Brown Bags
Each of the department's core graduate programs hosts a series of informal lunchtime talks known as Brown Bags. This is a forum for both graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their ongoing work.
Brown Bags often feature faculty from other departments around the university, as well as faculty from Carnegie Mellon or visiting scholars.
All are welcome to attend.
Clinical | Cognitive | Developmental | Biological and Health | Social | Professional Development
Each of the department's core graduate programs hosts a series of informal lunchtime talks known as Brown Bags. This is a forum for both graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their ongoing work. Brown Bags often feature faculty from other departments around the university as well as from Carnegie-Mellon University, as well as visiting scholars. All are welcome to attend.
Clinical Program Brown Bags
Fridays, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., 4127 Sennott Square
2012-2013
8/31/12 |
Anna Marsland, PhD Department of Psychology | Introduction and Overview |
9/28/12 |
Marika Kovacs, PhD Department of Psychiatry | A 25-year Program of Research on correlates, outcomes, and risk factors in childhood-onset depressive disorders |
10/12/12 |
Carolyn Schroeder, PhD Department of Psychology, University of Kansas | Discussion of career paths in child clinical and pediatric psychology. This presentation will be an informal discussion of different career paths in clinical psychology. |
11/30/12 |
Shaun Eack, PhD School of Social Work | Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| 1/11/13 | Michele Levine, PhD Department of Psychiatry |
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| 2/15/13 | Jeff Girard Graduate Student |
Social Risk and Depression: Evidence rom manual and automatic facial expression analysis |
3/22/13 |
Ike Onyewueny Graduate Student |
Does Functional Variation in Cognitive Control Systems of the Brain Link Reappraisal to the Metabolic Syndrome? |
4/19/13 |
Edward Orehek, PhD Department of Psychology |
Relational Regulation Theory: A New Approach to Explain the Link Between Social Support and Health |
Cognitive Program Brown Bags
Wednesdays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 9th Floor LRDC
2012-2013
| 9/19/12 | Joel Chan |
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| 9/26/12 | Lou Alfieri |
Methods: Demystifying Meta-Analysis |
| 10/3/12 | Muhsin Meneske |
The Relative Effectiveness of Differentiated Activities on Students' Learning |
| 10/10/12 | Aarthi Padmanabhan |
Influence of synaptic dopamine availability on resting state functional connectivity over adolescence |
| 10/17/12 | Lindsey Harris |
Negative Associations: The Relationship Between the N170 & the Error-Related Negativity in Word Reading |
| 10/24/12 | Panel: Perfetti, Warren, Schunn, Wilckens, Tuninetti, Belenky | Mentoring in Graduate School |
| 10/31/12 | Kai Hwang |
Spatiotemporal brain dynamics of inhibitory control in adolescents and young adults |
| 11/7/12 | Li Sha | Why Do Middle School Students Move Towards or Away From Science? - Role of Motivation in Activating Science Learning |
| 11/28/12 | Travis Simcox |
Collecting Response Times using Amazon Mechanical Turk and Adobe Flash |
| 12/5/12 | Jooyoung Jang |
Unpacking Cognitive Benefits of Distributed Complex Visual Displays |
| 1/9/13 | Wendy Chang Graduate Student |
Sequencing Effects and Encoding Effects on Chinese Character Reading and Writing in Adult Learners: An In-vivo Study |
| 1/16/13 | Alba Tuninetti Natasha Tokowicz Rosa Sanchez-Casas |
Non-native phonological perception in bilinguals' language processing |
| 1/16/13 | Chelsea Eddington Tamar Degani Natasha Tokowicz |
Translation ambiguity affects word recognition in a first language |
| 1/23/13 | Liz Richey Graduate Student |
Effects of Collaboration on Abstract Category Learning |
| 1/23/13 | Darshana Tuladhar Graduate Student |
Examining Concurrent Discrimination Learning within Individuals with Parkinson's Disease |
| 1/30/13 | Regina Leckie Graduate Student |
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Moderate Effects of Physical Activity on Cognitive Function |
| 1/30/13 | Kyle Dunovan Graduate Student |
Visual object expectation modeled as a drift-diffusion process |
| 2/6/13 | Joseph Stafura Graduate Student |
Which Way to Integration: An ERP Study of Asymmetric Lexical Associations in Relatedness Judgments and Text Comprehension |
| 2/13/13 | Meghan Bathgate Graduate Student |
Things are getting interesting: An exploratory case study of a school-based badging system |
| 2/20/13 | Christopher Walker Graduate Student |
Emergent changes of baseline control state are reflective of trial-type proportions |
| 2/27/13 | Alison Phillips Tseng Graduate Student |
Translation ambiguity between English and Mandarin Chinese: The roles of word characteristics and proficiency |
| 2/27/13 | Allison Liu Graduate Student |
The role of mechanistic understanding in virtual vs. physical learning environments |
| 3/6/13 | Evelyn Milburn Graduate Student |
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| 3/20/13 | Professional Development Panel: Julie Fiez, Anna Marsland, Natasha Tokowicz |
The Imposter Phenomenon
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| 3/27/13 | Erika Laing Graduate Student |
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| 4/3/13 | Adeetee Bhide Teljer Liburd Graduate Students |
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| 4/10/13 | Cristina Zepeda Bart Larsen Graduate Students |
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4/17/13 |
Travis Alvarez Jon Siegel Graduate Students |
Developmental Program Brown Bags
Thursdays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
Joint Clinical-Developmental talks are held on Fridays, 12-1, and are listed in italics.
