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Recent Past Talks

Behavioral Nueroscience

Speaker: Christopher C. Lapish, IUPUI
Title: "Understanding the role of the prefrontal cortex dopamine system in cognition and cognitive enhancement"
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013

Clinical

Speaker: Tom Widiger, University of Kentucky
Title: "An integration of normal and abnormal pesonality functioning"
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Speaker: Ruth Baer, University of Kentucky
Title: "Mindfulness: Assessment, treatment, and mechanisms of change"
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Speaker: David Purpura, Purdue University
Title: "Untangling the Comorbidity: Assessing and Understanding the Relation Between Academic Functioning
  and ADHD-like Behaviors"
Date: Friday, March 29, 2013
Speaker: Tom Oltmanns, Washington University
Title: "Studying Personality and Life Outcomes: The Added Value of What Others Know About Us"
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Speaker: Eric Scott, Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: "Clinical uses of biofeedback training in adolescents"
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Speaker: Antonio Zadra, University of Montreal
Title: "Understanding sleepwalking in adults: Clinical considerations and pathophysiological perspectives"
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013
Speaker: Elliot Friedman, Purdue University
Title: "Accentuate the Positive: Psychological Well-Being and Inflammation in Aging Adults"
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013
Event: RDOC Discussion
Date: Friday, January 18, 2013
Event: Organizational Meeting
Date: Friday, January 11, 2013
Event: Presentation on graduate student grant opportunities
Date: Friday, December 7, 2012
Speaker: Robin Nusslock, Northwestern University
Title: "Abnormalities in Reward-Related Brain Function in Depression and Bipolar Disorder"
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2012
Speaker: Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, Indiana University
Title: "Child-Informed Mediation Study: Initial Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial"
Date: Friday, October 19, 2012
Event: Town Hall Meeting
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012
Speakers: Don Lynam and Vindhya Ekanayake, Purdue University
Title: "Meta-Analysis of PPI" - Don
Title: "Personality Functioning in Conversion Disorder" - Vindhya
Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Speakers: Amber Jarnecke and Andrew Jopp, Purdue University
Title: "Attachment Orientations as Mediators in the Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Satisfaction" - Amber
Title: "Exploring Self- and Informant-Reports of Personality Pathology for DSM-5" - Andrew
Date: Friday, September 21, 2012
Speakers: Emily Sherman and Joel Sprunger, Purdue University
Title: "Agreeableness Accounts for the Factor Structure of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory" - Emily
Title: "Lowering the Bar: Alcohol, Distorted Thinking, and Partner-Directed Aggression" - Joel
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012
Event: Student Town Hall
Date: Friday, September 7, 2012

Clinical Symposium Lecture

Speaker: Stephen Wonderlich, North Dakota School of Medicine
Title: "Translating from behavioral science to clinical interventions for bulimia nervosa"
Date: Friday, April 19, 2013
Speaker: Daniel Le Grange, University of Chicago School of Medicine
Title: "The prevalence and treatment of eating disorders in adolescents"
Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Speaker: Guido K.W. Frank, M.D., University of Colorado Medical Campus
Title: "Demystifying Eating Disorders - Structural and Functional Brain Alterations in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013

Colloquia Series on Publication Bias

Speaker: Uri Simonsohn, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "What should count as a failure to replicate anyway?"
Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Speaker: Brian Nosek, University of Virginia
Title: "Scientific Utopia; A Radical View"
Date: Friday, March 29, 2013
Speaker: Uli Schimmack, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Title: "The Null-Hypothesis is dead: What now?"
Date: Friday, February 22, 2013
Speaker: Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington
Title: "Confirmation bias and significance-testing mischief: The more things change, the more they stay the same"
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Speaker: Greg Francis, Purdue University
Title: "The Psychology of Replication and Replication in Psychology"
Date: Friday, November 9, 2012

Departmental Colloquia

Speaker: Reid Hastie, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: "Explanations for Everything: The Answer to the Riddle of Induction"
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012

