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Past Seminars

Date & Time	Location	Speaker - Topic

Nov 19, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Lionel Page -


Nov 12, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Jeff Inman - The Who in Regret: How Psychological Closeness Affects Regret and Social Distancing


Nov 10, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Greg Barron - The effect of safe experience on a warnings' impact: Sex, Drugs, and Rock -n- Roll


Nov 5, 2009 12pm	Porter 223D	Ernesto Reuben - The glass ceiling in experimental markets


Nov 3, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Joshua Weller - Risky Decision Making Across the Lifespan: Evidence from Decision Neuroscience, Developmental, and Individual Differences Approaches


Oct 29, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Carey Morewedge - Negativity Bias in Attribution of External Agency


Oct 22, 2009 12pm	Baker A53	Norbert Schwarz - From the dynamics of the mind to inferences about the world: Another look at metacognition


Oct 15, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Elif Incekara Hafalir - The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment


Oct 13, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Erte Xiao - Communication Value of Monetary Incentives in Enforcing Cooperation


Oct 8, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Elke Weber - "When do we want it?” “Now!” A query theory and neuroscience account of intertemporal preference construction


Oct 1, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Michael Sayette - A Cognitive and Affective Analysis of Cigarette Cravings


Sep 17, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Antonio Rangel - The neurobiology of self-control


Sep 10, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Joshua Knobe - Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist


Sep 3, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Cait Poynor - When Does the Green-Eyed Monster Bite? Understanding the Ups and Downs of Consumer Envy


Aug 27, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Golnaz Tabibnia - Different Forms of Self-Control Share a Common Neural Substrate


Apr 30, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	John Duffy - Social Norms, Information, and Trust among Strangers


Apr 23, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Brooke Feeney - Relationship Influences on Exploration in Adulthood: The Characteristics and Function of a Secure Base


Apr 9, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	David Rakison - Enough already with the nature versus nurture debate! Evidence for domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms in infancy


Apr 2, 2009 12:00	PH 223D	Devin Pope - Under-Par Job Performance: Myopic Loss Aversion in a High-Stakes Market


Mar 26, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Daniel Houser - Does deceptive advertising reduce political participation? Theory and evidence


Mar 19, 2009 12pm	Porter 223D	Todd Rogers - Behavioral Science in the Wild: Three Ways Field Experiments were Used by Practitioners in the 2008 Election Cycle


Mar 5, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Julie Fiez - Dorsomedial Striatum, Reinforcement Learning, and Declarative Knowledge Acquisition


Mar 3, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Karim Kassam - Mind, Body, Decision Making


Feb 26, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Lise Vesterlund - Why Do People Give? An Experimental Test of Pure and Impure Altruism


Feb 19, 2009 12pm	Porter Hall 223D	Jeremy Tobacman -


Feb 12, 2009 12pm	PH 223D	Coreen Farris - Sexual Misperception: Risk and Process


Feb 5, 2009 12:00	PH 223D	Oliver Board - Object-Based Unwareness: Theory and Applications


Jan 29, 2009 12pm	Porter 223D	Eugene Caruso - Why the Future is Bigger (and Badder) than the Past


Jan 26, 2009 4:30pm	Baker A53	Richard Davidson - “Order and Disorder in the Emotional Brain”


Jan 22, 2009 12	Porter 223D	Rosalind Chow - The Experience of and Response to Inequality: The Inequality Framing Model


Jan 15, 2009 12pm	Porter 223D	Gal Zauberman - It’s about Time: Cognitive Processes in Intertemporal Choice


Dec 11, 2008 12pm	PH 223D	Alexander Todorov - Evaluating faces on social dimensions


Dec 9, 2008 12:00	PH 223D	Sophie Trawalter - The Dynamics of Interracial Contact: A Stress and Coping Approach


Dec 4, 2008 12pm	PH 223D	Emily Balcetis - Motivated Visual Perception: How We See what We Want to See


Dec 2, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Daniel Bartels - The flexibility of moral judgment and decision making


Nov 20, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Adam Alter - Easy on the Mind; Hard on the Mind: The Effects of Fluency on Valuation, Elaboration, and Construal


Nov 6, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Anita Woolley - Why is it more fun to be the bad guys? Information use and performance strategies in teams playing offense versus defense


Oct 30, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Jeffrey Rachlinski - A Thumb on the Scale: Investigating Implicit Bias on the Bench


Oct 27, 2008 4:30pm	Erwin Steinberg Auditorium, Baker Hall A53	Laurie Santos - The Evolution of Irrationality: Insights from Non-Human Primates - Psychology Department Colloquim


Oct 16, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Mel Stephens - Can Governments Help Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits


Oct 9, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Joachim Vosgerau - Order Effects in the Implicit Association Test


Oct 2, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Tom Meyvis - Prospective Hedonics: How Anticipating the Future Influences Perceptions of Past and Present


Sep 25, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Maya Bar-Hillel - Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet? A cognitive perspective on poets and poetry.


