Past Events

Past Events

PHD Defense - The Impact of Blood-Based Biomarkers and Disease-Modifying Medications on Anticipated Reactions of Learning Alzheimer Disease Risk Information

Matthew Picchiello
Zoom

Masters defense - Incentives Influence Congruency Pre-Cue Utilization in the Stroop Task

Chris Nuño
Zoom

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Graduate Data Blitz
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Phd Defense - An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism

Grace Drake
Somers Family Hall RM 216 & Zoom

Social & Personality - First Year Presentations

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Testing a network science model of event knowledge

Ken McRae
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Integrating Diversity into Neuropsychological Evaluation

Clinical students
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Disability, Resilience, and Success in Internship Accredited Graduate Programs

Molly Steinhoff, MA, Aaron Gorelik, MA, Payton Rule, BA
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - First Year Presentations

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Cutting through the noise: Modeling cognitive dynamics to obtain a ”complete” picture of cognition

Andrew Aschenbrenner
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Sex Differences in the Risk of Developing Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Trajectories, and Relationships between Cognition and Pathological Burden

Carly Robinson
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Title: Associations between Prenatal Inflammation and Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms across the Perinatal Period

Margaret Redic, BS, BA.
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Black Immigrant Women’s Navigation of Ethnic-Cultural Socialization Messages

Anj Barrett
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of memory in correcting false beliefs.

Chris Wahlheim (UNC Greensboro)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Beyond disability: Older adults’ perceptions of successful aging

Payton Rule
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Debriefing the internship application process

Internship-bound students
Somers Family Hall RM 216

The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series - Helping learners to remember words and phrases (Workshop)

Dr. Frank Boers, Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics Western University Canada
Crow 204

Colloquium - Genetic Associations with Externalizing Behaviors in Nearly 4 Million People

Kathryn Paige Harden, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin
Wilson 214

The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series - Trial and error on trial: The case of lexical phrases

Dr. Frank Boers, Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics Western University Canada
Busch 100

Henry and Theresa Biggs Lecture in Linguistics - Complex restrictions from simple constraints

Adam Albright
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Becoming and Being a Grandparent: Long-Term and Daily Impact of Grandparenthood on Grandparents' Well-Being

Flavia Cherecheș, Tilburg University
Zoom

Linguistics Colloquium - Structure and System of Greek Lyric Meter

Angel Mercado
Wilson 104

Special Talk - “Modeling complex mind-brain relations in affective neuroscience”

Ajay Satpute, Ph.D.
Northeastern University
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The effect of cues to event segmentation on the resolution of event memory representations.

Maverick Smith
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Age Differences in Emotion Regulation and Risky Decision-Making: The Role of Attention and Arousal

Jasmine Moon
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Faculty Flash Talks

Chad Sylvester, PhD, Deanna Barch, PhD, Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Somers Family Hall RM 216

MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - “Using AI and Passive Data to Enhance Digital Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health”

Nicholas C. Jacobson, PhD
Associate Professor in Biomedical Data Science, Psychiatry and Computer Science
Director, Treatment Development & Evaluation Core Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Zoom

Annual Lifespan Development Summit - DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTHY LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Switching Between Cognitive Control States? No, Thank You

Merve Ileri Tayar
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Grant funding in aging

Mitch Sommers
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Translational and Cross-Species Approaches to Anhedonia: Implications for Treatment Development and Stratification

Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, Prof of Psychiatry, Harvard; Director, McLean Imaging Center; Director, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Mark Gold Lecture Series - The rise and rise of drug-induced psychosis

Sir Robin Murray, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatric Research
King’s College, London
Wilson 214

Linguistics Colloquium - Effects of dialect exposure on allophonic processing

Marie Bissell (University of Texas at Arlington)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Everyday Virtue Expressions as a Function of Virtue Traits and Situational Affordances

Ben Hardin
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Subjective Memorability Explains a Failure of the Signal Detection Recognition Model

Eylul Ardic
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Investigating determinants of dementia and timely diagnosis using Medicare claims linked to cohort data