I/O

Web Event: Carma/Georgia Tech Webcast: Honoring the career contributions of Professor Larry James
Speakers: Larry Wiliams, Jeff Edwads, Dan Newman and James LeBreton
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Event: SIOP Presentation Rehearsal
Speakers: Brett Guidry, Heidi Baumann, Christopher Hartwell, and Meghan Thornton
Titles: "Tracing cognition with assessment center simulations: Using technology to see in the dark" - Brett
  "The role of self-awareness in voluntary development" - Heidi & Christopher
  "Emotional labor measures as detectors of depleting vs motivating forces on display rule compliance: The case
  of unionized workers" - Meghan
Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Speaker: Robert Hogan, President, Hogan Assessment Systems
Title: "Personality, Leadership, and Organizational Effectiveness"
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Event: I/O Graduate Student Recruiting Event
Date: Friday, March 1, 2013
Speaker: Herman Aguinis, Indiana University
Title: "Revisiting 'Established Facts' in IO Psychology and Management Research"
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Speaker: Caitlin Porter, Purdue University
Title: "What One Does Affects How One Leaves: Networking Behaviors Influence Turnover Types"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
Speakers: Kelly Wilson and Heidi Baumann, Purdue Krannert School of Management
Title: "Capturing a more complete view of employees' lives outside of work: The introduction of new inter-role conflict constructs"
Date: Friday, December 14, 2012
Speaker: Zvonamir Galik, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Title: "On Faking Personality Questionnairs in Personnel Selection"
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012
Speaker: Dr. John Mathieu, University of Connecticut
Title: "Doing teams research: where, when, how, and why?" (CARMA Live Webcast)
Date: Friday, November 9, 2012
Speaker: Kaifeng Jiang, Rutgers University
Title: "Why Do Employees Perceive and React to Human Resource Management Practices Differently?"
Date: Friday, October 26, 2012
Speaker: Janice Malloy, Michigan State University
Title: "Bridging Micro-Macro Divides through Human Capital Scholarship"
Date: Monday, October 22, 2012
Speaker: James LeBreton, Purdue University
Title: "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom Underlying Tests for 'Continuous' Variable Moderation in the Psychological Sciences"
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012
Speaker: Brett Bruning, Krannert School of Management
Title: "A Research Proposal for the Construct Refinement and Measurement of Team Absorptive Capacity"
Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Speaker: Brett Guidry, Purdue University
Title: "Ruminating about Procrastination"
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012

Learning & Memory/Cognitive

Speakers: Josh Whiffen, Mindi Cogdill and Courtney Griffin-Oliver, Purdue University
Titles: "The role of the temoral context in retrieval practice effects" - Josh
  "Explaining the survival processing effect" - Mindi
  "Motion verb action planning" - Courtney
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Speakers: Althea Bauerschmidt and Megan Smith, Purdue University
Titles: "When Interest Matters for Learning" - Althea
  "Generating Cues for Retrieval Practice Improves Learning in Elementary Students" - Megan
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Speakers: Jing Chen and Mila Sugovic, Purdue University
Titles: "Physical and Conceptual Response-Distance Effect in the Stroop Task" - Jing
  "Perception and Obesity: It's Not What You Think" - Mila
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Speakers: Robert Proctor and Rand B. Evans, Purdue University
Title: "E.B. Titchener, the Experimentalists, and Women"
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Speaker: George Hollich, Purdue University
Title: The Little Things That Make a Big Difference in Learning"
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Speaker: Ludmila Nunes, Purdue University
Title: "Learning the Test Structure: How the Type of Test Influences Subsequent Encoding"
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Speaker: Phillip Grimaldi, Purdue University
Title: "Concept Mapping Impairs Item Specific Processing"
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Speaker: Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue University
Title: "What's new in 3D shape perception"
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Speaker: David Purpura, HDFS, Purdue University
Title: "Adding it up: The development and acquisition of early mathematical skills"
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Speaker: Melissa Swisher, Purdue University
Title: "Symmetry in the Pigeon with Different Stimulus Location"
Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Speaker: Althea Bauernschmidt, Purdue University
Title: "Practice Job Talk"
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Event: Panel Discussion: How to be a graduate student
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Event: Organizational Meeting
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Speakers: Rich Schweickert, Joanna Xi, and Hye Joo Han, Purdue University
Titles: "Effects on Time Production of Activating a Memory Set and Searching It" - Joanna Xi
  "Estimating Averages from Distributions of Tone Durations" - Rich Schweickert and Hye Joo Han
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Speaker: Michael Heinz, Purdue University
Title: "Physiological Correlates of Degraded Temporal Fine Structure Sensitivity with Sensorineural Hearing Loss"
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Speaker: Melissa Lehman, Purdue University
Title: "Dissociating Retrieval and Elaboration: The Unique Benefits of Retrieval Mode"
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Speaker: James Nairne, Purdue University
Title: "Adaptive Memory: The Mnemonic Value of Animacy"
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Speaker: Howard Zelaznik, Purdue University
Title: "Timing in Children with ADHD"
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Speaker: Greg Francis, Purdue University
Title: "More About Replication and Publication Bias"
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Speaker: Sebastien Helie, Purdue University
Title: "Computational Exploration of Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson's Disease"
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Event: Job Search Panel Discussion
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Speaker: Josh Brown, Indiana University
Title: "Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Modeling and fMRI of Cognitive Control"
Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012

