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New word on the street! Jane Stanford Way replaces Serra Mall in last week's renaming
Jordan Hall has a new address: Serra Mall was renamed Jane Stanford Way as of Oct. 7, honoring the university’s co-founder and implementing a proposal that came out of a review of campus historical names last year. Our department's new address is 450 Jane Stanford Way, Bldg 420, Stanford, CA. Read more about the renaming process in the article linked above.
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Greg Walton wins Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize
Greg Walton (and co-author Tim Wilson) won the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize for their paper titled, "Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems." The Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize is a prize for a single outstanding contribution that recognizes the author of an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to social/personality psychology within a given year.
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Vision Brunch: Hiromasa Takemura
Vision Brunch is a weekly talk series focused on vision research-related topics. This week we will hear from Hiromasa Takemura, whose talk is titled "High-resolution comparative neuroanatomy approach for understanding the organization of association pathways in the primate visual system."
Wednesday, Oct 16
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Stanford University
Jordan Hall (Building 420)
Room 419
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FriSem: Eric Schulz
FriSem is a weekly talk series covering topics in neuroscience organized by the Department of Psychology. This Friday will be featuring Eric Schulz, a cognitive scientist and data science postdoctoral fellow in Sam Gershman's Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.
Friday, Oct 18
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Stanford University
Jordan Hall (Building 420)
Room 050
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Ulrike Hahn's Colloquium on Rationality
University of London Professor Ulrike Hahn spoke last week at the Department of Psychology's first colloquium of the year. The talk outlined the many deficits of human rationality that have been identified over the last five decades, and described work in sample domains ranging from everyday informal argument, through testimony and social networks, to decision making. Drawing and notes by PhD student Natalia Velez, aka the Science Sketcher.
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- "Consistency and Variability in Children’s Word Learning Across Languages" by Mika Braginsky, Daniel Yurovsky, Virginia A. Marchman, and Michael C. Frank, published in June 2019 in Open Mind.
- "Expectations Affect Physical Causation Judgments" by Tobias Gerstenberg and Thomas Icard, published in 2019 in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
- "Targeting Mindsets, Not Just Tumors" by Sean R. Zion, Lidia Schapira, and Alia J. Crum, published in October 2019 in ScienceDirect.
- "Time May Heal Wounds: Aging and Life Regrets" by Reed D. Tassone and L. L. Carstensen, published in September 2019 in Psychology and Aging.
- "Deep phenotyping of attention impairments and the ‘Inattention Biotype’ in Major Depressive Disorder", by Arielle S. Keller, Tali M. Ball, and Leanne M. Williams, published in September 2019 by Cambridge University.
- "Fine Particle Air Pollution and Physiological Reactivity to Social Stress in Adolescence" by Jonas G. Miller, Julia S. Gillette, Erika M. Manczak, Katharina Kircanski, and Ian H. Gotlib, published in September 2019 by Psychosomatic Medicine.
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