to foreign students) are the second largest subgroup of international students in Japan, behind undergraduates, they are underrepresented in research on the mental health of international students. This study aims to identify the major causes of psychological stress, and the emotion regulation strategies used, among this subgroup during the pandemic. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted in March 2021 (n = 16). Thematic analysis suggests that participants experienced stress in relation to how the pandemic impacted their already precarious positions as international students in Japan, and that they used emotion regulation strategies such as problem-solving, social support, and distraction.

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Presentation Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:38:08 -0500 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Wilson Merrell, Sakura Takahashi
Clinical Brown Bag: Racism and Health: Black Mental Health Matters (November 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85807 85807-21629102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Research on racism and health is critical to optimizing the mental health and wellness of Black American young people. Through research that integrates psychology, biology, developmental and family science, and public health, we have: 1) advanced our understanding of racism experiences among Black American youth; 2) delineated mechanisms that mitigate or exacerbate the mental health sequelae of racism; and 3) tested a biopsychosocial model of racism-related stress to identify opportunities for intervention and the eradication of racism. In this presentation, I will highlight recent key findings and reflect on the value of combining racism, public health, and clinical science to inform the next generation of research, alleviate the health consequences of racism, and promote health equity for Black and other marginalized youth.

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Presentation Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:08:36 -0500 2021-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Enrique Neblett
Developmental Brown Bag: Gender Identity Development: A Social, Cognitive, Biological, and Contextual Journey (November 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87094 87094-21638695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The construct of gender is complex and protean: it changes across cultures and even within individuals over time. I dedicate my research program to understanding the role of gender and its ramifications on wellbeing. In this presentation, I will describe how I study gender identity development with an intersectional, bioecological framework by analyzing gender at the level of the individual, within proximal relationships, and at the cultural level.

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Presentation Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:12:57 -0500 2021-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Matthew Nielson
The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions (November 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86412 86412-21634272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions
Monday, November 29
12-1:10 pm ET via zoom
Speaker: Melanie Wasserman (University of California, Los Angeles)

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

Dr. Melanie Wasserman, Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, will discuss her work on "The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions".

Dr. Melanie Wasserman's research investigates the mechanisms underlying gender differences in labor market and educational outcomes. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Population Studies Center after completing her Ph.D. in economics at MIT.

https://www.melaniewasserman.com/

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

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:37:45 -0400 2021-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-29T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Michael Elliott - Combining Probability Non-probability Samples - JPSM MPSDS Seminar Series (December 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88381 88381-21653608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Michael Elliott is professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and research professor of survey methodology at the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. He has been at Michigan since 2005, where he returned after serving as an assistant professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania from 2000-2005.

COMBINING PROBABILITY NON-PROBABILITY SAMPLES
Although probability sample designs remain a “gold standard” in survey research, demand for use of non-probability samples is increasing, due to, among other reasons, rising costs and falling response rates in probability samples and the availability of “big data” from administrative databases, social media users, and other sources. Design-based inference, in which the distribution for inference is generated by the random mechanism used by the sampler, cannot be used for non-probability samples. If probability and non-probability samples are available that target the same population, the probability sample can be used to account for possible selection bias if there are sufficient overlapping covariates even if the outcome is not available in the probability sample. One approach is “quasi-randomization” in which pseudo-inclusion probabilities are estimated based on covariates available for samples and nonsample units. An extension of this uses a model to predict values for the outcome in the probability sample, yielding a “doubly robust” estimator that consistent estimates target population quantities if either the pseudo-inclusion probabilities or outcome model is correct. I will overview these approaches, with a focus on using Bayesian additive regression tree to reduce model misspecification, and apply results to “naturalistic” driving studies that use volunteer samples to follow long-term driving behavior.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:10:42 -0400 2021-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Michael Elliott - Combining Probability Non-probability Samples - JPSM MPSDS Seminar Series
Clinical Brown Bag: Effects of Neighborhood on Physical Activity and Sleep (January 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89509 89509-21663430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

The effects of physical activity and sleep on mental and physical well-being have long been studied. More recently, there has also been an effort to understand how one’s environment impacts daily health behaviors and related outcomes. However, much of this work has been limited to subjective measures and correlational data. The current study leverages data from a prospective cohort study of medical residents as they transition from medical school to internship to address these identified gaps. This talk will discuss findings regarding the effect of changes in specific neighborhood characteristics on physical activity and sleep outcomes, as well as future projects designed to expand upon this work and explore clinical outcomes.

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Presentation Tue, 04 Jan 2022 08:32:44 -0500 2022-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Katie Ross
Social Brown Bag: What is Consent? Law vs. Moral Psychology (January 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91028 91028-21675551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Consent plays a pivotal role in many everyday moral judgments, yet little is known about public perception of consent. In this research, I examine people’s moral intuitions about whether consent has been granted under circumstances involving compromised autonomy. Results indicate that people largely regard cases involving deception as consensual, while they largely regard cases involving coercion or incapacitation as nonconsensual. I further show that people assign moral weight to consent obtained by deception: they view such consent as legitimating or justifying otherwise impermissible behavior. The "folk conception" of consent contradicts most prevailing philosophical and legal accounts of consent, which treat deception as consent-defeating. The lay theory, however, aligns with one highly controversial legal doctrine: the distinction between “fraud in the factum” and “fraud in the inducement.” While this common-law doctrine has been roundly criticized, it finds support in our intuitive moral psychology. Please note that this talk will discuss nonconsensual sex.

