Introduction and Goals
SPA/MBB brownbag is a forum for graduate students and faculty to present and discuss research in all areas of social/personality/affective science (SPA) and mind, brain, and behavior (MBB) psychology. Our meetings have two goals: (1) to create opportunities for graduate students and faculty to present and receive feedback on current or ongoing projects and (2) to pool our knowledge about statistics, methodology, and theory, thereby expanding our understandings beyond the work being conducted in individual labs.
Format
The SPA/MBB brownbag meets weekly on Wednesdays from 11:00-11:59am and is currently a hybrid format (synchronous on-Zoom and in-person) for Fall 2025. The series features both presentations, roundtable discussions, and workshop style meetings. For the presentations, speakers present their work for 30-40 minutes and the remainder time is open discussion. For the roundtable discussions, there is usually a discussion leader (or leaders) who facilitate questions and answers for the entire meeting.
Contact Information
To sign-up for a presentation or to be placed on the SPA/MBB brownbag e-mail list, please e-mail Dr. Charlotte Tate at ctate2[at]sfsu.edu.
Upcoming Speakers List (Fall 2025)
August 27, 2025: No Meeting
September 3, 2025: No Meeting
September 10, 2025: Introduction to the Series and the Participants
September 17, 2025: TBD
September 24, 2025: TBD
October 1, 2025: TBD
October 8, 2025: TBD
October 15, 2025: TBD
October 22, 2025: TBD
October 29, 2025: Daniela Ibarra (MBB, SFSU): "Puzzling failure to replicate the decoy effect: Perceptual discrimination task"
November 5, 2025: TBD
November 12, 2025: TBD
November 19, 2025: TBD
November 26, 2025: No Meeting (Fall Recess)
December 3, 2025: TBD
December 10, 2025: TBD
(Archive contains the complete list of speakers and titles since Spring 2010; click the link above)