Our Spring Research Forum will be held on Friday, May 6, from 1 to 5 pm. The event will include a keynote lecture from Tali Sharot (Max Planck) on "The Value of Beliefs". The abstract for the paper can be found below:
We construct our beliefs to meet two sometimes conflicting goals: forming accurate beliefs to inform our decisions and forming desirable beliefs that we value for their own sake. In this NeuroView, we consider emerging neuroscience evidence on how the brain motivates itself to form particular beliefs and why it does so.
The event will also include short presentations from OSU faculty – Joseph Goodman (Marketing & Logistics) and Robyn Wilson (School of Environment and Natural Resources) – two submitted talks and a poster session. The full schedule is as follows:
| 1 – 2 pm | Keynote by Tali Sharot |
| 2 – 2:10 pm | Faculty blitz talk by Joseph Goodman (Marketing & Logistics) |
| 2:10 – 2:20 pm | Faculty blitz talk by Robyn Wilson (School of Environment and Natural Resources) |
| 2:20 – 2:40 pm | Student talk by Nitisha Desai (Psychology) |
| 2:40 – 3 pm | Student talk by Xiaomin Bian (Economics) |
| 3 – 5 pm | Poster session |