May 6, 2015
Psychology Honors Presentations   Host: Kevin Ochsner, Daphna Shohamy

April 15, 2015
John O'Doherty   California Institute of Technology "The Social Computational Brain: How the Brain Learns From and Makes Inferences About Others" Host: Daphna Shohamy, Dean Mobbs

March 11, 2015
Karen Parker   Stanford University "Translational Social Neuroscience: Animal Models to Patients with Autism" Host: Kevin Ochsner, James Curley

March 4, 2015
Arie Kruglanski   University of Maryland "The Forces of Cognitive Energetics" Host: Tory Higgins

December 3, 2014
Todd Heatherton   Dartmouth College "Breaking and Building Self-Regulation" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 12, 2014
Nick Turke-Browne   Princeton University "Background Interactions Supporting Attention and Perception" Host: Daphna Shohamy

November 5, 2014
Paul Shaw   Washington University, St. Louis "Can Sleep Fix a Broken Brain?" Host: James Curley, Sarah Woolley, Frances Champagne

October 22, 2014
Barbara Fredrickson   UNC, Chapel Hill "Positivity Resonates" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 8, 2014
Geoffrey Cohen   Stanford University "The Psychology of Change: Wise Interventions to Reduce Intergroup Disparities" Host: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns

October 1, 2014
Art Arnold   UCLA "Sex Differences in Physiology, Behavior and Disease: role of the sex hormones" Host: Rae Silver

September 10, 2014
Nim Tottenham   Columbia University "Human Amygdala-Cortical Circuit Development" Host: Kevin Ochsner

May 7, 2014
Psychology Honors Presentations Hosts: Kevin Ochsner, Daphna Shohamy

April 23, 2014
Wendy Mendes   University of California, San Francisco "Affect contagion: Physiological covariation among strangers and close others" Host: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns

March 26, 2014
Paul Whalen   Dartmouth College "Neural Responses to Fear Predict Attention, Bias and Personality" Host: Kevin Ochsner

March 12, 2014
Renée Baillargeon  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Early Sociomoral Reasoning" Host: Joshua New

February 26, 2014
Timothy Behrens   University of Oxford "Value, Competition and Choice in the Medial Frontal Cortex" Host: Daphna Shohamy

December 4, 2013
Mike Shadlen  Dept. of Neuroscience, Columbia University "Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making" Hosts: Kevin Ochsner, Daphna Shohamy

November 20, 2013
Larry Young   Emory University "The Neurobiology of Social Relationships: Implications for Novel Therapies for Autism" Host: Rae Silver

October 30, 2013
Rich Gonzalez   University of Michigan “Pushing the Boundary of Decision Making Models: Emotions, Sustainability, Advice and Everyday Objects” Hosts: David Krantz, Elke Weber

October 23, 2013
Ursula Staudinger   Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University "The plasticity of aging: psychological perspectives" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 9, 2013
Deanna Barch  Washington University "Motivation and Cognitive Control in Psychosis" Hosts: Daphna Shohamy, Kevin Ochsner

September 11, 2013
George Bonanno   Teachers College, Columbia University "Beyond Trauma and Resilience: Mapping heterogeneity in response to extremely aversive events" Host: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns

May 8, 2013
Psychology Honors Presentations  Columbia University Hosts: Sarah Woolley and Kevin Ochsner

March 27, 2013
Alison Adcock   Duke University "How Motivation Shapes Memory: Insights from human neuroscience and implications for mental health risk, trajectory and treatment" Host: Daphna Shohamy

March 13, 2013
Joe Kable   University of Pennsylvania "Sustaining delay of gratification: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms" Host: Daphna Shohamy

February 20, 2013
Lila Davachi   NYU "From rushing river to reflecting pool: how we structure episodic memories from continuous experience" Host: Daphna Shahamy

February 13, 2013
Jonathan Haidt   NYU "How moral psychology helps to explain America’s political polarization and paralysis" Host: Kevin Ochsner

