Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

Fridays @ Noon in Psychology Conference Room

 

Date

Speaker

Title

ABSTRACT

Jan 18

OPEN

 

 

Jan 25

GUEST SPEAKER:

Dr Jim Rimpau

Teaching American Sign Language to cross fostered chimpanzees

 

Feb 1

Dan

 

 

Feb 8

Courtney

 

 

Feb 15

Paul

 

 

Feb 22

Sang

 

 

Feb 29

Lena

 

 

March 7

GUEST SPEAKER

 

Dr Patrick Carroll

 

The Ohio State University

Self-Revision

How and why would a young man or woman who desperately wants to become a psychologist abandon their dream in response to a faculty advisor's suggestion that they do not have what it takes to make it in psychology? The present investigation tested three hypotheses advanced to explain how and why people abandon commitment to possible selves in response to threatening feedback.  First, the likelihood of downward self-revision is maximized when the implications of threatening feedback are fully specified into the explicit prospect of a specific undesired possible self as more likely than the desired possible self.  Second, initial elevations in self-doubt and ultimate declines in expectations mediate the overall effect of specified threats on commitment to possible selves. Third, the initial anxiety evoked by specified threats provides a critical intermediate link that transforms initial elevations in self-doubt into the ultimate collapse of expectations supporting commitment to possible selves. Results support these hypotheses.

March 14

Spring Break

 

 

March 21

University Holiday

 

 

March 28

Kristina

 

 

April 4

Brett R

 

 

April 11

Jill

 

 

April  18

Jessi

 

 

April 25

OPEN

 

 

May 2

Psychology Student Award and Recognition Ceremony

Titles and abstracts will be posted when available