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Sep 25 Social Psychology Program Talk: Dr. Mina Cikara, Harvard University2:00pm

Social Psychology Program Talk: Dr. Mina Cikara, Harvard University

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
BOUS 162

Talk Title: Leveraging choice architecture to alter social preferences

Stereotypes and associated emotions drive discriminatory behavior across numerous consequential contexts. These biases against marginalized social groups have important implications for real-world social decisions, including hiring, voting, health, and housing decisions. Psychologists have traditionally studied how people evaluate different ethnic and cultural groups (and their members) in isolation, but in the real world people commonly make judgments and decisions over sets of people. For example, hiring decisions involve the assessment of multiple candidates at once. Across a series of experiments, we harness insights from computational models of decision-making to examine whether choice set construction—or choice architecture—can be used to influence decision-makers' preferences in consequential social decisions. I will review several findings including a combination of field data and lab experiments to examine the effect of alternatives, or decoys, on social evaluations and decisions in hiring and election contexts.

Contact Information: Felicia Pratto, felicia.pratto@uconn.edu
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Sep 25 Social Psychology Division Talk: Dr. Mina Cikara 2:00pm

Social Psychology Division Talk: Dr. Mina Cikara

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Bousfield, Room 162

You are invited to a Social Psychology Division talk by Dr. Mina Cikara from Harvard University on Wed. Sept 25 and 2 pm in Room 162, BOUS.
Her talk title and abstract follow.

Leveraging choice architecture to alter social preferences

Stereotypes and associated emotions drive discriminatory behavior across numerous consequential contexts. These biases against marginalized social groups have important implications for real-world social decisions, including hiring, voting, health, and housing decisions. Psychologists have traditionally studied how people evaluate different ethnic and cultural groups (and their members) in isolation, but in the real world people commonly make judgments and decisions over sets of people. For example, hiring decisions involve the assessment of multiple candidates at once. Across a series of experiments, we harness insights from computational models of decision-making to examine whether choice set construction—or choice architecture—can be used to influence decision-makers' preferences in consequential social decisions. I will review several findings including a combination of field data and lab experiments to examine the effect of alternatives, or decoys, on social evaluations and decisions in hiring and election contexts.

Contact Information: Felicia Pratto
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Sep 25 Psychology Colloquium-Dr. Nicole Landi3:30pm

Psychology Colloquium-Dr. Nicole Landi

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Bous A106

Neurobiological Basis of Individual Differences in Reading

Contact Information: psychology@uconn.edu
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Oct 4 Dev Brown Bag: Sudha Srinivasan, Ph.D.12:20pm

Dev Brown Bag: Sudha Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Friday, October 4th, 2019

12:20 PM - 01:10 PM

Storrs Campus
BOUS 162

Dr. Sudha Srinivasan (UConn - Kinesiology): "Early Perceptuo-Motor Delays in Infants at Risk for Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Contact Information: Umay Suanda, s.suanda@uconn.edu
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Oct 9 Clinical Psychology Research Talk Series: Diane Quinn, Social Psychology Program12:30pm

Clinical Psychology Research Talk Series: Diane Quinn, Social Psychology Program

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

12:30 PM - 01:25 PM

Storrs Campus
BOUS 160

Current research

Contact Information: Inge-Marie Eigst, inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu
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