Approbation
Daniel L. Schacter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schacter’s research explores the relation between conscious and unconscious forms of memory, the nature of memory distortions, how individuals use memory to imagine possible future events, enhancement of online learning, as well as the effects of aging on memory.
Book:
The Seven Sins of Memory
Video:
The Seven Sins of Memory
Are all of your memories real?
A renowned psychologist who has done pioneering research on social norms, Catherine Sanderson was inspired to write this book when a freshman in her son’s dorm died twenty hours after a bad fall while drinking. There were many points along the way when a decision to seek help could have saved his life. Why did no one act sooner?
Book:
Why we Act
Video:
The Psychology of Inaction
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University where she was the first woman to be tenured in the department. She has been described as the "mother of mindfulness" and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. She is the founder of The Langer Mindfulness Institute and consults with organizations to foster mindful leadership, innovation, strategy and work/life integration.
Book:
Mindfulness
Video:
Mindfulness & Intelligence
Dr. Sabine Kastner, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University, is studying how the brain weeds out important information from every day scenes. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Kastner is able to peek inside the brain and see what areas are active when a person sees a face, place, or object.
Book:
The Oxford Handbook of Attention
Videos:
Mysteries of the Brain: Perceiving Brain
Opening new frontiers for young minds
Dr. Iyengar is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. Growing up in New York City as a blind Indian American and the daughter of immigrants, she began to look at the choices she and others had, and how to get the most from choice. She first started researching choice as an undergrad at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated with a B.S. in Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University where her dissertation, “Choice and its Discontents,” received the Best Dissertation Award. Dr. Iyengar received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2002, and in 2011 and 2019, she was named a member of the Thinkers50, a global ranking of the top 50 management thinkers. She won the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Core Teaching from Columbia Business School in 2012 and was named one of the World’s Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. She has also given keynotes, and consulted for companies as wide ranging as Deloitte, Google, Bloomberg, Blizzard Entertainment, J.P. Morgan & Chase, and The North Face.
Book:
The Art of Choosing
Video:
The Art of Choosing
World Economic Forum
B.J. Casey was among the first scientists to use fMRI in children, laying the groundwork for a new field of study: developmental cognitive neuroscience. Casey proposed imbalance model posits that dynamic changes in brain structure and function during adolescence lead to transient imbalances in how brain areas communicate that impact emotion reactivity and regulation during adolescence, relative to earlier and later developmental stages. In collaboration with the late Walter Mischel, Casey studied the original participants of Mischel's famous 1972 Stanford Bing Nursery School "Marshmallow Experiment" 40 years later. The study's findings suggested that individual differences in self-control seen in early childhood may be predictive of motivational processing and cognitive control in adulthood.
Casey is one of the most cited scientists in developmental neuroscience, with over 200 publications and over 50,000 citations.
Book:
Teenage Brain: Think Different?
Video:
2015 Ruane Price Winner - Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research,
The Mind of Adolescent
Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test
Neuroscience hasn’t been the same since Ed Boyden arrived on the scene. As a trainee at Stanford, Boyden helped develop a technique that allows scientists to control brain activity with light with exquisite precision. He started thinking how you could really map the brain. He actually take a brain — preserved, of course — and physically swell it and make it bigger, move the molecules apart from each other to the point where you can move them far enough apart that you can distinguish them. Now He is applying it to all sorts of stuff — bacteria, cancer, biopsies, virology questions. There’s a huge pent-up demand for ways of seeing large objects with nanoscale precision.
Video:
A new way to study brain invisible secrets.
Engineering Revolutions - World Economic Forum
Engineering the Brain