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Please join us for the annual Department of Psychology, Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture, presenting Dr. Susan Fiske.

two men with recording equipment Come and rediscover the arts. Find out how students are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of the 21^st century and reconnect with professors.

Join us for lunch as we celebrate the start of the Successful Aging Speaker Series. We will introduce the current aging initiatives happening at Applied Health Sciences, Psychology, and other faculties on campus. Lunch will be provided by Mambella's.

Reactive Approach Motivation for Religious Zeal

Evidence from laboratory experiments reveals that: 1. Anxious and approach motivated people respond to various anxiety-related threats with a generalized surge in approach motivation. 2. The same combination of traits and threats heightens zeal for religious beliefs and willingness to die, support war, and go to extremes for it.

Please join us as we welcome our second speaker, Alison Chasteen, from the University of Toronto. Alison Chasteen conducts research on prejudice and social stigma across the adult lifespan. She will be speaking about the social and psychological aspects of aging.

Complimentary lunches will be provided for attendees who have requested a lunch. You can request a lunch by e-mailing Igor Grossmann at igrossmann@uwaterloo.ca.

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Worms are fascinating because of how efficiently they can participate in the recycling process of so much of what humans dispose of as “garbage”. They can eat our scraps of food waste and turn it into extremely nutritious fertilizer. Through construction, erosion and other actions, we are losing our healthy topsoil in massive amounts. Worm composting along with other forms of composting encourages the replenishing of the soil. By using

Data Wrangling in Organizational Science

The data organizational scientists work with are rapidly increasing in magnitude, velocity, and complexity. Data errors and analytic mistakes are, concomitantly, more likely. To motivate the talk, recent high visibility data and data analysis mistakes will be highlighted. Then examples of large, complex data will be presented. The remainder of the talk will focus on data 'best practices' emphasizing data fidelity testing, data cleaning, data scoring, and restructuring data into 'Tidy' form.

The First PSYCH39x Science Fair is being held on Monday April 6th between 2pm and 4pm in EV3 first floor (outside the cafe). This event will feature project posters from the students of Paul Wehr and James Danckert’s sections of PSYCH398.

Everyone is welcome of course, but Faculty or Grad students interested in undergraduate research or potentially joining for future PSYCH39x science fairs are encouraged to join us.

This year's Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture Are Older Adults More Susceptible to Consumer Fraud? will be presented by Dr. Michael Ross.

Reception to follow in the PAS Lounge.

The Ziva Kinda Memorial Lecture is presented annually by the Department of Psychology to honour the memory of Ziva as an outstanding scholar, friend and mentor who passed away in February 2004.

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Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture

Reunion 2014, Rediscover Arts

Successful Aging Speaker Series - Part 1: Kick-off Luncheon

Psychology Colloquium Series - Dr. Ian McGregor

Reactive Approach Motivation for Religious Zeal

Successful Aging Speaker Series - Alison Chasteen

Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Betsy Paluck

The Worm Wrangler - All About Vermicomposting

Psychology I/O Colloquium presents Richard P. DeShon, Michigan State University

Data Wrangling in Organizational Science

PSYCH39x Science Fair

Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture