Nilanjana Dasgupta PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, will present in the 2016-2017 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series. Her talk is titled STEMing the Tide: How Female Professors and Peers Can Encourage Young Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Hillary Sackett PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Westfield State University, will present a talk entitled Psychological Dimensions of Auction Behavior: Applications in Experimental Economics.
Dr. Sackett conducts research on the intersection of environmental and behavioral economics as applied to sustainability infrastructure and policy.
John Drury PhD, a Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, will present a talk entitled (Dis)empowering prejudice through collective action: An elaborated social identity model.
Dr. Drury conducts research on crowds, social movements, and collective action.
Marc Howard PhD, professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University, will give a talk titled Retrieval of temporal context in the brain is associated with high confidence recognition responses.
Sarah Fefer PhD, Associate Professor at UMass, will present a talk on disruptive behavior in children and adolescents, intervention related to academic and behavioral competence.
Stellan Vinthagen PhD, Professor of Sociology, a scholar-activist, and the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance at the University of Massachusetts will give a talk titled Long-term Strategy and Movement Building for Dealing with the Trump Regime.
Junha Chang, graduate student in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, will present a talk titled Search guidance can be adjusted by experience with search discriminability