MCCS

Speaker: Denis Cousineau, University of Ottawa
Title: "Same-different: What's next?"
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Speaker: Jeffrey Rouder, University of Missouri
Title: "Bayesian inference in psychology"
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Speaker: Jerome Busemeyer, Indiana University
Title: "Can quantum probability provide a new direction for cognitive modeling"
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Speaker: Yuan (Alan) Qi, CS/Statistics, Purdue University
Title: "Bayesian Graph and Tensor Modeling"
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Speaker: Ali Minai, ECE, University of Cincinnati
Title: "Connectivity and Thought: An Itenerant Neural Model of Conceptual Combination"
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Speaker: Andrei Khrennikov, Linnaeus University
Title: "Quantum-like models in cognitive science and psychology"
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Speaker: Ehtibar Dzhafarov, Purdue University
Title: "Selective Influences, Determinism, Context"
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Speaker: Yunfeng Li, Purdue University
Title: "Predict human symmetry judgment by support vector machine"
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Speaker: Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue University
Title: "A New Definition of Shape"
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Speaker: Greg Francis, Purdue University
Title: "Replication, Statistical Consistency, and the Publication Bias"
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Speaker: Professor Eugenio Culurciello, BME, Purdue University
Title: "Modeling the human visual system in hardware"
Date: Friday, December 14, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Yunfeng Li, Purdue University
Title: "3D Shape Recovery Based on Symmetry"
Date: Friday, December 7, 2012
Speaker: Tom Talavage, Purdue University
Title: "Functional MRI of Neurophysiological Health; Toward Making fMRI a Clinically-Relevant Tool"
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012
Speaker: Tadamasa Sawada, Purdue University
Title: "A Geodesic on a Non-Differentiable 3D Surface and Its Role in Visual Perception"
Date: Friday, November 9, 2012
Speaker: Ru Zhang, Purdue University
Title: "Perceptual Separability through Selective Influence"
Date: Friday, November 2, 2012
Speakers: Hye Joo Han and Richard Schweickert, Purdue University
Title: Reaction Time Predictions of Multinomial Processing Trees"
Date: Friday, October 19, 2012
Speaker: Sebastien Helie, Purdue University
Title: "Bottom-up Learning of Causal Knowledge Using a Hybrid Connectionist/Bayesian Network"
Date: Friday, October 5, 2012

Social

Speaker: Brent Roberts, University of Illinois
Title: "Can personality traits be changed? A meta-analytic review"
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Speaker: Judith Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin
Title: "Promoting Interest and Performance in STEM Fields: The Importance of Utility Value"
Date: Friday, March 8, 2013
Speaker: Chris Kowal, Purdue University
Title: "The Presidential Face: Emotions During Presidential Debates"
Date: Friday, March 1, 2013
Speaker: Maureen Craig, Northwestern University
Title: "Coalition or derogation? Intra-minority intergroup relations in the 21st century"
Date: Friday, February 22 2013
Speaker: Louis Tay, Purdue University
Title: "Economics and Happiness: To what extent do economic factors matter for subjective well-being?"
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013
Speaker: Jeff Jackson, V.P. of D.S. Howard & Associates
Title: "Market Research"
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013
Speaker: Kathryn Boucher, Indiana University
Title: "The Experience of Stereotype Threat: Consequences for Targets and Perceptions of Targets' Experiences"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
Speaker: Emily Short, Purdue University
Title: "Why Does Someone Who is High in Commitment Initiate a Breakup? The Role of Perceived Relative Commitment and
  Attachment Anxiety"
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012
Speaker: John Pryor, Illinois State University
Title: "Stigma"
Date: Friday, November 16, 2012
Speaker: Allen McConnell, Miami of Ohio University
Title: "The Systems of Evaluation Model: A Dual-Systems Approach to Attitudes"
Date: Friday, November 9, 2012
Event: Social Area Faculty Panel
Title: "Getting a Job: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"
Date: Friday, November 2, 2012
Speaker: Sue Sprecher, Illinois State University
Title: "The Initiation of Relationships: A Brief Review of Current Issues and Preliminary"
  Findings from Laboratory Research on Initial Interactions"
Date: Friday, October 19, 2012
Speaker: Simine Vazire, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: "Facing Our Selves: Life at the Border of Self-Deception and Self-Awareness"
Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Speaker: Doug Samuels, Purdue University
Title: "Comparing Brief Measures of the Five Factor Model"
Date: Friday, September 21, 2012
Speaker: James LeBreton, Purdue University
Title: "Examining the Transparency and Fakeability of Conditional Reasoning Tests of Aggression"
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012
Speaker: Russ Fazio, Ohio State University
Title: "Weighting Positive versus Negative Valence: The Fundamental Nature of Asymmetries in Attitude Generalization"
Date: Friday, September 7, 2012

Special Seminar

Speaker: Professor Vittorio Hosle, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame
Title: "Hermeneutics"
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012