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Past Events

University of Scranton’s 21st Annual Psychology Conference

Saturday, April 22, 2006 Keynote Speaker: Helen Fisher, Ph.D.



Presenting “The Drive to Love: An fMRI Study of Romantic Love and the Role this Brain System Plays in Cross-Cultural Patterns of Divorce, Romantic Addiction, Crimes of Passion, and Depression Associated with Rejection in Love”



For more information please visit: http://academic.scranton.edu/organization/psychcon/21st/

 

"Disgusting Politics, Disgusting Morality"

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Preston
David Pizarro, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Cornell University

 

First Day of Classes

Monday, September 1, 2008

 

Psychology Colloquium and Welcome Back Cookout

Thursday, September 11, 2008

 

Psychology Moderation

Monday, October 27, 2008 - Friday, October 31, 2008

 

Short Moderation Papers Due

Friday, October 31, 2008

 

Senior Midway Papers Due

Friday, November 14, 2008

 

Senior I and Senior II PowerPoint Presentations

Monday, December 1, 2008

 

Senior Projects Due

Monday, December 1, 2008

 

Registration

Monday, December 1, 2008 - Friday, December 12, 2008

 

Senior Midway Boards

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

 

Final Senior Boards

Monday, December 8, 2008

 

Last Day of Classes

Friday, December 19, 2008

 

Females & Fluoxetine: Sex differences in the effects of antidepressants on the brain and behavior

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Laszlo Z. Bito Auditorium - RKC

A lecture by
Georgia E. Hodes
University of Pennsylvania

Women are twice as likely as men to suffer an episode of depression, but only between puberty and menopause. This suggests a relationship between reproductive hormones and depression in females. However, most theories on the etiology of depression are based on research done solely in males. This talk will focus on current research examining sex differences in the effects of antidepressants on neurogenesis and depression associated behaviors using a rodent model. Additionally, this talk will examine how reproductive hormones influence cognitive function and the response to stress across the lifespan. The understanding of how males and females differ may lead to better treatments for depression in both sexes.    

 

Gender Participation and Performance in Science and Mathematics: The Ordinary Origins and Unintended Consequences of Attitudes and Stereotypes

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Time: 4:15 pm
Location: RKC 111

A lecture by
Kristin Lane
Psychology program

Many mental activities occur automatically or unconsciously, including thoughts that are relevant to social perception, judgment, and action. This talk will present interactive illustrations of mental events that exist outside of conscious awareness or control; I will then show evidence that suggests that these ordinary processes can give rise to systematic social biases, which in turn can influence participation, interest, and performance in science and math domains.  In particular, the talk will consider the gender disparity in science and mathematics in light of these findings from the mind sciences.

 

Psychology Senior Project Poster Session

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: RKC lobby

Join us in celebrating our graduating seniors as they present posters outlining their work.

 

Psychology Colloquium

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Preston Theater

Website: Event Website

Lynn Liben
Penn State University 

Developmental Pathways to Map Understanding



People come to know their worlds not only by directly experiencing
their physical environments, but also by using maps of those 
environments. Despite general age-linked progressions in spatial 
concepts and skills, both formal research and informal anecdotes
suggest that many individuals, even adults, struggle with maps 
in educational, occupational, and daily life contexts. This 
presentation will discuss foundational concepts on which map 
understanding builds, and will describe research designed to 
identify mechanisms that foster map understanding.

 

Psychology Colloquium

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Preston Theater

Professor Dana Carney
Columbia Business School

Power Poses:
The Postural Feedback Hypothesis

Social power is an impactful psychological state linked to many important outcomes with real-world consequences. Chief among them is that power-holders, relative to individuals lacking power, report an elevated sense of control and agency and are much more likely to take risk. Power-holding individuals also consistently express their power through nonverbal behaviors such as: (a) taking up more physical space, and (b) having more open body postures. Research shows how preferences and emotional feelings can be brought into alignment with affective nonverbal displays such as smiling or pulling an object closer to oneself. Nonverbal displays shaping cognition need not be bound to affective phenomena; any psychological state with robust and specific nonverbal correlates should reveal bi-directional effects. In other words, states which consistently affect specific nonverbal displays should also be caused by those nonverbal displays. We hypothesized that, like affective poses, power poses would shape cognition. In two studies we demonstrated that configuring the body into high-power poses (taking up more space; open body postures) versus low-power poses (taking up little space; closed body postures) increased individuals’ feelings of powerfulness and increased risk-taking in a gambling task.

Reception to follow.

 

Psychology Colloquium

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Preston

Lee Baer, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School and
Massachusetts General Hospital

THE SECRET OF NIMH:  LACK OF PROGRESS IN AMERICANS' MENTAL HEALTH, AND WHAT PSYCHOLOGY CAN DO TO HELP

NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) director Thomas Insel recently lamented the lack of improvement in the mental health status of Americans in the past quarter century, despite record federal funding and intensive research including state-of-the art neuroscience and genetic methods.  Several of his recommendations to correct this problem will require psychologists to take the lead in making proven psychosocial treatments more widely available and in better matching treatments for individual patients.  Pilot projects already underway in these areas will be reviewed.

 

Psychology Colloquium

Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Preston Hall

Lianne Habinek

Assistant Professor of Literature
Division of Languages and Literature
Bard College

“Hamlet and The Art of Early Modern Neuroforensics”

This talk considers the metaphor of the lesion as it reveals the fraught connection between thought and action, and soul and body in Hamlet. Galen, working with wounded gladiators, was the first physician to study the effects of trauma to the brain and nervous system, and to connect functions of the soul with sections of the brain. In this basic association are the roots of modern cognitive experimentation, namely the idea that the brain must be studied by looking at cases of things that have gone wrong with it. I argue that a model for Hamlet comes from early modern neuroforensics, where the object is, through method, observation, and experimentation, to reconstruct the proper link between thought and action by studying the symptoms arising from damage to that link. Hamlet, assuming the role of empirical investigator, must discover what has done the damage.

 

 

Psychology Colloquium

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Preston Theater

Elizabeth Crawford, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Richmond

"Spatial Metaphors of Affect"

Emotion-laden concepts such as HAPPINESS, POWER, and STATUS are often described in terms of vertical space (e.g., I'm feeling up. I'm at the top of my game.  I'm at a low point.  I've hit bottom.)  Rather than being mere linguistic flourishes, such metaphors may reflect the way we use the concrete, embodied domain of space to conceptualize affect.  This view suggests that such spatial metaphors will influence performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, even non-linguistic ones.  I will present a series of studies that examine the impact of the GOOD is UP metaphor on memory for both stimulus content and stimulus location.