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Presentation Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:02:34 -0500 2022-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-19T13:20:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Roseanna Sommers
Developmental Brown Bag: Youth Antisocial Behavior and Neural Network Organization (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90110 90110-21667907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Youth antisocial behavior (AB) is associated with deficits in socioemotional processing, reward processing and threat detection, and executive functioning. These deficits are thought to emerge from differences in neural functioning, particularly within brain regions associated with the default, salience, and frontoparietal networks, respectively. Although a growing literature has linked these deficits to abnormalities in the structure, functioning, and connectivity of specific regions within these networks, recent advances in graph analysis provide a novel means of investigating the overall organization, or topology, of entire neural networks. However, no research has yet used graph metrics to examined whether youth AB is associated with alterations in the topologies of specific neural networks. The current study addresses this gap by applying unweighted, undirected graph analyses to resting-state fMRI data collected from an adolescent sample in the community at higher risk for AB due to urbancity and exposure to poverty-related adversity. This talk will discuss findings related to the relationship between youth AB and neural network topology, as well as provide an overview on some ways in which we can apply graph analysis to advance our understanding of the overall architecture of the brain across development.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:32:08 -0500 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Scott Tillem
New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90734 90734-21673479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership
by Jacob William Faber, New York University

Bio:
Jacob William Faber is an Associate Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and holds a joint appointment in NYU's Sociology Department. His research and teaching focuses on spatial inequality. He leverages observational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms responsible for sorting individuals across space and how the distribution of people by race and class interacts with political, social, and ecological systems to create and sustain economic disparities. While there is a rich literature exploring the geography of opportunity, there remain many unsettled questions about the causes of segregation and its effects on the residents of urban ghettos, wealthy suburbs, and the diverse set of places in between.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:38:39 -0500 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Musical Repatriation (January 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90471 90471-21671100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pZZV5

This virtual panel, hosted by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies, seeks to explore issues surrounding musical repatriation, primarily of recordings from archive, to the communities from which they were initially recorded or collected. Drawing on their diverse experiences as ethnographers, curators and archivists, panelists will discuss ethical considerations of “return,” and strategies for providing reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. The conversation will highlight questions of ownership of and access to musical heritage, and issues involving memory, identity, history, power, agency, research, scholarship, preservation, performance, distribution, legitimacy, commodification, curation, decoloniality, and sustainability.

Dr. Robin R.R. Gray (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015) is Ts’msyen and Mikisew Cree, and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Prior to joining our faculty, Dr. Gray held a 2-year University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research centers primarily on the politics of Indigeneity in settler colonial contexts such as Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia. As a socio-cultural anthropologist and Indigenous studies scholar, Dr. Gray employs critical ethnographic, community-based, Indigenous and intersectional methodologies in the study and presentation of knowledge, power, culture and society.

Dr. Frank Gunderson is Professor of Musicology at Florida State University. He received the B.A. degree from Evergreen State College (WA), and the M.A. in World Music and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (CT). Gunderson’s research and teaching interests include musical intersections with Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and sonic repatriation, African history, Islam, musical labor, veterans’ issues, biographical approaches, refugee communities, and documentary film. Gunderson is currently General Editor (2018-2022) of the SEM academic journal *Ethnomusicology* and is co-founder and co-Editor-in-Chief (together with Benjamin Harbert) of the new SEM Journal of *Audiovisual Ethnomusicology*. He co-edited with Robert Lancefield and Bret Woods *The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation* (OUP 2018).

Dr. Noel Lobley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. He is a sound curator, ethnomusicologist, and artist. At the core of his creative practice, he is committed to developing new and ethical ways to exhibit sound. His installations have been presented across South Africa, Europe, and the U.S. in spaces ranging from art galleries and festivals to rainforests, in schools and on the streets. In addition to his careers as a curator and academic, he also has worked as a DJ, in radio, and in the music industry for twenty years. Noel’s first monograph *Sound Fragments: from field recording to African Electronic Stories* is forthcoming (Wesleyan, Spring 2022).

Dr. Kelly Askew is Chair of Anthropology and the Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. She has worked for over three decades in Tanzania and Kenya. Her current research and documentary film projects span: poetic and performing arts, postsocialist politics, pastoralism and indigenous communities, energy access and property rights. She is the author of *Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania* (Chicago, 2002) and co-editor of *African Postsocialisms* (with M. Pitcher, Edinburgh, 2006) and The Anthropology of Media (with R. Wilk, Blackwell, 2002), among numerous publications. She co-leads the “Music Time in Africa” project, working to digitize the Leo Sarkisian collection, and make it publicly accessible.

*If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777 or cwps.information@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:27:06 -0500 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Developmental Brown Bag: We can’t talk about ACE without Race: Racism as a Primary Driver of Adverse Childhood Experiences among Black youth (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90111 90111-21667908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
This presentation will discuss the developmental significance of adverse childhood experiences, in addition to perspectives as to how and why racism represents a fundamental driver of ACEs among Black youth.

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Presentation Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:39:46 -0500 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Donte Bernard
Social Brown Bag: (February 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90143 90143-21668092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Julia

Title:
Visible and invisible privileges: An interpersonal headwind/tailwind asymmetry in assessments of barriers and blessings

Abstract:
People tend to notice the barriers that have obstructed their progress more than the blessings that have helped them along the way, a phenomenon known as the “headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry”. However, when people do notice their privileges, they tend to notice other people who have helped them more than they notice non-interpersonal forces such as their race, gender, or socioeconomic status. In this talk, I will present evidence of this phenomenon as well as a possible explanation: a cooperative social norm which encourages people to remember and acknowledge helpful others. I will also show that manipulating the perceived norm can alter the privileges and barriers that people choose to highlight.

