October 13, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - What Predicts Dysphoria Among Black Adults? Comparing Demographic, Psychosocial, and Culturally Relevant Factors Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Brown School, WashU Somers Family Hall room 216
October 09, 2026 1:00 pm Social and Personality - Gateway Affective Science Summit Design Sprint Competition Pilot Interactive Activity Emily Willroth, Tammy English, Kristen Petagna Somers Family Hall Room 215
October 07, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Scaffolding event memory encoding? Jeff Zacks Somers Family Hall rm 216
October 07, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - From the Affect Gap to Scam Vulnerability: Decision Making, Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease Colleen Frank, Knight ADRC Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 02, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Research Presentation - Emotional Complexity in Context: Within-Person Variability in Emotional Granularity, Emotion Covariation and Emodiversity Kristen Petagna, Postdoctoral Researcher, WashU (WELLab) Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 30, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Choosing to remember: how agency shapes information seeking and memory Deepu Murty, U. Oregon Somers Family Hall rm 216
September 30, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Are we on the same page? Examining couples’ perceptions of alignment on problem importance and their communication quality Rachel Blickman Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 29, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Wielding Researcher Power in Communities Madeline Stenersen, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, St. Louis University Somers Family Hall room 216
September 25, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Writing Workshop Students/Trainees Only: Patrick Hill Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 23, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Learning What Matters: Incentive Effects on Goal Inference and Information Prioritization Cathy Zhang Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 23, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Neuroscientific Evaluation of Risk in Early Childhood Psychopathology: Integrating Proximal and Distal Factors Susan Perlman, WashU Med Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 22, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Findings from the first genome-wide association study of opioid overdose death Elliot Nelson, MD, Professor, Psychiatry, WashU Medicine Somers Family Hall room 216
September 21, 2026 2:00 pm Master's Thesis Defense - Examining Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Dynamics Between Romantic Dyads: Provision and Socioemotional Behaviors” Wesley Tucker Somers Family Hall Room 216B
September 21, 2026 10:30 am MA thesis defense - Beyond Mean Levels: Within-Person Variability in Well-Being Across Components and Timescales Christy Wang Somers Family Hall Room 345A
September 18, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Disability Justice Working Group Introduction and Resources Wesley Tucker, Emily Willroth, Payton Rule, John Nestojko Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 16, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Collaborative Recall Elevates Judgments of Learning but Does Not Affect Study Time Allocation or Test Performance Relative to Individual Recall Barry Wei Somers Family Hall rm 216
September 16, 2026 12:30 pm MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - "Your Research Workflow Called. Al Can Help!" Gregory S. Hart, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, CM, ITIL Chief Technology Officer WashU Information Technology Zoom
September 16, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Tails of influence: How humans shape pet personality Bill Chopik, P&BS Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 15, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - The AI therapist: When people turn to chatbots for mental health Group Discussion Somers Family Hall room 216
September 11, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Faculty Data Blitz S&P Faculty (Alan, Bill, Seanna) Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 10, 2026 1:15 pm Brown School - Outcome-Wide Analysis, a method in which you can have multiple outcome variables in a single model Goldfarb 132
September 09, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - How categorical reasoning disrupts forecast evaluation and probability learning. Jon Bogard, Olin School of Business Somers Family Hall rm 216
September 09, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Unlocking the Potential of Aging Data: Navigating NACDA, Secondary Analysis, Metadata Standards, and AI Innovation Seoyoun Kim, National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) Somers Family Hall Room 216
September 08, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Decision Support in Breast Cancer: Moving from Clinical Implementation to Social Media Dissemination Mary Politi, PhD, Professor, Bursky School of Public Health, WashU Somers Family Hall room 216
September 04, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Faculty Data Blitz S&P Faculty (Pat, Emily, Tammy) Somers Family Hall Room 215
September 02, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Are semantic and phonological false memories governed by different mechanisms? Adam Osth, U. Melbourne Somers Family Hall rm 216
September 02, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - P&BS Disability Studies Working Group Presentations Somers Family Hall RM 216
September 01, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Interprofessional Practice and Pro-Bono Clinic Brian Carpenter Somers Family Hall room 216
August 28, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Social Event Students/Trainees Only: Welcome Back Social Somers Family Hall Room 215
August 25, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Semester Kickoff Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD, Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences, WashU Somers Family Hall room 216
