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John Blume discusses what has been learned from empirical studies of Delaware’s death penalty and how these insights might apply to other regions. [Video & slides]
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 | Charles Brainerd discusses research on how emotional content distorts memory and why this is important to the legal system. [Video & slides] |
 | Charles Brainerd discusses what research is necessary to develop educational standards designed to maximize student learning in specific content areas. [Video] |
 | Charles Brainerd highlights the pervasive use of memory reports as legal evidence in our courts, common assumptions juries make about eye-witness reports, and research findings showing many of these assumptions to be false or seriously limited. [Video, slides & article] |
 | Charles Brainerd discusses the psychology of false memories and evidence that calls into question traditional theory regarding memory in this book talk at the Mann Library. [Video] [Audio] |
 | Jeanne Brooks-Gunn discusses the effects of income, health conditions, parenting, and preschool on racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness and summarizes evidence supporting intervention strategies most likely to reduce the gaps. [Video, slides & article] |
 | Jennifer Brown discusses logic modeling, linking research to program theory and evaluation, and the Netway - a new Internet-based database tool for monitoring and tracking program activities to create evaluation plans. [Video & slides] |
 | John Cacioppo provides a fascinating overview of his research on how social isolation or perceived social isolation (loneliness) effects social cognition and emotions, personality processes, the brain, biology, and health. [Video & slides] |
 | Stephen Ceci discusses memory and how children’s memory can be corrupted in this engaging guest lecture for Introductory Psychology that includes two audience participation experiments. [Video & slides] |
 | Stephen Ceci addresses the question of whether we should universalize interventions to help disadvantaged children. Interventions targeted to disadvantaged children could, if opened to all students, elevate top students even higher and widen the achievement gap. [Video, slides & article] |
 | Moncrieff Cochran describes findings from his research to evaluate the effects of participation in play groups on parenting and child behavior. [Video & slides] |
 | Moncrieff Cochran and Lisa McCabe discuss the child care continuum, opportunities to improve care, and present findings from the first two years of a program evaluation of the Caring for Quality project. [Video, slides & articles] |
 | At this 3rd Annual Bronfenbrenner Lecture, Greg Duncan reviews the findings and policy implications from his research with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics(PSID) on the links between economic deprivation during childhood and adult earnings. [Video] |
 | Jennifer Eberhardt presents her research on how race influences
our perception of objects and physical spaces, how objects and physical
spaces influence how we think about race and how race changes how we
see people. [Video & slides] |
 | Phoebe Ellsworth discusses confirmation bias as a source of false convictions. [Video & slides] |
 | James Flynn is known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the documentation of massive IQ test score gains over the past century. He explores what intelligence really is and the reasons behind these gains. [Video] |
 | Ruben Gur discusses his research on how behavioral dimensions are related to regional brain function using neuroimaging data and behavioral data related to regional brain function in healthy people and specific clinical populations with brain disease.[Video & slides] |
 | Stephen Hamilton discusses a comprehensive approach to outreach which goes beyond research-based program content to encompass program evaluation as well as initial problem identification and incidence. [Video, slides & article] |
 | Reid Hastie illustrates how we develop mental representations or stories to explain our experience and how these mental representations can be used to explain, predict and control decisions. [Video & slides] |
 | Barbara Lust discusses her research on language development in young children, exploring such questions as when and how do children acquire language and what are the effects of acquiring more than one language at once. [Video & slides] |
 | Barbara Lust discusses recent discoveries about child language acquisition. Her research explores the nature of language development and seeks to identify the universals which characterize child language acquisition across all languages. [Video] [Audio] |
 | Rhoda Meador discusses the planning and implementation of the consensus workshop methodology for fostering dialog between researchers and practitionsers in the critical area of care transitions. [Video, slides, & handouts] |
 | Joseph Mikels discusses age-related changes in cognitive function and emotional regulation, findings related to emotion-cognition interactions, and implications for how the decision quality of older adults could be improved. [Video & article] |
 | Anthony Ong describes his research on the powerful effects of positive emotion to build psychological resources, moderate reactivity to stress, and hasten recovery from negative events. [Video & slides] |
 | Valerie Reyna describes the developmental differences in the way
adolescents make decisions and reviews her research regarding why
adolescents perceive risks and benefits and yet take more risks. [Video & slides] |
 | Valerie Reyna discusses teen risk taking, developmental differences in judgment and decision making, and the implications of her research for programs and policies to prevent or change risky behaviors. [Video, slides & article] |
| Valerie Reyna discusses her research findings and how to help patients make informed decisions about medical treatment. [Video] |
 | Arnold Sameroff provides an engaging overview of the history of Developmental Science and the nature-nurture debate. Drawing on examples from his research, he outlines a unifying view focusing on the transactional relations between child characteristics, parent childrearing, and the broader environment. [Video] |
 | Christine Schelhas-Miller discusses the changing relationship between parents and their children in college, based on information from extensive focus groups, surveys, and counseling sessions with college students and their parents. [Video] |
 | James Swain discusses his research on the neurological underpinnings of parent-infant bonding and how they relate to the psychology of attachment. [Video & slides] |
 | Brian Wansink shares insights from his research on eating behavior,
demonstrates the powerful role that environmental factors play in what
we eat, and discusses strategies for making dietary changes. [Video & slides] |
 | Gary L. Wells discusses the phenomenon of mistaken eyewitness identification and the psychology of how these errors happen. [Video & slides] |
 | Elaine Wethington summarizes the lessons learned from CITRA’s innovative efforts to fund and evaluate community-based research that benefits older adults. [Video & slides] |
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