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 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.