2017 Mar 22

Colloquium - Laura Schulz PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Laura Schulz, PhD

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science

Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leah H. Somerville

Associate Professor

Research interests: Adolescent brain development, emotion, motivation, self-regulation, decision making

Felix Warneken

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Research Interests: The development and evolution of human cooperation; comparative studies of great apes; cross-cultural comparisons. Read more about Felix Warneken

Felix Warneken's Website

Warneken Lab

William James Hall 1320, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

warneken@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3848

Mahzarin R. Banaji

Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
Harvard College Professor, 2014-2019
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe, 2002-2008

Research Interests: Implicit social cognition; social development; attitudes & preferences; beliefs & stereotypes; intergroup relations; judgment & decision making; person perception; research methods.

Fiery Cushman

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Morality, social neuroscience, reinforcement learning, decision making, theory of mind, experimental philosophy

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology

Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, including the capacity for formal mathematics, Read more about Elizabeth S. Spelke

Spelke/Developmental Lab

William James Hall 1130, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

spelke@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3876

Susan E. Carey

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeh W. Morss Professor of Psychology

Susan Carey received her BA from Radcliffe College and her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University, studying with George Miller, Jerome Bruner and Roger Brown. She taught at MIT (Psychology Department, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) from 1973-1996, at NYU (Psychology Department) from 1996 - 2001, and has been at Harvard (Psychology Department) since 2001, where she cofounded the Laboratory for Developmental Studies with Elizabeth Spelke. She was awarded the 1998 Nicod Prize, was named the William James Fellow of APS in 2002, was awarded the David Rumerhart Prize in 2009, and APA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award in in 2009, and an APA Mentor Award in 2013. She is a member of the Society for Experimental Psychology, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Department of Psychology

Development of Social Cognition