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Michigan State University
Social/Personality Psychology
Invited speakers for the Spring 2009 speaker series address diverse topics that should be of interest to a broad audience. Attendance by all members of the MSU academic community is welcome.
Unless otherwise noted in bold, all talks are at 1:30 pm on Fridays in Room 230 Psychology
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Friday, January 16 |
Jennifer Pratt-Hyatt, Michigan State University |
Group identification as a predictor of behavior towards others and treatment from others |
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Friday, January 23 |
Kunihiro Yokota, Hokkaido University |
Spite or avoidance?: Sex differences of adaptive psychological mechanisms in ingroup favoritism |
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Monday, February 2 1:00 pm |
Mark van Vugt, University of Kent |
Between Despotism and Democracy: Human Evolution and the Social Dynamics of Leadership and Followership |
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Friday, February 6 |
SPSP Conference in Tampa, FL. No Brown bag |
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Friday, February 13 (325 Psychology) |
Kosuke Takemura, Hokkaido University |
Attending Inside or Outside: Intragroup Relationship Orientation in Japan and Intergroup Comparison Orientation in North America |
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Friday, February 20 |
Nao Hagiawara-Livingston Michigan State University |
Physical characteristics and intergroup relations |
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Friday, February 27 |
David Feinberg, MacMaster University |
Redundant information encoded in voices and faces informs mate preferences |
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Friday, March 6 |
Maike Luhmann, Free University of Berlin |
Repeated life events and life satisfaction |
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Friday, March 13 |
Spring Break, No Brown Bag |
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Friday, March 20 (120 Psychology) |
Tatsuya Kameda, Hokkaido University |
Groups as Adaptive Devices: Free-Rider Problems, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Evolutionary Games |
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Friday, March 27 |
Catherine Grosso, MSU School of Law |
The Role of Intimacy in the Prosecution and Sentencing of Capital Murder Cases in the United States Armed Forces, 1984-2005 |
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Friday, April 3 |
Edward Witt, Michigan State University |
Traits are more than situational sensitivities |
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Friday, April 10 |
Katherine Corker, Michigan State University |
Approach and avoidance motivation |
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Friday, April 17 |
Steven Garcia, University of Michigan |
Social Comparison and Competition |
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Friday, April 24 |
Stevie Yap, Michigan State University |
Asian and American Identity |
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Ivana Anusic, Michigan State University |
Stable and situation-specific influences on judgments of life satisfaction, personality, and affect |
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