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Social Psychology Program members make news:

  • Jim Blascovich receives SPSSI’s Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize
  • Jim Blascovich, Professor, elected as President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. (Division 8 of the American Psychological Association) from 2002-2004
  • Nancy Collins, Associate Professor, awarded University of California, Santa Barbara 2002 Plous Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research and Teaching
  • Heejung Kim, Assistant Professor, wins 2002 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award

Seminar and Speaker Series

The Social Psychology Area Meeting (we call it SPAM) meets every Wednesday providing opportunities for faculty and students to present their current work to all members of the area on a weekly basis. The social area quarterly speaker series attracts many prominent social scientists to the campus and also features on campus speakers with allied interests to offer interdisci[inary perspectives on all aspects of social behavior. Featured speakers in these series appear during the academic term on the departmental calendar.

SOC Seminar Series - Winter 2009

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are held in Psychology East Room Rm. 3834, Fridays, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Date/Time Speaker Title Location
January 9 Yuen Huo
UCLA
The Psychology of Respect: Implications for Group Dynamics, Well-Being, and Intergroup Relations
 
Janruary 23 Steven Pinker
Harvard University
(Sage Lecturer)
Title TBA

Alumni Hall, 2nd Fl., Mosher Alumni House,
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
January 29 Rebecca Saxe
MIT
(Sage Lecturer)
Title TBA

Alumni Hall, 2nd Fl., Mosher Alumni House,
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Febuary 27 Radmila Prislin
San Diego State University
Seeking Conversion vs. Advocating Tolerance in Pursuit of Social Change
 
March 13 Aaron Kay
University of Waterloo
Title TBA  

 

SOC Seminar Series - Spring 2009

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are held in Psychology East Room Rm. 3834, Fridays, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Date/Time Speaker Title Location
April 3 Grainne Fitzsimons University of Waterloo
Title TBA
 
April 17 Adam Galinsky
Northwestern University
Title TBA

 
April 24 Nancy Eisenberg
Arizona State University
(Co-sponsored with Interdisciplinary Program
In Human Development)
Title TBA

 
May 1 Jennifer Eberhardt
Stanford University
Title TBA  
May 8 Shinobu Kitayama
University of Michigan
Title TBA  
May 29 Peter Carnevale
University of Southern California
Title TBA  

 

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