Human Development Program Colloquium Series 2006-2007

November 29: Dr. Josh Greene (Harvard University): "What pushes your moral buttons?"

December 1: Dr. Cynthia Stifter (Pennsylvania State University): "The psychobiology of temperament: Approach/inhibition processes in infancy and early childhood." Note: This talk will be held on a Friday at 2 p.m.

December 8: Dr. Alan M. Leslie (Rutgers University): "The theory of mind mechanism, moral judgment, and the autistic triad." Note: This talk will be held on a Friday at 2 p.m.

December 11: Dr. Robert LeVine (Harvard University): "Mother-infant interactions: Cultural diversity and global convergence." Note: This talk will be held on a Monday at 3:30 p.m. and is sponsored jointly with the Department of Anthropology.

Human Development Program Colloquium Series 2005-2006

September 14: Dr. Nancy Eisenberg (Arizona State University): "Emotion-related regulation: Construct and adjustment"

November 2: Dr. Anthony DeCasper (UNC-Greensboro): "From prenatal auditory experience to postnatal perception and learning: How it works."

November 30: Distinguished Speaker-Dr. Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University): "From wugs to witches: The interactional elephant in the cognitive parlor."

February 1, 2006: Distinguished Speaker-Dr. Noam Chomsky (M.I.T.): "Biolinguistic explorations: Design, development, evolution."

February 22, 2006: Dr. Marc Hauser (Harvard University): "Evolution of a universal moral grammar."

March 15, 2006: Dr. Alice Carter (UMASS-Boston): "Social emotional and behavior problems and competencies in early childhood: Continuities and discontinuities."

April 12, 2006: Dr. Jonathan Haidt (University of Virginia): "Intuitive ethics: How five sets of evolved intuitions give rise to culturally variable virtues, and to the culture war."

Human Development Program Colloquium Series 2004-2005

October 20: Dr. Robert Weiss (University of Massachusetts-Boston): "Collecting and analyzing focus group data from a study of political choice."

November 10: Dr. Murray A. Straus (University of New Hampshire): "Prevalence, effectiveness, and side effects of spanking by parents."

December 1: Dr. Patricia J. Bauer (University of Minnesota): "Building memories from the ground up: Behavioral and electrophysiological indices of developmental change."

February 23: Dr. Paul Bloom (Yale University): "Bodies and souls."

March 2: Dr. Robert Plomin-Distinguished Speaker (Institute of Psychiatry, London): "Behavioural genomics: from finding genes to using genes in psychological research."
Note: This talk will be held at 12:00 PM

April 27: Dr. Judy S. DeLoache (University of Virginia): "Becoming symbol-minded."

May 4: Dr. Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): "Understanding and sharing intentions."