psychology

#884 Maleen Thiele: Infant Social Learning

Jan 8, 2024

Dr. Maleen Thiele is a Postdoc in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and group leader of the Minerva Fasttrack Group there. She is a developmental psychologist and infancy researcher interested in the psychological foundations of early social learning. In her current postdoc project, Dr. Thiele takes a comparative perspective studying the influence of observation-based social learning contexts on object-related memory across great ape species. A central methodological aim of the project is to develop robust eye-tracking paradigms and reproducible data processing approaches helping us to study ape cognition across species from infancy to adulthood. More»
#880 Richard Redding: Sociopolitical Values in Psychological Research and Clinical Practice

Dec 29, 2023

Dr. Richard Redding is Ronald D. Rotunda Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Psychology at Chapman University. Dr. Redding's research focuses on forensic issues in criminal law and juvenile justice, the use of social science research in law and public policy, scientific evidence, and legal education. His work in these areas is both theoretical or policy-oriented and empirical. More»
#879 James Lee: Behavior Genetics, Educational Attainment, IQ, and Alcohol and Tobacco Use

Dec 28, 2023

Dr. James Lee is Associate Professor of Psychology, and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Minnesota. In 2012, Dr. Lee earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. The papers collected in his dissertation cover causal inference, genome-wide association studies, and cognitive-experimental approaches to the study of individual differences. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematical Biology Section of NIDDK/NIH from 2011 to 2013, working on problems in population and statistical genetics. More»
#875 Uta Frith & Chris Frith: What Makes Us Social?

Dec 18, 2023

Dr. Uta Frith is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience since 2006. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus at the Interacting Minds Centre from 2007 to 2015. She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Central European University in Budapest (February - June 2014). More»
#874 Cecilie Traberg: Misinformation, Debunking, Prebunking, and Inoculation Approaches

Dec 15, 2023

Cecilie Traberg is a Psychology PhD Candidate in the Social Decision-Making Lab at the University of Cambridge supervised by Professor Sander van der Linden where her work seeks to bridge the fields of social influence and cognitive science. Broadly speaking her research focuses on how groups act as sources of influence on our judgments and beliefs: including how intergroup biases impact our ability to assess the veracity of information, and how social cues and interactions with other people affect individual-level cognition. More»
#872 Heather Berlin: Impulsive and Compulsive Disorders, and the Study of Consciousness

Dec 11, 2023

Dr. Heather Berlin is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She explores the neural basis of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric and neurological disorders with the aim of developing novel treatments. She is also interested in the brain basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity. Clinically, she specializes in lifespan treatment of anxiety, mood, and impulsive and compulsive disorders. More»
#868 James Cresswell: Theories in Psychology

Dec 1, 2023

Dr. James Cresswell is Professor of Psychology at Ambrose University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, Research Associate at the Canadian Poverty Institute, and Research Associate at the Newcomer Research Network. Dr. Cresswell has a deep commitment to education and to enhancing the student experience. His courses cover topics such as culture, immigration, and identities in an increasingly globalized world, as well as social psychology and interpersonal communication. Other teaching areas are child psychology and human development. His research interests draw on many sources, ranging from cultural psychology to cognitive science and literary theory. More»
#866 Vibeke Ottesen: The Evolution of Human Violence, Juvenile Crime, and Abortion

Nov 27, 2023

Dr. Vibeke Ottesen is a Norwegian criminologist with an interest in how nature and nurture combined create human behavior. She has a popular science blog – Biosocial - where she comments on news, scientific findings and literature relevant to her subject – more often than not with an evolutionary-informed approach to understanding the subject matter. She has held numerous lectures on the benefits of an evolutionary-informed approach to understanding the cross-cultural sex and age differences in anti-social and criminal behavior. More»
#864 Colin DeYoung: Personality and Psychopathology

Nov 23, 2023

Dr. Colin DeYoung is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. In his research in personality psychology, he has examined the theoretical structure of personality and the biological basis of personality. More»
#861 Léo Fitouchi: Moral Emotions, Punishment, and Puritanical Morality

Nov 16, 2023

Léo Fitouchi is a PhD candidate in evolutionary and cognitive social sciences at École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Department of Cognitive Science). He is part of the Evolution and Social Cognition team of the Institut Jean-Nicod. He is mostly interested in understanding how human social behavior and cultural traditions are shaped by evolved cognitive mechanisms and cultural evolutionary processes –– with a particular focus on moral intuitions, supernatural beliefs, and social norms and institutions. More»