2013 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Friday, April 26, 2013
3:30-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 118
(Reception, Room 230, 5:00-6:00 pm)
Clash! 8 Cultural Conflicts that Make Us Who We Are
Professor Hazel Rose Markus
Davis-Brack Professor
Stanford University
Hazel Rose Markus is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her research examines how the self is shaped by the social world and how the self organizes thought, feeling and action. She received her B.A. from California State University at San Diego and her PhD. from the University of Michigan. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and in 2008 received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution. She is the author of many articles and the co-author of Culture and Emotion: Their Mutual Influence, Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies, Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference, and Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century; Facing Social Class: The Role of Societal Rank in Social Interaction, and the forthcoming: Clash! 8 Cultural Conflicts that Make Us Who We Are.
2012 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Friday, April 20, 2012
3:35-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 118
(Reception, Room 230, 5:00-6:00 pm)
The Social Psychology of Population Differences in Health
Professor James Jackson
Daniel Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan
James S. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies. He is the Director and Research Professor of the Institute for Social Research. He is past Director of the Program for Research on Black Americans and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. He is past-Chair of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences (K) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a former National President of the Black Students Psychological Association and the Association of Black Psychologists and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He served on the Councils of the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging. He is a member of the Advisory Council to the NIH Director. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, American Psychological Association, Association of Psychological Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He received the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, American Psychological Association, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career Contributions in Applied Psychology, the Association for Psychological Sciences, Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging, University of Southern California, Senior Health Policy Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Presidential Citation, American Psychological Association, and the Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Video
You can download the video here (mp4, 494 MB).2011 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Friday, April 1, 2011
3:15-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 118
(Reception, Room 230, 5:00-6:30 pm)
Culture and Happiness around the World
Professor Ed Diener
Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of Illinois
Dr. Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. Dr. Diener was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He was the editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the editor of Journal of Happiness Studies. Diener is the founding editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. He has over 240 publications, with about 190 being in the area of the psychology of well-being. Professor Diener's research focuses on the measurement of well-being; temperament and personality influences on well-being; theories of well-being; income and well-being; and cultural influences on well-being. He has edited three recent books on subjective well-being, and a 2005 book on multi-method measurement in psychology. Diener is currently writing a popular book on happiness with his son, Robert Biswas-Diener, and authoring a book on policy uses of accounts of well-being with Richard Lucas, Ulrich Schimmack, and John Helliwell.
Video
You can download the video here (MP4, 406MB).2010 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Friday, March 19, 2010
3:30-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 118
(Reception, Room 230, 5:00-6:30 pm)
Intelligence and how to get it:
Why schools and cultures count
Professor Richard Nisbett
Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor
University of Michigan
Dr. Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and is the first psychologist in his field in a generation to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Nisbett is one of the world’s foremost authorities on how culture and social context affect thinking, perception and behavior. In his recent book, The Geography of Thought, Professor Nisbett looks at how Asians and Westerners think differently and why. In his new book, Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count, Dr. Nisbett challenges the prevailing idea that biology and especially genetics determine intelligence. Instead, he emphasizes the role of culture in determining intelligence and he gives us new tools for understanding and fostering the kind of success for which we use ‘intelligence’ as an indicator. A Research Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Dr. Nisbett also studies group decision making, conformity and independence, and social factors affecting school performance, among other subjects. He has also received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association as well as the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society.
Video
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Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Friday, April 24, 2009
3:30-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 118
(Reception, Room 230, 5:00-6:30 pm)
Cultural Syndromes and their Effects on
Some Psychological Variables
Professor Harry Triandis
University of Illinois
Harry C. Triandis is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1958, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1987. He was Chairman and Secretary General of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology; President of the International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology (1974-76), the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the InterAmerican Society of Psychology, and the International Association of Applied Psychology (1990-1994), as well as of Divisions 8 and 9 of the American Psychological Association. He was Ford Foundation Faculty Fellow, 1964-65, Fellow of the Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1968-69, Guggenheim Fellow, 1972-73 at the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, 1972-73;1979-80. He received an Award for significant contributions to the development of psychology from the Interamerican Society of Psychology, 1981. He is an Honorary Fellow of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (1982), was a Distinguished Fulbright Professor to India (1983), Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science (1984), University of Illinois Scholar (1987), received the Centennial Citation from the American Psychological Association, "for significant contributions to the establishment of cross-cultural psychology as a distinct discipline" (1992), was an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturer in 1994. Received the Klineberg Award, of the Society for the Psychological Study Social Issues (1994), the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Contributions to International Psychology Award (1995), American Psychological Society’s James M. Cattell Award (1996). The American Psychological Association’s Division 52 (International) named him Distinguished International Psychologist of the Year in 2002. He received the Lifetime Contributions Award from the Academy of Intercultural Research (May 2004, in Taiwan).
Video
You can download the video here (avi, 280 MB).2008 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
MSU Union, Gold Room B (Second Floor)
3:30-5:00 pm, Monday, April 21, 2008
Reception from 5:00-6:30 pm
Cultural Contexts of Men’s Sexual Aggression
Dr. Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. His research interests are in the cultural context of psychopathology, particularly sexual aggression. Dr. Hall is currently investigating the effectiveness with Asian Americans of treatments that are empirically-supported for other groups. He is also interested in behavioral genomics approaches to genetic and cultural factors implicated in antisocial behavior. He was previously President of the American Psychological Association Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Asian American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of the Asian American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Hall is currently editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
SPECIAL RECEPTION FOLLOWS:
A combined reception to honor Professor Hall and to celebrate the official launching of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research will be held from 5:00-6:30 pm in the Gold Room B of the MSU Union. Refreshments will be served and souvenirs from the Consortium will also be distributed at the reception.
Co-sponsors: Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Counseling Center, Departments of Psychiatry, Social Work, Family & Child Ecology.