Cognitive Brown Bag


Fall 2007
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 03, 2007Dale BarrUC RiversideAnalyzing proportional data with ANOVA? Be afraid, be VERY afraid
Oct 10, 2007Larry RosenblumUC RiversideSigns from Above: Recent Challenges to Amodal Speech Perception Theories
Oct 17, 2007Jesse BrenemanUC RiversideProbative Value of Absolute and Relative Decision Rules in Eyewitness Identification
Oct 24, 2007Christine ChiarelloUC RiversideIndividual Differences in Language Representation in the Brain
Oct 31, 2007Michael EricksonUC RiversideExecutive Attention and Task Switching in Category Learning: Evidence for Stimulus-Dependent Representation
Nov 07, 2007   
Nov 14, 2007  Psychonomics Prep
Nov 21, 2007Rachel MillerUC RiversideAnswer my questions: Modeling gestural drift
Nov 28, 2007Ethan ChamberlainUC RiversideLong term Myopia and Audition
Dec 05, 2007Pia KnoeferleUC San DiegoThe incremental influence of scene information on language comprehension: evidence from eye tracking and ERPs

Winter 2008
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 09, 2008Nancy Alvarado and Kimberly A. JamesonCal Poly Pomona and UC IrvineThe interplay between culture, cognition and neurophysiology in the categorization of color
Jan 16, 2008Mari SanchezUC RiversideA look toward amodal speech and how it influences memory , or: Video enhanced the radio star
Jan 23, 2008Khaleel RazakUC RiversideDual auditory stream processing in bats and humans
Jan 30, 2008Justin EstepUC RiversideInitial Task Difficulty and Category Learning
Feb 06, 2008Larry RosenblumUC RiversideHooray for Hollywood: Psychoacoustic Lessons from the Entertainment Industry
Feb 13, 2008   
Feb 20, 2008Robert ThorntonPomona CollegeGrammatical agreement as a testing ground for theories of language
Feb 27, 2008Tim GentnerUC San DiegoMechanisms for processing temporal acoustic patterns in birdsongs
Mar 05, 2008Russell PierceUC RiversideA Preliminary Comparison of the Validity of Situation Awareness Measures in a Simulated Air Traffic Control Task
Mar 12, 2008Anne CybenkoUC RiversideAdvantages and Disadvantages of the Same Foils Design

Spring 2008
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 02, 2008Jonathan NelsonUC San DiegoBeyond biases: human inference and information search
Apr 09, 2008CANCELLED  
Apr 16, 2008Christiana LeonardUniversity of Florida, GainsvilleLeft hemisphere anatomical specializations for language
Apr 23, 2008NO BROWN BAG Colloquium speaker this week
Apr 30, 2008NO BROWN BAG Colloquium speaker this week
May 07, 2008Timothy GannUC RiversideDual routes to reference
May 14, 2008Ryan RobartUC RiversideHearing your place: Identifying room position by reflected sound
May 21, 2008Ryan RushUC RiversideUsing Lineup Composition to Distinguish Between Absolute and Relative Decision Rules
May 28, 2008Larry RosenblumUC RiversideSilent But Deadly: Investigating the Audibility of Hybrid Cars
Jun 04, 2008Jeffery MioCal Poly Pomona 

Fall 2008
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 01, 2008Aaron SeitzUC RiversideAn Interesting Finding in Motion Perception
Oct 08, 2008Steven ClarkUC RiversideRisky decisions for eyewitnesses, jurors, and policy-makers
Oct 15, 2008Patrick LaShellUC RIversideWhat’s in a Rule: Multidimensional Rules in Categorization
Oct 22, 2008Dale Barr and Edmundo KronmullerUC Riverside and CNRS, University of Lyon, FranceUsing precedents to find referents
Oct 29, 2008Curt Burgess & Martin JohnsonUC Riverside Depts. of Psychology & Political ScienceApplying High-Dimensional Modeling to Abstract Political Concepts
Nov 05, 2008Michael Erickson & Elizabeth MeltonUC RiversideSelection-for-Action and Negative Priming
Nov 12, 2008  No Cog Lunch due to Psychonomics
Nov 19, 2008  Psychonomics Discussion
Nov 26, 2008  Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 03, 2008Ryan RushUC RiversideContagion Memory: The Effects of Collaboration on Witness Recall

Winter 2009
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 07, 2009Lisa E. HaselIowa State UniversityFollowing the Leader: How Eyewitness Identification Decisions are Influenced by Social Factors
Jan 14, 2009Kate SweenyUC RiversideHow I (Barely) Survived the Academic Job Market
Jan 21, 2009Vivian CiaramitaroSalk InstituteAssociative Learning Within and Across Sensory Modalities Influences Sensory Processing and Early Sensory Areas in Human Cortex
Jan 28, 2009  Professional Development Round Table
Feb 04, 2009Russell PierceUC RiversideInterplay between memory processes and executive control in referential communication
Feb 11, 2009Dale BarrUC RiversideThe time-course of cultural differences in perspective taking
Feb 18, 2009Robert YoumansCalifornia State University at NorthridgeKeeping Yourself Honest: The Effects of Cognitive-Information Feedback on Distorted Decision Making
Feb 25, 2009Travellia F. TjokroUC RiversideThe Right Hemisphere: An Investigation into Its Roles in New Word Acquisition and Possible Individual Differences
Mar 04, 2009David NoelleUC MercedPrefrontal Cortex, Dopamine, and Autism: Computational Connections
Mar 11, 2009  Canceled for Colloquium

