We will be hearing from Dr. Vincent Yzerbyt, a professor at University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His talk is entitled, “The social heart in the individual head: Explorations in group-based emotions.” Please see below for more information about his talk.
You are invited to join us this Wednesday, April 27th, for the UMass Social Psychology Brown Bag presentation at 12pm in Tobin 423.
We will be hearing from Dr. Keith Maddox, an Associate Professor at Tufts University. His talk is entitled “We Really Need to Talk: Encouraging and Empowering Interracial Dialogue".
Making UMass Work for You: "Data Sharing, Storage, and Security"
All faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend a talk on Data Sharing, Storage, and Security given by Matthew Dalton. Mr. Dalton is the Chief Information Security Office for UMass Amherst
We will have an additional mid-day session for staff later in the spring to accommodate schedules.
We will be hearing from Dr. Tori Brescoll, an Associate Professor at Yale School of Management. Her talk is entitled “Women and Power: Hard to Earn, Difficult to Signal & Easy to Lose".
Dr. Brescoll conducts research on the impact of stereotypes on individuals’ status and power within organizations. To learn more about her work, please visit: http://som.yale.edu/victoria-l-brescoll
An oral exam, chaired by Adrian Staub, will be held for Lap-Ching Keung titled Distinct mechanisms underlie attraction errors and variable agreement with coordination.
Greg Barysky and Grace Quinn, students of Linda Isbell, have organized the "Out of the Darkness" Campus Walk to raise awareness about suicide and suicide prevention.
We will be hearing from Dr. Eric Knowles, an Associate Professor at New York University. His talk is entitled, “Demographic Change and White Identity Politics in the United States.”