Registration now open!!

Closes Dec. 7th

PRECONFERENCE:  Dynamical Systems and Computational Modeling in Social Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting

San Diego, CA on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our preconference prior to the Annual Meeting of SPSP.  Registration will be $80 and will include two coffee breaks, and a box lunch, and will cover the cost of AV rental.  To register please download the registration form, fill it in, and then mail it and a check to Stephen Read at the address on the form.  

Speakers and Program

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My primary research interest is in computational models of social reasoning and social behavior.

I am working with Lynn Miller of the Annenberg School of Communication and several graduate students (Vita Droutman, Gurveen Chopra, and Ramsay Brown) to develop a neural network model of personality, based on work on temperament, the Big Five, and the neurobiology of motivation.

With Dan Simon, of the USC Law School, and Doug Stenstrom of CSLA, I am working on connectionist models of Legal and Everyday Decision Making.

Phil Ehret and I are working on a neural network model of Wil Cunningham's Iterative Reprocessing Model of Social Evaluation.

Jennifer Talevich and I are working on a neural network model of Adult Attachment processes.

With Brian Monroe and Vita Droutman I am working on a neural network model of Cognitive Dissonance.

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Over the last 10 years Dan Simon and I have collaborated on a series of studies testing a coherence-based model of decision making based on parallel constraint satisfaction processes in neural networks.

Recently, I started a NIDA funded grant in collaboration with Lynn Miller, Zhong-Lin Lu, Antoine Bechara, and Paul Robert Appleby that will examine the neurobiological bases of risky decision making in METH and non-METH using MSM. We will examine their performance on a wide range of cognitive tasks that tap into various aspects of decision making, while they are in the scanner. We will then build computational models of processes we uncover.

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Over the last 15 or more years, Lynn Miller, Paul Robert Appleby, and I have worked on a series of interactive environments designed to change risky sexual behaviors in men who have sex with men.  

In the mid 1990s we developed an interactive CD that successfully reduced risky sexual behavior in MSM.

Following that, we developed a NIAID funded interactive DVD that was also successful in changing risky sexual behavior in MSM.

Recently, we finished the construction of a game designed to change risky sexual behavior.  The game is currently being investigated in a randomized control trial.

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