Spring 2009
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 01, 2009John AndersenUC RiversideAging and vision: what declines, what stays the same, and what can be improved
Apr 08, 2009Anne CybenkoUC RiversideA discussion on attention and automaticity
Apr 15, 2009Vanessa MillerUC RiversideThe Role of Emotion Perception and Experience on Laterality
Apr 22, 2009Rachel MillerUC RiversideInvestigating perceptual measures of speech alignment
Apr 29, 2009Matthew ChalkInstitute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of EdinburghDoes feature-based attention bias perception?
May 06, 2009Ryan RobartUC RiversideThe effects of induction on auditory perceptual grouping: Apparent motion vs. frequency proximity
May 13, 2009Julie KangUC RiversideEye Movements as an Indice for Workload in Dual Task Driving
May 20, 2009Stacey WoodScripps CollegeHow much choice is too much: the case of the medicare prescription drug benefit
May 27, 2009David HornerCalifornia State Polytechnic University, PomonaThe Perception of Spatial Patterns on the Fingerpad
Jun 03, 2009Justin EstepUC RiversideCorrelates of Task Partitioning in a Rule and Exception Category Structure

Fall 2009
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 24, 2009Norbert KopcoDepartment of Cybernetics and AI, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia ; Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston UniversitySpecial Time 3:30 on Thursday; Visual calibration, task-specific plasticity, and uncertainty processing in sound localization
Sep 30, 2009  CANCELLED (due to Kopco Talk on Sept. 24)
Oct 07, 2009Sara MednickUC San DiegoThe role of sleep in cognition: from perception to creativity
Oct 14, 2009Steve ClarkUniversity of California, RiversideProbative value of absolute and relative judgments in eyewitness identification
Oct 21, 2009Christophe Le DantecUCRTime Duration Brain and Performance
Oct 28, 2009Nicole GageUC IrvineTuning in and tuning out: MEG measures of neural resource allocation for speech and nonspeech in auditory language cortex in typically developing children
Nov 04, 2009Russell PierceUCRIndividual differences in executive function, eye movements and dual task performance
Nov 11, 2009  Holiday
Nov 18, 2009Russell JacksonCalifornia State University San MarcosEvolved Navigation Theory
Nov 25, 2009Chris ChaseWestern University of Health SciencesReading is more than phonology: What optometry has to offer
Dec 02, 2009Lawrence D. RosenblumUniversity of California, Riverside 

Winter 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 06, 2010Gabriel I. CookClaremont McKenna CollegeAttentional-Allocation Policies Systematically Affect Cue Detection, Cue Interference, and Task Interference for Event-Based Intentions
Jan 13, 2010Justin EstepUCRDifferential Costs of Taxing Working Memory for Category Learning
Jan 20, 2010  Cancelled
Jan 27, 2010Ladan ShamsUCLACrossmodal Interactions in Perception
Feb 03, 2010Takeo WatanabeBoston UniversityPerceptual learning as a result of an exposed feature being internally enhanced
Feb 10, 2010Jeffrey BowerUCRAge related changes in motion processing and perceptual learning
Feb 17, 2010Anne CybenkoUCRDescription-Matched Selection of Foils in Experimental and Real World Lineups
Feb 24, 2010  forum on professional development
Mar 03, 2010Gui XueUSCHow practice makes perfect: Repeated study improves memory by neural pattern reinstatement
Mar 10, 2010Ryan RushUCRUsing Lineup Composition to Distinguish Between Absolute and Relative Decision Rules

Spring 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 07, 2010Vanessa MillerUCRPreliminary Experiment; Emotion Perception on Laterality
Apr 14, 2010Rachel MillerUCRTalker-specific accent: Can speech alignment reveal idiolectic influences during the perception of accented speech? 
Apr 21, 2010Patrick LaShellUCRWhat’s in a Rule: Two-Dimensional Rule Use in Category Learning
Apr 28, 2010  CANCELLED
May 05, 2010Travellia F. TjokroUCRThe Right Hemisphere: An Investigation into Its Roles in New Word Acquisition and Possible Individual Differences
May 12, 2010Mari SanchezUCR: Cross-Modal Talker Familiarity: Words and Talkers and Noise (Oh my!)
May 19, 2010Julie KangUCRCANCELLED
May 26, 2010Elizabeth MeltonUCRThe Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Memory in Negative and Positive Priming
Jun 02, 2010Molly MorelandUCRRefining Detection of Stimulus-Dependent Representation

Fall 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 29, 2010  No Cog Lunch
Oct 06, 2010Zhong-Lin LuUniversity of Southern CaliforniaCognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention
Oct 13, 2010Christophe Le DantecUniversity of California, RIversideThe co-development of Perceptual Learning and Contextual Learning in a visual search task
Oct 20, 2010Angela YuUniversity of California, San DiegoWherefore a Horse Race: Inhibitory Control as Rational Decision-Making
Oct 27, 2010Craig BennettUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraStatistical issues in functional neuroimaging: independence, reliability, and dead fish
Nov 03, 2010Alexander A. PetrovOhio State UniversityPerceptual Learning: Data and Models
Nov 10, 2010Peggy SeriesUniversity of EdinburghSensory Adaptation, Expectations and the Origin of Perceptual Biases.
Nov 17, 2010  Cancelled due to SFN and Psychonomics
Nov 19, 2010Kristina VisscherUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamHow does ongoing neural activity shape behavior? Clues from fMRI and EEG data
Nov 24, 2010  No Cog Lunch (Thanksgiving)
Dec 01, 2010Stephen Macknik & Susana Martinez-CondeBarrow Neurological InstituteSleights of Mind: How the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals Our Everyday Deceptions

