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Newsletter 66: Feb 18, 2013

The Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School

Welcome to the Center for Decision Sciences' Weekly Newsletter. Below you can find a list of events of interest. 

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
 
Monday, Feb 18
 
12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Dept Cognitive Snack)
         Paula Croxon, (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
         The role of acetylcholine in memory systems and plasticity
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/socialcognitive.html
 
2.30-4.00, 1101 IAB  (Economic Theory Workshop)
          Pietro Ortoleva
          How Risk Averse Should I be? Cautious utility and the
          certainty effect
          (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dilenberger)
          iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
 
Tuesday, Feb 19
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 331 (Marketing Seminar Series)
         Melanie Rudd (Stanford) CV
         Paradoxical Effects of Randomized Response Techniques
        To read an abstract on this topic, please click here
        To read a paper on this topic, please click here
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Marketing Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Seminar Series)
         Will Maddux (INSEAD)
         How transformational cross-cultural experiences facilitate
         psychological performance
         Abstract
         I will present several studies from an ongoing line of
         research demonstrating the beneficial effects of living
         abroad and other types of transformational cross-cultural
         experiences. Across a number of studies, my colleagues
         and I find that individuals who have lived abroad and
         adapted themselves to their host countries are more
         creative than those who have not had such experiences.
         Subsequent work has deconstructed some of the critical
         elements of this phenomenon. For example, we find that
         living abroad transforms individuals’overall sense of self,
         and that creative benefits are best realized
         when individuals incorporate both home and host cultures
         into their personal identities, leading to enhanced
         integrative complexity and thus more creativity.
         These effects also extend to professional domains as well:
         Bicultural entrepreneurs an organizational leaders with
         significant multicultural experiences show enhanced
         creativity and better professional performance than 
         comparable leaders without such experiences.
         Overall, this work demonstrates how and why
         transformational cross-cultural experiences lead to
         enhanced creativity, professional performance, and 
         psychological functioning.
        iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars
 
 
4.15-5.45, Room 1101, IAB (Money Macro Seminar)
          Alan Taylor
          When crdit bites back: 
          leverage, business cycles and crisis
          (with Oscar Jorda and Moritz HP, Schularick)
        To read a paper on this topic, please click here
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Money Macro Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
Wednesday, Feb 20
 
4.10-5.10, 614 Schermerhorn Hall
         (Psychology Department Colloquium Series)
         Lila Davichi (NYU)
         From rushing river to reflecting pool:
         How we structure episodic memories from continuous
         experience
         Host: Daphna Shahamy
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on psychology department colloquium series:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/lists/colloquia.html
 
        
Thursday, Feb 21
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
         Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
         Financial market shocks and the macroeconomy
         (with Sheridan Titman)
         To read a paper on this topic, please click here
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
4.00-5.00, Faculty House
         University Seminar on Behavioral and
         Cognitive Neuroscience
         Brian Rakitin (Taub Institute CUMC)
         Genetic variability in Parkinson’s disease-related interval
         timing dysfunction
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on cognitive neuroscience seminar:
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sergievsky/cnd/seminars.html
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Wednesday, Feb 20
 
12.30-2.00, Room 815, 4 Washington Place
            Steve Fleming
            The irrationality of categorical perception
            To read an abstract on this topic, please click here
            iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on decision making joint lab meeting:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_joint_lab_meeting.html
 
4.00-5.00, Room 517,19 West 4th Street
            (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
            Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser University)
            Biology and the arguments of utility
            (joint with Luis Rayo)
            iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on microeconomic theory workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.microeconomic
 
 
Weblink of the week
 
How Unconscious Processing Improves Decision-Making
 
When faced with a difficult decision, it is often suggested to “sleep on it” or take a break from thinking about the decision in order to gain clarity. But new brain imaging research from Carnegie Mellon University, finds that the brain regions responsible for making decisions continue to be active even when the conscious brain is distracted with a different task. The research provides some of the first evidence showing how the brain unconsciously processes decision information in ways that lead to improved decision making.
 
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