The February new major declaration meeting will be February 9, 11:00 am, in Science Center 1102. Please make sure both of your forms are turned in to Kathy, SC1110 before the meeting.

Wednesday, January 13

1:30 Meeting with Psychology and Neuroscience Students Interested
in Graduate School, 1109 Schaap


Thursday, January 14

2:30 Meeting with Psychology and Neuroscience Students Interested in
Graduate School, 1109 Schaap Science Center

3:30 Research Talk, Psychology Department
Song and Spatial Learning in Birds, and Why it Matters to Us
1008 Schaap Science Center


Friday, January 15

3:30 Research Talk
Things You Should Know about your Brain--And Won't Learn in a Classroom
1008 Schaap Science Center

Our first new major meeting of Spring Semester will be January 19, 11:00 am, in Science Center 1102.

Please make sure both of your forms are turned in to Kathy, SC1110 before the meeting.

Seminar: "Hakikomori" (Social Withdrawal), Monday, October 26, (4-5pm)

Place: Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall

Synopsis: Prof. Yuichi Hattori, Sayama Psychological Institute in Japan is a social psychologist working with a very unique socio-psychological disorder in Japan. This disorder is called hikikomori (social withdrawal) and is very similar to agoraphobia in its symptoms, but very different in its causes. Prof. Hattori will be talking about various topics related to this disorder including, parent-child attachment, social triggers, and loneliness. Prof. Hattori was educated at UCLA where he received his master's degree in social psychology. Upon his return to Japan, the problem with hikikomori was becoming more recognized, and he saw such a need for good counseling that many of his contemporaries were unable or unwilling to do. He decided to step a little outside his field of expertise in order to address this need, and has been counseling these individuals for the past ten years with very successful outcomes.

His lecture should be very insightful for anyone related to the field of psychology or the helping professions in general, as well as anyone who wants to get a glimpse of the place where Eastern culture and Western psychology inter-connect.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.

Dr. Rebecca Spencer will be available to meet with majors who want to learn about applying to, getting in, and surviving graduate school. The meeting will be on Thursday, October 22, from 2:30 to 3:20 pm and will be strictly Q & A. Students should feel free to come and go as they are able. It will be held in the Student Resource Room Schaap Science Center 1109. Dr. Spencer is on the faculty at University of Massachusetts - Amherst.