Winter 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 05, 2011  CANCELLED
Jan 12, 2011Steve ClarkUniversity of California, RiversideEyewitness Identification Reform: Decision Theories, Procedural Justice, and the Cost of Protecting the Innocent
Jan 19, 2011Ryan RushUniversity of California, RiversideSocial Contagion of Correct and Incorrect Information in Memory
Jan 26, 2011  Cognitive Area Faculty Meeting
Feb 02, 2011Alan MooreUniversity of California, RiversideThe Experience of Reading: A Quantitative Study of Consciousness
Feb 09, 2011Aaron SeitzUniversity of California, RiversideTask-Irrelevant Auditory Learning
Feb 16, 2011Virginie LeclercqUniversity of California, RIversideDevelopment of spatial attention in children and how attention leads to learning of background information in adults.
Feb 23, 2011Russell PierceUniversity of California, RIversideAge related differences in the spatial extent of attention in 3D space
Mar 02, 2011Bosco TjanDepartment of Psychology and the Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern CaliforniaObject recognition in the Periphery
Mar 09, 2011Barbara CherryCalifornia State University, FullertonAging and Interhemispheric Collaboration: Digits and Dots

Spring 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Mar 30, 2011Rachel MillerUniversity of California, RiversideTalker-Specific Accent: The Role of Idiolect in the Perception of Accented Speech
Apr 06, 2011Michelle RifiUniversity of California, RiversideThe Role of FM Sweep Modulations in the Auditory Attentional Blink
Apr 13, 2011Justin EstepUniversity of California, RiversideThe role of working memory in category learning
Apr 20, 2011James KaufmanCalifornia State University, San BernadinoFrom beginner to Beethoven: A continuum of creativity
Apr 27, 2011Denton DelossUniversity of California, RiversideAging and Perceptual Learning in an Orientation Discrimination Task
May 04, 2011  Cognitive Faculty Meeting
May 11, 2011James DiasUniversity of California, RiversideVisual influences on interactive speech alignment
May 18, 2011Theresa CookUniversity of California, RiversideThe Effects of Scene Detail and Environmental Contexts on the Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
May 25, 2011Molly MorelandUniversity of California, RiversideEffects of Local Foil Similarity on Eyewitness Identification Decisions
Jun 01, 2011Russell PierceUniversity of California, RiversideSome preliminary data and further plans for the investigation of visual spatial attention in three dimensions

Fall 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 28, 2011Christine ChiarelloUniversity of California, RiversideRole of Insular Cortex in Language Lateralization
Oct 05, 2011Emily GrossmanUniversity of California, IrvineContemporary issues in biological motion perception
Oct 12, 2011Ayse SayginUniversity of California, San DiegoBody movements: from dots to robots
Oct 19, 2011Arthur ShapiroAmerican UniversityAre brightness illusions really illusory?
Oct 26, 2011Alan CastelUniversity of California, Los AngelesMemory Efficiency and Value-Directed Remembering Across the Lifespan
Nov 02, 2011  Psychonomics
Nov 09, 2011Charlie ChubbUniversity of California, IrvineUntangling the Dimensions of Perceptual Sensitivity
Nov 16, 2011Sarah CreelUniversity of California, San DiegoSolving the 'buzzle': Similarity, familiarity, and social relevance in preschoolers' spoken language knowledge
Nov 23, 2011  HOLIDAY
Nov 30, 2011  Cancelled

Winter 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 11, 2012  No Cog Lunch
Jan 18, 2012Virginie LeclercqUC RiversideFast Task-Irrelevant Learning
Jan 25, 2012Jude MitchellThe Salk InstituteSignal improvements due to reductions in correlated variability in neuronal responses in spatial attention and perceptual learning.
Feb 01, 2012  CANCELLED
Feb 08, 2012John WixtedUniversity of California, San DeigoRecognition Memory and the Medial Temporal Lobe
Feb 15, 2012Eric SchwitzgebelUC RiversideThe Relationship Between Moral Cognition and Moral Behavior: The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
Feb 22, 2012John SerencesUniversity of California, San DiegoEvaluating optimal models of information processing in visual cortex
Feb 29, 2012Arielle BorovskyUniversity of California, San DiegoLearning to use and understand words from context: what event-related brain potentials can tell us
Mar 07, 2012Denton DelossUniversity of California, RiversideMultimodal Integration and Aging
Mar 09, 2012Adriane E. SeiffertVanderbilt UniversitySpecial Talk: How Do We Know Where Things Go
Mar 14, 2012Brett BaysUniversity of California, RiversideThe Interaction of Attention and Visual Statistical Learning

Spring 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 04, 2012 UC RiversideCANCELLED
Apr 11, 2012Russell PierceUC RiversideShould the consideration of a simple observer model influence our interpretation of visual spatial attention measurement methods?
Apr 18, 2012Lizzie McDevittUC RiversideTo nap or not to nap: The effect of nap frequency on daytime sleep architecture
Apr 25, 2012Mara MatherUniversity of Southern CaliforniaArousal-biased competition in perception and memory
May 02, 2012James DiasUC RiversideVisual influences on selective adaptation in speech perception
May 09, 2012  No Cog Lunch (VSS)
May 16, 2012Molly MorelandUC RiversideShifting weights, not criteria: An alternative mechanism for modeling choice
May 30, 2012Theresa CookUC RiversideEmotional vs. Linguistic Salience in Audiovisual Integration
Jun 06, 2012David VazquezUC RiversideSustained Attention and Dispositional Motivation: Top-down Influences on Cognitive Performance

