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SPRIG (Social Psychology Research Interest Group) Weekly Meetings
Department Colloquia featuring social psychologists
Conferences and Conventions
List of recent social psychologists in the department's colloquium series

SPRIG (Social Psychology Research Interest Group) Spring 2008

 
Date
Presenter
Title
January 18 Victoria Ramey Exploring the Sugar Daddy Syndrome
January 25 Discussion of hiring in academia for social psychologists Readings: Darley & Zanna, Uleman & Weary
February 1 Allen McConnell Systems of Evaluation: On the formation, change, and predictive utility of implicit and explicit attitudes
February 8 No SPRIG -- SPSP/PFF
February 15 Discussion of grant applying and writing Readings: Steinberg, Sternberg
February 22 Jason Lanter "Not that there's anything wrong with that...": Perceptions of men's changing gender roles
February 29 Elizabeth Brown How threat influences gendered leadership decisions
March 7 Amanda Johnston Gender role flexibility in men and women
March 14 No SPRIG -- Day before break
March 21 No SPRIG -- Spring Break
March 28 Laura Strain Positive mood and prejudice, part deux
April 4 Michael Bernstein Rejection and pain sensitivity
April 11 Chris Chartier
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John Paul Wilson		 Measuring value orientation

Motivation to respond without prejudice and the cross-race effect
April 18 Kip Williams
Purdue Univ. 		Social pain: Similarities and differences to physical pain
April 25 MPA Practice Talk Day
May 2 No SPRIG -- MPA
SPRIG meetings are held at 12 noon on Fridays, in 302 Psychology, unless otherwise indicated. Questions about its programming should be directed to the SPRIG coordinator, Heather Claypool (claypohm@muohio.edu).

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Social Psychologists in our Departmental Colloquium Series 2007-08: 

Date
Presenter
Title
October 5, 2007 Kurt Hugenberg Race and the face: Why "they" (and sometimes "we") all look the same
November 2007 Job candidate colloquia -- TBA  
April 18, 2008 Kip Williams
Purdue University 		Ostracism: Effects of being ignored and excluded

All colloquia are 3 p.m. on Fridays, 302 Psychology, unless otherwise indicated.

 
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Social Psychology Conferences and Conventions

 

Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)

  • October 24-25, 2008, Sacramento, CA

 

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

  • February 5-7, 2009, Tampa, FL

 

Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA)

  • May 1-3, 2008, Palmer House, Chicago, IL
  • April 30-May 2, 2009, Palmer House, Chicago, IL
  • April 29-May 1, 2010, Palmer House, Chicago, IL

 

American Psychological Association (APA)

  • August 14-17, 2008, Boston, MA
  • August 6-9, 2009, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • August 12-15, 2010, San Diego, CA
  • August 4-7, 2011, Washington, DC

 

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

  • May 22-25, 2008, Chicago, IL
  • May 21-24, 2009, San Francisco, CA
  • May 27-30, 2010, Boston, MA

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Some Recent Social Psychologist Speakers:

The Social Psychology Program takes great pride in bringing in researchers of national and international stature to give talks in our department's colloquium series. Below is just a sample of who has visited with us in the past decade.
Date Visitor (affiliation)
March 30, 2007 David Dunning (Cornell Univ.)
February 16, 2007 Bertram Gawronski (Univ. of Western Ontario)
October 20, 2006 Brenda Major (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
September 29, 2006 Roy Baumeister (Florida State Univ.)
September 15, 2006 Mark Snyder (Univ. of Minnesota)
April 21, 2006 Buju Dasgupta (Univ. of Massachusetts)
March 3, 2006 Chris Crandall (Kansas Univ.)
February 17, 2006 Mikki Hebl (Rice Univ.)
September 16, 2005 John Skowronski (Northern Illinois Univ.)
April 8, 2005 Don Carlston (Purdue Univ.)
April 1, 2005 Peter Glick (Lawrence Univ.)
February 18, 2005 Sara Hodges (Univ. of Oregon)
February 11, 2005 Craig Parks (Washington State Univ.)
Nobember 5, 2004 Len Newman (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
April 23, 2004 Shira Gabriel (SUNY Buffalo)
April 9, 2004 Jim Sherman (Indiana University)
December 12, 2003 Sam Gaertner (Univ. of Delaware)
October 31, 2003 Dave Hamilton (UC Santa Barbara)
September 20, 2002 Russ Fazio (Ohio State Univ.)
September 5, 2002 Claude Steele (Stanford Univ.)
April 20, 2002 Joseph Walther (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
April 19, 2002 Andrea Hollingshead (University of Illinois)
April 19, 2002 Sara Kiesler (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
April 9, 2001 Tanya Chartrand (Ohio State Univ.)
April 6, 2001 Norb Kerr (Michigan State Univ.)
February 2, 2001 Jim Larson (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
November 10, 2000 Cary Ryan (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
September 15, 2000 Duane Wegener (Purdue Univ.)
November 5, 1999 Janice Kelley (Purdue University)
October 9, 1998 Mary Kite (Ball State University)
November 21, 1997 Margo Monteith (University of Kentucky)
October 31, 1997 Jennifer Crocker (Univ. of Michigan)
April 4, 1997 Dick Moreland (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

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