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2014 Oct 08
Colloquium: Margaret Livingstone, PhD
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
WJH Auditorium 1 - Basement level
Description Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Title: Cortical domains: How do we get them and what good are they?
Web site: neuro.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/margaret-livingstone
Contact name: Ken Nakayama
Contact e-mail: ken@wjh.harvard.edu
Contact phone: 617-495-3800
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Cognition, Brain, & Behavior

Research in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (CBB) group includes studies of sensation and perception, learning and memory, attention, mental imagery, conceptual representation, aging, language, emotion, motor control, social cognition, moral decision making, and neurological disorders. The subjects for these studies range from normal human adults and infants to brain-damaged patients, and various non-human primate and avian species. Methodologies include computer-based behavioral tests and web-based surveys to assess functional patterns in behavior, as well as functional neuroimaging...

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2014 Nov 12
Success in genetics means hard problems for Psychology
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
WJH Auditorium 1 - Basement level
Steven E. Hyman, M.D.
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Title: "Success in genetics means hard problems for Psychology."
Web site: http://www.broadinstitute.org/history-leadership/leadership/scientific-leadership/core-members/steven-hyman
Contact name: Joshua Buckholtz
Contact e-mail: joshua_buckholtz@harvard.edu
Contact phone: 617-495-3800
Source Calendar: Psychology Department Calendar
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2015 Feb 18
Colloquium: Amanda Woodward, PhD
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
WJH Auditorium 1 - Basement level
Description Amanda Woodward, Ph.D.
William S. Gray Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
University Of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Title: TBA
Web site: http://woodwardlab.uchicago.edu/
Contact name: Fiery Cushman
Contact e-mail: cushman@wjh.harvard.edu
Contact phone: 617-495-3800
Source Calendar: Psychology Department Calendar
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Steven Pinker on Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing

January 29, 2015

The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), in collaboration with the Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series, welcomed Professor Steven Pinker and Visiting Professor Jill Abramson on December 9th, 2014 in a talk at Harvard titled, “Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing.” The discussion, inspired by the recent publication of Professor Pinker’s book, ...

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Harvard’s Odyssey unlocks big data (Harvard Gazette)

January 26, 2015

As technology evolves and becomes further integrated into society, massive amounts of data are being collected and stored. From the app on your cellphone to the swipe of your credit card to the systems that monitor everyday activities, data is endlessly transmitted and interpreted. With supercomputers within easy reach and storage infinitely scalable, researchers now have the power and resources not just to collect data, but to analyze it and make important discoveries....

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2015 Mar 11
Colloquium: True Grit, Angela Duckworth, PhD
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
WJH Auditorium 1 - Basement level
Who succeeds in life? Is it simply those among us who are gifted and talented in our pursuits? Or, is aptitude merely “potential” if effort and interest are not sustained over time? In this presentation, Angela Duckworth reviews her research on grit, the tendency to pursue challenging goals over years with perseverance and passion. She describes the predictive power of grit for performance in the National Spelling Bee, graduation from West Point, graduation from the Chicago Public Schools, and a variety of other contexts. Next, she describes current work on the underlying motivational,...
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Social Psychology

Students and faculty in Social Psychology seek to understand human experiences and behaviors in social settings. Our research and teaching span levels of analysis--from the neural and physiological underpinnings of social cognition, through individual and group behavior, to the social and cultural contexts within which people think, feel, and act.  Much of our work is done at intersections--with other areas of psychology, such as cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology; with other departments, such as Economics and Sociology; and with Harvard professional schools, such as...

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