Novel Forms of Representation at the Juncture of Hippocampal and Posterior Parietal Systems for Spatial Mapping

My lab focuses on social judgments that children and adults make about themselves and other people. This talk will focus on three recent papers finding that the same actions and outcomes can be interpreted quite differently depending on the inferences that children and adults make about the action or outcome in question.  The same Inequality can be satisfying or unsatisfying depending on who creates it. The same statement of neutrality can be interpreted as radically different depending on the audience one is speaking to.

Placental Serotonin: a Potential Pathway for the Developmental Origins of Mental Disorders

Stress and Obesity: The Ghrelin Connection

Abstract: Interest in active learning continues to grow worldwide. Although the large volume of active learning research has provided a myriad of ways to implement active learning in the classroom, the construct remains underdeveloped and difficult to operationalize. The purpose of this talk is is to articulate why active learning has the current status as a “curious construct” and what can be done to move the field forward.

Although people across the globe suffer, sometimes we find it difficult to respond to another person’s suffering because we might not know what would be most helpful to them in that particular situation. For instance, should we focus on the silver lining or the distress? In my talk, I will demonstrate individual and cultural differences in how people express sympathy and what people consider to be compassionate. Moreover, I will present data suggesting individual and cultural variation in the degree to which people notice others’ suffering, the first step of a compassionate response.