Brownbag
Introduction and Goals
SPA/MBB brownbag is a forum for graduate students and faculty to present and discuss research in all areas of social/personality/affective science (SPA) and mind, brain, and behavior (MBB) psychology. Our meetings have two goals: (1) to create opportunities for graduate students and faculty to present and receive feedback on current or ongoing projects and (2) to pool our knowledge about statistics, methodology, and theory, thereby expanding our understandings beyond the work being conducted in individual labs.
Format
The SPA/MBB brownbag meets weekly on Wednesdays from 11:00-11:55am and is currently a hybrid format (synchronous on-Zoom and in-person) for Spring 2024. The series features both presentations, roundtable discussions, and workshop style meetings. For the presentations, speakers present their work for 30-40 minutes and the remainder time is open discussion. For the rountable discussions, there is usually a discussion leader (or leaders) who facilitate questions and answers for the entire meeting.
Contact Information
To sign-up for a presentation or to be placed on the SPA/MBB brownbag e-mail list, please e-mail Dr. Charlotte Tate at ctate2[at]sfsu.edu.
Upcoming Speakers List (Spring 2025)
January 29, 2025: No Meeting
February 5, 2025: Academic Career Trajectories (Roundtable Discussion lead by the Ph.D.s [faculty and post-docs]): Part 1
February 12, 2025: Academic Career Trajectories (Roundtable Discussion lead by the Ph.D.s [faculty and post-docs]): Part 2
February 19, 2025: No Meeting (SPSP Travel Day)
February 26, 2025: SPSP Debrief
March 5, 2025: No Meeting
March 12, 2025: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Heritability and automaticity: 2 reasons why bilingualism in particular (and brain training more generally) do not enhance general cognitive processing" (part 1)
March 19, 2025: Kenneth R. Paap, Ph.D. (MBB, SFSU): "Heritability and automaticity: 2 reasons why bilingualism in particular (and brain training more generally) do not enhance general cognitive processing" (part 2)
March 26, 2025: No meeting (Spring Break)
April 2, 2025: Charlotte Tate, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Gender is for the BIRDS...understanding: Empirical progress measuring the various meanings of 'gender' using the BIRDS nomlogical network"
April 9, 2025: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. (SPA, SFSU): "Exploring the link between tenure density and student success: An analytic plan."
April 16, 2025: TBA
April 23, 2025: TBA
April 30, 2025: TBA
May 7, 2025: TBA
May 14, 2025: TBA
(Archive contains the complete list of speakers and titles since Spring 2010; click the link above)