Fall 2025 IPSR Colloquium Series
All talks will be held on Wednesdays from 12:10 PM to 1:30 PM in Room 1104, 2121 Berkeley Way
September 10, 2025 – Zena Mello, Professor of Psychology, San Francisco State University. Surrounded by Class: Social Class Discrimination and Adolescent Health.
September 17, 2025 – No colloquium.
September 24, 2025 – Michal Kosinski, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Emergent Properties in Large Language Models.
October 1, 2025 – Sean Darling-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Old Disparities, New Dimensions: Sonifying Inequity, Escalation by Association, and the Student Mental Health Ramifications of "Bad Cop" Surveillance.
October 8, 2025 – Dana Miller-Cotto, Assistant Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley. Examining Theories and Assumptions of Executive Function to Support Children’s Learning in Early Schooling.
October 15, 2025 – Ji-eun Shin, Associate Professor of Psychology, Chonnam National University, South Korea; Visiting Scholar, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley. Strategic Sociality: Feeling, Connecting, Ranking.
October 22, 2025 – Social Personality Brownbag.
* Of interest to IPSR community: Tues. Oct. 28, 2025, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Amit Goldenberg, MORS Colloquium (Haas School of Business), Cheit Hall C220. Exploring the Impacts and Limit of AI Emotional Support.
October 29, 2025 – Amit Goldenberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Utilizing Emotion Regulation Contagion to Change Group Emotion.
* Of interest to IPSR community: Tues. Nov. 4, 2025, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Jordan Starck, MORS Colloquium (Haas School of Business), Cheit Hall C220. Diversity and the Institutionalization of Racial (Dis)Advantage.
November 5, 2025 – Jordan Starck, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. Making the Medicine Go Down: Situated Interventions to Improve Racial Inequality.
November 12, 2025 – Diag Davenport, Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Governance, and Society, Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. The Socialization of Effort: Culture Shapes How People Respond to Money.
November 19, 2025 – Social Personality Brownbag.
November 26, 2025 – Non-Instructional Day—no colloquium.
December 3, 2025 – Giovanni Ramos, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Leveraging Clinical Science to Advance Mental Health Equity.
December 10, 2025 – Marjan Sharifi, Research Fellow, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley. Workshop: AI and Social Connection: Intimacy Through the Prism of TechnologyFollowed by IPSR Holiday Party.