The Center for Research on Families welcomes Maureen Black PhD, Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Director of the Growth and Nutrition Clinic (GNC), who will present a talk titled Building Blocks: Promoting Healthy Habits Through Child Care.
Jennifer Davis PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, will present a talk titled Monitoring and Enhancing Driving Safety in Alzheimer’s Disease
Jennifer Gutsell PhD, Assistant Professor at Brandeis University, will present a talk titled Know thyself, know thy enemy - A motivational approach to (intergroup) neural resonance.
Dr. Gutsell conducts research on how prejudice and social group membership affect the neural mechanisms underlying the understanding of others' actions, intentions, and emotions.
Members of the honors committee will provide tips on making the honors program work for you: from recruiting top students, to thesis advising, and everything in between.
Erin Hazlett, PhD, Research Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai Hospital, will present a talk titled Delineating Emotion-Processing Abnormalities in Individuals At-Risk for Suicide with a Multimodal Psychophysiological Approach.
Robert Kozma PhD, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Memphis, will present a talk titled Respiratory modulation of sensory cortices: Experimental evidence and graph theoretical models
Nate Carnes, doctoral student and Methodology Consultant for the Center for Research on Families, will conduct a seminar titled When Correlation Implies Causation: How to Remove Selection Bias in Observational Research
We conduct observational research because random assignment to treatment condition is sometimes impractical, unethical, or even undesirable. However, observational studies are especially susceptible to threats to internal validity, and selection bias is among the most problematic of these threats.