Fall 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 03, 2012Karen DobkinsUCSD Psychology / DevelopmentalIntermingling of Sensory Representations over the Course of Development
Oct 10, 2012Nicola CelliniUniversity of Padua / PsychologyThe Mechanisms of Space-Time Association: Comparing Motor and Perceptual Contributions in Time Estimation
Oct 17, 2012Larry RosenblumUCR PsychologyHear Me Now, See Ya Later: Crossmodal Transfer of Speech and Speaker Learning
Oct 24, 2012Michael GormanUCSD Psychology / NeuroscienceMaking circadian clocks more flexible with novel uses of light and manipulation of the pacemaker waveform
Oct 31, 2012Nanthia SuthanaUCLA Psychology / NeuroscienceDeep Brain Stimulation, Memory Enhancement, and Hippocampal Theta-Gamma Coupling
Nov 07, 2012Arash AfrazMIT NeuroscienceSpatial limits of visual object recognition; a new conceptual framework for translation invariance.
Nov 14, 2012Mary GauvainUSC PsychologyChildren’s Questions in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Four-Culture Study
Nov 28, 2012Rosie CowellUCSD Psychology / Neuroscience / Computational ModelingParadoxical False Recognition Memory: New objects look old in a model of amnesia
Dec 05, 2012Denise CaiUCLA NeuroscienceThe Effects of Cellular Co-allocation in Hippocampus of Multiple Spatial Memories
Dec 06, 2012Esther GuillaumeUCR Psychology DepartmentThe international situations project: Examining data from 10 cultures
Dec 12, 2012Iris Blandon-GitlinCal State FullertonThe Cognition of Lying: Implications for Detecting Deception

Winter 2013
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 09, 2013Adam AronUCSD PsychologyBrain circuits for controlling response tendencies
Jan 16, 2013Irving BiedermanUSC PsychologyThe Neural Basis of Perceptual Cognitive and Pleasure
Jan 23, 2013Cory MillerUCSD Psychology / Neuroscience 
Jan 30, 2013Kate SweenyUCRThe Waiting is the Hardest Part: Mapping the Process of Managing Uncertainty
Feb 06, 2013Iris Blandon-GitlinCal State FullertonThe Cognition of Lying: Implications for Detecting Deception
Feb 11, 2013Aaron SeitzUCR Psychology 
Feb 20, 2013Cathy Reed  
Feb 27, 2013Rachel FlynnUCR Psychology 

Developmental Brown Bag


Fall 2007
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 01, 2007   
Oct 08, 2007   
Oct 15, 2007   
Oct 22, 2007   
Oct 29, 2007   
Nov 05, 2007   
Nov 12, 2007  NO MEETING: Holiday
Nov 19, 2007   
Nov 26, 2007   
Dec 03, 2007   

Fall 2008
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 29, 2008  Welcome & Introductions
Oct 06, 2008Tanya NeiriUC RiversideAcculturation in Childhood and Adolescence: The Myriad Ways Cultural Identity and Change Influence Youth Scoio-emotional Development and Associated Neural Phenotypes following Early Institutionalization
Oct 13, 2008Nim TottenhamUC Los Angeles 
Oct 20, 2008Jodi QuasUC IrvineStress, Social Context, and Event Memory in Children
Oct 27, 2008Bill Schmechel, Monica Wicker, & Joanne ChenUC Riverside HRRBThe Ins & Outs of the Human Research Review Board (HRRB)
Nov 03, 2008Kevin KaeochindaUC RiversideThe Effects of Parental Sacrifice and Acceptance on Adolescent Youths' Outcome and Behavior
Nov 10, 2008Mae HoUC RiversideAdolescent Perceptions of Partental Strategy and Parental Response to Failure
Nov 17, 2008William PerezClaremont Graduate UniversitySkin Color, Physiognomy, Ethnic Identity & Perceived Discrimination among Immigrant Latino Young Adults
Nov 24, 2008Shuheng ZhaoUC RiversideDoes Understanding Their Partner's Intention Help Children Participate in Collaborative Planning?
Dec 01, 2008  ** POT LUCK GATHERING ** (bring something to share)

Winter 2009
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 05, 2009Melinda LeidyUC RiversideMarital Relations and Child Adjustment in Mexican American Families: From Basic Research to Prevention
Jan 12, 2009Roberta EspinozaCSU Fullerton 
Jan 19, 2009  No Brown Bag - MLK Day
Jan 26, 2009Kevin KaeochindaUC RiversideThe Effects of Parental Sacrifice and Acceptance on Adolescent Youths' Outcome and Behavior
Feb 02, 2009Shuheng ZhaoUC RiversideDoes Understanding Their Partner’s Intention Help Children Participate in Collaborative Planning?
Feb 09, 2009Mae HoUC RiversideAdolescent Perceptions of Parental Strategy and Parental Response to Failure
Feb 16, 2009  No Brown Bag - Presidents' Day
Feb 23, 2009Sigrid JamesLoma Linda UniversityWhy Services Research? – Its Relevance to Developmental and Implementation Research
Mar 02, 2009Joe PriceSan Diego State UniversityThe KEEP Foster Parent Training Intervention: A Parent Mediated Approach to Reducing Child Behavior Problems
Mar 09, 2009Wendy GoldbergUC IrvineTo what extent is maternal employment related to children's achievement and behavior?