January 30, 2013
Bruce McEwen   The Rockefeller University "Protective and Damaging Effects of Mediators of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 17, 2012
Naomi Eisenberger   UCLA "Social pain and pleasure: The social neuroscience of rejection and connection" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 19, 2012
Malcolm Gladwell   The New Yorker "A Few (Un)scientific Thoughts on Backlash" Host: Kevin Ochsner

May 2, 2012
Psychology Honors Presentations   Columbia University Host: Kevin Ochsner and Sarah Woolley

April 18, 2012
Paul Glimcher   New York University "Choice and the Representation of Subjective Value in the Cerebral Cortex" Host: Daphna Shohamy

March 28, 2012
Coren Apicella   Harvard University "What can hunter-gatherers tell us about the origins of attractiveness, social and economic preferences?" Host: Daphna Shohamy

March 7, 2012
Glenn E. Schafe   Yale University "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Memory" Host: Daphna Shohamy

February 22, 2012
Geoff Schoenbaum   University of Maryland "Does the orbitofrontal cortex signal value?" Host: Daphna Shohamy

February 8, 2012
Marvin Chun   Yale University "What is attention? Towards a taxonomy." Host: Daphna Shohamy

January 25, 2012
Charan Ranganath   University of California Davis "Memory is more than words: Context matters" Host: Daphna Shohamy

December 7, 2011
Mark D'Esposito   University of California Berkeley "Where Bottom-up Meets Top-down: Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control" Host: Kevin Oschner

November 9, 2011
Nora Newcombe   Temple University "Developing an Integrated Mind" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 26, 2011
Fiery Cushman   Brown University "Two Functions of Morality" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 12, 2011
Martha Farah   University of Pennsylvania "Socioeconomic status and brain development" Host: Kevin Oschner

September 28, 2011
Koleen McCrink   Barnard College "Mathematical Operations Throughout the Life Span" Host: Kevin Oschner

September 14, 2011
Jason Mitchell   Harvard University "The origins of prosocial behavior" Host: Kevin Ochsner

April 20, 2011
Paul Bloom   Yale University "But is it art? A Case-study in the Cognitive Science of Pleasure" Host: Kevin Ochsner

April 13, 2011
Daniel Schacter   Harvard University "Constructive Memory and Imagining the Future: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective" Host: Kevin Ochsner

March 9, 2011
Michael Platt   Duke University "From Brain to Society: The Biology of Social Preferences" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 23, 2011
Lisa Feldman Barrett   Northeastern University "The Nature of Emotion" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 9, 2011
Jesse Snedeker   Harvard University "Starting over: International adoption as a natural experiment in language acquisition" Host: Kevin Ochsner

December 8, 2010
Shelly Gable   University of California Santa Barbara "In Good Times and in Bad: Positive Interactions in Close Relationships" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 10, 2010
Ran Hassin   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Russell Sage Foundation "The Human unconscious: Some New Answers to Old Questions " Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 27, 2010
Liz Phelps   New York University "What Emotion Does" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 13, 2010
Dorothy Cheney   University of Pennsylvania "Why Be Nice? The Function and Mechanisms of Cooperation in Wild Female Baboons" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 29, 2010
Alexander Todorov   Princeton University "Using Data-driven Methods to Model Social Perception and Explore its Neural Basis" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 15, 2010
Joshua James New   Barnard College "Adaptive Visual Cognition" Host: Kevin Ochsner

April 21, 2010
James Curley   Columbia University Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

April 14, 2010
Anthony Wagner   Stanford University Remembering events past: Conjunctions, integration, and errors in human MTL Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

April 7, 2010
Laurie Santos   Yale University "The evolution of irrationality: insights from non-human primates" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

March 31, 2010
Jon Kronsick   Stanford University "Social Psychology Under the Microscope: Do Our Classic Experiments Replicate When Participants Are Representative of the General Public Rather Than Convenience Samples of College Students?" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

February 24, 2010
Karen Adolph   NYU Learning to Move Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

