Spring 2026 IPSR Colloquium Series
All talks will be held on Wednesdays from 12:10 PM to 1:30 PM in Room 1102, 2121 Berkeley Way, unless otherwise noted.
- January 21, 2026 – Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Faculty Member, Berkeley AI Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. Large AI Models as a Cultural and Social Technology.
- January 28, 2026 – Batja Mesquita, Professor of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium. MINE and OURS Models of Emotion.
- February 4, 2026 – David Wilson, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Managing [In]Justice: Extensions of Racial Attitudes in the Political Mind.
- *Friday, February 6, 2026 from 3 PM to 9 PM – AI + Emotions Symposium (co-hosted by Emotect AI and IPSR).*
- February 11, 2026 – Dmitri Taubinsky, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Welfare and the Act of Choosing.
- February 18, 2026 – Social Personality Brownbag. (Graduate student research talks.)
- February 25, 2026 – No colloquium
- March 4, 2026 – Michele Gelfand, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Cultural evolutionary mismatches in response to collective threat.
- March 11, 2026 – No colloquium
- March 18, 2026 – Ellen Kossek, Women’s VMWare Innovation Lab CASBS Fellow, Stanford University; Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management, Purdue University. Inclusive and Noninclusive Climates for Work-Life Support: A Person-Centered View.
- March 25, 2026 – Spring recess--no colloquium.
- April 1, 2026 – Social Personality Brownbag. (Graduate student research talks.)
- April 8, 2026 – Paige Lloyd, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver. The Role of Race, Gender, and Class-based Stereotypes in Pain Perception and Implications for Equitable Pain Care.
- April 15, 2026 – David Sherman, Professor of Social and Health Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Social Climate.
- April 22, 2026 – Social Personality Social Personality Brownbag. (Graduate student research talks.)
- April 29, 2026 – Mini Symposium with Robert W. Levenson Research Award recipients.
- May 6, 2026 – IPSR postdoctoral research talks:
Tyrone Sgambati, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Shifting Sands: Tracking How Humility and Polarization Evolve on College Campuses.
Alexandra Figueroa, Postdoctoral Scholar in Racial Equity, University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Good Friends Share (and Bad Friends Don’t): How Relational Closeness Influences Moral Judgments of Gossipers at Work