UW ITC Presents Dr. Wayne Gao
PRESENTATION: Saving 25 million smokers' lives by 2050 - If the Chinese government adopts two proven tobacco control experiences from Taiwan and Hong Kong
Humans share with animals the ability to process numerical quantities in non-symbolic formats (e.g., collections of objects). Unlike other species, however, over cultural history, humans have developed symbolic representations (such as number words and digits) to represent numerical quantities exactly and abstractly.
Dr. Dov Cohen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA
PAS 2083
Religion and the Forbidden
Why Good is More Alike than Bad: Implications for Classification, Generalization, Recognition, Social Comparison and Evaluation
The common vs. specific factors debate has been around for almost 90 years. Most advocates of CBT have suggested that common factors are necessary, but not sufficient. Others have argued that the Dodo Bird is alive and well, and that all treatments that are credible or bona fide yield similar results.
Dr. Felix Warneken
University of Michigan, USA
The Origins of Cooperation: Evidence from Children and Chimpanzees
Dr. Nira Liberman
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Construal Level Theory: An overview and some applications to learning
This year’s speaker will be Dr. John G. Holmes from the University of Waterloo.
The Structure of Interdependence Shapes Cognition in Relationships
Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Schimmack, University of Toronto
Title: How Credible is Psychological Science: A Meta-Psychological Perspective
Location: PAS 2083
Reception to follow in PAS 3005
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