Judgment and Decision Making

2017 Apr 26

Colloquium - Russell Poldrack, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Russell Poldrack, PhD

Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology

Stanford University

https://psychology.stanford.edu/node/3229

https://poldracklab.stanford.edu/

Topic: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience has witnessed two decades of rapid growth, thanks in large part to the continued development of fMRI methods. In my talk, I will question what this work has told us about brain function, and will propose that cognitive neuroscience needs to change in at least...

Leah H. Somerville

Associate Professor

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

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Somerville Lab

Northwest Laboratory 290.03, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

somerville@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7513

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.

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Banaji Lab/Personal Website

William James Hall 1520, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

mahzarin_banaji@harvard.edu

p: 617-384-9203

Mina Cikara

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Intergroup bias, emotion, cognitive and affective neuroscience

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Cikara Lab

William James Hall 1420, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

mcikara@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3819

Joshua D. Greene

Professor

Research interests: Moral judgment and decision-making; cooperation and conflict-resolution; the neural bases of high-level cognition (multimodal compositional semantics)

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Joshua D. Greene's Website

William James Hall 1470, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

jgreene@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3898

Max Krasnow

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Evolutionary psychology, evolution of sociality, psychology of cooperation and punishment, ecological rationality, psychology of foraging

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Krasnow Lab

William James Hall 980, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

krasnow@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3503

Joshua W. Buckholtz

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Identifying brain circuit mechanisms for inter-individual variability in self-control; characterizing circuit-level pathomechanisms underlying self-control failure in impulse control disorders (e.g. psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, drug addiction); uncovering the cognitive and neural foundations for social norm-based cooperative behavior.

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Joshua W. Buckholtz's Website

Northwest Laboratory 295.01, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

harvard.snplab@gmail.com

p: 617-496-8588