May 20, 2026 12:00 pm MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - "Developing Digital Health Interventions for and with the Greater St. Louis Community" Hannah Szlyk, PhD, LCSW Assistant Professor - Research Department of Psychiatry Division of Addiction Science, Prevention and Treatment Secondary Appointment, School of Public Health Washington University School of Medicine
May 19, 2026 4:00 pm CTCN Annual Public Lecture - Are People Still Smarter than Machines? Jay McClelland (Stanford University) Wilson Hall 214
May 14, 2026 1:00 pm Doctoral Dissertation Defense - The Effect of Social Influence on Effort-Cost Decision-Making in Schizophrenia Jaisal Merchant Somers Family Hall rm 216
May 11, 2026 11:30 am Master's Defense - Role of Neurotrophins in the Protective Effects of Physical Activity. Kelsey Baller Somers Family Hall Room 215A
April 29, 2026 11:00 am Master's Defense - Great Expectations: How Anticipation of an Accent Influences Lexical Competition Byonne Atamna Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 24, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Re-constructing the reel self: Media socialization and gendered racial identity development among Black women Mykah Doolin MA presentation Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 21, 2026 1:30 pm Doctoral Dissertation Defense - The Effects of Gain Versus Loss Incentives during Recognition Memory Judgment Gizem Filiz Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 21, 2026 10:00 am Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Age, income, and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards: The roles of financial resources and attribute salience Matt Wan Somers Family Hall RM 220
April 20, 2026 1:00 pm Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Learning and Transferring Value in Conflict Tasks: The Architecture of Reward-Based Attentional Priorities Merve Ileri Tayar Somers Family Hall RM 216B
April 17, 2026 9:00 am Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Dynamic Individualized Latent Trait (DILT) Model: Bridging Nomothetic and ldiographic Psychometrics Muchen Xi Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 15, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Emotion Regulation Predictors of Risky Decision-Making in Younger and Older Adults Jasmine Moon MA Defense Somers Family Hall Room 215
April 14, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Debriefing the internship year Current Interns Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 14, 2026 3:00 pm Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Memory Representations in Cortico-hippocampal Systems Angelique Delarazan Somers Family Hall Room 215
April 13, 2026 4:00 pm Special Talk - Updating Memory and Beliefs: Mechanisms, Application, and Cognitive Aging.” Chris Wahlheim, UNC Greensboro Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 08, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Endogenous and reactive shifts in attention and memory Lexi Decker Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 08, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - First Year Students Part 1 Kayla Wyatt First Year Presentation/Lance Greenberg Presentation Somers Family Hall Room 215
April 07, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Debriefing the internship application process Internship-bound students Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 03, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality Derek Simon MA Thesis Presentation Somers Family Hall RM 215
April 01, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Are memory distortions rational? Testing Bayesian reconstruction models of memory Michelle Ramey, U of Arkansas Somers Family Hall Room 216
April 01, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Understanding and Assessing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Children Laura Hennefield Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 31, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Genetic Influences on Impulsive Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Escalation Across Development. Alex Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University, School of Medicine Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 31, 2026 10:00 am Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Update Mechanisms in Event Models: Boundary Effects and Dimensional Influences Sophie Xing Su Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 30, 2026 4:00 pm Mark Gold Lecture - "Understanding the polygenic influences on putatively similar behaviors in humans and rodents” Abraham Palmer, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Wilson 214
March 27, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality Mary Cox MA Thesis Presentation Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 25, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Navigating beyond the cognitive map in age and disease: How immersive virtual reality takes us to new places Arne Ekstrom Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 25, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - LGBTQ+ Aging to Queer Gerontology Vanessa Fabbre, Brown School Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 24, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Studying Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Diverse Populations and Contexts Daphne Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri – St. Louis Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 23, 2026 4:00 pm Colloquia - "Approaches for the scalable and dynamic measurement of human cognition in health and disease” Laura Germine, Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine Wilson 214
March 20, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality Qilin Zhang MA Thesis Presentation Somers Family Hall RM 215
March 18, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - I Would Have Remembered It! Contributions of Normative and Personal Distinctiveness to Subsequent Memorability of Rejections Eylul Ardic Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 18, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Moving Beyond the Clinic: High-Frequency Cognitive Assessment in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Hannah Wilks Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 17, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Supervisor information session Student discussion Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 06, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality Damon Ladd-Thomas MA Thesis Presentation Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 04, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Neural State Segmentation in Naturalistic Goal-directed Activities Yining Ding Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 04, 2026 2:30 pm CCSN Research Methodology Workshop - uantile Regression: A Statistical Approach to Looking Beyond the Average" Dr. Xuming Zoom
