Colloquium

Alex Shaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, the Department of Psychology, the University of Chicago

Title: The same action or outcome means different things: The complexity of human judgement. 

Abstract: My lab focuses on social judgments that children and adults make about themselves and other people. This talk will focus on three recent papers finding that the same actions and outcomes can be interpreted quite differently depending on the inferences that children and adults make about the action or outcome in question.  The same Inequality can be satisfying or unsatisfying depending on who creates it. The same statement of neutrality can be interpreted as radically different depending on the audience one is speaking to. The same rule can be fair or unfair depending on how one has used similar rules in the past. These results highlight the complexity of the social world and the sophistication of children's and adult's social reasoning. 

Please meet us outside the McCullough Building, close to the picnic tables, at 3:30 pm for cookies, coffee, and conversation.