Colloquia 2011
Colloquium December 15 2011, Prof. dr. Inez Myin-Germeys
Maastricht University, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience.
"Experience sampling studies in mental illness: from theory to clinical practice"
Colloquium December 1 2011, Prof. dr. Edward Awh
University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience
"The neural basis of precision in visual working memory"
Colloquium November 28 2011, Geoff MacDonald
Professor at the University of Toronto (Canada). His research include topics such as the deep need for belonging, social exclusion, the connection between psychological and physical pain, and intimacy.
(this colloquium is organized by the dept. of Social and Organizational Psychology)
Colloquium November 3 2011, Prof. Ronald Noe
Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Strasbourg, France. His research interests include cooperation and economic behaviour of animals, as shows his current research on vervet monkeys (in South Africa).
(this colloquium is organized by the dept. of Social and Organizational Psychology)
Lecture November 1 2011, prof. Shihui Han
Peking University will give a lecture titled: What makes the self? Sensory, social and biological influences on neuralsubstrates of self-reflection.
(lecture organized by the dept. Educational Neuroscience)
Colloquium October 21 2011, Prof. dr. Nick Martin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Professor Nick Martin is best known for large-scale longitudinal studies in behaviour genetics carried out using the Australian Twin Register. He also is well known for his pioneering work in multivariate genetic modelling, addressing questions regarding the aetiology of comorbidity and associations among complex traits.
Colloquium October 6 2011, Prof. dr. Alan Fiske
Prof. dr. Alan Fiske, UCLA, Department of Anthropology
"Metarelational Models for Combining Social Relationships"
Colloquium June 9 2011, Dr. Louise Arseneault
Dr. Arseneault is senior Lecturer at King's College London.
Her research focuses on the study of harmful behaviours such as violence and substance dependence, their developmental origins, their inter-connections with mental health, and their consequences for victims.
Colloquium May 12 2011, Prof. dr. John Antonakis
'Predicting elections from perceived facial competence: Some new findings'
Research has shown that naïve adults can predict election outcomes on the basis of facial competence (Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, & Hall, 2005); such results have even been replicated using very young children (Antonakis & Dalgas, 2009). We extend these findings in a variety of conditions where naïve raters are only exposed to candidate photographs.
Colloquium April 7 2011, Prof. dr. Stefaan Cuypers
'R.S. Peters on autonomy and its development' The talk of prof. Cuypers dealt with a central aspect of one of the most important philosophers of education of the last century, Richard S. Peters.
Colloquium March 3 2011, Prof. Dick Swaab
'We are our brain" Everything we think, believe and do is determined and carried out by our brain. The unprecedented evolutionary success of mankind - as well as the many limitations of individual people - are determined by this fabulous organ: we are our brain. The rest of our body only serves to feed our brain, to move it around, and to make new brains through procreation. Brain research therefore not only deals with disorders, but is increasingly becoming a search for the answer to the question why we are the way we are, a search for the self.
Colloquium February 3 2011, Pasco Fearon
"Gene-environment interplay in early child development.": There is great interest in understanding the genetic influences on emotional and behavioural development and increasingly attention is turning to the earliest months and years of life for detecting the emergence of these effects and their role in psychopathology.