Spring 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Mar 29, 2010Angela LukowskiUC IrvineThe Influence of Experience: Relations between Brain Development, Memory,and Executive Functioning in Infancy and Beyond
Apr 05, 2010Mary Gauvain & Heidi BeebeUC RiversideContamination Sensitivity in Rural Uganda
Apr 12, 2010Kaveri SubrahmanyamCSU Los AngelesDigital Youth: New Behaviors, New Selves, or More of the same?
Apr 19, 2010Rachel FlynnUC RiversideHow Parent-Child Interaction Supports Preschoolers' Learning from Interactive Media
Apr 26, 2010Shelly SadekUC RiversideSocial-Cognitive Predictors of Risk-Taking
May 03, 2010Catalina ZavalaUC RiversideTBA
May 10, 2010Rakel LarsonUC RiversideReporting Serious Crimes to the Police: Predictors of Witness Non-Participation
May 17, 2010Catherine ChouUC RiversideAcculturation and Family Influences on Risky Decision Making
May 24, 2010Isabella GreyUC RiversideTBA
May 31, 2010  Departmental Holiday

Fall 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 27, 2010  Introduction
Oct 04, 2010Sara CastroU.C. RiversideSocial Emotional Learning for English Language Learners: From Theory to Practice
Oct 11, 2010Ioakim BoutakidisC.S.U. FullertonExploring the Achievement Gap in Latino Adolescents: The Differential Impact of Academic Engagement
Oct 18, 2010Steve LeeUCLADevelopmental Perspectives on Gene-Environment Interplay for Childhood Externalizing Disorders
Oct 25, 2010Marsha IngU.C. RiversideImproving Mathematics Achievement through Active Student Participation in Mathematics Classrooms
Nov 01, 2010Sara FairbornU.C. RiversideThe Effects of Community Violence Exposure on Adolescents' Health
Nov 08, 2010David LiuU.C. San DiegoThe Role of Contrasts between Individuals in the Development of Social Cognition
Nov 15, 2010Barbara SarneckaU.C. IrvineNumber: The Construction of a Concept
Nov 22, 2010Natacha GodboutUniversity of Southern CaliforniaParental Psychological Maltreatment, Adult Attachment, and Psychological Outcomes
Nov 29, 2010Nancy GuerraU.C. RiversideRaising Healthy Children

Winter 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 03, 2011Michael BiehlUC DavisPubertal Timing, Peer Context, Attractiveness, and Adolescent Drinking: Sex Differences in the Influence of Best Friends and Romantic Partners
Jan 10, 2011Nathalie CarrickCSU FullertonThe Influence of Emotion on Children's Fantasy-Reality Distinctions
Jan 17, 2011  No Brown Bag: Holiday
Jan 24, 2011Micheal VanderwoodUC RiversideTBA
Jan 31, 2011Kevin KaeochindaUC RiversideThe Erosion of Parental Support: A Child-Driven Model
Feb 07, 2011Kelly HuffmanUC RiversideNature and Nurture: How Genes and Environment Shape the Neocortex in Development
Feb 14, 2011Sonya NegriffUniversity of Southern CaliforniaPubertal Timing: Associations with Adolescent Health, Mood, and Behavior Problems
Feb 21, 2011  No Brown Bag: Holiday
Feb 28, 2011Brian GendronUC RiversideSelf-reported Thresholds of Aggression and Patterns of Bullying Behavior among Elementary School Students
Mar 07, 2011Michael RobbUniversity of California, RiversideThe 'New' Dialogic Reading: The Impact of Parental Involvement on Children's Story Comprehension During a Digital Storybook Reading

Fall 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 03, 2011Sara WakefieldUniversity of California, IrvineMass Imprisonment and Racial Disparities in Childhood Behavioral Problems
Oct 10, 2011Tiffany BerryUC RiversideA Meta-Analysis of Identification Accuracy and Probative Value in Child and Adult Witnesses
Oct 17, 2011Rakel LarsonUC RiversideA Meta-Analysis of Identification Accuracy and Probative Value in Child and Adult Witnesses
Oct 24, 2011  Area Faculty Meeting
Oct 31, 2011  TBD
Nov 07, 2011Janna JuvonenUC Los AngelesThe Power of Bullies & the Plight of Their Victims
Nov 14, 2011Jason ReimerCSU San BernardinoDevelopment of Cognitive Control: Goal Representation and Maintenance in Children and Young Adults
Nov 21, 2011Tamar KhafiUC RiversideEthics in Data Analysis and Publication: Black, White, or a Muddled Gray
Nov 28, 2011  Area Pot Luck Gathering

Spring 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 02, 2012Melinda LeidyFirst 5 Los AngelesWorking in Child Policy and Advocacy
Apr 09, 2012Laura Wray-LakeClaremont Graduate UniversityDevelopmental Patterns in Social Responsibility across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Apr 16, 2012Lauren AaronUC RiversideMaladjustment and Inhibitory Control Among Children Exposed to Parental Incarceration
Apr 23, 2012Ashley Ricker and Sara BerzenskiUC Riverside(Ricker) Evaluating the Influence of Perceived Stress on Memory and Speed Trajectories; (Berzenski) Differential effects of environmental, relational, and biological adversity on autonomic regulation in young children
Apr 30, 2012Izabela GreyUC RiversideNarratives and Resilience in Newly Emancipated Foster Youth
May 02, 2012Ana MarceloUC RiversideContribution of Child’s Play to Child Adjustment through Coping Flexibility
May 07, 2012Erin SmithCal BaptistOrigin Beliefs in Chinese Children and Adolescents
May 14, 2012Julienne PalbusaUC RiversideThe Foster Youth Stigma Scale: A New Measure Examining the Correlates and Consequences of Stigmatization among Former Foster Youth
May 21, 2012Stephanie JohnsonUC RiversideThe Foster Youth Stigma Scale: A New Measure Examining the Correlates and Consequences of Stigmatization among Former Foster Youth
May 28, 2012  NO Brown Bag Memorial Day

