psychology

#798 Onurcan Yilmaz: Cognitive Styles, Politics, Morality, and Religion

Jun 22, 2023

Dr. Onurcan Yilmaz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, and he currently leads the Moral Intuitions Laboratory (MINT Lab). He studies the intersection between morality, religion, politics and decision-making from perspectives derived from cognitive and evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics. His research mainly focuses on dual-process accounts of moral judgment and behavior. More»
#797 Evelina Fedorenko: The Neuroscience of Language

Jun 19, 2023

Dr. Evelina Fedorenko is Middleton CD Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT. Her research focuses on the language system, including its internal architecture, and its relationship with other cognitive systems. She uses behavioral, fMRI, intracranial recording, computational, and genotyping methods in healthy adults and individuals with brain disorders. More»
#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions

Jun 16, 2023

Dr. Paul Harris is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being Child Psychology in Twelve Questions. More»
#794 Oriel FeldmanHall: The Social Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making

Jun 12, 2023

Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Herry Merritt Wriston Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society's Innovation Award. Dr. FeldmanHall's research seeks to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that form the basis of human social behavior. More»
#793 Adam Bulley - The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

Jun 9, 2023

Dr. Adam Bulley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, and the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. In his research he uses the tools of evolutionary and cognitive psychology to study the mind and human behavior. Specifically, he investigates the evolution, development, and psychological mechanisms of imagination, foresight, decision-making, and emotion. He is the author (together with Thomas Suddendorf and Jonathan Redshaw) of The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight. More»
#792 Justin Mogilski: Satisfaction and Maintenance in Monogamous and Non-Monogamous Relationships

Jun 8, 2023

Dr. Justin Mogilski is Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie. His current program of research examines: 1) conflict resolution within consensually non-monogamous (CNM) romantic relationships (e.g., polyamory, open relationships, swinging), 2) how evolution has shaped moral decision-making, and 3) individual differences in predatory intimate relationship behaviors. He currently leads an international team of sexuality and relationship researchers studying CNM relationship maintenance strategies. More»
#788 Alexander Bor: Online Political Hostility; and the Moralization and Political Effects of COVID

May 29, 2023

Dr. Alexander Bor is a postdoc at the CEU Democracy Institute's Research Group on De- and Re-Democratization and a Visiting Professor at CEU Vienna. He received an MA in Political Science at the CEU in 2012, and a PhD in Political Science at Aarhus University in 2018, where he also worked as a postdoc until 2022. His research focuses on how the human mind navigates social and political challenges like political polarization, online political hostility, the COVID-19 pandemic, or selecting and evaluating political leaders. His work integrates insights from political behavior, social and evolutionary psychology, and public health. More»
#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How to Live

May 26, 2023

Dr. Kennon Sheldon is Curator's Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. His research is in the areas of well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology. In 2002 he was a recipient of a Templeton Foundation "Positive Psychology" prize, and in 2014 received the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live. More»
#786 Vassilis Saroglou: The Psychological Traits of Religious People

May 25, 2023

Dr. Vassilis Saroglou is Full Professor of Psychology at the UCL-University of Louvain, with expertise in psychology of religion, personality, social, and cross-cultural psychology, moral psychology, and psychology of positive emotions. He has developed long-term empirical research on theoretically and socially critical issues regarding religion, spirituality, fundamentalism, and atheism, in interaction with social behavior: prosociality, submission, ethnoreligious & ideological prejudice, sexism, homophobia; personality, emotions, and health: personality traits, birth order effects, awe, humor; and more. More»
#782 Gillian Forrester: The Evolution of Handedness, Cerebral Lateralization, and Language

May 15, 2023

Dr. Gillian Forrester is a Professor of Comparative Cognition in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex. She is the director of the Comparative Cognition Group investigating the behaviors and brain organization of children, gorillas and chimpanzees focusing on how cognitive abilities evolve and develop over time and across species. More»