Social, Personality & Abnormal Meetings
2011/2012 SCHEDULE
TUESDAYS from 3:00pm sharp – 4:30pm
SS560A (unless otherwise specified)
Click on a speaker's name to visit his or her website and click on the talk title to see the talk abstract. The site will be updated as talk titles and abstracts become available.
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TALK TITLE |
| September 13, 2011 | Introduction | |
| September 20, 2011 | Steve Spencer (University of Waterloo) | 'Not all automatic associations are created equal: How implicit normative evaluations are distinct from implicit attitudes and uniquely predict meaningful behaviour' |
| September 27, 2011 | Alex Kogan (Post-doc) | 'Trust, Love, and Positivity: Three Spotlights on Prosocial Processes and Well-being' |
| October 4, 2011 | Marie Good (Post-doc) | 'Exploring the Development and Psychosocial Correlates of Spirituality/Religiosity Across Adolescence' |
| October 11, 2011 | PhD3: Caitlin Burton and Laura Girz | Conservatives catastrophize: Political orientation predicts sensitivity to anticipated negative outcomes; Changes in Weight, Eating Attitudes, and Well-Being during the Four Undergraduate Years |
| October 18, 2011 | PhD4: Jennifer Gutsell and Alexa Tullett | Know thy enemy ? a functional approach to group biases in motor resonance; What do Disgust and Compassion Have in Common? Exploring the Link Between Avoidance and Empathy |
| October 25, 2011 | False-Positive Psychology Discussion (Uli and Liz) | False-Positive Psychology (Simmons et al, In Press at Psychology Science) |
| November 1, 2011 | Brian Connelly (UTSC Department of Management) | Beyond the Limits of Self-Reports: An 'Other' Perspective on Personality |
| November 8, 2011 | Jessica Remedios | Solving the Prejudice Puzzle: Fitting Social Identities Together to Understand Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination |
| November 15, 2011 | MA Proposals: Lindsey Cary and Chad Danyluck | The Influence of Ambiguous Identity on Person Evaluations; Perceived similarity in times of intergroup conflict |
| November 22, 2010 | MA Proposals: Jessica Maxwell, Ian Miller, and Jeffrey Robinson | Motivated Misperceptions: Understanding Avoidant Attachment and Empathic Accuracy; Sharing information and ideas: using memes to study preferences and re-sharing behaviours; Lay Theories of Harm |
| November 29, 2011 | MA Proposals: Sabrina Thai, Konstantin Tskhay, and Jonathan Cadieux | The Role of Attachment in Social Comparisons Between Romantic Partners; Perceptual Learning: Improving the Accuracy in Categorizing Perceptually Ambiguous Groups; Confronting Antigay Prejudice |
| December 6, 2011 | Amy Muise (Post-doc) | Approaching Sex and Avoiding Jealousy: Two Lines of Research about Romantic Relationships |
| January 10, 2012 | PhD4: Judith Gere and Jeffery Yen | Well-Being, Goal Pursuit, and Intimate Relationships ; Public Understanding of Psychological Research: Racism and the IAT |
| January 17, 2012 | Vivian Zayas (Cornell University) | Unpacking Adult Attachment: A Multilevel Perspective |
| January 24, 2012 | PhD4: Stephanie Daoud and Maciek Lipinski-Harten | Using Feedback to Influence Pro-Environmental Motivations; Predicting Antisocial Behaviour: How Callous-Unemotional Traits Change the Picture |
| January 31, 2012 | SPSP Show and Tell | Various |
| February 7, 2012 | PhD4: Jessica Remedios and Stephanie Spielmann | Beyond Discrimination Threat: Perceived Social Reward Predicts Gender Identification; Settling for less out of fear of being single |
| February 14, 2012 | PhD2: Nadia Bashir, Stefano Di Domenico, and Hyunji Kim | The Time to Act is Now: Subjective Temporal Proximity Enhances Future-Oriented Messages; In Search of Integrative Processes: Basic Psychological Needs Predict Medial Prefrontal Activation During Decisional Conflict; Culture, Well-being, and the General Evaluative Biases in Perceptions of the Self and Others |
| February 21, 2012 | Reading Week (No Meeting) | |
| February 28, 2012 | PhD2: Shauna Kushner, Shona Tritt, and Chris Zou | When good kids go sad: The unexpected role of agreeableness in youth internalizing problems; Preliminary support for an arousal avoidance model of political conservatism; Validity of well-being measures |
| March 6, 2012 | Faculty Data Blitz | Double Edged Sword? Possible Relationships between Prejudice, Stress, and Health; Bias-Colored Glasses: The Influence of Anti-Gay Bias on Social Perception |
| March 13, 2012 | Lisa Lipschitz (PhD3) and PhD1 Outside Project Proposals: Xiaowen Xu and Samantha Joel | The Effect of Support Group Attendance on Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery; It's Complicated: Ambivalence in the Context of Romantic Relationships |
| March 20, 2012 | PhD1 Outside Project Proposals: Bonnie Le and Christine Nguyen | |
| March 27, 2011 | Academic Professional Development Session |
