Seminars are held Wednesdays at 3:15 p.m. via Zoom, unless otherwise noted.


2024-25 Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
October 30, 2024 Peter Zimmermann, Ph.D. University of Wuppertal (Germany) Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Children’s Mental Health Problems
December 6, 2024 (in-person SAN 340) Shengli Dong, Ph.D. Professor of Psychological and Counseling Services in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University ACT in Mindfulness
March 19, 2025 Mara Brendgen, Ph.D. Director, Professor at the University of Montreal (Canada) TBA
2023-24 Seminars

2023-24 Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Oct. 4, 2023 Daniel S. Shaw, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh Translating Developmental Research on Early Problem Behavior to a Tiered Prevention Program for Young Children Living in Poverty
Oct. 25, 2023 Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Renée Crown Wellness Institute – Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Maternal Mental Health
Nov. 1, 2023 Marty Swanbrow Becker, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University Fostering Social Connection to Support College Student Mental Health
Dec. 6, 2023 David Sbarra, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology – University of Arizona College of Science, and Director of the Laboratory for Social Connectedness and Health Social Relationships and Health: A Twice Told Tale
March 6, 2024 Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Ohio State University Early Relational Health: A Family Systems Perspective
March 27, 2024 Bruce E. Compas, Ph.D. Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor, Director of Clinical Psychology Training, Psychology & Human Development, Vanderbilt University Coping and Emotion Regulation: Key Constructs in Understanding and Building Resilience
2022-23 Seminars

2021-23 Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Dec 8, 2021 Janae Neiderhiser, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Penn State University Using multiple strategies and designs to understand genetic and environmental influences on development through the lifespan.
Feb 2, 2022 Kirstin Purves, Ph.D. Core Analytical Group Co-Director, Anxiety Workgroup, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium The Role for Genes and the Environment in the Development of Anxiety
April 6, 2022 Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Ph.D. McCourtney Professor of Child Studies, Professor of Psychology, Associate Director of the Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University Capturing Social Attention: Attempts to bring Attention Measures into the Social World
October 5, 2022 Professor Crystal Park Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs Spirituality, Meaning and Health
November 2, 2022 Professor Andres De Los Reyes Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park When Youth Mental Health Assessments Produce Discrepant Results
Nov. 9, 2022 Associate Professor Julie Bowker Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo Understanding Solitude and Social Withdrawal: Developmental Considerations and Individual Differences
Nov. 16, 2022 Professor John (Jack) Hettema & Asst. Prof. Brad Verhulst Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Anxiety Genetics in the Age of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
Jan. 18, 2023 Lyndsay Jenkins, Ph.D. Michael and Jean Shahnasarian Endowed Associate Professor of Counseling and School Psychology, Florida State University Preventing and Addressing Peer Victimization: Two Approaches
Feb. 22, 2023 Hye Won Chai, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center and the Center on Aging and Population Sciences Daily Experiences, Family Relationships, and Health in Later Life: Variations by Age and Gender
March 8, 2023 Lisa Serbin, Ph.D. Research Chair in Human Development and Professor of Psychology, Centre for Research in Human Development and Department of Psychology, Concordia University From Social Withdrawal in Childhood to Adult Functioning, Parenting and Inter-generational Risk: Findings from the Concordia Intergenerational Research Project
April 19, 2023 Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D. Professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California Building meaning builds teens’ brains: Beyond IQ, adolescents’ dispositions to construct transcendent narratives predict their neural development and young adult wellbeing
2021-22 Seminars

2021-2022 Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Jan. 9 Joanna Wu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University Modeling Longitudinal Data in Marriage and Family Therapy
Jan. 16 Michele Parker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Child Sciences and College of Social Work, Florida State University Autism Spectrum Disorder and Complex Healthcare Needs: The Role of Healthcare Experiences
Feb. 13 Damaris Aschwanden, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Researcher, College of Medicine, Florida State University Personality and Cognition: From Long-Term Development to Short-Term Dynamic Processes in Daily Life
March 5 Sara Hart, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University Using Precision Education to Understand Learning Differences
March 12 Jim McNulty, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University The Automaticity of Being…in a Close Relationship
April 2 Monika Ardelt, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Florida TBD
April 9 Ezgi Toplu Demirtas, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar, Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University TBD
April 23 Shannon Montgomery, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Researcher, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University Health and Social Network Analysis
2019-20 Seminars

2019-20 Speakers and topics

Speaker Affiliation Title
Beatrice Wood, Ph.D., ABPP Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics & Psychology, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo Thoughts on Full vs. Partial Mediation
Thomas Ledermann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University Practice to Research and Back: Building Family Interventions in a Service Setting
W. Alex Mason, Ph.D. Senior Research Director, Boystown; Courtesy Faculty, Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University TBD

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