Lynn Fairbanks: UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral SciencesThe ability to form and maintain social relationships is an important attribute that has broad implications for health and fitness in humans and nonhuman primates. In this presentation, I will describe the development of a quantitative measure of sociability in the Vervet Research Colony, a multigenerational pedigreed […]
Adriana Galvan: UCLA Department of PsychologyAdolescence is a developmental period marked by heightened sensitivity to reward and increased proclivity towards risk-taking behavior. These behavioral changes are paralleled by significant developmental changes in neural circuitry related to reward processing and cognitive control. In this talk, I will describe recent data on adolescent brain development, propose a […]
Catherine Reed: Claremont-McKenna College Department of PsychologySocial psychologists have embraced the tenants of embodied cognition to explain how we understand the emotions of others. They claim that the reinstantiation of previous sensorimotor experience during emotional and social information processing is an essential process for understanding others’ emotions (e.g., Neidenthal, Barsalou, Winkielman, Krauth-Gruber, & Ric, 2005). […]