Fall 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 08, 2012Mary GauvainUC RiversideChildren’s Questions in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Four-Culture Study
Oct 15, 2012Elizabeth DavisUC RiversidePhysiological Assessment of Emotion Regulation: What is RSA Reactivity Really Indexing?
Oct 22, 2012Gedeon DeákUC San DiegoLearning To Be With: Origins of Social Skills
Oct 29, 2012Nicholas ShamanUC RiversideChildren's Learning and Understanding of Religious Rituals
Nov 05, 2012Tiffany BerryClaremont Graduate UniversityComparing Socio-Emotional Outcomes for Early Adolescents who Join After School for Internal or External Reasons
Nov 19, 2012Sara BerzenskiUC RiversideEmotional Development in Adversity
Dec 03, 2012Juliet McMullinUC RiversideTBA

Winter 2013
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 14, 2013Dr. Tamsin GermanUC Santa BarbaraNarrow versus Broad Specialization in Mechanisms Supporting Theory of Mind
Jan 21, 2013  UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Jan 28, 2013Dr. Rebekah Richert & Dr. Kate SweenyUC RiversideWhy Can't I Breathe?: Doctor Communication and Children's Knowledge of Asthma
Feb 04, 2013Dr. Patricia GreenfieldUC Los AngelesBridging Cultures for Latino Immigrant Families and the Schools: From Theory and Research to Practice, Intervention, and Dissemination
Feb 11, 2013Dr. Aaron SeitzUC RiversideApplying Perceptual Learning Across the Lifespan
Feb 18, 2013  UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Feb 27, 2013Rachel FlynnUC RiversideAcute Effects of Physically Active versus Inactive Video Game Play on Executive Functioning Skills in Children
Mar 04, 2013Dr. Kimberly LakesUC IrvineTBA
Mar 11, 2013Shuheng ZhaoUC RiversideFamilial Contribution to Children's Development of Self-Regulated Learning during the Early School Years

Spring 2013
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 01, 2013Dr. John McArdleUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLatent Variable Modeling of Differences and Changes with Longitudinal Data
Apr 08, 2013Brandon CarlisleUC RiversideExamining self-handicapping through self-report and an experimental task
Apr 15, 2013Developmental Area StudentsUC RiversidePresentation of SRCD Poster Drafts
Apr 22, 2013Tamar KhafiUC RiversideMaternal Emotional Overinvolvement Revisited
Apr 29, 2013Dr. Rebekah RichertUC RiversidePossibility, Impossibility, and Analogical Transfer from Fantasy Stories
May 06, 2013Dr. Sara Olivio CastroUC RiversideThe Effects of a Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning Intervention on Latino English Learners' Resiliency and Academic Outcomes
May 13, 2013Carly Dierkhising & Andrea LaneUC Riverside & Office of the Senate, Senator Carol LiuVictims Behind Bars: Abuse during Juvenile Incarceration and Post-Release Social and Emotional Functioning

Social/Personality Brown Bag


Fall 2007
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 27, 2007   
Oct 04, 2007   
Oct 11, 2007   
Oct 18, 2007   
Oct 25, 2007   
Nov 01, 2007   
Nov 08, 2007   
Nov 15, 2007   
Nov 22, 2007  NO MEETING: Holiday
Nov 29, 2007   
Dec 06, 2007   

Fall 2008
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 02, 2008Steven ClarkUCR PsychologySeeing evil, but speaking no evil: Why witnesses to crime do not participate in the criminal justice process
Oct 09, 2008Kenneth SheldonUniversity of MissouriA multi-level perspective on personality and subjective well-being
Oct 16, 2008NO BROWN-BAG Area faculty & students meeting
Oct 23, 2008Peggy KernUC RiversideExercise and health ... Does it depend on the individual? Personality, physical activity, and health
Oct 30, 2008Kerri JohnsonUCLA Communications StudiesGender counts: Why perceptions of masculinity and femininity are just as important as the cues that convey them
Nov 06, 2008Jean M. TwengeCSU San DiegoGeneration me: Birth cohort changes in personality, attitudes, and psychopathology
Nov 13, 2008Que-Lam HuynhUC RiversideTesting measurement invariance in the BIIS-2: A comparison of major American ethnic groups
Nov 20, 2008Gunvor Marie DyrdalUniversity of OsloLife satisfaction and relationship satisfaction among Norwegian mothers: A cohort study
Nov 27, 2008NO BROWN-BAG Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 04, 2008Julia BoehmUC RiversidePositive Psychology

Winter 2009
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 08, 2009Kate SweenyUC RiversideHow I (Barely) Survived the Academic Job Market
Jan 15, 2009  No Brown Bag: Area Faculty Meeting
Jan 22, 2009Tierra StimsonUC RiversideAcademic Setbacks Predict Changes in Well-being
Jan 29, 2009Arpi FestekjianUC RiversideThe Effects of Stereotype Threat Among Asian Americans in the Workplace
Feb 05, 2009  No Brown Bag – SPSP Conference in Florida
Feb 12, 2009Angela NguyenUC RiversideThe Acculturation of Values and Bicultural Identity
Feb 19, 2009Lilia BrionesUC RiversideAttributions of Criminal Behavior
Feb 26, 2009Werner GreveUniversity of HildesheimDoing personality: Personality is what you make of it, not the other way around
Mar 05, 2009Sam GoslingUniversity of Texas, AustinLike a Super Snooper: Assessing Behavior from the Places in Which We Dwell
Mar 12, 2009Cecile ChoUCR AGSMLow-balling on Goals to Regulate Future Affect: A Functional Strategy?

