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 4
th 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.
