Conference Talks, Colloquia, & Seminars

See a map of all the places I've given a talk!

Minds, Brains, & Mass Media: Communication Interventions for Real-World Challenges

University of Michigan, December, 2024, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change

Psychonomic Society Meeting, November, 2024, New York City, NY, USA

Psychological interventions to motivate preventative health behaviors

University of Maryland – Workshop on Disease Dynamics and Human Behavior, November, 2024, College Park, MD, USA

Crafting impactful environmental narratives: Leveraging communication science, visuals, and technology in storytelling

Society for Environmental Journalism Meeting, April, 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Cognitive interventions for real-world challenges.

Emory University, March, 2024, Atlanta, GA, USA

Cognitive interventions for real-world challenges

Princeton University, January, 2024, Princeton, NJ, USA

Motivational states bias learning and memory

University of Pennsylvania, December, 2023, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Reframing the value of errors mitigates anxiety-related learning deficits

Psychonomic Society Meeting, November, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA

Reframing the value of errors mitigates anxiety-related learning deficits

Psychonomic Society Meeting, November, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA

Lab and real-world interventions for communicating health risks

Rutgers University – Camden, October, 2023, Camden, NJ, USA

Scenario-based messages on social media motivate COVID-19 information seeking

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Meeting, August, 2023, Nagoya, Japan

Instructed motivational states bias reinforcement learning and memory formation

Learning & Memory Conference, March, 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Lab and real-world interventions to correct pandemic-related risk perception

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Duke University, February, 2022, Durham, NC, USA

Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Meeting, July, 2021, Virtual Conference

Past meets present: Prediction error drives episodic memory updating

Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, May, 2020, Virtual Conference

Surprise drives episodic memory updating and distortion

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Meeting, June, 2019, Cape Cod, MA, USA

Prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

Toronto Area Memory Group Conference, May, 2018, Toronto, ON, Canada

Surprise & destabilize: Prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

NeuroXchange Conference, April, 2018, Hamilton, ON, Canada