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SIGNATURE EVENTS

COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Each semester, the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences sponsors and organizes a series of several presentations by psychological and brain scientists.  These speakers present their research and scholarship in a wide range of areas within the behavioral sciences and neuroscience. Presentations are open to all members of the °ÅÀÖÊÓÆµ Campus Community and the public.

Email the department, with subject header “Colloquium Information," if you are interested in receiving more information about the colloquium series or about a scheduled presentation.


UPCOMING SPEAKER(S)

Join us, Friday December 5th, 2025 at 3 PM EST in Tolentine 215 for Dr. Grolnick's talk, "Facilitating Autonomy in Children - Why, How, and What Gets in the Way". Dr. Grolnick's research investigates motivational development in children and adolescents. She explores how parenting, including autonomy support, control, involvement, and structure, predicts children's autonomous motivation, competence, and adjustment. She is also focusing on factors that help or hinder parents’ abilities to provide parenting resources to their children and has developed a parenting intervention based on this work. Dr. Grolnick is also the author of the 2022 book, Motivation Myth Busters: How Science Refutes Common Ideas about Motivation and Can Be Used to Create Happier and Healthier Lives.

Tolentine Hall 334
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800 Lancaster Ave
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Chair: Irene Kan, PhD
Staff: Eileen O'DonnellDanie Hallerman
Psychology Majors Coordinator: Emily Slonecker, PhD

  

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences often records their events, making them accessible to the wider community. You can watch these recorded events on YouTube.