March 04, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Sensory gating and psychiatric risk in childhood Becca Schwarzlose, WashU Med Somers Family Hall Room 215
March 03, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Ethics consultation ****Clinical students and faculty only****** Speaker: Group discussion Somers Family Hall Room 216
March 02, 2026 4:00 pm Robert L Williams Lecture - What in the World are We Thinking? The Place of Culture in Learning Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Wilson 214
February 25, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - From Screen to Story: The Mind’s Efficient Processing of Movies and Narratives Sophie Sue Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 25, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Speech Perception and Psychosocial Wellbeing Across the Lifespan Bob McMurray/Sita Carraturo, UIowa Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 24, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Case Conference Nada Dalloul, M.A. & Hannah Wilks, M.A. ****Clinical students and faculty only****** Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 20, 2026 3:15 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - From Loneliness to Togetherness: Social Connection as a Pathway to Health Across the Lifespan Tiko Yoneda Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 2:15 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - WashU Trainee Data Blitz Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 1:00 pm The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression Steve Cole Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 11:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Did That Just Happen?” Racial Discrimination, Rumination, and Mental Health Across the Lifespan Donte Bernard Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 10:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit - Childhood Adversity and the Stress Response System: Integrating Neurobiological and Psychosocial Mechanisms Meredith Gruhn Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 20, 2026 10:00 am The annual Lifespan Development Summit The full schedule - 10am to 4:30pm Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 18, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Learning and Transfer of Cognitive Control Merve Ileri Tayar Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 18, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Understanding others’ minds in naturalistic context relies on distributed neural correlates Colleen Hughes, IU Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 17, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Winter Mix and Mingle Faculty and Students Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 13, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Dynamic Individualized Latent Trait Model (DILT) Muchen Xi, Graduate Student, P&BS Somers Family Hall RM 215
February 11, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Dissociation of Anticipatory versus Elaborative Pupil Dilation During Value Directed Encoding Gizem Filiz Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 11, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Lifespan Development Summit tie-in Somers Family Hall Room 215
February 10, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s defense) Title: “Yes, And…”: Using Improvisation to Enhance Well-being in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia. Duyen Tran, B.S. Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 09, 2026 4:00 pm Colloquia - From Sleeplessness to Sickness: The Psychobiological Costs of Insufficient Sleep. Aric Prather, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco Wilson 214
February 06, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - S&P Graduate Student Recruitment Event Somers Family Hall RM 215
February 04, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does restudying (without testing) matter? If so, how much? Roddy Roediger Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 03, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Striving to Improve Mental Health Services through Implementation Research Byron Powell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Brown School Somers Family Hall Room 216
February 03, 2026 8:30 am Thesis defense - Do Visual Neighborhoods Impact Audiovisual Lexical Decision Time? Samuel Bennett Somers Family Hall Room 215
January 30, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - "An Asset-Based Approach to Understanding and Supporting Anticipated College Belonging for Students from Historically Stigmatized Groups" Maegan Arney, Doctoral Student, Education, WashU Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 28, 2026 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - NaLBaNA: A Natural Language to Bayesian Network Agent David Kenny, PNP Zoom
January 27, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances as a risk factor for the emergence of early-life psychopathology Caroline Hoyniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, WashU School of Medicine Somers Family Hall Room 216
January 23, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Team Science Workshop led by Tammy English (Students/Trainees Only) Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 22, 2026 10:00 am MHEALTH RESEARCH CORE SEMINAR - Practical and Ethical Uses of Al as a Co-Scientist in mHealth Research Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD Associate Professor in Residence Director of Anxiety Disorders Research West Innovation Chair Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior UCLA Geffen School of Medicine Zoom
January 21, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - ISTAART Presentation Taylor Pedersen Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 20, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Technology-Natives versus Technology-Adopters: Age Differences in Remote Cognitive Assessment for Alzheimer’s Disease Samhita Katteri, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