Bryan James, Rush University
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Better Suicide Risk Detection with the Columbia Protocol: Reducing Workload, Redirecting Scarce Resources and Saving Lives

Adam M. Lesser, LCSW, Asst Prof of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University
*Via Zoom - Mandatory for all clinical students***
Zoom

Colloquium - Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab

Daniel Simons, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wilson 214

Aging & Development - NO TALK

Clinical - No CSS; Spring break

Social & Personality (This talk has been cancelled)

Judy Kwak / Jenn Beatty
Somers Family Hall RM 215

A&D -Master’s Defense: Reliability of Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring in Amyloid-Negative and Amyloid-Positive Older Adults

Taylor Pedersen
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Supervisor information session

Student discussion
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality

Graduate Interview Event (S&P Division Only)
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Rachel Smith Peirce (Andy Butler’s lab) and Maddie Valdez (Julie’s lab)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development (This talk has been cancelled)

Rezwana Rezzeque, WUSM (
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Black Children's Joy and Educational Justice

Seanna Leath, PhD and SynClaire Arthur, MS, MA
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Master's Defense - Learning-based strategic monitoring in prospective memory

Maddie Valdez
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The role of attentional suppression in preventing distraction by salient stimuli

Nicholas Gaspelin (U. Missouri)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Training grant trainee update brief talks

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Measuring neuroplasticity in human development: Potential applications for improving mental health.

Max Herzberg, PhD, Post-doctoral research associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, WUSM
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - Dynamics of attention and memory formation across time and development

Alexandra Decker, Ph.D.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Robert L. Williams Lecture Series - The Psychology of Struggle and Hope: John Henryism and the Health of Black Americans

Sherman A. James, Ph.D.
Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
In the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Wilson 214

Social & Personality

Grace Drake & Muchen Xi
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Leaders differ from their followers in dysfunctional personality traits

Hillary Anger Elfenbein (Olin)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - DACC practice talks

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Emotion regulation in aging: Implications for clinical science.

Derek Isaacowitz, PhD
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Lifespan Development Job Talk - From the Cradle to the Grave: Tracking the Antecedents and Consequences of Relational Development across the Lifespan

William Chopik, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Maverick Smith (Jeff’s lab) and Abhishek Dey (Wouter’s lab)
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Closing the Science-to-Practice Gap for Treating Older Adults: User Centered Design

Ann Steffen, UMSL
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Memory & Cognition Special Talk - Memory², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus far

Christopher Madan, Ph.D.
School of Psychology
University of Nottingham - United Kingdom
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Clinical - No CSS; Installation of Jeffrey M. Zacks as the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & Sciences

Somers Family Hall RM 216

Memory & Cognition Job Talk - Pathways to episodic memory: Cognitive & brain processes that shape what we remember

Maureen Ritchey, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Boston College
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Special screening of “The Cinema Within”

A documentary about the psychology of film editing, with director Chad Freidrichs, director of "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" and "The Experimental City.”
Freidrichs will take a few questions after the showing.
Brown Hall, Room 100

Social & Personality - The psychology of racial hierarchy: consequences for democracy

Xanni Brown, University of Virginia
Zoom

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - Biopsychosocial pathways in dementia inequalitie

Laura Zahodne, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - The Oxytocin System’s Role in Socioemotional Aging

Becca Polk
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Memory & Cognition Special Talk-bDirect recordings of human place cells and traveling waves for memory mapping and cognitive enhancement

Joshua Jacobs, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurological Sciences
Columbia University
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Clinical - PSC Research

Student and Faculty Discussion
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Lifespan Development Job Talk - “Infants’ social expectations and social learning”

Zoe Liberman, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Workshop on ESM and Momentary Assessment Methods

Emily Willroth
Somers Family Hall RM 215

FMS COLLOQUIUM LECTURE SERIES - "DYNAMICS OF COMPREHENSION, MEMORY AND STORYTELLING"

JEFFREY ZACKS
WASHU, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
Siegle Hall RM 306

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition

Ke Ning and Chris Ahn
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Enhancing Older Adults' Well-Being and Engagement Through Paid Work and Volunteering

