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Carl Hart on Clinicians’ Bias Toward Drug Use
Podcast featuring Carl Hart, a neuroscientist at Columbia University who has studied the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. His lab attempts to understand factors that mediate drug use, to develop effective treatments, and to translate that knowledge into more humane drug policies.
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Keynote Address: Causes and Consequences of Exploration Across Development
Catherine Alexandra Hartley presents studies of individuals navigating both laboratory tasks and real-world environments that highlight the tight coupling between novelty-seeking and affective states, and the differential effects of novelty and uncertainty on exploration across development.
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Keynote Address: The Role of Caregiving in Children’s Experience of Early Adversity
This presentation provides a conceptual and empirical overview of how early adversity affects young children’s development. Jones Harden presents findings from research on young children who have experienced socioeconomic and psychological adversity, with an emphasis on children exposed to early trauma in the context of poverty.
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Plenary Session: Aging Minds: Challenges and Opportunities
Smaller families and advances in the extension of health and life mean that there are fewer children and young people and many more elders than in the past, a demographic change that will only intensify in coming decades. What will the psychological consequences be?
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Plenary Session: The Effects of Early Adversity on the Mind and Brain
In this symposium, experts in psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology present cutting-edge theoretical ideas and empirical results that may help explain just how early adversity influences the developing mind and brain.
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Inclusivity Spotlight: Upending Racism in Our Science: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
In this talk, Idia Binitie Thurston highlights structural and procedural barriers holding psychological science back and offer concrete strategies to deviate from that norm.
