Fall 2002

 

 Date Speaker & Title
Sept 27
Organizational Meeting
Oct 4
Fall Social-Social
Oct 11
SESP - No speaker
Oct 18
Andrew Ward - Swarthmore College
Oct 25
Jean Twenge - San Diego State University
Nov 1
Lynn Miller - University of Southern California
    "Attachment Fertility Theory: Homologous (Not Sex-distinct)
    Long-term (But not Distinct Short-term) Mechanisms (with Genetically 
    and Experientially Tuned Parameters) in a Universal Human Mating System"
Nov 8
Jeanne Phinney - Cal State, Los Angeles
Nov 15
Heejung Kim - Harvey Mudd College
Nov 22
Kris Beals - UCLA
Nov 29 Thanksgiving - No speaker
Dec 6 Holiday Social-Social

 

Spring 2002

 Date Speaker & Title
April 5
SoCal Positive Psychology Conference - no speaker
April 12
WPA in Irvine - no speaker
April 19
TBA
April 26
Nancy Collins (with CRIG)
May 3
Non-academic careers roundtable
May 10
Udo Rudolph - Chemnitz University
    "Helping and Aggression from an Attributional Perspective"
May 17
Bert Raven - UCLA
May 24
Memorial Day Weekend
May 31
251 Talks and Melissa Witkow
June 7 Social Social

 

Winter 2002

 Date Speaker & Title
Jan. 18
Gian Gonzaga - UCLA
     Charting the Territory of Positive Emotions
Jan. 25
John Bargh - New York University
Feb. 1
SPSP - no speaker
Feb. 8
Bertram Raven - UCLA
     "...A Long Way, Baby - One Hundred Years of Cigarette
      Advertisements Aimed at Getting Women to Smoke."
     **Repeat Presentation** (but new to most of you!)
Feb. 15
Andrew Elliot - University of Rochester
    Fear of Failure: Conseqeunces and Develomental  Considerations
Feb. 22
Avraham Kruger - The Hebrew University
      Needs and Self-regulation: explaining effort expenditure, 
      risk taking, and excellence
Mar. 1
Bernie Weiner - UCLA
      A Social/Emotional Approach to the Study of Achievement
     Motivation
Mar. 8
Kevin Ochsner - Stanford University
      Rethinking Feelings:  Examining the Neurocognitive Mechanisms
      of Emotion Control
Mar. 15
Yesi Pena - UCLA
      Challenging National Ideologies of Racial Democracy:
      Actual vs. Perceived Racial Equality and In-group Bias in
      the Dominican Republic and Cuba

 

 

Fall 2001

 Date Speaker & Title
Sept 28
Social Social
   No Talk
Oct 5
Barry Collins, UCLA
   What is beautiful is socially attractive: A multidimensional analysis 
   of physical attractiveness
Oct 12
Art Aron - SUNY, Stony Brook
   Including close others in the self: Cognitive mechanisms and
    implications for altruism and prejudice reduction
Oct 19
SESP in Portland - no speaker
Oct 26
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi - Claremont Graduate University
     Flow and the psychology of optimal experience
Nov 2
cancelled - no talk
Nov 9
Brian Lowery - UCLA
        Social influences on automatic processes
Nov 16
Curtis Hardin - UCLA
       Relationship motivation in social cognition
Nov 23
Thanksgiving
Nov 30
Yuen Huo - UCLA
      TBA

 

 

Spring 2001

 Date Speaker & Title
Apr. 6
David Funder - UC Riverside
    Accuracy in Personality Judgment: What, When, and How
Apr. 13 Traci Mann - UCLA
Apr. 20
Veronica Benet-Martinez - U. of Michigan
    Negotiating Biculturalism: Socio-Cognitive Processes and Individual
    Differences
Apr. 27 Social Cognitive Neuroscience Conference - No speaker
May 4 WPA in Maui - No speaker
May 11
Brian Lickel - U. of Southern California
   Feeling self-conscious emotions for the actions of others:  A cognitive
    appraisal model of vicarious shame and guilt
****CHANGE OF LOCATION:  Franz A279****
May 18 Bella DePaulo - U. of Virginia (SPECIAL TIME: 4pm)
May 25
Michele A. Wittig, California State University, Northridge
  Utility of a Three-Component Model for Explaining Intergroup Bias Reduction and 
     Intergroup Conflict Resolution
June 1
Lee Kirkpatrick - College of William and Mary
June 8 251 Presentations

 

Winter 2001

 Date Speaker & Title
Jan. 12
P.J. Henry - UCLA
   Values and Political Attitudes in America
Jan. 19
Rob Kurzdan - UCLA, Dept of Anthropology
   Commitment Facilitates Cooperation in a Real Time Public Goods Game
Jan. 26
Joan Chiao - Stanford
   "Do They All Look Alike?": an fMRI study on Race and Face Perception
Feb. 2
SPSP - no speaker
Feb. 9
Matt Baum - UCLA, Communication Studies
     Why a Less Interested Public is More Attentive to War
Feb. 16
John Jost - Stanford
      The Psychology of System Justification and the Palliative Function of
      Ideology
Feb. 23
Steve Reise - UCLA
Mar. 2
Jim Sidanius - UCLA
      "The Interactive Interface between Gender and Ethnic Discrimination:
         A Social Dominance and Evolutionary Perspective."
Mar. 9
Hal Kelley (Co-sponsored with CRIG. special time: 3pm)
Mar. 16 Linda Beckman - California School of Professional Psychology

 

Fall 2000

 Date Speaker & Title
 Sept. 29  Organizational mtg. - social social
 Oct. 6
 Matthew Lieberman - UCLA
   Why social psychologists should care about their brains
 Oct. 13
 Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks - USC
   Ascetic Protestantism and Cultural Schemas for Relational Sensitivity
 Oct. 20
 SESP - no speaker
 Oct. 27
 David Sherman - Stanford/UCLA
    Understanding and Reducing Self-Serving Social Judgments
 Nov. 3
 Shelly Gable - UCLA
  He said, she said:  Daily interactions and marital well-being
 Nov. 10
 VETERAN'S DAY - no speaker
 Nov. 17
 Chris Federico - UCLA
  JOB TALK PRACTICE**
      Racism, Ideology, and the Political Psychology of Racial Policy Attitudes
 Nov. 24  THANKSGIVING - no speaker
 Dec. 1
  Martie Haselton - UCLA
     Error Management Theory: A New Perspective on Biases in Judgment 
         and Decision Making
 Dec. 8
  Garth Fletcher - U. of New Zealand
     (Co-sponsored with CRIG. Special Time: 3pm)