Nadia

Title:
Visible and invisible privileges: An interpersonal headwind/tailwind asymmetry in assessments of barriers and blessings

Abstract:
People tend to notice the barriers that have obstructed their progress more than the blessings that have helped them along the way, a phenomenon known as the “headwinds/tailwinds asymmetry”. However, when people do notice their privileges, they tend to notice other people who have helped them more than they notice non-interpersonal forces such as their race, gender, or socioeconomic status. In this talk, I will present evidence of this phenomenon as well as a possible explanation: a cooperative social norm which encourages people to remember and acknowledge helpful others. I will also show that manipulating the perceived norm can alter the privileges and barriers that people choose to highlight.

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Presentation Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:29:49 -0500 2022-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Julia and Nadia
Clinical Brown Bag: Links Between Early-Life Contextual Factors and Later-Life Cognition and the Role of Educational Attainment (February 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89510 89510-21663431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The amount of schooling we receive has implications for later-life cognition, but less is known about upstream contextual factors that could also play a role in this process. Previous research has been limited in expanding outside of traditional socioeconomic variables in childhood. Early-life conditions related to household and school factors may serve as an area of emphasis when attempting to uncover critical precursors to educational and cognitive outcomes later in life. Through the implementation of a sequential mediation model, this study aimed to identify which early-life contextual factors uniquely predict later-life cognition and whether educational attainment serves as a mechanism of these relationships. This talk will address the importance of including an ecological and life-course perspective of cognition as well as potential points of policy intervention aimed at decreasing disparities in cognitive aging.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:24:03 -0500 2022-02-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T09:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Jordan Palms
Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement (February 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90980 90980-21675125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Brian M. Wells is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen where he works on a variety of quantitative projects to evaluate, improve, and expand Nielsen panels. Previously he served as the Data Quality and Survey Methodology Manager for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) where he evaluated the need for and implemented a new data collection methodology. Brian received his PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan.

Hani Zainulbhai is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen and a 2018 MPSM graduate. At Nielsen, she has been involved in developing alternative recruitment methods for the TV audience measurement panel.

Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement

Dimensions of out-of-home (OOH) media measurement rely on human input and cannot be fully captured through passive data collection via smart devices or portable meters. To better understand OOH TV consumption, we designed a web-based diary survey to capture the various components of OOH TV consumption while trying to minimize recall bias, especially for brief, unanticipated viewings. The study consisted of two parts: a Recruitment phase and a Diary phase. During the Recruitment phase, selected panelists from a nationally representative sample completed a short survey and were asked to participate in the 7-day diary. Those who agreed were enrolled in the Diary and were asked to complete a once-daily diary, logging all their OOH activity and TV consumption. The surveys were conducted over four weeks from mid-October to mid-November 2021, with each week having an independent and representative sample covering a different 7-day period. This presentation will provide an overview of the methodology and process used to administer the Recruitment and Diary surveys, including sample design, recruitment procedures, web-based diary survey design, and participation and response rates for each survey. In addition, we will discuss the results of a questionnaire experiment exploring differences between the concepts of attention to and engagement with media. A random half-sample was assigned questions about either “attention” or “engagement” to each program viewed. Within each half-sample, we also randomly assigned each respondent to an ascending or a descending response order condition to observe if there is any primacy effect due to collection in a self-administered mode. Preliminary results show differences in the distributions for attention and engagement implying some differentiation in how respondents perceive these two measures. In addition, the direction of the response order seems to alter the response distribution for attention but not for engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:44:56 -0500 2022-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement
Developmental Brown Bag: Developing Critical Consciousness in Diversity Courses (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91729 91729-21682584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In this talk I will describe a framework for understanding the awareness, knowledge, and skills developed in college diversity courses that integrates key concepts from the critical consciousness and cultural competence literatures. I will then talk about our ongoing work that uses a rubric approach rather than self-report to measure students' trajectories of learning in diversity courses.

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Presentation Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:22:59 -0500 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Byrd
CANCELLED - Laura Lindberg - Quality of Abortion Reporting in the US and Pathways to Improvement (February 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91431 91431-21679571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Laura Lindberg
Principal Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute

Dr. Laura Lindberg is a Principal Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, where she has worked for nearly two decades. As a social demographer, Dr. Lindberg focuses on measuring the trends, determinants and consequences of sexual and reproductive health in the U.S. population and working to improve the quality of survey data on sexual and reproductive behaviors. She currently has two NICHD grants on measurement of core demographic constructs, abortion and contraceptive failure rates. Over the course of her career, she has conducted policy-related research on adolescent sexual behaviors, sex education, adolescent preventive services, unintended pregnancy and contraceptive use. Dr. Lindberg received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University; she earned her MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Michigan, where her favorite class was on survey research methods with Bob Groves.