January 20, 2026 9:00 am Master's Defense - Age Differences in Remote Cognitive Assessments for Alzheimer Disease Samhita Katteri Somers Family Hall RM 215a
January 16, 2026 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Spring Semester Welcome (Students/Trainees Only) Somers Family Hall RM 215
January 14, 2026 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Organizational meeting and DEI survey Somers Family Hall Room 215
January 13, 2026 4:00 pm Clinical - Explícamelo, por favor: Dynamic Ecological Systems Theory of Identity Development and Insights on Diverse Young Adult Identity Development During Shock Events Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, PhD, Assistant Professor, Education & African and African American Studies, Arts & Sciences, WashU Somers Family Hall Room 216
December 05, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Dulce Wilkinson Westberg, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Somers Family Hall Room 215
December 03, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Assessing the Relationship Between Green Space Exposure, Attentional Focus, and Affect Using EMA and Passive Sensing Wesley Tucker Somers Family Hall Room 215
December 02, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Practicum Information Session Student discussion + Raquel Somers Family Hall Room 216
December 01, 2025 4:00 pm Special Talk - Biopsychosocial Development of Psychosis Risk K. Juston Osborne Postdoctoral Research Scholar Washington University Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 24, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Mechanisms of lexical search within the mental lexicon Abhilasha Kumar, Bowdoin (Special Monday Talk) Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 21, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Masters thesis - “Effort in Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.” Sarah Luo Somers Family Hall Room 215
November 19, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Update Mechanisms in Event Models: Boundary Effects and Dimensional Influences Sophie Su Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 19, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Behavioral Interventions and Precision Medicine Hayley Ripperger Somers Family Hall RM 215
November 18, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - The Taylor Family Institute & New Treatments in Psychiatry: Adventures in Drug Discovery Charles Zorumski, MD, Samuel B. Guze Professor of Psychiatry, WashU Medicine Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 12, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Individual differences in object recognition Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbuilt Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 11, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Case Conference ***Clinical graduate students and faculty only*** Kelsey Baller, B.S. and Samhita Katteri, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 07, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality Keely Dugan, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Somers Family Hall Room 215
November 05, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Semantic Knowledge and Hierarchical Event Structure Can Scaffold Memory for Temporal Order Yining Ding Somers Family Hall Room 216
November 05, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - GSA practice 2: Jasmine, Blake (Posters) Somers Family Hall RM 215
November 04, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Advancements in Trauma-Informed Care: Evidence- Based Practices Tonya Edmond, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 31, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - Community Context and Mental Health Teresa Vargas, PhD Harvard University Zoom
October 29, 2025 4:00 pm Mildred Trotter Lecture - How Memory Shapes Value-Based Decision-Making Daphna Shohamy, PhD Kavli Professor of Brain Science Director and CEO of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
October 29, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - Risky Decision Dynamics: Examining Choices Across Age and Context Colleen Frank Somers Family Hall RM 215
October 28, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s Defense) “Examining the Relationship Between Regional Vulnerability and Psychotic-Like Experiences in Adolescents: The Potential Mediating Role of Cognition” Patrick Lindsley, B.A., B.S. Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 27, 2025 4:00 pm Colloquia - Taking the self out of self control Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Columbia University Wilson 214
October 22, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Does the pupil reliably signal the encoding value of memoranda? Gizem Filiz Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 22, 2025 12:00 pm Aging & Development - GSA practice 1: Emily, Karysa (Papers) Somers Family Hall RM 215
October 21, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - Case Conference ***Clinical graduate students and faculty only*** Patrick Lindsley, B.A., B.S. and Carly Robinson, B.A., M.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 17, 2025 1:00 pm Social & Personality - International Job Market Panel Students and trainees only Zoom
October 15, 2025 4:00 pm Behavior, Brain, & Cognition - Adaptation in speech perception Kristin Van Engen Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 15, 2025 Aging & Development - Time Cast A Spell on You: Future Time Perspective and Healthy Lifespan Development Pat Hill Somers Family Hall Room 215
October 14, 2025 4:00 pm Clinical - (Master’s Defense) Beyond Disability: Older Adult Perceptions of Successful Aging Payton Rule, B.A. Somers Family Hall Room 216
October 14, 2025 4:00 pm 20th Annual Norman R. Seay Lecture - Honoring Legacy. Accelerating Progress.” Commemorating 20 Years of Community-Informed Science & Engagement in Alzheimer Disease Research Knight Conference Center Washington University Danforth Campus
October 13, 2025 8:30 am Master's Defense - "The Effect of Intelligibility on Adaptation and Generalization to an Unfamiliar Accent" Kaitlyn L. Matthews Somers Family Hall RM 216B