Speaker Archive
Here are some of the speakers that the psychology department has sponsored or co-sponsored to speak at Bates. Be sure to see who is coming up next in our Upcoming Events section!
All posters designed by Brian Pfohl.
September 22, 2022Kate Thorson ’10 of Barnard College gave a public lecture titled “Social Influence Under the Skin” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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November 4, 2010Britton Brewer of Springfield College gave a public lecture titled “Psychological Pathways to Recovery from Sport Injury” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
October 7, 2010Bennett Schwartz of Florida International University gave a public lecture titled “Episodic Memory in Primates” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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September 21, 2010Nancy Bauer of Tufts University gave a public lecture titled “The Allure of Self-Objectification” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
May 5, 2010Catherine Norris of Dartmouth University gave a talk titled “The Good, The Bad, and the (Race-) Biased: Individual Differences Modulate Emotional Responses.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) (The February date on the poster reflects a postponed event. The talk was actually given in May.) |
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February 4, 2010Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University gave a talk titled “Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Bias.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
November 18, 2009Roy F. Baumeister of Florida State University gave a public lecture titled “Free will as the Expensive Control of Action“. (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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October 19, 2009Pamela K. Smith of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego gave a public lecture titled “The Social Cognition of Power: From abstract thinking to executive functions“. (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
May 20, 2009Former Bates psychology major and best-selling author Lisa Genova ’92 answered questions and read from her book Still Alice. (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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March 12, 2009Sylvia Hurtado of UCLA gave a talk titled “Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
February 23, 2009Jordana Muroff of the Boston School of Social Work gave a talk titled “Clinical Decision-Making in Context: The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Gender.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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November 6, 2008Paul Bloom of Yale University gave a talk titled “Bodies and Souls.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
October 6, 2008Saba Ali of the University of Iowa gave a talk titled “Muslim-American: An Oxymoron?” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |
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September 29, 2008Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania gave a talk titled “The Psychology of Food and Eating.” (Click the image to view a larger version of the poster.) |