SALMS has been fortunate to host dozens of leading mind science and legal scholars as part of our Speakers’ Series. Browse our list of past talks below, including links to videos of taped events. Check back for updates on forthcoming dates.
Spring 2013
| Max Bazerman | HBS | Feb. 7, 2013 | |
| - Bounded Ethicality |
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| Amy Tishelman | Boston College Psychology | Mar. 1, 2013 | |
| - Child Trauma and Associated Features: Implications in the Legal Context | |||
| James Gilligan | NYU Law & Psychiatry | Mar. 8, 2013 | |
| - Does the Prison System Deter Violence, and If Not, What Alternatives Could We Have? | |||
| Adrian Raine | Penn Psychology | Apr. 4, 2013 | |
| - The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime | |||
| Glenn Butterton | Vanderbilt | TBA | |
| - Title TBA |
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Fall 2012
| Jon Hanson | HLS | September 24 | |
| - What Is “Law and Mind Sciences” and Why Does It Matter? | |||
| George Marcus | Williams Political Science | October 4 | Video |
| - Conventional Wisdoms Versus Affective Intelligence: How Elections Are Really Won and Lost | |||
| Ryan Enos | Harvard Government | October 11 | Video |
| - Mitt Romney Is Really, Really Good Looking: Do Attractiveness and Other Trivial Things Affect Elections? | |||
| Todd Rogers | HKS | October 18 | |
| - The Psychology of the Politics of Politics | |||
| Betsy Sinclair | Chicago Political Science | October 25 | |
| - The Social Citizen | |||
| Joshua Buckholtz | Harvard Psychology | November 30 | |
| - Genetics, Neuroscience, and Crime: Science Fact and Science Fiction | |||
Spring 2012
| Teresa Amabile | HBS | Jan. 31, 2012 | |
| - The Progress Principle | |||
| John Jost | NYU Psychology | Feb. 6, 2012 | |
| - A System Justification Perspective on Social Stratification and Inequality | |||
| Paul Bloom | Yale Psychology | Feb. 20, 2012 | Video |
| - Do Babies Have a Sense of Morality and Justice? Is Kindness Genetic or Learned? | |||
| Jenn Lerner | HKS | Mar. 5, 2012 | |
| - Life at the Top: Evidence on Elite Leaders and Stress Hormone Secretion | |||
| Daria Roithmayr | USC Law | Apr. 2, 2012 | Video |
| - The Evolution of Legal Punishment | |||
Fall 2011
| Edward P. Schwartz | EPS Consulting | Sep. 13, 2011 | |
| - Facing the Fearful Jury: Terror Management Theory in the Courtroom | |||
| Dr. Steven Hyman | Broad Institute | Sep. 27, 2011 | Video |
| - Addiction as a Window into Volition | |||
| Richard Wrangham | Harvard Anthropology | Oct. 10, 2011 | Video |
| - Sexual Disparities and the Evolution of Patriarchy | |||
| Robert Trivers | Rutgers Anthropology | Nov. 3, 2011 | Video |
| - Deceit and Self-Deception | |||
| Diane Rosenfeld | HLS | Nov. 30, 2011 | Video |
| - Penn State, Intervention, and a Theory of Patriarchal Violence | |||
Spring 2011
| Ray Jackendoff | Tufts Philosophy | Jan. 31, 2011 | Video |
| - The Natural Logic of Morals and Laws | |||
| Patrick Shin | Suffolk Law | Feb. 8, 2011 | Video |
| - Unconscious Bias and the Legal Concept of Discrimination | |||
| Felix Warneken | Harvard Psychology | Feb. 28, 2011 | Video |
| - The Roots of Human Altruism: Evidence from Children and Chimpanzees | |||
| Richard Hackman | Harvard Psychology | Mar. 7, 2011 | Video |
| - What Makes for a Great Team? | |||
| Jon Hanson | HLS | Mar. 29, 2011 | |
| - Law, Psychology, and Inequality | |||
| Adam Benforado & Geoff Goodwin | Drexel Law / Penn Psychology | Apr. 2, 2011 | Video |
| - Punishing Jaws | |||
Fall 2010
| Jim Sidanius | Harvard Psychol. / AAAS | Sep. 12, 2010 | |
| - Under Color of Authority: Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law | |||
| Dan Dennett | Tufts Philosophy | Sep. 28, 2010 | Video |
| - Free Will, Responsibility, and the Law | |||
| Drazen Prelec | MIT Economics | Oct. 12, 2010 | |
| - Neuroeconomics | |||
| Dan Kahan | Yale Law | Oct. 18, 2010 | Video |
| - The Laws of Cultural Cognition, and the Cultural Cognition of Law | |||
| Sam Sommers | Tufts Psychology | Nov. 5, 2010 | Video |
| - Empirical Perspectives on Jury Diversity | |||
| Adam Kolber | Brooklyn Law | Nov. 2, 2010 | |
| - Freedom of Memory | |||
| Nalini Ambady | Stanford Psychology | Nov. 9, 2010 | |
| - Nonverbal Behavior: Accuracy and Contagion | |||
Spring 2010
| Mahzarin Banaji | Harvard Psychology | Mar. 11, 2010 | |
| - Mind Bugs and the Science of Ordinary Bias | |||
| Joshua Greene | Harvard Psychology | Apr. 1, 2010 | |
| - Moral Cognition and the Law | |||
Fall 2009
| Dan Wegner | Harvard Psychology | Sep. 8, 2009 | |
| - Psychological Studies of the Guilty Mind | |||
| Fiery Cushman | Brown Psychology | Sep. 21, 2009 | |
| - Outcome vs. Intent: Which Do We Punish, and Why? | |||
| Andrew Papachristos | Umass Amherst Sociology | Oct. 5, 2009 | |
| - Why Do Criminals Obey the Law: The Influence of Law and Social Networks on Active Gun Users | |||
| Dan Gilbert | Harvard Psychology | Oct. 19, 2009 | |
| - Why the Brain Scares Itself | |||
| Goutam Jois | J.D., HLS | Oct. 22, 2009 | |
| - Stare Decisis is Cognitive Error | |||
| Steven Pinker | Harvard Psychology | Nov. 17, 2009 | |
| - A History of Violence: How We Became Less Violent | |||
