Dr. Alex Martin   NIH

"The neural foundation for conceptual representation"

Dr. Wendi Gardner   Northwestern University

"Belonging regulation: the maintenance of subjective social connection"

Dr. David Rosenbaum   Penn State University

"The cinderella of psychology: the neglect of action in the science of mental life and behavior"

Dr. Elke Weber   Columbia University

"Preferences as memory: query theory, time discounting, individual differences, and other dangerous things"

Dr. Stephen Monsell   University of Exeter

"Preparing mind and brain for a change of task"

Dr. Alan Leslie   Rutgers University

"The 'theory of mind' mechanism: recent advances and emerging questions"

Dr. Sheldon Cohen   Carnegie Mellon University

"Do positive emotions influence your health?"

Dr. Margaret Clark   Yale University

"What constitutes a high quality relationship & two processes through which one may deteriorate"

Dr. Elizabeth Brannon   Duke University

"The development and evolution of numerical thinking: monkeying around with numbers"

Dr. Barbara Tversky   Teachers College, Columbia University

"How people think about space"

Dr. John Gabrieli   MIT

"Enhancement of learning in the human brain: evidence from functional neuroimaging"

Dr. Gerald Clore   University of Viriginia

"Feeling is believing: some cognitive consequences of emotions"

Dr. Marc Hauser   Harvard University

"Evolution of the language faculty: Interfaces between semantics and syntax"

Dr. Lera Boroditsky   Standford University

"Relationship between language and thought"

Dr. Matt Lieberman   UCLA

"When language disrupts affect: a social cognitive neuroscience approach"

Dr. Tanya Chartrand   Duke University

"Moderators and consequences of nonconscious memory"

K. Beaudette, C. Carmichael, J. Garrett, Z. Weinstein   Columbia University

Senior Honors Presentations

J. DiBegnino, C. Kelly, J. Mesrie, T. Patterson   Columbia University

Senior Honors Presentations

Dr. Frances Champagne   Columbia University

"Transgenerational influence of social experiences on brain and behavior"

Dr. Richard Nisbett   University of Michigan

"Culture and point of view"

Dr. Marcia Johnson   Yale University

“Using fMRI to explore components of reflective processing”

Dr. Colin Camerer   CALTECH

"Neuroeconomics"

Dr. Steve Kosslyn   Harvard University

"Mental imagery and the brain"

Dr. BJ Casey   Cornell Weill Med School

"Risk taking and the adolescent brain: who is at risk"

Dr. Susan Carey   Harvard University

"The origin of concepts"

Dr. Shige Oishi   University of Virginia

"The psychological consequences of residential mobility: implications for well-being research"

Dr. Carl Hart   Columbia University

"Effects of 3, 4-methylenedioxmethamphetamine (MDMA) and methamphetamine on mood and cognitive performance under controlled conditions"

Dr. Joachim Krueger   Brown University

"From social projection to social behavior"

Dr. Kent Berridge   University of Michigan

"Affective building blocks inside emotion"

Dr. Ludy Benjamin   Texas A&M University

"Babe Ruth, Brown v. Board, and the day psychology lost its mind: stories from Columbia University's Psychology Department"

Turza, Blair, Thomas, Zerubavel, Joseph   Columbia University

Senior Honors Presentations

Dr. Hakwan Lau   Department of Psychology, Columbia University

"A Higher-Order Bayesian Decision Theory of Consciousness"

Dr. Seth Pollak   Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

“The Varieties of Emotional Experience: Learning, Social Development, and Neurobiology”

Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt   Department of Psychology, Stanford University

"Racial Residue: How Race Alters Perception of People, Places, and Things"

Dr. Anne Treisman   Department of Psychology, Princeton University

“Broad or narrow focus of attention: how does it determine what we see?"

Dr. Eshkol Rafaeli   Department of Psychology, Barnard College

"Using diary methods in the study of affective structure and psychopathology"

Dr. Iven Van Mechelen   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

“Challenges in contextualized personality research”

Dr. James Rose   Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming

"The Science and Politics of Pain"

Dr. Joshua Tenenbaum   Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning"

Dr. Jason Zevin   Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University

"Learning the limits on adult plasticity for speech"

Dr. Jennifer Steele   Department of Psychology, York University

"Women in mathematics: Examining the hidden barriers that gender stereotypes can impose"

Dr. Julia Kim-Cohen   Department of Psychology, Yale University

"Nature and Nurture in the Development of Antisocial Behavior"

Dr. Wendy Suzuki   The Center for Neural Science at NYU

"Associative learning and the Monkey Medial Temporal lobe"

Daphna Shohamy   Columbia University, Department of Psychology

"Learning to decide: How different forms of memory guide decisions and actions"

Diana Reiss   Hunter College, Osborn Laboratories for Marine Science, New York Aquarium, Wildlife Conservation Society

"Reflections of animal minds: Mirror self-recognition in dolphins and elephants"

Ofer Tchernichovski   CCNY, The City University of New York

"Song development: from sensory development to cultural evolution"

Carl W. Lejuez   University of Maryland, Director- Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER)

"Development of a laboratory-based model of positive and negative reinforcement processes underlying risk-taking behavior"

Ellen Bialystok   York University

"Lifelong bilingualism: Linguistic costs, cognitive benefits, and long term consequences"

Masatoshi Yoshida   National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Osazaki, Japan

"Awareness, decision and neuronal activity in monkey with blind sight"

Jeremy Wolfe   Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

"Bags, breasts, and lots of little cells: Visual search gets real"

Alex Kacelnik   Department of Zoology, Oxford University

"Decision Making in Starlings"

Huda Akil   Gardner Quarton Professor of Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan

"Brain Biology of Temperament and Mood: The Meeting of Nature and Nurture"

Morris Moscovitch   Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

"The hippocampus is a "stupid" memory module: Implications for theory and research"

John Lydon   Department of Psychology, McGill University

"Beyond satisfaction: How identity fuels commitment in the face of adversity"

Turhan Canli   Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University

"Gene-environment Interactions in Emotion and Personality"