Cognition, Brain, & Behavior Lunch

Gandalf Nicolas, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University ~ Linguistic Social Cognition in Humans and Artificial Intelligence Language Models. Abstract ~ In this talk I will present my research on linguistic social cognition in humans and...

Ashwini Ashokkumar Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU Topic ~ The Psychological Drivers and Effects of Political Discourse What are the individual and collective psychological processes that shape political discourse? Drawing on evidence from natural...

Thomas Talhelm, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business The Rice Theory: Random Assignment Past, Manspreading Present, and a Less Cultural Future? The rice theory is the idea that the irrigation systems...

Felipe de Brigard (Duke University) Topic: Memory and forgiveness Victims sometimes forgive the perpetrators of past wrongdoings, either to repair a relationship or simply to move on. After forgiving, however, victims typically still remember what...

Peng Qian, Ph.D. Harvard University Post-Doc Loopholes: When and why people exploit the ambiguity of language Loopholes offer an opening. Rather than comply or directly refuse, people can subvert an intended request by an intentional misunderstanding...

Julian Jara-Ettinger , Associate Professor of Psychology & Computer Science, Yale University Topic: Proactive social cognition

Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School) Topic: Goods that people buy but wish did not exist People buy some goods that they do not enjoy and wish did not exist. They might even be willing to pay a great deal for such goods, whether the currency involves...

Marcel Binz, Research Scientist, Helmholtz Computational Health Center, Munich Topic: “ Building foundation models of human cognition ” Most cognitive models are domain-specific, meaning that their scope is restricted to a single type of problem. The...

Speaker ~ Fred Callaway (NYU / Harvard)

Viola Stoermer ~ Dartmouth BrainStörmer Lab Perception Attention Memory