Spring 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 01, 2010Nancy SinUC RiversideHow do Physician and Patient Well-Being Relate to Communication in the Medical Interaction?
Apr 08, 2010Susanna TramUC RiversideSelf-Fulfilling Prophecies, Leaders Implicit Followership Theories (LIFTs) and Follower Group Outcomes
Apr 15, 2010David M. MarxSan Diego SUWho You are Matters: On Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Stereotype Threat
Apr 22, 2010Sarah HortonUC RiversideThe Role of Personality in Stressful Life Events
Apr 29, 2010Juliet BeniUC RiversidePredicting Patient Satisfaction, Health and Psychological Outcome from Physician-Patient Communication - A Meta-Analysis
May 06, 2010Michael BoudreauxUC RiversideAssessment and Psychosocial Implications of Goal Conflict in Self- and Objective-Ratings
May 13, 2010Katherine JacobsUC RiversideThe Course of Well-Being in Romantic Relationships
May 20, 2010  No Brown Bag - Area faculty meeting
May 27, 2010Veronica SanchezUC RiversideDoes Money Talk in the Medical Encounter? Patient Socio-Economic Status and Doctor-Patient Communication: A Meta-Analysis
Jun 03, 2010David Gallardo-PujolUniv. of BarcelonaThe Role of Personality as an Endophenotype for Antisocial Behavior: An Experimental Test of a Gene-Environment Interaction

Fall 2010
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 07, 2010Christopher NaveUC-RiversideLong-Term Stability of Personality: Implications for Behavior and Health
Oct 14, 2010Ryne ShermanUC-RiversideThe Psychological Assessment of Situations
Oct 21, 2010Paul WhiteleyUC-RiversidePositive Perceptions of Followers and the Naturally Occurring Pygmalian Effect
Oct 28, 2010Marc KinonUC-RiversideTerror Management in the 2008 Election Revisited
Nov 04, 2010Nicholas StaunerUC-RiversideCurrent Research in Existential Psychology
Nov 18, 2010Nancy SinUC-RiversideAdherence to Depression Treatment
Dec 02, 2010Matthew Della PortaUC-RiversideTitle TBA

Winter 2011
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Jan 03, 2011Arezou Ghane CavanaughUC-RiversideHanging in the Balance: The Role of Self-Construal in Navigating Uncertainty
Jan 06, 2011Susanna TramUC-RiversideExamination of Leaders' and Followers' Implicit Followership Theories (IFTs) in a Dyadic Model
Jan 13, 2011Katie JacobsUC-RiversideAspirations in Romantic Relationships: A Proposed Study
Feb 03, 2011Esther GuillaumeUC-RiversidePersonality and Appraisals of Romantic Relationships: A Meta-Analysis
Feb 10, 2011Katie NelsonUC-RiversideThe Joys of Parenthood: Assessing the Relationship Between Parenthood and Happiness
Feb 17, 2011Michael BoudreauxUC-RiversideDevelopment and Validation of the Multi-Context Problems Checklist
Feb 24, 2011Angela LeggUC-RiversideA Meta-Analytic Approach to Understanding the Better-than-Average Effect
Mar 03, 2011Peter BlanckSyracuse Universityr Effect Size Indicator: Illustrative Cases and Robert Rosenthal's Goodness of Fit

Fall 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Oct 06, 2011Nancy SinUC RiversideSelf-efficacy and beliefs about treatment in depressed homeless individuals
Oct 13, 2011Serenity Della PortaUC RiversideCan we boost conscientiousness? A self-control intervention
Oct 20, 2011Loryana VieUC RiversideExamining sexual risk behaviors of homeless youth at the relationship level
Oct 27, 2011Juliet BeniUC RiversideElectronic healthcare: How technology, public health and social psychology are forming a new model of patient care
Nov 03, 2011Veronica SanchezUC RiversidePatient ethnicity and physician-patient communication: A meta-analysis
Nov 10, 2011Katie BaoUC RiversideMaking happiness last: Using the hedonic adaptation model to extend the success of positive interventions
Nov 17, 2011Peter DittoUC IrvineMotivated moral reasoning
Dec 01, 2011Roxane Cohen SilverUC IrvineCoping with life’s personal and collective tragedies

Winter 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 19, 2012Katie Nelson & Kristin LayousUC RiversidePositive Activity Interventions With School-Age Children
Feb 02, 2012Ho HuynhUC RiversideDoctorship Styles: Applying Leadership Theories to the Patient-Doctor Relationship
Feb 09, 2012MichaelBoudreauxIdentifying Personality-Related Problems in Living: Characteristic Maladaptations and the Five-Factor Model
Feb 16, 2012Matthew Della-PortaUC RiversideEnhancing the Effects of Happiness-Boosting Activities: The Role of Autonomy Support in an Experimental Longitudinal Intervention
Feb 23, 2012Jasenka TurkusicUC RiversideTBA
Mar 01, 2012Joshua MeadorsUC RiversideThe Relationship between Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Anxiety: A Meta-Analytic Review
Mar 08, 2012Z ReiszUC RiversidePersonality, Intelligence, and the Prediction of Consequential Outcomes
Mar 15, 2012Susanna Tram, Elliott Kruse, & Paul WhiteleyUC RiversideImplicit Theories at Work