Sep 19, 2008 12pm	151 Posner Hall	Jerker Denrell - Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment


Sep 18, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Luca Zarri - On Punishing Non-Punishers. When (Not So) Nice Guys Deserve the Stick, not the Carrot


Sep 11, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice


Sep 4, 2008 12pm	Porter 223D	Daniel Oppenheimer - Voting Agent Model of Preferences: A Computational Model of Individual Multiattribute Choice


May 8, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	John Kagel - Team Play, Advice and Context in Signaling Games


May 1, 2008 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Leeat Yariv - An Experimental Study of the Rational Voter Paradigm


Apr 29, 2008 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Marlene Behrmann - Let's face it: Psychological and neural mechanisms of face processing


Apr 24, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Joshua Greene - What Pushes Your Moral Buttons?


Apr 17, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Paige Marta Skiba - Payday Loans, Uncertainty, and Discounting: Explaining Patterns of Borrowing, Repayment, and Default


Apr 10, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Kevin Volpp - Financial Incentives for Healthy Behavior


Apr 3, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Gideon Keren - Heads or Tails: Decisions by a Coin-flip and the Limits of Rationality


Mar 28, 2008 12:30-2	Posner 388	Amy Cuddy - Warmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map


Mar 20, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Alessandro Acquisti - Estimating social security numbers from online social networks data


Mar 6, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Jennifer Beer - Neural distinctions between emotional and motivated decision making


Feb 28, 2008 Noon	Posner 384	Jesse Preston - First Causes: The Creation of Meaning Through Explanation


Feb 14, 2008 Noon-1:10	Porter 223D	Thomas Mussweiler - Psychological relativity – How comparisons shape judgment and decision making


Feb 12, 2008 10:30-noon	Posner 388	Oliver Sheldon - Conflict and Rivalry in Teams and Organizations


Feb 11, 2008 1:30-3	Posner 384	Rosalind Chow - The Experience of and Response to Inequality: The Inequality Framing Model


Jan 31, 2008 12-1:30	Porter 223D	Jessica Wisdom - Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience


Jan 30, 2008 1:30-3	Posner 343	Jeremy Burrus - Egocentrism vs. Egoism in Perceptions of Distributive Justice


Jan 29, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Johannes Abeler - Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption


Jan 25, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Robert Ostling - Field and Lab Convergence in Poisson LUPI Games


Jan 24, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Benoit Monin - Protecting the Halo: The Role of Self-Image in Everyday Morality


Jan 17, 2008 Noon-1:30	Porter 223D	Alexander Brown - Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments


Jan 15, 2008 Noon-1:30	Porter 223D	Erte Xiao - Emotion Expression, Punishment and Cooperation in Economic Exchange


Jan 10, 2008 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Jerker Denrell - Learning from Adaptive Samples


Dec 14, 2007 Noon-1:30	Porter 223D	Natalia Karelaia - Risk Taking and Excess Entry: The Roles of Confidence and Fallible Judgment


Dec 13, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Emir Kamenica - Contextual Inference, Choice Overload, and Simplicity Seeking


Dec 6, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Nava Ashraf - Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment


Dec 4, 2007 Noon-1:30	Porter 223D	Geoffrey Goodwin - The objectivity of ethical beliefs: Psychological findings and implications


Nov 29, 2007 Noon-1:30	Porter 223D	Golnaz Tabibnia - Fairness, Reward, and Self-Control: Clues from the Brain


Nov 15, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Simona Botti - Painful Choices: Autonomy and Emotional Responses in Highly Consequential Decisions


Nov 1, 2007 Noon-1:15 pm	Porter 223D	Drazen Prelec - Finding truth even when most people are wrong


Oct 25, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Piotr Winkielman - Why do we like things?


Oct 18, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Nicholas Epley - Creating God in One's Own Image


Oct 11, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	David Pizarro - Acts vs. Agents in Judgments of Moral Responsibility


Oct 4, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Ido Erev - Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions


Sep 27, 2007 Noon-1:15	Baker A53	Thomas Gilovich - Choosing to Follow or Depart from Normative Options


Sep 20, 2007 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Peter Ubel - Beyond Comprehension -- How To Help People Make "Good" Decisions


Sep 13, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Katherine Burson - Can Two Wrongs Make a Right? Accidental Accuracy in Predictions of Others' Preferences Under Uncertainty


Sep 6, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Carey Morewedge - When Memory for the Unusual Biases Prediction


Jun 19, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Loran Nordgren - The restraint bias: the regulatory pitfalls of inflated self-control beliefs


May 3, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Dan Ariely - (dis)honesty


