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August 2015
To be is to vary: The influence of social roles and affect on daily fluctuations in personality
SPEAKER: Robert E. Wilson Although we have general ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, we fluctuate quite a bit around these stable tendencies. In this talk, I will examine the affective and social processes underlying daily personality fluctuations. Results from two experience sampling studies (N = 208, 2,301 surveys; N =434, 11,591 surveys) indicate that mood and social roles account for a large amount of the within-person variance. In addition, affective and social triggers appear to influence people differentially. This…
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Discussion of who will be signed up as speakers, and who will volunteer to be the BB Admin.
Find out more »Early Neighborhood Poverty and Children’s School-Age Conduct Problems: Latent Class Growth Analysis of Neighborhood Deprivation
SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Choe (UC-Davis) Neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s increased risk of conduct problems (CPs), but it is unclear whether neighborhood poverty contributes to child CPs when considering other contextual stressors. Latent class growth analysis with U.S. Census data approximated trajectory classes of neighborhood deprivation from ages 2 to 5 among 716 ethnically diverse, low-income children in a randomized control trial administered in rural, suburban, and urban communities. Compared to children exposed to low to moderately-low deprivation, children…
Find out more »Bottleneck bypassing: Finding many needles in a haystack
SPEAKER: François Maquestiaux (Université De Franche-Comté)
Find out more »Bayesian versus Frequentist Estimation of Multitrat-Multimethod Confirmatory Factor Models
SPEAKER: Dr. Jonathan Helm Campbell and Fiske's (1959) separation of trait, method, and unique variance across a set of multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) manifest variables directly translates to a confirmatory factor model, and several reports support this approach for partitioning variance (Cole, 1987; Widaman, 1985; Schmitt & Stults, 1986). However, researchers selecting this approach often encounter estimation problems (i.e., failed convergence or solutions with out-of-bounds estimates; Widaman, 1985). Mathematical investigations have identified several potential sources of these problems (Kenny & Kashy, 1992;…
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 »Elevated Prenatal Progesterone Alters Phenotype in Bobwhite Quail Neonates: Implications for Evolutionary Developmental Psychobiology
SPEAKER: Joshua Herrington UC Davis
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…
Find out more »Child Personality: Measurement and Utility
SPEAKER: Dr. Jennifer Tackett (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…
Find out more »Comparing the processing of stimuli presented in the Nasal and Temporal hemiretinae: A stairway to the Midbrain?
SPEAKER: Javier Lopez-Calderon
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