Social Psychology

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology | CSSP Seminar November & December 2026 Speaker Schedule: 11/5/2026 Rachel Denison Faculty, BU 11/12/2026 SueYeon Chung Faculty, Harvard 11/19/2026 Charles Dorison Faculty, Georgetown 11/26/2026 NO TALK (Thanksgiving)...

~ Harvest Day 2026 ~ Presentations 1:00 - 3:30 PM; Reception 3:30 - 5:00 PM Join the Psychology Department for our annual series of brief, fun and informative presentations from the faculty describing their current research. ~ Presenters ~ Jesse Snedeker...

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology Seminar Chujun Lin ~ Columbia University, Assistant Professor Title: From Isolated Psychological Phenomena to Unifying Computational Principles of Person Perception Abstract: People routinely make a wide range of...

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology Seminar Allyson Mackey ~ Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Title: Environmental Influences on Brain Plasticity Abstract: Children today will grow up to solve problems we cannot yet imagine. To build the...

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology Seminar Sanaz Talaifar ~ Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Imperial College London Title: Identity Shapes (and Is Shaped by) the Digital Environment Abstract: People with different identities leave...

Cognitive Science & Social Psychology Seminar Max Kleiman-Weiner ~ University of Washington, Assistant Professor Title: Reverse Engineering Cooperation With Bayesian Theories Of Minds Abstract: Human cooperation is distinctly powerful. We collaborate with...

Laurie Santos (’97, PhD ’02) ~ Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and host of The Happiness Lab podcast Title: Professional Development Fireside Chat: Best Practices for Communicating Psychological Insights at Scale...

Cognitive Science and Social Psychology Seminar Dr. Jeremy Wolfe ~ Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology, Harvard Medical School Title: How the !%# did I miss that? When and why do we ‘look but fail to see’? Abstract: Why don’t we see everything that...

Social Seminar Austin van Loon ~ Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Title ~ Using LLMs as a Source of Behavioral Data Generative AI has prompted a striking proposal for the social sciences: replace human subjects with simulated ones. The...

CBB Seminar Ilker Yildirim ~ Asst. Professor of Psychology, Cognitive and Neural Computation Lab Yale University Title - How to model the mind simultaneously across the computational, algorithmic, and neural levels In the history of neuroscience and...