Seminars of Interest at Columbia
Tuesday March 6th 12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Jennifer La'o
Title Not Available
4:00pm to 5:00pm - Jerome L. Greene Science Center
Systems, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series - Laurent Itti (University of Southern California)
Neural Correlates of Visual Salience
4:15pm to 5:45pm - IAB 1101
Money Macro Workshop - Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis (Philippe Martin and Todd Messer) Wednesday March 7th 2:15pm to 3:45pm - IAB 1101
International Economics Workshop - Johannes Boehm (Science Po)
Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production 4:10pm to 5:30pm - Schermerhorn 614
Psychology Department Colloquium - Shimon Amir (Concordia University)
Title Not Available 4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 IAB
Applied Microeconomics Seminar - Ilyana Kuziemko
The Mommy Effect: Do women anticipate the employment effects of motherhood? Seminars of Interest at NYU
Tuesday March 6th
4:00pm to 5:00pm - Psychology Room 551
Developmental Colloquia - Steve Heine (University of British Columbia)
DNA is not destiny: How essences distort how people think about genetics
Thursday March 8th 12:30pm to 1:00pm - Psychology Room 121
Cognition & Perception Colloquia - Daniel Schechter (NYU School of Medicine)
Title Not Available
Article of the Week
Competition Involving Others Can Make People More Competitive Through ‘Competition Contagion’
A new study conducted by researchers at Cambridge Judge Business School found that the "mere awareness" of the existence of a competition impacts non-participants' decision-making. Notably, non-participants behave in a similar manner to participants. In one experiment, the researchers asked visitors to a German zoo whether they wanted to participate in a competition wherein the visitor who paid the highest entrance fee would win a prize. Those who were aware of the competition agreed to pay a higher entrance fee than those who were not aware of the competition. | 
