Seminars of Interest at Columbia 

Tuesday February 17th

12:30pm to 2pm Uris 332 (Management Seminar (Gino Cattani (NYU)))
The Social Structure of Recognition: An Audience Perspective on Cultural Consecration
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Thursday February 19th

12:30pm to 1:30pm  Uris 331 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Frank Lictenberg )
The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on premature cancer mortality in Canada, 2000-2011
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2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris (Finance Seminar - Cecilia Parlatore)
Equilibrium Collateral Constraints
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4pm to 5pm  Faculty House (Language and Cognition Seminar - Laura C. Dilley (Michigan State University) )
Great Expectations: How Prediction in Speech Affects Language Processing
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Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday February 17th

12:30pm to 2pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bags - Francesca Manzi and Bill Brady)
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Thursday February 19th

11am to 12pm  Smilow Seminar Room (Psychiatry Grand Round Talks - Souhel Najjar (NYU Langone))
Neuropathology of Autoimmune Encephalitis and Psychiatric Illness
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12:30pm to 1:30pm  Psychology Room 551 (Cognition and Perception Colloquia - Alex Todorov (Princeton University))
Social perception of faces
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4:00pm to 5:30pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Neuroscience Colloquium - Adam Anderson (University of Toronto))
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News Article of the Week
Pick a card, any card: Researchers show how magicians sway decision-making
A new study by researchers at McGill University and UBC shows that contextual factors can influence the decisions we make, even if we think we are choosing freely. Using a magicians card trick on campus and city streets, they found that when a "target card" was made more prominent, 98% of participants chose that card, and 9 out of 10 of them believed that they were choosing freely.