Dear Decision Sciences Collaborative,
| Spring is coming and with it, several exciting in-person DSC events! April 1 – Barbara Mellers (University of Pennsylvania) April 8 – Symposium on Pandemic Decision Making April 25 – Oriel FeldmanHall (Brown University) May 6 – DSC Spring Forum featuring Tali Sharot (University College London) (more information below) In addition to these events, please keep in mind the following deadlines: March 21 – Spring grant competition April 4 – Abstract submissions for the DSC Spring Forum Please see the DSC website for more information about applying to the grant competition: https://decisionsciences.osu.edu/funding-opportunities On April 1 at 2pm in Psychology 35, the DSC is co-sponsoring a visit by Prof. Barbara Mellers (University of Pennsylvania). On April 8 from 11am-5pm in Psychology 35 we have a special Symposium on Pandemic Decision-Making featuring Gretchen Chapman (Carnegie Mellon), Valerie Reyna (Cornell) and several of our esteemed OSU colleagues. On April 25 at 2pm in Psychology 35, the DSC is co-sponsoring a visit by Prof. Oriel FeldmanHall (Brown University). Oriel FeldmanHall received her Doctorate from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and her Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University before coming to Brown. In 2016, Dr. FeldmanHall won the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, in recognition of innovative work that has already advanced the field. She also recently won the prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, which provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Dr FeldmanHall's research seeks to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that form the basis of human social behavior. She aims to understand how the brain detects, values, and assesses conflicting reward and punishment contingencies during moral dilemmas, and to examine the role of emotion and its operational power in shaping these social interactions. She merges multiple different fields, including behavioral economics and social psychology, with imaging and psychophysiological techniques to investigate the brain mechanisms that support these complex processes. Find out more at http://www.feldmanhalllab.com Then on May 6 we have our annual Spring Research Forum featuring Tali Sharot (University College London) several of our esteemed OSU colleagues. Please submit abstracts to krajbich.1@osu.edu (500 words maximum) by Monday April 4. Prof. Sharot is a Professor Cognitive Neuroscientist at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London where she is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. Prof. Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, with past fellowships including the Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship, Fellow of the Forum of European Philosophy and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She received her PhD in psychology and neuroscience from New York University and her B.A in psychology and economics from Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and beliefs. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature, Science, and Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017), both of which received the British Psychological Society Book Award. |
Best Regards,
Ian Krajbich, DSC Director
krajbich.1@osu.edu