Apr 26, 2007 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Enrico Diecidue - A Quantitative Measurement of Regret Theory


Apr 25, 2007 3 - 4:30 PM	Porter Hall 223-D	Hal Arkes - Cross-Cultural Adaptation to Gains and Losses (seminar organized by the Risk Center)


Apr 24, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Crystal Hall - Understanding Poverty: A Behavioral Perspective on the Decision Making of the Poor


Apr 12, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Tanya Chartrand - Moderators and Consequences of Nonconscious Mimicry


Apr 5, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Itamar Simonson - Another perspective on judgment and choice


Mar 8, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Ayelet Fishbach - Goals as excuses versus guides: Dynamics of goal-based choice


Mar 1, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Eldar Shafir - A behavioral perspective on decisions under poverty


Jan 18, 2007 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	John O'Doherty - Reinforcement learning mechanisms in the human brain: insights from model-based fMRI


Dec 14, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Roberto Weber - On the Measurement of Trust


Dec 7, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Baker A53	Samuel McClure - Neural mechanisms of time discounting


Nov 30, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Joachim Vosgerau - Expected and Real Enjoyment of Watching Televised Sports Events and Other Competitions


Nov 16, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Andrew Schotter - Paying for Confidence: An Experimental Study of Preferences over Beliefs


Nov 9, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Justin Wolfers - Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love, or Misperceptions?


Nov 2, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Anna Fisher - Transition from Similarity-Based to Category-Based Induction: Evidence from Memory and Eye Tracking


Oct 26, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Emily Pronin - The Bias Blind Spot: Psychological Dynamics and Social Consequences


Oct 19, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	P.J. Healy - Group Reputations, Stereotypes, and Cooperation in a Repeated Labor Market


Oct 12, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Baker A53	Ernst Fehr - Neuroeconomics: Exploring the Biological Foundations of Human Social Behavior


Oct 11, 2006 4-5:15pm	Porter 223D	Helga Fehr - High Stakes and Prospect Theory


Sep 28, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Tory Higgins - Where Does Value Come From?


Sep 21, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Bill Klein - Interpretation of ambiguity in social comparisons


Sep 14, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Shane Frederick - Cognitive reflection and decision making


Sep 7, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Lori Holt - Decisions and Interactivity in Perceiving Speech


Aug 31, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Francesca Gino - Incorporating others’ opinion into our decisions: When (if ever) do we listen to advice?


May 4, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Lise Vesterlund - Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much?


May 2, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Graham Loomes - The Improbability of a General, Rational and Descriptively Adequate Theory of Decision Under Risk


Apr 13, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Hart Blanton - Back to Basics: A Psychometric Analysis of the Implicit Association Test


Apr 6, 2006 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Matthew Lieberman - When Language Disrupts Affect: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach


Mar 30, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Uzma Khan - The Effect of Highlighting Future Choices on Current Preferences


Mar 23, 2006 noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Jon Haidt - Intuitive ethics: How five sets of evolved intuitions give rise to culturally variable virtues, and to the culture war


Mar 9, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	James Konow - Mixed Feelings: Theory and Evidence of Warm Glow and Altruism


Mar 7, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Carey Morwedge - When Alternatives do not Matter


Mar 2, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Shimon Kogan - Distinguishing Overconfidence from Rational Best-Response in Markets


Feb 23, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Vivian Zayas - Do automatic reactions elicited by thoughts of partner, self, and mother relate to experiences in close relationships?


Feb 16, 2006 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Amnon Rapoport - Choice of Routes in Congested Traffic Networks: Experimental Tests of the Braess Paradox


Dec 8, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Sheena Iyengar - The Psychological Costs of Ever-Increasing Choice


Dec 1, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Roland Benabou - Incentives and prosocial behavior


Nov 17, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Sheldon Cohen - Do positive emotions influence your health?


Nov 10, 2005 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	Stefano DellaVigna - The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voter Behavior


Nov 3, 2005 noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Cade Massey - The Loser's Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the NFL Draft


Oct 27, 2005 noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Barbara Mellers - Emotions, cooperation, and economic games: A new look at an old problem


Oct 20, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Ulrike Malmendier - Do Consumers Know Their Willingness to Pay? Evidence from eBay Auctions


Oct 14, 2005 Noon-1:15	Posner 146	Michael Morris - Giving Away Too Much: Effects of Unmitigated Communion, an Extreme Relational Orientation, at the Bargaining Table


Oct 7, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Luis Rayo - Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness


Sep 29, 2005 Noon - 1:15	Porter 223D	George Loewenstein - Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior


Sep 22, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Eric Stone - Exploring the Outcomes of Overconfidence


Sep 15, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Derek Koehler - Self-Predictions Overweight Strength of Current Intentions


Sep 8, 2005 Noon-1:15	Porter 223D	Don Moore - The trouble with overconfidence