Lecture

WICI TALK: IGOR GROSSMANN
WISDOM IN A COMPLEX WORLD: Measurement, Utility, And Interventions

This year’s speaker will be Dr. John G. Holmes from the University of Waterloo.

The Structure of Interdependence Shapes Cognition in Relationships

Winner of the 2017 Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award

Why Good is More Alike than Bad: Implications for Classification, Generalization, Recognition, Social Comparison and Evaluation

PRESENTATION: Saving 25 million smokers' lives by 2050 - If the Chinese government adopts two proven tobacco control experiences from Taiwan and Hong Kong

Dr. Nira Liberman

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Construal Level Theory: An overview and some applications to learning

Research Talks

Tackling the global tobacco epidemic: The ITC Project

The All-Or-Nothing Marriage

Major historical shifts in the institution of marriage in America have produced two major consequences. First, the quality of average marriages has weakened over time. Second, the quality of the best marriages has strengthened over time. In tandem, these two consequences have pushed marriage toward an all-or-nothing state.

Against Empathy

Many psychologists, philosophers, and laypeople believe that empathy is necessary for moral judgment and moral action—the only problem with empathy is that we sometimes don’t have enough of it.

Risk Aversion, Hedging, and Construct (In)validity