Quality of Abortion Reporting in the US and Pathways to Improvement

Despite the fact that an estimated one in five pregnancies in the United States end in induced abortion, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized and thus difficult-to-measure behavior. I will present on a body of recent research designed to help to develop new techniques and improve existing methodologies for measuring abortion reporting. First, I share a series of quantitative analyses to identify the scope and correlates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility surveys in the United States: the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. These analyses informed the development of new question designs were explored in cognitive interviews and experimentally tested and evaluated in a national survey. Abortion underreporting in population surveys has far-reaching implications for research in sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:50:07 -0500 2022-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion February 16th Seminar Cancelled
Developmental Brown Bag: (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90112 90112-21667909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:21:53 -0500 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation
Developmental Brown Bag: Reconsidering associations between cognition and self-regulation: from specialized executive functions to ubiquitous, task-general mechanisms (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91730 91730-21682587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Research on the development of self-regulatory abilities, and psychopathologies in which they are impaired, has long assumed that these abilities are dependent on a set of complex “executive” cognitive functions that implement distinct regulatory procedures in specific contexts (e.g., response inhibition, set shifting). As a result, these constructs are typically measured with task paradigms that are designed to selectively engage the specialized function of interest. However, several lines of work cast doubt on the idea that the functions measured by such tasks represent reliable and dissociable dimensions of individual variation. In this talk, I will argue that recent evidence from psychometric and computational modeling studies supports an alternative framework, in which cognitive processes relevant to self-regulation are not modular functions selectively engaged in specific contexts. Rather, their influence appears to be pervasive across a wide array of contexts, from relatively simple decision tasks to complex “executive” paradigms. Implications for theory and measurement in developmental research on cognition and psychopathology will be highlighted.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:21:15 -0500 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Alex Weigard
Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90731 90731-21677132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women
by Yun Zhou
Monday, February 21
12-1:10 pm ET via Zoom

Abstract:
Extensive research on son preference in China has predominantly focused on rural and rural-to-urban migrant populations. Son preference attitudes among other demographic groups have received little attention. Drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with highly educated urban Chinese women, I examine whether son preference attitudes persist among this previously under-explored group—and if yes, why. I discover a lasting preference for sons among women who otherwise support gender egalitarianism. I elucidate two distinct logics—the gendered hardship and hard work—that underpin this seeming paradox: Invoking their own experiences of gender inequality, these women articulate their son preference as a desire to shield their children from gendered hardship. They view raising daughters amidst pervasive gender discrimination as emotionally taxing hard work. I illustrate the nuanced reasoning—beyond the devaluation of girls—that underlies highly educated urban Chinese women’s son preference attitudes. I further demonstrate that despite the nuance, such reasoning ultimately does not disrupt entrenched patriarchal familial expectations that favour boys over girls and holds behavioural implications for second-birth outcomes.

Bio:
Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Trained as a social demographer, Zhou’s research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Intersecting the studies of population and politics, Zhou's current project investigates the demographic, political, and gendered consequences of China's recent ending of the one-child policy. Zhou received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2017. She completed her postdoctoral training (2017-2019) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Population Studies at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:40:14 -0500 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
POSTPONED FOR TODAY Social Brown Bag: Native Community Standing and Wellbeing (February 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91732 91732-21682594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Prior research has thoroughly examined the different factors that contribute to higher (vs. lower) status (i.e., standing) in U.S. society at large, as well as the implications such positioning may have on wellbeing. Although relatively new in psychology, there is a growing literature examining social standing as a dynamic form of identity (Kraus, Piff, & Keltner, 20011; Kraus & Stephens, 2012). However, traditional approaches to assessing standing often fall short of acknowledging forms of status that are culturally relevant for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds (i.e., Native Americans). In the first half of my talk, I introduce a measure of community standing (i.e., relative positioning in Native communities based on respect, cultural knowledge, and engagement), and examine the factors that are associated with higher (vs. lower) standing in Native communities. For part two of my talk, I will show that community standing is positively linked to wellbeing. I will then conclude with a brief discussion of how this novel measure of status can be utilized to better understand how culturally relevant standing might influence life outcomes across diverse populations.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:58:43 -0500 2022-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T13:20:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Burris
Shiyu Zhang - The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation - MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series (February 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87867 87867-21647194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Shiyu Zhang

Shiyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science. Before arriving at Michigan, she received master's degrees in immigration study, sociology and data science, and a bachelor's degree in psychology. Shiyu's dissertation focuses on the effect of adaptive survey design on estimates. She is also interested in collecting and using neighborhood features as auxiliary variables.

The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation

Adaptive survey design refers to using targeted procedures to recruit different sampled cases. This technique strives to reduce bias and variance of survey estimates by trying to recruit a larger and more balanced set of respondents. However, it is not well understood how adaptive design can improve data and survey estimates beyond the well-established post-survey adjustment. This paper reports the results of an experiment that evaluated the additional effect of adaptive design to post-survey adjustments. The experiment was conducted in the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study in 2021. We evaluated the adaptive design in five outcomes: 1) response rates, 2) demographic composition of respondents, 3) bias and variance of key survey estimates, 4) changes in coefficients of regression model results, and 5) costs. The most significant benefit of the adaptive design was its ability to generate more efficient survey estimates with smaller variances and smaller design effects.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:46:40 -0500 2022-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Shiyu Zhang - The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation - MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series
Clinical Brown Bag: Co-Occurring Anxiety and Impulsivity Through the Lens of Negative Urgency (March 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89537 89537-21664053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:

Historically, broad conceptualizations of trait impulsivity have been positioned as the antithesis of anxious avoidance, despite commonly co-occurring presentations of anxiety and impulsivity. Attempts to clarify specific facets of impulsivity have yielded dimensional constructs, such as negative urgency (i.e., rash action specifically associated with negative emotion), that may provide common ground to examine the overlap between high anxiety and high impulsivity. This presentation will provide an overview of previous research examining relationships between anxiety and impulsivity and discuss findings from a primary data set used to examine indirect effects of negative urgency and additional dimensions of impulsivity on the relationship between anxiety and experiential avoidance. Findings may shed light on the utility of negative urgency in better understanding impulsive profiles of anxiety, which could shape treatments and contribute to transdiagnostic reexaminations of anxiety.