Cal Halvorsen, Brown School
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Practicum information session

Student discussion + Raquel
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - “Investigating human infant knowledge with fMRI”

Heather Kosakowski, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology & Center for Brain Sciences
Harvard University
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Organizational meeting

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Title: Do All Facets of Psychological Wellbeing Predict Cognitive Function

Karysa Britton, MA, MS
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job Talk - “Memory Retrieval and Prediction during Language Processing”

Hossein Karimi, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Mississippi State University
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Memory & Cognition/Lifespan Development Job - “Reframing aging and disease with a lifespan perspective”

Brian Gordon, Ph.D.
Department of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Special Talk - “Social inequality: Its developmental roots, mechanisms, and potential interventions”

Lin Bian, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Masters defense - On the Advantages of Hierarchical Bayesian Regression for Cognitive Control Studies: A Case Study with the DMCC task battery

Thomas Dudey
Somers Family Hall RM 215A

Social & Personality - S&P Grad Student Meeting

For S&P grad students only
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Doctoral Defense - Adjustment to College following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Neco Johnson
Somers Family Hall RM 224

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - 1st year talks

1st year BBC grad students
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Considerations for Cognitive Assessment in Older Adults

Clinical students
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Transactional Relations between Cannabis Use Initiation and Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms across Adolescence

Juston Osborne, PhD, Post-doctoral research
scholar
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - Do I Assume That My Health Impacts You? Implications for Protective Health Behaviors and Policy Support

Kengthsagn Louis, Boston College
Zoom

Aging & Development - Audiovisual speech perception across the adult lifespan

Mitch Sommers
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - journal club

Somers Family Hall RM 216

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Age differences in the natural language of memory justifications.

Ran Zhang
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Clinical - Ethics consultation

Group discussion
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Linguistics Colloquium - Making Ling 101 accessible for blind students

Aaron Braver (Texas Tech University)
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Masters defense - When Not Remembering is Memorable: How Confidence Reveals Subjective Distinctiveness Heuristics through a Double Test Paradigm

E. Eylul Ardic
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Social & Personality

Michael Strawbridge, professor in Political Science
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Reward-Induced Modulations in Cognitive Control

Merve Ileri Tayar
Somers Family Hall Room 216

CCSN Research Methodology Workshop

Shelly R. Cooper, PhD
Lecturer
Washington University in St. Louis
Zoom

Aging & Development - Practice/quick present of GSA talks

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Leveraging technology to bridge the mental health treatment gap

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD, Prof of Psychiatry,
WUSM
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Colloquium - "(Cancelled, rescheduled for 3/17/25)”

Daniel Simons, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wilson 214

Social & Personality - Can Social Networks Counter Support for Political Violence? Evidence from a Network Dyad Experiment

Carly Wayne, Political Science
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Dispatches on the processing of accented speech

Mel Mallard and Zach Helfand
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Thriving at a Liberal Arts College: Tips for Job Applications and Conducting Aging Research at a Teaching-Focused Institution

Abby Coats, Westminster College
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - New clinical faculty flash talks

Rebecca Cox, PhD, Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft,
PhD, and Josh Oltmanns, PhD
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY & POLITICS

2nd Annual Innovation in Social and Community
Psychology Summit
Somers Family Hall Room 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Functional neuroimaging and the subjective brain

YC Leong
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Imaging biomarkers in genetic forms of Alzheimer Disease

Julie Wisch, WUSM
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Global Mental Health and the Interface with Anthropology

Clement Bayetti, BSc, MSc, PGDip, Adjunct
Prof, Brown School of Social Work
Zoom

Masters defense - “Recollective features in the natural language of justifications”

Ran Zhang
Somers Family Hall RM 215B

CCSN Pathway Annual Invited Lecture -“The Cognitive-Motor Interface”

John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University)
Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB, 1st floor; Medical Campus)

Aging & Development - Genetic Testing for Familial Dementia: Perspectives of patients and family members on knowing what lies ahead

Jetske van de Schaar, Amsterdam University Medical Center
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - TBA

Aaron Neiman, PhD, Lecturer, Sociocultural
Anthropology, WUSTL
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Social & Personality - “Professional Development Workshop on Networking”

Jessie Sun **for graduate students only**
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Aging & Development - Lipreading Ability Across English and Mandarin

Chen Hao
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Social & Personality - Gender Role Violations and Inferences of Sexual Orientation: Implications for Stereotyping and Prejudice

Alan Lambert
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Event boundaries interact with active inference and uncertainty to influence the structure of memory & Key moments structure the way people represent and remember events.