2012-2013
| 9/6/12 | Walter Schneider, PhD Department of Psychology |
High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT): Mapping Human Brain Anatomical Circuits with Applications to Development and Autism |
| 10/4/12 | Susan Perlman, PhD Department of Psychiatry |
Emotional Brain Development: Dimensions of Regulation in Early and Middle Childhood |
| 10/18/12 | Stuart Hammond, PhD |
Parental Scaffolding and Children's Everyday Helping |
| 11/1/12 | Tom Olino, PhD Department of Psychiatry |
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| 12/6/12 | Daniel Choe, PhD Department of Psychology |
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| 1/18/13 | Jessie B. Ramey, PhD University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies |
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages 4PM-6PM 3703 Posvar Hall |
| 1/24/13 | Ming-Te Wang, PhD Psychology in Education |
Are Longitudinal Associations between Parental Harsh Verbal Discipline and Adolescents' Misconduct and Depression Moderated by Parental Warmth? |
| 2/21/13 | Diane Williams, PhD Duquesne University |
Language Processing in Autism: Insights from Functional Imaging |
| 3/7/13 | Whitney Waugh Graduate Student |
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| 3/21/13 | Kate Monahan, PhD Department of Psychology |
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| 4/4/13 | Daphne Henry Graduate Student |
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| 4/11/13 | SRCD Practice |
Developmental Brown Bag Archive
Biological and Health Program Brown Bags
Fridays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
2012-2013
| 9/7/12 | Orientation and Introductions | |
| 10/5/12 | Kirk Erickson, PhD |
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory |
| 10/19/12 | Thomas Kamarck, PhD |
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| 12/7/12 | Michael Sayette, PhD |
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| 1/11/13 | Michele Levine, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Journal Club |
| 2/22/13 | Dana Bovbjerg, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
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| 3/29/13 | Eric Donny, PhD Kathryn Roecklein, PhD Pete Gianaros, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Writing Workshop I: Instructor revisions |
| 4/12/13 | Eric Donny, PhD Kathryn Roecklein, PhD Pete Gianaros, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Writing Workshop II: Student Revisions |
| 4/26/13 | Elliot Berkman University of Oregon |
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Biological & Health Brown Bag Archives
social Program Brown Bags
Mondays, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM 3109 Sennott Square
2012-2013
| 9/4/12 | Ed Orehek, PhD |
Recent Developments Concerning Research Practices in Social Psychology |
| 9/18/12 | Anna Vazeou-Nieuwenhuis |
The effect of a near versus distant significant other on the search for meaning in life: A construal level of perspective |
| 10/2/12 | John Levine, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Ideology and Social Psychology |
| 10/15/12 | Norbert Kerr, PhD Michigan State University |
Increasing Exercise via Group Dynamics |
| 11/27/12 | Kathryn Monahan, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Peer Relationships in Adolescents |
| 1/14/13 | Edward Orehek, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Landing an Academic Job: Reflections on the Faculty Searches |
1/22/13 (Tuesday) |
Pontus Leander, PhD University of Groningen |
Indifferent Reactions: Regulatory Responses to the Apathy of Others |
| 2/4/13 | Kristina Swanenburg Graduate Student Injung Ko Graduate Student |
Regulatory Fit Through Evaluative or Affective Decisions about Deviance and Conformity |
| 2/25/13 | Jennifer Tomlinson, PhD Carnegie Mellon University |
Bringing Out the Best in Us: How Relationships Promote Personal Development and Health |
| 3/4/13 | Michael Sayette, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Effects of Alcohol on Social Bonding |
| 3/25/13 | Anna Sheveland, PhD University of Maryland |
A Source for All Seasons?: The Need for Cognitive Closure and Epistemic Authority Preferences |
| 4/8/13 | Kira Alexander Graduate Student |
professional development brown bags
Fridays, 4127 Sennott Square
3/25/11 3:00-4:00 p.m. |
Irene Frieze, PhD,
Susan Campbell, PhD, Chris Schunn, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
What You Should Know About Submitting a Manuscript for Publication in a Journal: The Editor's Perspective |
| 10/26/12 | Greg Siegle, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Best Practices for Running a Hyperfunctional Laboratory 9th Floor LRDC |
5/10/13 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Michael Sayette, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Networking |