Brown Bag Lunches
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
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 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
| 9/14/07 | Kasey Griffin | Facial Reactions to Smoking Cues Relate to Ambivalence about Smoking Video |
| 9/28/07 | L. Ian Reed | Depression on Response to Comedy: A Dynamic Facial Coding Analysis Video |
| 10/12/07 | Susan Gillo | The Development of Hyperactive-Impulsive and Inattentive (HIA) Behavior in a Community Sample of Girls: A Group-Based Model of Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade Video |
| 10/26/07 | Greg Siegel, Ph.D. | Translational Neuroimaging in Unipolar Depression: Toward Personalized Treatment |
| 12/14/07 | Melissa Kalarchian, Ph.D. | |
| 1/25/08 | Judy Cameron, Ph.D. | The Role of Early Life Experience in Shaping Anxious Behavior: Lessons from Nonhuman Primates |
| 2/8/08 | Brooke Molina, Ph.D. | |
| 2/22/08 | Jeffrey Cohn, Ph.D. | Facial Expression Research at the University of Pittsburgh |
| 3/28/08 | Kenneth Schaffner, Ph.D . | Approaches to Problems of Validity of Psychopathological Disorders |
| 4/11/08 | Eric Donny, Ph.D. | Smoking without Nicotine: From Rats to the Clinic... and Back Again |
| 4/25/08 | Michael Pogue-Geile, Ph.D. | Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia: Processing Speed as a Supplementary Phenotype |
Cognitive Program Brown Bags
Wednesdays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 9th Floor LRDC
| 9/5/07 | Polina Vanyukov
Soniya Gadgil |
Serial or Parallel? Using Depth of Processing to Examine Attention Allocation During Reading Conceptual Change: Can it be Achieved by Holistic Mental-Model Confrontation? |
| 9/19/07 | Susan Gillo | Methods Brown Bag: ERPs 101 |
| 9/26/07 | N/A | Professional Developemtn: How to Mentor Undergraduate Research Assistants (faculty panel Q &A) |
| 10/10/07 | Jeffrey Phillips
Tamar Degani |
Neural Correlates of Preparatory Brain Activity in Episodic Memory Retrieval Why are Map & Tablecloth Related? Bidirectional Semantic Transder in Bilinguals |
| 10/17/07 | Nikole Huffman | Parsing Plural Noun Phrases: Evidence from Garden-path Sentences |
| 10/24/07 | Corrine Durisko | Exploring the Inner Speech Process in Verbal Working Memory |
| 10/31/07 | Walt Schneider | Brain Architecture to Escape the Homunculus Trap via Scalar Control Signals: Interpreting Cognitive Control and Representation Systems Relating Anatomical Connectivity, Activity, and Performance |
11/7/07 4127 Sennott Square |
Chandralekha Singh | Professional Development: Some Implications of Cognitive Research to Teaching |
| 11/14/07 | Charles Geier | |
| 11/28/07 | Melissa Nelson | |
| 12/5/07 | Guo-Qiang Bi | |
| 1/16/08 | Gwen Frishkoff | Practice job talk |
| 1/23/08 | Xornam Apedoe | Practice job talk |
| 1/30/08 | Michal Balass |
Learning Words in Context: An ERP Investingation of Word Experience Effects on Familiarity and Meaning Acquisition |
| 2/6/08 | Katie Russell | Issues of Language and Laterality after Traumatic Brain Injury |
| 2/13/08 | Natasha Tokowicz | Professional Development Brown Bag: Family and Academia |
| 2/20/08 | Karin Cox | Evaluating a Highly-flexible Method for Inter-subject Alignment of fMRI Data |
| 3/19/08 | Debbie Bernstein Kyung Hwa Lee |
Robot Diaries: Investigating Technological Fluency in Middle School Girls Understanding Brain Mechanisms of Explicit Emotional Evaluation |
| 3/26/08 | Nicole Hill | Challenges for Cognitive Task Performance |
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.