Spring 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 05, 2012Amanda FoxUC RiversideThe Moral Coping Model: A Further Examination of Responses to Personal Moral Transgressions
Apr 12, 2012Marc KinonUC RiversidePersonality as a Moderator of Terror Management
Apr 19, 2012Nicholas StaunerUC RiversideExistential and Psychological Health as Products of Intrinsic Goal Attainment
Apr 26, 2012Arezou CavanaughUC RiversideEmbodied Health: A Guiding Perspective for Health Psychology
May 03, 2012Angela LeggUC RiversideAssessing Responses to Bad News
May 10, 2012Esther Haynes and Elysia ToddUC RiversideThe International Situations Project: U.S., Japan, China, and Italy
May 17, 2012  CANCELLED
May 24, 2012Tricia BrodbeckUC RiversideThe Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medical Treatment in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis
May 31, 2012Katherine DugganUC RiversideChildhood Sleep and Long-Term Health
Jun 07, 2012Brandon CarlisleUC RiversideThe Effect of Individual and Environmental Factors on Academic Self-Handicapping

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Sep 27, 2012  No brown bag - Area faculty and students meeting

Fall 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Sep 27, 2012  No Brown Bag - Area faculty & students meeting
Oct 04, 2012Elliott KruseUCR Psychology DepartmentPride, affirmation, and gratitude: Novel methods of increasing humility

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Oct 04, 2012Elliott KruseUC RiversideHumility
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Oct 11, 2012Katie NelsonUC RiversideThe pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how does parenthood lead to more or less well-being?

Fall 2012
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Oct 11, 2012Katie NelsonUCR Psychology DepartmentThe pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how does parenthood lead to more or less well-being?

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Oct 18, 2012Elaine WongUCR School of Business AdministrationTBA

Fall 2012
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Oct 18, 2012Elaine WongUCR School of Business AdministrationFace off: How men's facial structure relates to group hierarchy
Oct 25, 2012Elysia ToddUCR Psychology DepartmentPersonality correlates of unique perceptions of brief film situations

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Oct 25, 2012Elysia ToddUC RiversideTBA
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Nov 01, 2012Joe ChancellorUCR Department of PsychologyRipples of generosity in the workplace: The hedonic benefits of giving and receiving

Fall 2012
DateNameFromTitle
Nov 01, 2012Joseph ChancellorUCR Psychology DepartmentRipples of generosity in the workplace: The hedonic benefits of giving and receiving
Nov 08, 2012Arezou GhaneUCR Psychology DepartmentLike a sitting duck : Embodiment and perceived vulnerability in a medical simulation study
Nov 15, 2012Michael HaselhuhnUCR School of Business AdministrationTBA
Nov 29, 2012Wendy WoodUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe profits and pitfalls of everyday habits

Winter 2013
DateNameFromTitle
Jan 10, 2013  No Brown Bag - Area faculty only meeting
Jan 17, 2013  No Brown Bag – SPSP Meeting in New Orleans!
Jan 24, 2013Angela LeggUCRIf You're Happy and You Know It, Hug Your Surgeon: Patients' Emotional Change Following Preoperative Consultations
Jan 31, 2013Janessa ShapiroUCLAWhen do the Stigmatized Stigmatize? Ironic Effects in Blacks' vs. Whites' Judgments of Minority Targets
Feb 07, 2013Susanna TramUCRAn IAT-based measure of implicit followership theory: Does it work?
Feb 14, 2013Tricia BrodbeckUCRHealth Literacy and Adherence to Medical Treatment
Feb 21, 2013Katherine DugganUCRPersonality and Sleep
Feb 28, 2013Ho HuynhUCRExamining Doctorship Styles with Audio Recordings of Clinician-Patient Interactions
Mar 07, 2013Brandon CarlisleUCRTBA
Mar 14, 2013Kristin LayousUCRHow Do Simple Positive Activities Increase Well-Being?

Spring 2013
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 04, 2013Sara AndrewsUC-RiversideIntolerance of Uncertainty Predicts Changes in Anxiety Over an Extended Wait
Apr 11, 2013George VaillantHarvard Medical School90-Up: A 70 year Prospective Study of Biosocial Male Development
Apr 18, 2013Katie BaoUC-RiversideAspirations and Well-Being
Apr 25, 2013Joshua MeadorsUC-RiversideMethods for Measuring (and Improving) Empathic Accuracy
May 02, 2013Brittany BannonUC-RiversideEarly Life Predictors of Adulthood Illness Behavior: The Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors
May 09, 2013  No Brown Bag - Area Faculty Only Meeting
May 16, 2013Michael BoudreauxUC-RiversideExamining the Domain of Disordered Personality Functioning

Departmental Colloquium


Spring 2010
DateNameFromTitle
May 13, 2010Douglas KenrickArizona State UniversityHOW THE MIND WARPS EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL COGNITION

Winter 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Mar 03, 2011Howard Friedman, Peter Blanck, David Funder, Dan Ozer, Robin DiMatteo, Don Rubin From Harvard to UCR: Research Inspirations from Bob Rosenthal
Mar 10, 2011Micheal McCulloughUniversity of MiamiCognitive Systems for Revenge and Reconciliation

Spring 2011
DateNameFromTitle
Apr 21, 2011Jay McClellandStanford UniversityDecision Dynamics and Decision States in the Leaky Competing Accumulator Model
Apr 28, 2011Paula TallalRutgers UniversityIn the Perception of Speech: Time is of the Essence