Hi all,
So, it's been a long time since we got together as a G-year class. Ever since that awkward night 5 years ago when Karrim and Kurt declared their undying love for one another, it seems we all went on our separate ways, save a few intra-class romances. Some of us were chatting and thought it would be great to get together again as a cohort, have some dinner, have some drinks, spin the bottle, whatever. We were thinking of planning something for early May (possibly the evening of the 4th or 5th). Please let me know if this is something you're interested in and if you can make either of these dates. The venue would likely involve reserving 1550, ordering food and bringing drinks (I can handle this) but if someone has an alternative place in mind let me know.
Andy
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Andrew Scott Baron, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia
2136 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Office: 2402 Kenny Building
Phone: 604-822-6311
Most Psychology students who started graduate school in 2004 and earlier
were admitted with five years of tuition funding. The tuition grants
were automatic in your G-years 1-4, but not so in the G5 year and later.
Since students vary in how long the graduate program takes, your "final"
year might be your G5 year or your G6 year; for clinical students, the
internship year is also an issue.
If 2007/08 will be your final year and if you haven't already dealt with
the tuition issue, you may have tuition showing up as a charge on your
term bill. If that's the case, both you and your adviser will need to
send a note or e-mail to our financial aid officer, Janie Rangel
(sjrangel@fas) as soon as possible. The note should state your and your
adviser's expectation that you will graduate by June, that you have a
passed prospectus, and have completed at least one paper out of a
3-paper option dissertation or two chapters of a traditional dissertation.
Students who entered in 2005 and later are eligible for a dissertation
completion grant with very prescribed requirements and ways of
requesting final year tuition coverage; GSAS would prefer students in
your cohort adhere to those deadlines and requirements, but because many
of you didn't get that message they're trying to be flexible. BUT they
need to hear from you ASAP in order to be sure the money is there and to
clear you for registration. G4 students, please note that you will need
to request tuition coverage for next year this coming March if 2008/09
will be your final year.
If your program will take six years to complete, then you are
responsible for paying your own tuition in the G5 year.
Please let me know if I can answer any questions.
Celia
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Please let me know ASAP if there are any conflicts or changes in title:
Student Adviser Reader
11:00 Bethany Michel Matthew Nock Wendy Mendes
Emotional Reactivity among Adolescent Self-Injurers
11:15 Kurt Gray Daniel Wegner Richard Hackman
Moral Perspective Theory
11:30 Bradford Mahon Alfonso Caramazza Yuhong Jiang
What Is Semantic Interference (Not) Telling Us? Implications for Models
of Lexical Access in Speech Production
11:45 Hannah Reese Richard McNally Diego Pizzagalli
Attentional Training for Reducing Fear in Spider-Fearful Individuals
12:00 Colin Fisher Richard Hackman Teresa Amabile
What Team Leaders See: Towards an Understanding of the Timing of Team
Leader Interventions
12:15 Rachel Sussman Yuhong Jiang Ken Nakayama
Interference in Visual Working Memory: a Long-range Masking Effect
Offers New Opportunities for Study
12:30 Andrew Baron Mahzarin Banaji Susan Carey
Constraints on Category-based Inferences of Social Groups
2:00 Karim Kassam Daniel Gilbert Max Bazerman
When Ignorance is Bliss: The Effects of Uncertainty and Knowledge of
Alternatives on Satisfaction with Outcomes
2:15 Liane Young Marc Hauser Rebecca Saxe
The Role of Emotion in Moral Cognition: Neuropsychological Evidence
2:30 Modupe Akinola Wendy Mendes Max Bazerman
Stress and Cognitive Processing: The Effects of Challenge and Threat
Responses on Creativity and Declarative Memory
2:45 Fiery Cushman Marc Hauser Susan Carey
The Role of Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment: Testing Three
Principles of Harm
3:00 Sang-Ah Lee Liz Spelke Marc Hauser
Core Geometry
3:15 Valerie Photos Matthew Nock Richard McNally
Evaluation of a New Treatment for Adolescent Self-injury: Initial
Findings on Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change
3:30 Paul Muentener Susan Carey Rebecca Saxe
Investigation into the Origin of Causal Representations
Reception, Second Floor Lounge
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I've asked Bill Santoro to unlock the cabinet for the computer projector
at 9 a.m. in case anyone wants to test their powerpoint or give a brief
dry run. In previous years students have often combined all their
presentations on one or two laptops to minimize the time spent hooking
everything up. If one of you is especially well versed in AV technology
it might be helpful to be on hand to help with any glitches.
