Martha Farah Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society University of Pennsylvania Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91344134606?pwd=ZEZjR2Y0anN0aHpEbzVUT2FzU2tPdz09 Charitable cause: NARAL Pro-Choice America Putting neuroscience to work to reduce the harms of poverty Is SES neuroscience the pipedream of neuroscientists who want to feel useful and who underestimate the complexity of poverty and its effects? […]
Events
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Institutes of Health The 9th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture: The neuroscience of altruism, selfishness and wellbeing Each year the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2021-2022 theme is Wellbeing and the Brain. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our […]
Marie Claire Villeval GATE (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique) University of Lyon Title forthcoming Everyone is welcome to attend and can register here: http://bit.ly/nobectalks NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) Talks showcase interdisciplinary early career and senior researchers working on norms and behavioral change around the world. Organized by the Penn Center for […]
Joseph Coffey Department of Psychology Harvard University How WEIRD is that? The relationship between parental input and child vocabulary in rural Ghana A rich body of research has found evidence that child-directed speech plays an important role in the emergence of children’s early language. In some ways, this relationship is intuitive: children learn the language […]
Frank Keil Department of Psychology Yale University The Curious Case of Clockwork Cognition: Why Are Young Children So Interested in Mechanism? This speaker will give a virtual seminar via Zoom, with the talk streamed live in the Levin Auditorium so that anyone interested can still gather in person for a communal viewing experience. […]