Ata Karagoz & Adi Upadhyayula
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Reframing How We Talk About Aging

Natalie Galucia. Center on Aging
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Psychosocial interventions for family caregivers

Karla Washington, PhD, LCSW, Assoc. Prof of
Medicine, WUSM
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Inaugural Mark Gold Lecture - This event has been cancelled.

Sir Robin Murray, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatric Research
King’s College, London
Wilson 214

Social & Personality - Social emotion regulation: How we navigate emotions together

Razia Sahi, Princeton
Zoom

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - The consequences of AI training on human decision-making

Lauren Treiman
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging & Development - Interrogating emotional response inhibition from early to late adulthood

Jill Waring, SLU
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - PCSAS internship report

Group discussion
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Special Guest Speaker.- Managing Discrimination Experiences: The Role of Impression Management Emotion-Regulation Goals and Self-Control in Emotion Regulation

Dorainne Green
Somers Family Hall RM 215

WashU Mindfulness Week: September 24-27, 2024

Various

Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Associations between Working Memory Contributions to Reinforcement Learning and Mental Health Phenotypes in a Representative Online Hypothesis-Generating Sample

Laura Bustamante
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Aging & Development - Open science

Emily Willroth
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical

SynClaire Arthur, MA and Molly Fennig, MA
Somers Family Hall RM 216

Colloquium: Maya Zuck Lecture in Child Development - "Changing Perspectives on Executive Function"

Yuko Munakata
Wilson 214

S&P - The Nomothetic-Idiographic Divide

Josh Jackson
Somers Family Hall Room 215

BBC - Interindividual preferences for serial and parallel processing styles in multitasking

Jovita Brüning, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Somers Family Hall RM 216

A&D - Do Teachers Respond Fairly to Misbehavior? Mobile Eye Tracking Reveals Differential Treatment

Blake Ebright-Jones
Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - Master’s defense: Patterns of Grief and Bereavement Following a COVID-19 Death

Karuna Thomas, MSc
Somers Family Hall RM 216

S&P - What is Needed for Purpose to Grow?

Patrick Hill
Somers Family Hall Room 215

PhD Defense - Age, Slow Wave Sleep, and Hippocampal- Dependent Memory: Insights into Cognitive Mapping

Hannah Maybrier
Somers Family Hall Room 215B

BBC - Why Studying Individual Differences In Cognition Is Hard And How To Make It Easier

Jeff Rouder, UC Irvine
Somers Family Hall Room 216

A&D - First meeting -- introductions, discuss small changes, fill in rest of schedule

Somers Family Hall RM 215

Clinical - 3…2…1…Semester Takeoff

Brian Carpenter, PhD, Interim DCT and Prof of
Psychological & Brain Sciences, WUSTL
Somers Family Hall RM 216

PhD Dissertation Defense – Adaptation and Evaluation of Guideline-Based Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Overweight and Obesity in Childhood Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Lymphoma

Jessica Jakubiak
Zoom

Master’s Defense - Age-Related Differences in the Discounting of Combination Outcomes in Which Immediate Gains are Followed by Delayed Losses

Ke Ning
Somers Family Hall Room 216

PhD Defense - Food Insecurity and Family-based Treatment for Pediatric Obesity

Genevieve Davison
Zoom

Master's Defense - Sleep, Cognition, and Alzheimer’s Disease: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

Hannah Wilks
Somers Family Hall Room 216

Aging T32 Postdoc Fellow Job Talk - “Discrimination and Purpose in Life: The Path Forward”

Megan Wilson Wolk, Ph.D.
Washington University
Somers Family Hall Room 216