Colloquium Series

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

  • 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. (Title TBA).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University.  (Title TBA)
  • March 25, 2026 – Spring recess--no colloquium.
  • April 1, 2026 – Social Personality Brownbag.
  • April 8, 2026 – Paige Lloyd, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver. (Title TBA).
  • April 15, 2026 – David Sherman, Professor of Social and Health Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara. (Title TBA).
  • April 22, 2026 – SP doctoral exit talks: Emma Ward-Griffin; Regina Ebo.
  • 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. Friends Share: Asymmetries by closeness in Attribution of Morality to Gossipers.