2008-2009 SCRG Speaker Schedule

SCRG meets on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30, in Lazenby Room 120.

Fall Quarter:

• October 1 - Chris Jones - Motivated construal of value-related events (EASP/SISP Summer School recap)

• October 8 - Mike DeKay - Distortion of payoffs and probabilities in choices between risky prospects

• October 15 - Mike Edwards - An item response theory analysis of the Need for Cognition scale

• October 22 - SESP week (no meeting)

• October 29 - Chris Loersch - The attributional model of priming: A theory and initial evidence

• November 5 - Alison Pfent - Changing oneself and then changing the world: Regulatory fit, identity change, and activism

• November 12 - Dominic Packer - Differentiation within groups and the psychological importance of making unique contributions

• November 19 - Robert Lount - Looking down and ramping up: The impact of coworker status on individual motivation in intergroup settings

• November 26 - Thanksgiving (no meeting)

• December 3 - Tiffany Hardy - Seeing a different me: Effects of context and visual imagery perspective on affect and judgments [Marilynn B. Brewer's final SCRG]

Winter Quarter:

• January 7 - First week of classes (no meeting)

• January 14 - Eric Shaeffer - Shifting perspectives: Point of view in visual images affects abstract and concrete thinking

• January 21 - Ryan Brunner - Memory perspective and the maintenance of chronic causal uncertainty beliefs

• January 28 - University closed due to weather

• February 4 - SPSP week (no meeting)

• February 11 - Kate Darwent - Function of Emotions in Self-Control

• February 18 - Kristi Costabile - Rude vs. Rushed: Effects of narrative and impression goals on causal attributions

• February 25 - Samantha Mowrer - Regulatory focus modulates activity in the dopaminergic reward system

• March 4 - Eva Pietri - The negativity bias and emotional reactivity to stressful event

• March 11 - Gina Hoover - Biased hypothesis testing as a mechanism for the effects of construal level on self-control

Spring Quarter:

• April 1 - First week of classes (no meeting)

• April 8 - Greta Valenti - The effect of imagery perspective on current affect elicited by recalled regrettable incidents

• April 15 - Nathan Arbuckle - Self-individuation and the reduction of ingroup bias

• April 22 - MPA practice talks - Greta Valenti, Joe Roberts, & Chris Loersch

• April 29 - MPA (no meeting)

• May 6 - Jo Sasota - Construal levels and stereotyping

• May 13 - Karen Hines & Alison Young - Imagery perspective and thinking about the future (KH) & Influencing the evaluation of multiply categorizable objects (AY)

• May 20 - Adam Hasinski & Tabitha Kirkland - Machine learning in social psychology (AH) & Bridging basic and dimensional approaches to emotion (TK)

• May 27 - Matt Braslow & Courtney Shade - Self-handicapping and overachievement (MB) & Effects of personal security on reactions to threat (CS)

• June 3 - Benjamin Giguere (York University) - The social components of behavioral regulation: When does violating norms lead to restraint?