The department has an active weekly colloquium series held throughout the academic year in three research areas: cognitive, developmental, and social, in addition to two or three department-wide colloquia each year. The series brings speakers to the department from other universities and institutions in the U.S. and abroad.  The weekly colloquium series are graduate courses and enrollment is restricted to Psychology graduate students, but all who are interested are encouraged to attend.

Anyone needing special arrangements for accommodations is encouraged to call 831-459-4194.

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Psychology Department Colloquia are held in Social Sciences 2, room 121, unless otherwise noted

COMBINED SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: Mondays from 3:30-5:00 pm

February 4  Deborah Tannen
University Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University 
Texting, Email, and IM as Cross-Cultural Communication Across Genders and Generations

February 11  Salem Magarian
M.D. Pediatrics, Dominican Hospital  
Building a Prenatal to Pediatric System of Care for the Narcotic Exposed Newborn

February 25  Marla Wyche-Hall

Director, African American Resource and Cultural Center, UCSC
Discussion on Dissertation Study: Demystifying the Lens of Color: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Racial Identity

March 11  Aviva Sinervo
Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology, San Francisco State University
Building Intimacy: Layered Constructions of Affect and Childhood

 

COGNITIVE PROGRAM: Wednesdays from 12:30-2 pm   

February 20   Cognitive Area Meeting

February 27  Edward (Ted) Warburton
Associate Professor, Dance, Education, Technology, UC Santa Cruz
Thinking Through Dancing: Studies in Embodied Cognition

March 6  Glenn Fox
Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California
The Brain’s Virtuous Cycle: An Investigation of Gratitude and Ethical Human Conduct

March 13  Peter Cook
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
California Sea Lions Can Keep the Beat: Motor Entrainment to Auditory Stimuli in a Non-Vocal Mimic