Speaker Archive
Here are some of the speakers that the psychology department has sponsored or co-sponsored to speak at Bates. Be sure to see who is coming up next in our Upcoming Events section!
 | November 4, 2010Britton Brewer of Springfield College gave a public lecture titled "Psychological Pathways to Recovery from Sport Injury" Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
October 7, 2010Bennett Schwartz of Florida International University gave a public lecture titled "Episodic Memory in Primates" Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |  |
 | September 21, 2010Nancy Bauer of Tufts University gave a public lecture titled "The Allure of Self-Objectification" Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
May 5, 2010Catherine Norris of Dartmouth University gave a talk titled "The Good, The Bad, and the (Race-) Biased: Individual Differences Modulate Emotional Responses." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. (The February date on the poster reflects a postponed event. The talk was actually given in May.) |  |
 | February 4, 2010Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University gave a talk titled "Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Bias." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
November 18, 2009Roy F. Baumeister of Florida State University gave a public lecture titled "Free will as the Expensive Control of Action".Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
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 | October 19, 2009Pamela K. Smith of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego gave a public lecture titled "The Social Cognition of Power: From abstract thinking to executive functions". Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
May 20, 2009Former Bates psychology major and best-selling author Lisa Genova '92 answered questions and read from her book Still Alice.Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
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 | March 12, 2009Sylvia Hurtado of UCLA gave a talk titled "Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
February 23, 2009Jordana Muroff of the Boston School of Social Work gave a talk titled "Clinical Decision-Making in Context: The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Gender." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
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 | November 6, 2008Paul Bloom of Yale University gave a talk titled "Bodies and Souls." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
October 6, 2008Saba Ali of the University of Iowa gave a talk titled "Muslim-American: An Oxymoron?" Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |
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 | September 29, 2008Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania gave a talk titled "The Psychology of Food and Eating." Click here to view a larger image of the poster. |