Celia
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Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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Hey all,
I'm thinking of incorporating picture of all of you guys into my
talk. I have photos of basically everyone but not all of them are
high-quality. If you have one you'd prefer I use (portrait, please) I'm
happy to use that instead.
I promise I won't make fun of anyone other than myself. And probably Kurt.
karim
I couldn't honor everyone's requests because of faculty constraints, but
I did as much as I could. let me know if there's anything that WON'T
work with the following lineup:
11:00 Bethany Michel Matthew Nock Wendy Mendes
Emotional Reactivity among Adolescent Self-Injurers.
11:15 Andrew Baron Mahzarin Banaji Susan Carey
11:30 Bradford Mahon Alfonso Caramazza Yuhong Jiang
What is semantic interference (not) telling us? Implications for models
of lexical access in speech production
11:45 Hannah Reese Richard McNally Diego Pizzagalli
Attentional Training for Reducing Fear in Spider-Fearful Individuals
12:00 Colin Fisher Richard Hackman Teresa Amabile
"What Team Leaders See: Towards an Understanding of the Timing of Team
Leader Interventions."
12:15 Valerie Kissel Matthew Nock Richard McNally
12:30 Kurt Gray Daniel Wegner Richard Hackman
Moral Perspective Theory
Lunch Break
2:00 Karim Kassam Daniel Gilbert Max Bazerman
When Ignorance is Bliss: The Effects of Uncertainty and Knowledge of
Alternatives on Satisfaction with Outcomes -
2:15 Liane Young Marc Hauser Rebecca Saxe
"the role of emotion in moral cognition: neuropsychological evidence" -
2:30 Modupe Akinola Wendy Mendes Max Bazerman
Stress and Cognitive Processing: The Effects of Challenge and Threat
Responses on Creativity and Declarative Memory -
2:45 Fiery Cushman Marc Hauser Susan Carey
3:00 Sang-Ah Lee Liz Spelke Marc Hauser
Core Geometry
3:15 Rachel Sussman Yuhong Jiang Ken Nakayama
Interference in Visual Working Memory: A long-range masking effect
offers new opportunities for study
3:30 Paul Muentener Susan Carey Rebecca Saxe
"Investigation into the origin of causal represenations."
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Celia Raia 210 William James Hall phone: 617/495-3810
Psychology Department 33 Kirkland Street fax: 617/496-8279
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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The second-year project talks are Tuesday, May 16.
Here is the information I have so far about second-year project readers
and titles. Please review and let me know of any changes. With 15
people presenting we've got almost four hours of talks, so I'll probably
do something like 11-1, then 2-4. Please let me know if you have any
requests for time slots, i.e. going first or last. Faculty constraints
take precedence, and I try to mix up areas as much as possible, but will
honor student requests if I can.
Celia
Modupe Akinola Wendy Mendes Max Bazerman
Stress and Cognitive Processing: The Effects of Challenge and Threat
Responses on Creativity and Declarative Memory
Andrew Baron Mahzarin Banajui Susan Carey
Fiery Cushman Marc Hauser Susan Carey
Colin Fisher Richard Hackman Teresa Amabile
"What Team Leaders See: Towards an Understanding of the Timing of Team
Leader Interventions."
Kristen Geiger
Kurt Gray
Karim Kassam Daniel Gilbert Max Bazerman
When Ignorance is Bliss: The Effects of Uncertainty and Knowledge of
Alternatives on Satisfaction with Outcomes
Valerie Kissel Matthew Nock Richard McNally
Sang-Ah Lee Liz Spelke Marc Hauser
Core Geometry
Bradford Mahon Alfonso Caramazza Yuhong Jiang
What is semantic interference (not) telling us? Implications for models
of lexical access in speech production
Bethany Michel Matthew Nock Wendy Mendes
Comparing the differences in frustration tolerance between sef-injurers
and non-self-injurers, by examining objective (physiological reactivity)
and subjective (self-report) measures
Paul Muentener Susan Carey Rebecca Saxe
"Investigation into the origin of causal represenations."
