Speaker Archive

Here are some of the speakers that the psychology department has sponsored or co-sponsored to speak at Bates.  Be sure to see who is coming up next in our Upcoming Events section!

 

All posters designed by Brian Pfohl.

September 22, 2022

Kate Thorson ’10 of Barnard College gave a public lecture titled “Social Influence Under the Skin

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November 4, 2010

Britton Brewer of Springfield College gave a public lecture titled “Psychological Pathways to Recovery from Sport Injury

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October 7, 2010

Bennett Schwartz of Florida International University gave a public lecture titled “Episodic Memory in Primates

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September 21, 2010

Nancy Bauer of Tufts University gave a public lecture titled “The Allure of Self-Objectification

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May 5, 2010

Catherine Norris of Dartmouth University gave a talk titled “The Good, The Bad, and the (Race-) Biased: Individual Differences Modulate Emotional Responses.

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(The February date on the poster reflects a postponed event.  The talk was actually given in May.)


February 4, 2010

Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University gave a talk titled “Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Bias.

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November 18, 2009

Roy F. Baumeister of Florida State University gave a public lecture titled “Free will as the Expensive Control of Action“.

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October 19, 2009

Pamela K. Smith of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego gave a public lecture titled “The Social Cognition of Power: From abstract thinking to executive functions“.

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May 20, 2009

Former Bates psychology major and best-selling author Lisa Genova ’92 answered questions and read from her book Still Alice.

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March 12, 2009

Sylvia Hurtado of UCLA gave a talk titled “Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy.

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February 23, 2009

Jordana Muroff of the Boston School of Social Work gave a talk titled “Clinical Decision-Making in Context: The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Gender.

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November 6, 2008

Paul Bloom of Yale University gave a talk titled “Bodies and Souls.

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October 6, 2008

Saba Ali of the University of Iowa gave a talk titled “Muslim-American: An Oxymoron?

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September 29, 2008

Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania gave a talk titled “The Psychology of Food and Eating.”

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