Colloquia and Other Events

THE USFSP PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE ORGANIZATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES

SPRING 2013

February 21: Dr. Elena Stepanova, Florida Gulf Coast University - Strengthening Social Categorization and Biases: All Roads Lead to Rome; Room: DAV 103, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm (Open Forum with USFSP students to follow)

February 27: Dr. Jennifer O'Brien, University of South Florida St. Petersburg - Connection Cognitive Speed of Processing Training in Older Adults: Cognitive Enhancement and Transfer to Everyday Activities; Room: STG 111, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm (Open Forum with USFSP students to follow)

February 28: Dr. Erin Eatough, University of Alaska-Anchorage - Knowing Your Role: Examining Role-Related Stressors and Employee Well-Being; Room: DAV 103, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm (Open Forum with USFSP students to follow)

March 7: Informational Sessions on Graduate Programs in Psychology; Room: COQ 232, 11:00 am-12:30 pm and DAV 104, 6:30 pm-8:00 pm

April 4: Dr. Holly White, Eckerd College - Uninhabited imaginations: Divergent thinking in adults with ADHD; Room DAV 104, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm

April 16: 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium; Room: USC Ballroom, 11:00 am-1:00 pm. For more information, click here.

FALL 2012

October 5: Dr. Ellen Devoe, Boston University - Strengthening Child Development in Military Families (Co-Sponsored by USFSP Family Study Center and USFSP Reserve Officer Training Program); Room: Steidinger Auditorium, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm

October 11: Dr. Paul Spector, University of South Florida Tampa - Connection Between Organizational Climate and Workplace Violence from the Target Perspective; Room DAV 104, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

October 25: Informational Sessions on Graduate Programs in Psychology; Room: DAV 104, 11:00 am-12:30 pm and 6:30 pm-8:00 pm

November 1: Dr. Kenneth Malmberg, University of South Florida Tampa - From Memory Models to Impacting the World; Room DAV 104, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

November 15: Preparing for Graduate Programs and Careers in Psychology; Room: DAV 104, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

SPRING 2012

February 7: Joseph Keebler - Human-robot Interaction; Room DAV 130, 3:00-4:00 pm

February 23: David Evans - Nicotine Self Medication of Cognitive Control; Room DAV 130, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

March 22: Celia Lescano - HIV Prevention for Minority Youth; Room: DAV 130, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

FALL 2011

September 22, 2011- Colloquium

Title: Pediatric Asthma: What Does Psychology Have to Do with It?
Presenting: Dr. Clutter
When: 2pm-3pm
Where: CAC 133

September 29, 2011- Colloquium

Title: Effects of Divorce on Children and Families: What We Know and Where We're Going
Presenting: Dr. Debra Carter
When: 11am-12pm
Where: Karen A. Steidinger Auditorium in the Fish and Marine Wildlife Institute

SPRING 2010

WHEN: Thursday, January 28th
11-12pm

WHERE: DAV 130

WHO: Randy Otto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mental Health Law & Policy
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
University of South Florida

WHAT: "Identifying Defendants Feigning Impairment in their Competence to Stand Trial"

FALL 2010

September 23: Mark Pezzo - Making Sense of the Past: Hindsight Bias and Other "Necessary Evils"; Room CAC 133, 12:30-1:30 pm

October 21: PSO Graduate School Workshop (all welcome to attend); Room DAV 130, 10:00-11:15 am

November 18: V. Mark Durand - The Concession Process: Understanding Behavior Problems in Autism Spectrum Disorders; Room: DAV 105, 12:30-1:30 pm

Older Highlights

Thank you, Dr. Charlotte Patterson, for a great visit!

Dr. Patterson is a nationally and internationally renowned family psychologist, with special expertise in the interpersonal dynamics and development of children in gay and lesbian families. She is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Dr. Patterson has served as a past divisional President for the American Psychological Association, and was recently awarded the APA's Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy Award. In her October 29, 2009 colloquium for Psychology students, she presented an up-to-date summary of empirical research entitled "Living Under the Rainbow: New Research on Lesbian and Gay Family Lives." You can read the abstract of Dr. Patterson's talk below.

Abstract: The family lives of lesbians and gay men are contested terrain in the United States today; many public controversies about sexual orientation and family lives are topics of passionate debate around the country. In this context, the need for psychological understanding of sexual minority family lives is more acute than ever. In this talk, we consider evidence that is consistent with each of two broad perspectives. The "assimilation" perspective suggests that sexual minority families are fundamentally the same as other families and that they can be understood using standard concepts and tools from family psychology. In support of this view, data on sexual minority youths' hopes for the future and data on parenting by lesbian mothers and gay fathers are presented. The "separatism" perspective suggests that sexual minority families are fundamentally different from other families, and that they require psychologists to devise new theories, concepts, and methods. In support of this view, data on co-parenting strategies such as division of labor between members of a parenting couple are considered. We consider the likelihood that both assimilationist and separatist views are partially (but not fully) correct, and that a unified psychology of sexual minority family lives must account for both assimilationist and separatist realities.