Mark Your Calendars II

In addition to the colloquia in last week's post, the Center for Children, Relationships and Culture in the School of Education are joining with the the Developmental Science Field Committee to co-sponsor a colloquium series this Spring.

Held Wednesdays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 1121 of the Benjamin Building (here's a map), the series will host speakers on a myriad of topics, many of which are applicable to what we do here at the SPH. Here's a schedule (lecture titles, if available, are in quotation marks):

January 28th
IRB and Ethics in Research (Co-sponsored with Educational/Psychology and the Human Development Graduate Student Organization)

February 4th
James Blair, NIMH--"Brains and Emotions in Moral Reasoning"

February 11th
Mary Dozier, University of Delaware--"Intervening with Children who have Experienced Early Adversity: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up"

February 18th
Linda Tropp, University of Massachusetts, Amherst--"Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Reduction: A Synthesis of Research"

February 25th
Geetha Ramani, University of Maryland--"Playing Number Board Games Improves Preschool Children’s Numerical Understanding"

March 4th
Joe Allen, University of Virginia--"Peer Influence in an Endless Adolescence"

March 11th
Donna Harrington, UMBC School of Social Work--"Equivalence of Measurement Models: Multiple Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis"

March 25th
Fang Fang Chen, University of Delaware--"Measuring Individualism and Collectivism: Multidimensionality and Cross-Cultural Equivalence"

April 8th
Drew Nesdale, Griffith University, Australia--"Children and Social Groups: Impact of Group Norms on Members’ Attitudes and Behaviors"

April 22nd
Rachel Chazan-Cohen, DHHS, U.S. Government--Lecture TBA

April 29th
Kristina McDonald, University of Maryland--"The Goal of Getting Even: The Role of Interpretations and Beliefs in Preadolescent and Young Adult Conflict"

May 6th
Vikram Jaswal, University of Virginia--"Believing what you’re told: Children’s trust in testimony
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For more information, contact faculty coordinators Drs. Melanie Killen (mkillen@umd.edu) and Brenda Jones Harden (bjharden@umd.edu).