Ashley Whillans

Assistant Professor

Business

Harvard University

Jan de Houwer

Professor

Psychology

Ghent University, Belgium

Luke Chang

Assistant Professor

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Dartmouth College

Gautam Rao

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

Harvard University

Chanmo Park; Asma Ghani

Marius Vollberg; Adam Mastroianni

Benedek Kurdi; Tessa Charlesworth

Jack Cao; Gregory Davis

Michele J. Geland, PhD

Professor of Psychology

Affiliate of the RH Smith School of Business

University of Maryland

Topic: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The Strength of Social Norms 

Michele Gelfand is Professor of Psychology and a Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park and visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School 2016-2017. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. Her work has been...

Eli J. Finkel, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Professor of Management and Organizations

Northwestern University

http://elifinkel.com/eli-finkel/

Topic: The All-Or-Nothing Marriage

John Dovidio, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Public Health

Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Yale University

Topic: Racism Among the Well-Intentioned: Implications for Intergroup Perceptions, Interactions, and Interventions

Abstract:   This presentation considers the subtle ways that racism is currently expressed and identifies important social consequences of this bias. ...

Betsy Levy Paluck, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Woodrow Wilson School

Princeton University

Topic: Changing social norms and behavior

Abstract: 

How can we change social norms, the standards describing typical or desirable behavior? Because individuals’ perceptions of norms guide their personal behavior, influencing these perceptions is one way to create social change. And yet...