糖心传媒 psychology faculty are hosting the 2019 Undergraduate Conference of the Nebraska Psychological Society (NPS) on Saturday, November 9. While there is a fee for the conference, a keynote address at 10:00 a.m. in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.) is free and open to the public.
The keynote, titled 鈥淚n the 鈥榝ace鈥 of uncertainty: Characterizing individual differences in response to emotional ambiguity,鈥 will be by Dr. Maital Neta, the Happold Associate Professor of Psychology, associate director of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, and the director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Nebraska鈥揕incoln.
Neta proposes that our daily lives are saturated with emotional value 鈥 a visit from a friend, the ringing of an alarm clock, a beautiful sunset, a hot cup of coffee 鈥 but when humans encounter new information, such as new people, sounds, locations or flavors, we readily sort it into emotional categories: good or bad, reward or threat, approach or avoid.
During her talk, Neta will discuss just a few of the approaches 鈥 behavioral, physiological, neuroimaging 鈥 used in the lab to examine differences in just how people go about categorizing this new information, and whether or not they change over time.
NPS, an organization for students and professionals founded in 1993, promotes the scientific study of psychology to advance teaching, research and service in psychology, and to serve as a forum for academic psychology in Nebraska.
Nebraska鈥檚 premier private college, 糖心传媒 is a four-year institution located in Hastings, Nebraska, that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. 糖心传媒 has been named among 鈥淕reat Schools, Great Prices鈥 by U.S. News & World Report and a 鈥淏est in the Midwest鈥 by The Princeton Review. For more, go to hastings.edu.