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Presentation Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:55:20 -0500 2022-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sonalee
HET Brown Bag | A Mirror Dark Sector and the Hubble Tension (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92970 92970-21698560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The inference of the present expansion rate from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and other early-time probes (assuming standard cosmology) is in significant tension with several direct measurements of the same quantity. If this discrepancy is not due to unresolved systematics, it could provide strong evidence for physics beyond the standard models (SM) of particle physics and cosmology. In a recent work Cyr-Racine, Ge and Knox pointed out a strong degeneracy in the evolution equations describing the CMB that, under certain strong assumptions, enables one to resolve the tension. A physical implementation of this degeneracy requires the introduction of a hidden sector with several puzzling features: 1) low-energy field content that is nearly identical to the SM, 2) similar energy density ratios between different components as in the visible sector and 3) recombination of dark states that is simultaneous with standard hydrogen recombination. I will describe a model based on a partial copy of the SM with asymmetric reheating where these features arise naturally. Both our model and the original proposal of Cyr-Racine, Ge and Knox require a significantly lower helium fraction than is directly observed in the late universe. Thus, the Hubble tension is shifted to a helium one

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:44:34 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia - The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91859 91859-21683564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia

One of the major benefits of social media ad-based survey recruitment is the use of various types of data to target ads to users of these platforms. To target users of social media, researchers can use the basic demographic and geographic that social media platforms currently provide, or they can use enhanced data that can be embedded within the social media platforms supplied by third party providers based on external data sources, e.g., historical purchase data. We will examine whether and how much this enhanced data can impact ad based social media recruitment capabilities to reach niche and hard-to-reach audiences.

To investigate the targeting efficiency, quality, and cost differences among these two approaches that can be used to target audiences within social media platforms, NORC piloted a strategic initiative research study in 2020. A web survey was constructed using existing items from national surveys on individual’s health and online habits, as well as new items related to life changes during the pandemic. Two main audience groups that are generally hard to recruit through probability-based studies were targeted – young adults, ages 18-24, and people with low education (defined as anyone who has completed high school as the highest level of education or lower). Five sets of tailored ads with unique URLs that linked to a web-based survey were designed and launched via Facebook and Instagram. Two sets used basic targeting to recruit the sample and the other three used the enhanced targeting. This brown bag will present the design of the study, our approach to the ads and targeting, and what we learned through our examination of the differences between the samples obtained from basic and advanced targeting on the dimensions of recruited sample composition, survey estimates, and recruitment costs.

Dr. Ipek Bilgen is a Senior Research Methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences (MQSS) Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Bilgen is AmeriSpeak Panel’s lead research methodologist. She also directs web and emerging technologies strategic initiative at NORC. She has over a decade of experience in applied survey methods and received both her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Bilgen has published and co-authored articles in Journal of Official Statistics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Practice, Social Currents, Social Science Computer Review, Field Methods, SAGE Research Methods, and Quality and Quantity on issues related to interviewing methodology, web surveys, internet sampling and recruitment approaches, cognition and communication, and measurement error in surveys. Her current research investigates panel recruitment and retention, total survey error sources in probability-based online panels, the use of web and emerging technologies in surveys, and questionnaire design and survey implementation issues. Her research also examines studies related to the use of auxiliary data for improved efficiency in surveys that use address-based sampling (ABS) and active survey recruitment through social media and search engines.

Bilgen is currently serving as Associate Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ). In the past, she has served as an elected member of American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)’s Executive Council as Membership and Chapter Relations Chair. She has also served on Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)’s Executive Council as President, Vice President, Conference Chair, and Secretary Treasurer.

Dr. Amelia Burke-Garcia is a seasoned health communications professional with nearly 20 years of experience in health communication program planning, implementation and evaluation, with specific expertise in developing and evaluating digital and social media communication and research. At NORC, she leads the organization's Digital Strategy and Outreach Program Area, where she designs, develops, and implements new digital and mobile data collection methodologies and communication solutions. Most recently, she acted as director for the award-winning How Right Now/Que Hacer Ahora campaign, which is aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She currently leads two grants focused on exploring vaccine hesitancy amongst communities of color which build on her earlier work exploring messages and motivations of vaccine hesitant or refusing social media influencers (findings from which were published in Vaccine in 2020). Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics including designing a targeted social media intervention with mommy bloggers to help social media users lower their risk for breast cancer and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. She is the author of the book entitled, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Online Influencers and has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care. She holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, and a joint honours Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Humanistic Studies from McGill University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:19:11 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Social Brown Bag: Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID-19 vaccination (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91733 91733-21682595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Vaccines can affect the mind as well as the body. Research on the psychological impact of vaccines has largely focused on risk-related judgments and behaviors involving the recipient. Here, we extend this work to risk-related judgments of others. In a prospective cohort study involving three samples and two timepoints, we tested competing hypotheses about the effects of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine on perceived risks to the unvaccinated: (1) a self/other correspondence hypothesis (vaccination will lead to estimation of lower risk from contracting COVID-19 for both self and others) versus (2) a self/other differentiation hypothesis (vaccination will lead to estimation of lower risk for the self but higher risk for others). We discuss potential psychological mechanisms and implications of these findings.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:30:48 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Choi
Data Science in Health Disparities Research Symposium (March 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91976 91976-21684826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Additional speakers on the topics of:

How data science can be used to understand racial health disparities

How data science with biased data exacerbates health disparities

Lunch and discussion sessions following the talks.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:37:38 -0500 2022-03-11T09:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Workshop / Seminar
Fourth Annual Likert Workshop - Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology (March 11, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92407 92407-21691038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology

ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Free Virtual Workshop)

 11:00-11:10 - Welcome. Fred Conrad, Director, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 11:10-11:30 - Introduction. Tim Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Senior Fellow, Center of Excellence in Survey Research, NORC.

