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