Hannah Reese Richard McNally Diego Pizzagalli
Attentional Training for Reducing Fear in Spider-Fearful Individuals
Rachel Sussman Yuhong Jiang Ken Nakayama
Interference in Visual Working Memory: A long-range masking effect
offers new opportunities for study
Liane Young Marc Hauser Rebecca Saxe
"A neural signature of intent to harm: An fMRI experiment"
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Celia Raia 210 William James Hall phone: 617/495-3810
Psychology Department 33 Kirkland Street fax: 617/496-8279
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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Here's an excerpt from the 2nd-year project instructions that were sent
out last fall. Briefly, your 2nd-year project written paper is due to
your readers MAY 1. Readers will be asked to send their assessments of
your written project and oral presentation to the CHD for its last
meeting on May 24, where final grades will be assigned for the project.
If you have an application in for a June master's degree, you project
MUST be completed and approved or the Department will not approve the
degree.
Celia
The Graduate Office will schedule oral presentations to be given
Tuesday, May 16. The two readers will grade the oral presentations
(Ph.D. pass, M.A. pass, fail) and report this to the CHD on forms
provided by the Graduate Office.
Copies of the final written report must be submitted to your readers no
later than Monday, May 1, 2006. If this date is not met, there is no
assurance your readers will be able to evaluate the paper in time for
the CHD to assign a grade by the end of the term. The readers will
grade both the oral and written paper (Ph.D. pass, M.A. pass, fail), and
report to the Graduate Office prior to the final CHD meeting. Students
are expected to submit early drafts of the paper to the supervisor and
the reader in order to receive feedback that can be incorporated into
the final draft. Either reader may require changes before the paper is
deemed Ph.D. pass.
In order to present at the May 16 program, students must have data and
must submit a paper. You will not be allowed to present in May if you
have no data and if you have not submitted the written paper to your
readers, even if it is a preliminary version.
At its last meeting in May [May 24], the CHD will determine whether the
student has passed the second year research requirement at the Ph.D. or
M.A. level or has failed it. The evaluation will be based on the
readers' assigned grades for the oral presentation and the written
paper. If the student has failed, his or her entire record will be
reviewed, and termination will be considered. If the student has passed
at the M.A. level, the CHD will decide whether to postpone the
completion of the requirement and specify what additional work is
required to fulfill this. Alternatively, the CHD may recommend
termination. In the latter case, the M.A. degree may be recommended by
the Department. In some cases the grade may be deferred to the Fall
pending the completion of required modifications.
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Psychology Department 33 Kirkland Street fax: 617/496-8279
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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The following applies to G1 and G2 students EXCEPT Organizational
Behavior students, whose financial aid is handled through the Doctoral
Programs Office at the B-school.
Psychology students' financial aid package includes provision of a
summer research fellowship following the G1 and G2 years. This year the
fellowship will be $3,700. In order to receive the fellowship you must
be in good standing and planning to spend much of the summer doing
research or other scholarly activities.
Please send me, for the CHD, a BRIEF (short paragraph) statement
describing the work you intend to do this summer. I need to receive
your statement by April 7 so that the graduate school can process
payment for disbursement around May 1. If I receive your statement
later than April 7, or if there are questions about your status, then
your disbursement may not make the May 1 date.
Celia
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Celia Raia 210 William James Hall phone: 617/495-3810
Psychology Department 33 Kirkland Street fax: 617/496-8279
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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To make it easier on you and your readers, I'll send them each an e-mail
asking them to let me know, for the CHD, whether they have approved your
second-year project proposal. In order for me to do this, please send
me, ASAP, a note with the title or area of your project, and the names
of your two readers.
Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Raia 210 William James Hall phone: 617/495-3810
Psychology Department 33 Kirkland Street fax: 617/496-8279
Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 cir(a)wjh.harvard.edu
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