 11:30-12:00 - Moving a cross-national general survey from face-to-face to self-completion data collection: a discussion of the cross-national and cross-cultural challenges. Rory Fitzgerald, Director, European Social Survey, City, University of London, U.K.

 12:00-12:10 - Break

 12:10-12:40 - Assessing measurement invariance: Can we make a dead-end road into a highway? Jan Cieciuch, Professor, Psychology, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland, URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Eldad Davidov, Professor, Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany, Sociology and URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Peter Schmidt, Professor Emeritus, ZEU, University of Giessen, Germany, Psychosomatics, University of Mainz, Germany Daniel Seddig, Professor, Sociology, University of Passau, Germany, University of Cologne, Germany.

 12:40-1:10 - Culture, language and measurement of health. Sunghee Lee, Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 1:10-1:20 - Break

 1:20-1:50 - Voicing politics: How language shapes public opinion. Efrén O. Pérez, Professor, Political Science and Psychology, Director, Race, Ethnicity, Politics & Society (REPS) Lab, UCLA.

 1:50-2:20 - What may this mean? How cultural mindsets influence conversational inferences. Daphna Oyserman, Dean’s Professor, Psychology, University of Southern California, Norbert Schwarz, Provost Professor, Psychology and Marketing, University of Southern California.

 2:20-2:30 - Closing Discussion, Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:54:13 -0500 2022-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
Developmental Brown Bag: Collaborative comic as way to engage people in racial justice (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90113 90113-21667910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
Comics are read by people of all ages. While most think of comics as a medium to be funny, comics are increasingly used to address more serious topics. I will briefly discuss my research on the ways in which culture, ethnicity, race, and migration affect development, well-being, and mental health of minoritized youth and families. Then, I will discuss how I am now using comics as a form of graphic medicine to raise public awareness of how ethnic and racial experiences affect development and well-being.

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Presentation Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:07:07 -0500 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Richard Lee
Social Brown Bag: (March 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91734 91734-21682689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Ariana

Title:
They understand me: The role of race-based empathy in graduate students’ mentorship relationships with faculty advisors

Abstract:
The effective mentoring of graduate students of color by all faculty is crucial to graduate students’ retention and success in academia. Yet qualitative research suggests that faculty of color (vs. white) may be more understanding of students of color’s specific problems and needs as people of color in academia (i.e., race-based empathy). This lack of race-based understanding from a faculty advisor could disadvantage graduate students of color by diminishing their mentorship experience and likelihood of success in graduate school, ultimately perpetuating racial disparities in academia. Across two correlational studies (total N = 827), we demonstrate that graduate students of color perceive greater race-based empathy from a faculty advisor of color (vs. white), and we investigate how a lack of racial diversity among the faculty can exacerbate these unbalanced race-based empathy perceptions. Furthermore, we demonstrate the detrimental effects of perceiving lower race-based empathy from a faculty mentor. Graduate students who perceived lower race-based empathy from their faculty advisors were less likely to think their advisor would provide effective mentoring and in turn, reported worse academic and wellbeing outcomes.

Desiree

Title:
Do You See What I See? Evaluating the Consequences of Men Perceiving Subtle Gender Bias in Mixed-Gender Group Interactions

Abstract:
To extend previous work on the effects of witnessing gender bias towards women in STEM, the present research discusses the affective, cognitive, and behavioral implications of men perceiving subtle gender bias in mixed-gender STEM interactions. Across three studies, STEM identified men were exposed to an interaction between STEM-identified students in which subtle gender bias occurred towards a woman target. Participants provided open-ended evaluations of the interaction, which researchers later coded to determine whether participants mentioned the occurrence of subtle gender bias unprompted. Participants then completed measures assessing state/collective affect and cognitive/behavioral measures related to the individuals present during the interaction (e.g., target of bias, perpetrator of bias, and bystander to bias). Results and implications of this work are discussed.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:10:28 -0500 2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Ariana and Desiree
Clinical Brown Bag: Exploring the Bidirectional Relationship between Food Addiction and Dietary Restraint Across the Lifespan (March 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89538 89538-21664056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
The construct of food addiction, used to describe addictive-like pathological eating, has garnered considerable research attention, empirical evidence, and scholarly debate in recent years. A major point of controversy is that current models and measures of food addiction do not consider the role of dietary restraint on food addiction. A small body of cross-sectional research suggests that food addiction and dietary restraint may be more closely related at some stages of development (e.g., adolescence) than others (e.g., adulthood). However, little is currently known about potential relations, directional pathways, or clinical implications of these constructs. The present studies aim to longitudinally examine temporal pathways between food addiction and dietary restraint during adolescence when the strength of the association may be strongest. To further explore the association between food addiction and dietary restraint, we also test whether food addiction and dietary restraint demonstrate shared or unique clinically relevant outcomes (e.g., intergenerational transmission of eating outcomes). A better understanding of the relationship between food addiction and dietary restraint has important implications for public health and clinical treatment recommendations.

