Second-Year Project Talks

10:00am: Welcome and Introduction, Leah Somerville, Director of Graduate Studies

10:05am: Emily Stekl, Advisor: Liz Phelps, Reader: Dan Schacter

Emotional Access to the Past: Emotion and Memory Reconsolidation

10:20am: Christina Steele, Advisor: Ashley Thomas, Reader: Fiery Cushman

Do Great Apes Represent Caregiving Relationships?

10:35am: Jenna Wilson, Advisor: Dan Schacter, Reader: Liz Phelps

Simulating the Future: Phenomenal Characteristics Across Trait Worry and Time

10:50am: Mack Briscoe, Advisor: Ashley Thomas, Reader: Fiery Cushman

When to speak up: how children reason about group dynamics

11:05am: 10 minute break

11:15am: Yuhui Huang, Advisor: Jesse Snedeker, Reader: Elika Bergelson

Switching meanings and forms: How do bilinguals process code-switched speech?

11:30am: Shachar Ruppin, Advisor: Rich McNally, Reader: Fiery Cushman

Deliberate Attempts to Avoid Threats, or Overly Stubborn Habits? A Hybrid Model of Compulsions Informed by Longitudinal Network Analyses

11:45am: Lucas Woodley, Advisor: Josh Greene, Reader: Mina Cikara

Ethnic Dominance and Democratic Quality Across Six Decades and 90 Countries

12:00pm: Lunch break

1:15pm: Briony Waite, Advisor: Jesse Snedeker, Reader: Elika Bergelson

The development of lexical access and linguistic prediction: Adapting story-based EEG tasks to understand comprehension in preschoolers

1:30pm: David Lin, Advisor: Jason Mitchell, Reader: Fiery Cushman

“It is Nothing Personal," Or Is It? --- Differentiating Anger Targeted at the Situation vs. the Person

1:45pm: Kai Krautter, Advisor: Ellen Langer, Reader: Patrick Mair

The Mindful Employee: The Role of Langerian Mindfulness in Job Performance and Burnout

2:00pm: Ioana Dalca, Advisor: Jason Mitchell, Reader: Fiery Cushman

Dynamics of social-cognitive pathways to transcendental emotions: Affective mentalising in aesthetic narratives 

2:15pm: Yuri-Grace Ohashi, Advisor: Matt Nock, Reader: Kate McLaughlin

How Adolescents Think about Stress: A Longitudinal Study of Stress Mindset and Psychopathology

2:30pm: Reception, Northwest Labs B100