| 9/6/07 | Maira Roazzi | Beliefs in the Unseen: Exploring Death Concepts Among Children in Brazil |
| 9/20/07 | Meaghan Parlade | The Reorganization of Communicative Behaviors around the Onset of the Vocabulary Spurt: A Dynamic Systems Approach |
| 10/4/07 | Sarah Nichols | "Why is That Girl Scared?" Infants' Understanding of and Responses to Other Children's Emotions |
| 10/18/07 | Anna Fisher (Carnegie Mellon University) | What's in the Name? or How Rocks amd Stones are Different from Dogs and Puppies |
| 11/1/07 | Jana Iverson | Early Vocal, Motor, and Communicative Development in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism |
| 11/15/07 | Eric Thiessen (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| 12/6/07 | Carla Mazefsky (Children's Hospital) | |
| 1/17/08 | Luke Hyde | Developmental Precursors of Moral Disengagement and the Role of Moral Disengagement in the Development of Antisocial Behavior |
| 2/7/08 | Jennifer Ganger | Genes and Environment in Language Development: Evidence for Heritability and Specificity in the Language Development Mechanism |
| 2/21/08 | Emily Merz | Behavior Problems in Children Adopted from Socially-Emotionally Depriving Orphanages |
| 3/6/08 | Carl Johnson | The Ontology of Spirit: "Something More" than Natural Kinds |
| 3/20/08 | Lisa Newell | TBA |
| 4/3/08 | Danny Shaw | Parent Involvement, Extra-Familial Contexts and Emerging Problem Behavior: A Basic and Intervention Study |
| 4/17/08 | Kevin Pelphrey |
Developmental Brown Bag Archive
Biological and Health Program Brown Bags
Fridays, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., 4125 Sennott Square
| 9/21/07 | Pete Gianaros | How to Be a Word Carpenter |
| 10/5/07 | Dick Jennings | Common Mistakes of Authors: Perspectives of an Editor |
| 10/19/07 | Sheldon Cohen | How to Write a Review Article, Part I |
| 11/2/07 | Jude Carroll, Denise Janicki, Sarah Pressman, Deb Scharf | How to Write a Review Article, Part II |
| 11/16/07 | Dick Jennings | How to Respond to Reviews |
| 1/18/08 | Bill Johnson | How to Create A Poster in PowerPoint |
| 2/1/08 | Rebecca Thurston Wendy Troxel |
How to Give a Good Conference Talk |
| 2/15/08 | Hilary Tindle, Siddharth Chandra, Deb Scharf, Michael Dunbar |
Practice talks for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference |
| 3/7/08 | Indrani Halder, Sarah Pressman | Practice talks for the American Psychosomatic Society and Society for Behavioral Medicine conferences |
| 3/21/08 | Paul Pilkonis | An Introduction to the Grant Process - Part 1 |
| 4/4/08 | Paul Pilkonis | An Introduction to the Grant Process - Part 2 |
| 4/18/08 | Different Research Careers in Health Psychology |
Biological & Health Brown Bag Archives
Social Program Brown Bags
Fridays, Noon to 1:00 PM, 4117 Sennott Square
| 9/14/07 | Josh Fetterman | Transactive Memory and Perceptions of the Powerful: Does Regency Inhibit Retention? |
| 9/18/07 | Roberto Weber | The Delegation of Social Behavior |
10/19/07 1:00-2:00 pm |
Noel Brewer | Risky Health Decisions: The Role of Perceived Risk of Influenza, Cancer and Other Dangerous Things |
| 10/26/07 | Thomas Hansen | The Development of Social Motives in Negotiating Teams |
| 11/9/07 | Stephanie Facchin | Team Reflexivity Improves Team Performance Sometimes |
| 11/30/07 | Leslie Hausmann | The Role of Perceived Discrimination in Health Experiences and Behavior |
| 12/14/07 | Ray Reagan | In-group Identification Versus Out-group Opportunity: Theoretical Trade-off or Trade Tool? |
1/11/08 3 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square |
Richard Moreland | Dealing with Journal Editors: Publishing, not Perishing |
| 2/29/08 | Carey Morewedge | When Comparison Affects the Evaluation of Hedonic Value |
| 3/21/08 | Katrina Cooper | Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Teaching at a Small Liberal Arts College |
| 3/28/08 | Jeffrey Cohn | Use of Photo-Realistic Avatar to Investigate Human Social Dynamics |
| 4/4/08 | Janet Schofield | Linking Social Psychology to Policy Effectively |
| 4/11/08 | Kristina Swanenburg | Catching Cheaters: Cheating as a Special Case of Deception Detection |
| 5/9/08 | Herb Kelman | |
| 5/16/08 | Joshua Aronson | TBA |