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Presentation Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:07:39 -0500 2022-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T21:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Julia Rios
Developmental Brown Bag: Biopsychosocial pathways in dementia inequalities (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90114 90114-21667911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
In the United States, racial/ethnic inequalities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias persist even after controlling for socioeconomic factors and physical health. These persistent and unexplained disparities suggest: (1) there are unrecognized dementia risk factors that are socially patterned and/or (2) known dementia risk factors exhibit differential impact across social groups. Pursuing these research directions with data from multiple longitudinal studies of brain and cognitive aging has revealed several challenges to the study of late-life health inequalities, highlighted evidence for both risk and resilience within marginalized communities, and inspired new data collection efforts to advance the field.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:58:03 -0500 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Laura Zahodne
The Mental Health Consequences of Vicarious Adolescent Police Exposure (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91194 91194-21677140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Mental Health Consequences of Vicarious Adolescent Police Exposure
by Kristin Turney, University of California, Irvine

Monday, March 21, 12-1pm ET via Zoom

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:53:57 -0500 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Social Brown Bag: (March 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91735 91735-21682690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Lauren

Title:
Social Support as an Avenue for Strengths-Based Alaska Native Suicide Prevention: An Examination of Youth Support Profiles in Alaska Native Villages

Abstract:
Introduction: Rural Alaska Native (AN) young people suffer disproportionately from suicide compared to others in the United States, and many prevention efforts rely on mental health services rather than building on current relationships and available resources. Research shows that strengthening social, cultural, and emotional support can reduce suicide risk. Here, we examine young people’s existing supportive relationships with the goal of identifying promising areas to reinforce and extend these protective connections. Methods: We use cross-sectional baseline survey data from 165 AN young people, collected as part of an efficacy study focused on Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES), to examine pre-intervention patterns of support. We employ chi-square tests, t-tests, and one-way ANOVAs to describe the types (i.e., category), quantities (i.e., distribution and average number), sources (i.e., from whom), and frequencies (i.e., how often) of received social, cultural, and emotional support, and we examine how these ‘support profiles’ differ by age and sex. Results: For AN young people, we find that: 1) most reported receiving nearly all survey-listed supports, 2) compared to females, males reported receiving fewer supports on average, 3) family was selected most, and 4) family (e.g., parents, siblings, and grandparents) provided support most regularly. Conclusion: Our results suggest fruitful avenues for community-based interventions for suicide prevention with AN young people. We discuss these findings in relation to: 1) strengths-based approaches which build on existing family and community supports, and 2) how the gendered nature of suicide prevention and assessment relates to future strategies.

Jamie

Title:
Standing with our sisters: Differential explanations for sexual violence towards Native and White women

Abstract:
While public discourse in mainstream news and national media has brought to light the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment, prompting increased activism and prevention efforts, Native women and their experiences have largely been excluded from this mainstream national reckoning. This is true despite the fact that Native American women experience the highest rates of sexual violence in the U.S with more than 1 in 3 Native women having been raped in their lifetime (Rosay, 2016). One reason for this exclusion may be how individuals make meaning of the experiences of sexual violence for Native relative to White women. In a mixed-method study of American adults (N=730), we found that although there were important similarities in how people made meaning of sexual violence affecting Native and White women, there were substantial and systematic differences. In terms of similarities, we found that people were equally likely to victim-blame Native and White women. Nonetheless, when making meaning of Native women’s experiences participants were: 1) more likely to use negative racial stereotypes (e.g., Natives are alcoholics); 2) more likely to blame the community (e.g., Reservations are dangerous); and 3) less likely to blame men/perpetrators (e.g., Men see women as vulnerable) compared to when making meaning of White women’s experiences. Together, these results reveal the pervasiveness of victim blaming, but also demonstrate that understandings of sexual violence are racialized. The implications of these findings on differences in support for victims and action to end sexual violence will be discussed.

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Presentation Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:26:36 -0400 2022-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation White and Yellowtail
Clinical Brown Bag: The Impact of Pandemic Stress on Internalizing Symptoms: Gender and Endocrine Functioning (March 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89540 89540-21664058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Clinical Science

Abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted multiple domains of life, such as work and employment, education and training, social activities, and home environment. Families living in poverty have been disproportionately impacted by pandemic generated stressors. Pandemic-stress has been linked to symptoms of depression and anxiety. Moreover, the link between stress and internalizing symptoms may be stronger for females than males. Differences in endocrine functioning and sensitivity to stress is one proposed mechanism. The present study aims to examine the role of endocrine functioning in the gender difference in sensitivity to stress in a racial/ethnic and sociodemographic diverse sample of youth.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:38:36 -0400 2022-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Clinical Science Presentation Joe Guzman
Developmental Brown Bag: QuantCrit: A framework for advancing anti-racism/anti-oppression within quantitative research (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90115 90115-21667912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Abstract:
QuantCrit is a framework for thinking critically about conducting quantitative research in order to interrupt the use of numbers for racial and other forms of oppression. Building on the tenets of critical race theory, QuantCrit explicitly acknowledges that statistics has been and continues to be used in ways that perpetuate racism and other systems of oppression. By taking seriously the idea that statistical analyses must be conducted with attention to context and power, and outlining opportunities for reflexivity during the quantitative research process, QuantCrit hopes to guide scholars toward conducting anti-racist/anti-oppressive research.

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Presentation Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:22:31 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Sara Suzuki
Social Brown Bag: (March 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91736 91736-21682691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Savannah

Title:
Investigating the Roles and Applications of Moral Dimensions in Impression Formation

Abstract:
Current research on morality supports the idea that the moral landscape is comprised of several domains. However, the extent to which these domains may be thought of as equivalent when used as the basis for forming impressions or making social judgments is not yet understood. Past literature suggests that there may be notable differences in the evolutionary and social development of different moral behaviors, which raises questions about how actions based in different domains may be interpreted and judged by others. The current research explores possible differences in social judgment as a function of morality domain to inform the contemporary morality literature. This may set the stage for future studies to investigate the relationship between moral domains and social selection across contexts.