February 17, 2010
Jamie Pennebaker   University of Texas "What Our Words Say About Us" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

January 27, 2010
Robert Siegler   Carnegie Mellon University Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

December 9, 2009
Claude Steele   Columbia University (Provost) "Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

November 18, 2009
James Blair   NIH "Amygdala and Orbital Frontal Cortex in Conduct Disorder and Callous and Unemotional Traits" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

October 21, 2009
Karen Wynn   Yale University "Social Preferences in Infancy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

October 7, 2009
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema   Yale University "Lost in Thought: The Perils of Rumination" Host: Dr. Kevin Ochsner

September 23, 2009
Frans de Waal   Emory Univrsity The Age of Empathy: Primate Behavior and Human Society Host: Dr. Kevin N. Ochsner

April 15, 2009
Turhan Canli   Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University "Gene-environment Interactions in Emotion and Personality" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

April 1, 2009
John Lydon   Department of Psychology, McGill University "Beyond satisfaction: How identity fuels commitment in the face of adversity" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

March 11, 2009
Morris Moscovitch   Department of Psychology, University of Toronto "The hippocampus is a "stupid" memory module: Implications for theory and research" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

February 25, 2009
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" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

February 11, 2009
Alex Kacelnik   Department of Zoology, Oxford University "Decision Making in Starlings" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

January 28, 2009
Jeremy Wolfe   Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School "Bags, breasts, and lots of little cells: Visual search gets real" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

November 19, 2008
Masatoshi Yoshida   National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Osazaki, Japan "Awareness, decision and neuronal activity in monkey with blind sight" Host: Dr. Hakwan Lau

November 5, 2008
Ellen Bialystok   York University "Lifelong bilingualism: Linguistic costs, cognitive benefits, and long term consequences" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

October 22, 2008
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" Host: Dr. Carl Hart

October 8, 2008
Ofer Tchernichovski   CCNY, The City University of New York "Song development: from sensory development to cultural evolution" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

September 24, 2008
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" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

September 10, 2008
Daphna Shohamy   Columbia University, Department of Psychology "Learning to decide: How different forms of memory guide decisions and actions" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

April 16, 2008
Dr. Wendy Suzuki   The Center for Neural Science at NYU "Associative learning and the Monkey Medial Temporal lobe" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

April 2, 2008
Dr. Julia Kim-Cohen   Department of Psychology, Yale University "Nature and Nurture in the Development of Antisocial Behavior" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

March 12, 2008
Dr. Jennifer Steele   Department of Psychology, York University "Women in mathematics: Examining the hidden barriers that gender stereotypes can impose" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

February 27, 2008
Dr. Jason Zevin   Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University "Learning the limits on adult plasticity for speech" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

February 13, 2008
Dr. Joshua Tenenbaum   Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT "Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

January 30, 2008
Dr. James Rose   Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming "The Science and Politics of Pain" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

November 28, 2007
Dr. Iven Van Mechelen   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven “Challenges in contextualized personality research” Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

November 7, 2007
Dr. Eshkol Rafaeli   Department of Psychology, Barnard College "Using diary methods in the study of affective structure and psychopathology" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

October 24, 2007
Dr. Anne Treisman   Department of Psychology, Princeton University “Broad or narrow focus of attention: how does it determine what we see?" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

October 10, 2007
Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt   Department of Psychology, Stanford University "Racial Residue: How Race Alters Perception of People, Places, and Things" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

September 26, 2007
Dr. Seth Pollak   Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison “The Varieties of Emotional Experience: Learning, Social Development, and Neurobiology” Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

September 12, 2007
Dr. Hakwan Lau   Department of Psychology, Columbia University "A Higher-Order Bayesian Decision Theory of Consciousness" Host: Dr. Frances Champagne

April 25, 2007
Turza, Blair, Thomas, Zerubavel, Joseph   Columbia University Senior Honors Presentations Host: Kevin Ochsner and Lois Putnam

