Below you can see a list of speakers we have had previously. To see a list of speakers for this term, please click here.
Spring Term 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 12th January |
Jennifer Logg (UC Berkeley) |
Theory of Machine: When do people rely on algorithms? |
| Thursday 19th January | Michael Sanders (Behavioural InsightsTeam) |
Social contagion and social licensing in charitable giving and beyond |
| Thursday 26th January | Cleotilde Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Adaptation to Change |
| Thursday 2nd February | Erin Rich (UC Berkeley) |
Dynamic encoding of choice in the orbitofrontal cortex |
| Thursday 9th February | Emilio Ferrara (University of South Carolina) |
Human behavior in techno-social systems |
| Thursday 16th February | No Affective Brain Seminar | |
| Thursday 23rd February | Alex Peysakhovich (Facebook Artificial Intelligence) |
Fixing the Replication Crisis with Machine Learning |
| Thursday 2nd March |
Pablo Barberá (University of South California) |
How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization |
| Thursday 9th March |
Alexandra Constantinescu (Oxford University) |
Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code |
| Thursday 16th March | Kiyohito Iigaya (University College London) |
Favouring Savouring: How Prediction Error Boosts Appetitive Anticipation |
| Thursday 23rd March | Sonia Bishop (UC Berkeley) |
TBC |
| Thursday 27th April |
Hal Hershfield (University of California, Los Angeles) |
When does the present end and the future begin? |
| Thursday 4th May |
Jane Wang (Deep Mind) |
TBC |
| Thursday 11th May |
Kenway Louie (New York University) |
Reward statistics, adaptive value coding, and efficient choice behavior |
| Thursday 18th May |
TBC | TBC |
| Thursday 25th May |
Corey White (Syracuse University) |
TBC |
| Thursday 1st June |
Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam) |
TBC |
Michaelmas Term 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 6th October |
Louisa Egan (University of Portland) |
Moral Licensing Effects as Acquired Behavior |
| Thursday 13th October | Christian Ruff (University of Zurich) |
Social decision making: Distinct causal brain mechanisms |
| Thursday 20th October | Anna Schapiro (Harvard) |
Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: A neural network modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning |
| Thursday 27th October | Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research) |
The limits of social influence in online social networks |
| Thursday 3rd November | Keith Chen (UCLA, Uber) |
Flexible Work: How Drivers Respond to Dynamic Pricing and Work Flexibility on the Uber Platform |
| Thursday 17th November | Justin Rao (Microsoft Research) |
Understanding Charitable Giving Choices |
| Thursday 24th November | No Seminar | |
| Thursday 1st December | Filippo Menczer (Indiana University) |
The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media |
| Thursday 8th December | Daniel Bennett (University of Melbourne) |
The intrinsic value of information in decision making |
| Thursday 15th December | Jessica Bodford (Facebook & Arizona State) |
Cyberpsychology: Human interaction in the digital age |
Summer Term 2016
Michaelmas Term 2015
Summer Term 2015
Spring Term 2015
Michaelmas Term 2014
Summer Term 2014
Spring Term 2014
Michaelmas Term 2013
Summer Term 2013
Spring Term 2013
Michaelmas Term 2012
Summer Term 2012