Tong

Title:
Is Seeking Social Support Stressful, Beneficial, or Both? The Moderating Role of Culture.

Abstract:
By seeking support from others, one may potentially impose troubles on them. Though seeking support could be stressful, as long as the support was sought, it could be received and thus beneficial. We hypothesized that this dynamic is more pronounced in interdependent cultures (e.g., Japan) than in independent cultures (e.g., the U.S.). To examine this possibility, we used matched surveys conducted in Japan (N = 301) and the U.S. (N = 931), with a focus on self-reported support seeking (assessed with the compensatory primary control) and biological health risk (BHR, assessed with measures of inflammation and cardiovascular malfunctioning). BHR may reflect a downstream effect of social support received. For an exploratory purpose, we also included self-reported perceived stress as a subjective and more up-stream correlate of support seeking. Among European Americans, support seeking was associated with greater BHR. In contrast, among Japanese, support seeking was associated with lower BHR. Curiously, support seeking was associated with lower perceived stress among European Americans, but not among Japanese. Our findings suggest that culture may modulate the meaning of support seeking. In interdependent (vs. independent) cultural contexts, support seeking may contribute to long-term biological health benefits even though it is relatively more stressful.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:31:40 -0400 2022-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Adams - Suo
Clinical Brown Bag: The Impact of Psychosocial Stress on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Adolescents and Young Adults (April 4, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89541 89541-21664059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Clinical Science

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) refers to a group of symptoms that includes excessive daydreaming, inactivity, and mental fogginess. SCT symptoms are associated with considerable impairment at home and work, increased suicidality, and a high risk of internalizing disorders. While SCT research has advanced significantly over the last decade, research on the environmental and biological underpinnings of the symptoms is urgently needed. The current investigation aims to provide insight into the psychological and biological basis of SCT in four ways: by establishing its validity in a population-based sample, by exploring how life stress leads to SCT symptoms in adolescents, by analyzing the role of SCT on an in-vivo stress task, and lastly, by examining SCT’s functional impact during a major life stressor. Each study makes use of data from a large multi-site longitudinal study of children, adolescents, and young people at high risk of life stress.

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Presentation Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:28:17 -0400 2022-04-04T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Clinical Science Presentation Sarah
Social Brown Bag - First Year Presentations (April 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92235 92235-21688597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:26:56 -0500 2022-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T13:20:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Meyer-Rossmaier
Clinical Brown Bag: Sleep as a Modifiable Determinant of Gender, Racial, and Intersectional Disparities in Cognitive Aging (April 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94412 94412-21738324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Racial/ethnic and sex/gender disparities in dementia are well-documented. Growing research suggests that sleep problems in mid-late life may be associated with increased risk for late-life cognitive impairment and dementia. However, whether sleep problems contribute to disparities in cognitive aging remains to be explored. This talk will present the aims and results from three dissertation studies that investigated the implications of insomnia and sleep apnea for gender, racial, and intersectional (e.g., race-gender, race-socioeconomic status) disparities in cognition among older adults. Measurement issues in the current literature and the value of investigating health disparities from an intersectional framework will be discussed. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of these findings for future research and the development of targeted individual and systemic interventions aimed at reducing preventable cognitive health disparities in later life.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:22:06 -0400 2022-04-11T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T09:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Afsara Zaheed, M.S.
Developmental Brown Bag: Culture, Development, and Academic Capitalism: Un Testimonio (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94401 94401-21738319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In this talk, I discuss how academic capitalism hampers our understanding of the role of culture in human development. I define academic capitalism as an economic system focused on the accumulation of grants, publications, and awards that reflects, neglects, and reinforces structural social problems such as gendered racism and colonialism. I focus on how academic capitalism impedes progress in cultural theory, measurement, and interventions in human development. To illustrate these arguments, I use testimonio, a method rooted in Latinx cultures and liberation psychology (Cervantes, 2020).

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Presentation Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:33:41 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. José M. Causadias
Social Brown Bag: First Year Presentations (April 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92236 92236-21688598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Presentation Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:08:10 -0500 2022-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T13:20:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation Rodriguez-Baldwin
Developmental Brown Bag: Children’s Language and Literacy Experiences in Ethnic Minority Families (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90117 90117-21749746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Young children’s learning experiences at home set the foundation for early language and school readiness development. The talk will present findings on children’s language and literacy experiences in families from ethnic and/or language minority backgrounds. Specifically, the talk will cover topics including 1) what individual and contextual factors contribute to children’s language and literacy experiences, 2) how children’s language and literacy experiences support developmental outcomes, and 3) useful strategies to develop culturally responsive interventions to promote early language development in minority populations.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:21:47 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Psychology Presentation Dr. Rufan Luo
Social Brown Bag: How Relationships Affect Adolescents' Decisions to Report Moral Transgressions (April 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92238 92238-21688600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Would an 8th grader who sees her best friend steal something report that to a teacher? Though much work has studied children's responses to such moral transgressions, including their decisions to report to authorities, far less developmental work has explored how reporting decisions are affected by one's relationship to the transgressor. This factor is especially relevant in adolescence, a time in which peers relationships and friendships become an increasingly important part of one's social world. This study explores how adolescents' judgments about whether to report a theft transgression changes based on whether the transgressor is a close other or distant acquaintance.

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Presentation Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:53:47 -0400 2022-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-20T13:20:00-04:00 Department of Psychology Presentation