Seminars of Interest at Columbia
Tuesday January 31st 12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 326
Management Seminars - Pian Shu (Harvard)
Innovating in Science and Engineering or “Cashing In” on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent Wednesday February 1st 4:10pm to 5:10pm - 614 Schermerhorn Hall
Psychology Department Colloquium Series - Staci Bilbo (Harvard Medical School)
Sex Differences in Microglial Maturation within the Developing Brain: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. Thursday February 2nd 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 330
Marketing Seminar - Dean Eckles (MIT)
Title Not Available 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 331
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only)- Paul Schempp
Title Not Available Friday February 3rd 12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris TBA
Competitive Strategy Seminar - Lee Fleming
Escaping competition and competency traps: identifying how innovative search strategy enables market entry (with Benjamin Balsmeier and Gustavo Manso) Seminars of Interest at NYU
Tuesday January 31st 12:30pm to 2:00pm - Psychology Room 551
Social Psychology Brown Bags - Eric J. Johnson (Columbia)
Title Not Available
Article of the Week
An influential theory about emotion and decision-making just failed a new test
British psychologists, Rebecca Wright at the University of Essex and Tim Rakow at King’s College London, tested the Somatic Marker Hypothesis - the idea that our physiological reactions unconsciously guide us to more optimal decisions - in a new context and found no evidence in support of it. While there is a larger evidence-base for the broader idea that our bodily functions influence our decision-making, this study highlights the fact that such evidence is collected in very narrow contexts and, when tested in new ways, may not hold up. | 
