Regular colloquia are Wednesdays, 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M., in 280 Park Hall (unless otherwise noted), North Campus, and are open to the public. To receive email announcements of each event, please subscribe to one of our mailing lists by clicking the link that best describes you: student, UB Faculty and Staff, or Non-UB Cognitive Scientist. You can also subscribe to our calendar.
Background readings for each lecture are available to UB faculty and students on UB Learns. To access, please log in to UB Learns and select "Center for Cognitive Science" → "Course Documents" → "Background Readings for (Semester/Year)." If you are affiliated with UB and do not have access to the UBLearns website, please contact Eduardo Mercado III, director of the Center for Cognitive Science.
September 3, 2 p.m.
TBA
September 17, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Isobel Heck
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester
Societal hierarchies between groups are prevalent and deeply impactful. In this talk, I will present evidence that children begin learning about, representing, and participating in societal hierarchies starting early in life. I will first discuss abstract mechanisms through which children initially build representations of social group hierarchies, with a focus on children’s learning from patterns in others’ social choices. Next, I will show that real-world patterns of who tends to be chosen for leadership roles become reflected in children’s early gendered and race-based thinking about whom leadership is ‘for.’ From there, I will discuss how children become involved in the hierarchies they learn about, providing evidence for early variation in children’s leadership preferences and emerging sociopolitical views. I will conclude with future directions exploring how children’s local contexts and specific lived experiences shape their thinking about—and responses to—societal hierarchies and inequities between groups.
September 24, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Karen Campbell
Professor, Department of Psychology, Brock University
TBA
October 15, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Yotham Ophir
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University at Buffalo
TBA
October 22, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques
Associate Professor, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
TBA
October 29, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Hugo Guo
Associate Professor, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo
TBA
December 3, 2 p.m.
Speaker: Nori Jacoby
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
TBA