All colloquia will take place via Zoom (link here) @ 12:00pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted. All members of the GMU community are welcome to attend. Zoom password (if needed): gmupsych.
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 2 | Dr. Samantha Karalus | Fairfax County Public Schools | Evaluation research at FCPS |
| Sep 9 | Dr. Steven Holochwost | WolfBrown/John Hopkins University | Risk, self-regulation, and the promise of education |
| Sep 16 | Dr. Nancy Adler & Dr. Glenn Ann Martin |
Private Practice |
Your mental health: Coping skills, processing COVID-19 crisis and schooling from home |
| Sep 23 |
Jordan Greenburg
Courtney Ricciardi |
Current ADP PhD Students |
Predictors and outcomes of delayed kindergarten entry and early retention Preventing the excellence gap: Early predictors and trajectories of advanced course selection for low-income children of color |
| Sep 30 | Dr. Bweikia Steen | George Mason University | Hear our cries: Meeting the needs of African American children during the early years |
| Oct 7 | Dr. Laurie Bayet | George Mason University | Faces, objects, and agents: How infants and children understand the visual world |
| Oct 14 | Dr. Christine Erdie-Lalena, MD | Wake Forest School of Medicine |
Intersection of prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal Autism research and its clinical application |
| Oct 21 | Dr. Holly Matto | George Mason University | The healing power of creative arts on biopsychosocial functioning |
| Oct 28 | Dr. Celeste Malone | Howard University | Recognizing and addressing microaggressions for anti-racist psychology practice |
| Nov 4 | Dr. Natasha Cabrera | University of Maryland |
Father-child relationships and children's development in early childhood |
| Nov 11 | Dr. Toya Frank | George Mason University |
Examining the trajectories of Black mathematics teachers |
| Nov 18 | Dr. Fantasy Lozada | Virginia Commonwealth University |
A theory of biculturalism and emotion regulatory flexibility among African American adolescents |
Spring 2020 (COVID-19)
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Jan 29 | Dr. Benjamin Converse | University of Virginia | Overlooking subtractive improvements |
| Feb 5 | Dr. Allison Jack | George Mason University | Sex differences in the social brain: Insights from autism |
| Feb 12 | Dr. Jatin Ambegaonkar |
George Mason University |
Arts for health, health for artists across the lifespan |
| Feb 19 | Dr. Melanie Killen | University of Maryland | The origins of morality: Developing a society of equals |
| Mar 4 | Dr. Olga Kornienko | George Mason University | Benefits of intergroup connections: Understanding how peer networks shape academic and socio-emotional development of diverse youth |
| Apr 1 (Zoom) | Dr. Ian Lyons | Georgetown |
The curious case of quantity: Evolution, culture, and short-term memory |
Fall 2019
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
| Sept 4 | Dr. Gerald Clore | University of Virginia | The emotion-cognition connection: The impact of affect depends on its object |
| Sept 11 | Dr. Amanda P. Williford | University of Virginia | Supporting Children’s School Readiness through Teacher-Child Relationships and Statewide Assessment Systems |
| Sept 18 | Dr. Manica Ramos |
Child Trends |
Working at a non-profit research organization – Child Trends |
| Sept 25 | Dr. Peter Leone | University of Maryland | Research, Scholarship, and Social Justice: Promoting Equity for Marginalized Groups |
| Oct 2 | Dr. Ellen Serafini | George Mason University | Differential predictability and dynamicity of individual differences in second language learning |
| Oct 9 | Kathleen Moritz Rudasill | Virginia Commonwealth University | Temperament-based interventions in schools |
| Oct 16 | Dr. Yulia Chentsova | Georgetown | Cultural shaping of emotional functioning |
| Oct 23 | Dr. Sabine Doebel | George Mason University | Preregistering your psychological research, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love preregistration |
| Oct 30 | Dr. Kostadin Kushlev | Georgetown |
The social price of constant connectivity: Smartphones impose subtle costs on well-being |
| Nov 6 | Dr. Chelsea Derlan Williams | Virginia Commonwealth University | A developmental approach to ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity |
| Nov 13 | Dr. Jessica Connelly | University of Virginia | Early nurture epigenetically tunes the oxytocin receptor |
| Nov 20 | Susan Lapham | American Institute for Research |
Project Talent: A short history of a very long study |