April 11, 2007
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" Host: Kevin Ochsner

March 28, 2007
Dr. Kent Berridge   University of Michigan "Affective building blocks inside emotion" Host: Kevin Ochsner

March 7, 2007
Dr. Joachim Krueger   Brown University "From social projection to social behavior" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 21, 2007
Dr. Carl Hart   Columbia University "Effects of 3, 4-methylenedioxmethamphetamine (MDMA) and methamphetamine on mood and cognitive performance under controlled conditions" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 7, 2007
Dr. Shige Oishi   University of Virginia "The psychological consequences of residential mobility: implications for well-being research" Host: Kevin Ochsner

January 24, 2007
Dr. Susan Carey   Harvard University "The origin of concepts" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 29, 2006
Dr. BJ Casey   Cornell Weill Med School "Risk taking and the adolescent brain: who is at risk" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 8, 2006
Dr. Steve Kosslyn   Harvard University "Mental imagery and the brain" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 25, 2006
Dr. Colin Camerer   CALTECH "Neuroeconomics" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 11, 2006
Dr. Marcia Johnson   Yale University “Using fMRI to explore components of reflective processing” Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 27, 2006
Dr. Richard Nisbett   University of Michigan "Culture and point of view" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 13, 2006
Dr. Frances Champagne   Columbia University "Transgenerational influence of social experiences on brain and behavior" Host: Kevin Ochsner

May 3, 2006
J. DiBegnino, C. Kelly, J. Mesrie, T. Patterson   Columbia University Senior Honors Presentations Host: Lois Putnam and Robert Krauss

April 26, 2006
K. Beaudette, C. Carmichael, J. Garrett, Z. Weinstein   Columbia University Senior Honors Presentations Host: Lois Putnam and Bob Krauss

April 12, 2006
Dr. Tanya Chartrand   Duke University "Moderators and consequences of nonconscious memory" Host: Kevin Ochsner

April 6, 2006
Dr. Matt Lieberman   UCLA "When language disrupts affect: a social cognitive neuroscience approach" Host:

March 29, 2006
Dr. Lera Boroditsky   Standford University "Relationship between language and thought" Host: Kevin Ochsner

March 8, 2006
Dr. Marc Hauser   Harvard University "Evolution of the language faculty: Interfaces between semantics and syntax" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 22, 2006
Dr. Gerald Clore   University of Viriginia "Feeling is believing: some cognitive consequences of emotions" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 8, 2006
Dr. John Gabrieli   MIT "Enhancement of learning in the human brain: evidence from functional neuroimaging" Host: Kevin Ochsner

February 1, 2006
Dr. Barbara Tversky   Teachers College, Columbia University "How people think about space" Host: Kevin Ochsner

December 7, 2005
Dr. Elizabeth Brannon   Duke University "The development and evolution of numerical thinking: monkeying around with numbers" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 30, 2005
Dr. Margaret Clark   Yale University "What constitutes a high quality relationship & two processes through which one may deteriorate" Host: Kevin Ochsner

November 9, 2005
Dr. Sheldon Cohen   Carnegie Mellon University "Do positive emotions influence your health?" Host: Kevin Ochsner

October 12, 2005
Dr. Alan Leslie   Rutgers University "The 'theory of mind' mechanism: recent advances and emerging questions" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 28, 2005
Dr. Stephen Monsell   University of Exeter "Preparing mind and brain for a change of task" Host: Kevin Ochsner

September 14, 2005
Dr. Elke Weber   Columbia University "Preferences as memory: query theory, time discounting, individual differences, and other dangerous things" Host: Kevin Ochsner

April 20, 2005
Dr. David Rosenbaum   Penn State University "The cinderella of psychology: the neglect of action in the science of mental life and behavior" Host:

March 23, 2005
Dr. Wendi Gardner   Northwestern University "Belonging regulation: the maintenance of subjective social connection" Host:

March 2, 2005
Dr. Alex Martin   NIH "The neural foundation for conceptual representation" Host: