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August 2015
Organizational Meeting
Discussion of who will be signed up as speakers, and who will volunteer to be the BB Admin.
Find out more »Do Moral Feelings Spawn Moral Actions? Disentangling Guilt from Shame
SPEAKER: Andy Martinez, PhD Criminal conduct exacts pernicious economic, social, and psychological costs. The current project examines two malleable moral emotions that may shape such antisocial action: guilt and shame. The first set of studies appraises a model in which perspective-taking—which predicts empathic-concern and then guilt-proneness—eventuates in decreased criminal behavior. After focusing on guilt as proximal motivator of crime reduction, attention turns to the related moral emotion of shame. Analysis suggests that, unlike guilt’s more straightforward effect on diminishing crime,…
Find out more »Child Personality: Measurement and Utility
SPEAKER: Jennifer Tackett, PhD University Of Houston Our research lab concentrates on two interrelated lines of work: 1) conceptualization and measurement of personality in childhood and 2) application and utility of child personality for developmental psychopathology. In this presentation, I will highlight studies reflecting both of these research lines. First, I will describe our recent efforts at developing a novel method for assessment of child personality by using “thin slice” ratings across multiple laboratory situational tasks. These findings suggest that…
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