PSI CHI 3rd Annual Mind and Evolution Lecture

April 7, 2008, 7:30 pm

McCready, Forest Grove

"Mind of the Market:

How Evolution Shapes our

Economic Behavior"

 

 

presented by

Dr. Michael Shermer

 

About Mind and Evolution Annual Lecture

 

This is the third annual Mind and Evolution Lecture and the first time Psi Chi has reserved the Newmark Theater for their event.

Selection of speakers is based upon a vote by the members of Pacific Psychology Club and Psi Chi with the criteria of further promoting public knowledge and interest in the science of Psychology and specifically the areas of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.

Previous year speakers brought: Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University with her address, "Why We Love," and Dr. David Buss of the University of Texas, Austin and his evolutionary psychology address, "Sexual Conflict in Human Mating."

Support this Event by Donating

Psi Chi Friend (donation of $99 or less):

  • Friends will receive recognition in our program.
 

Psi Chi Supporter (donation of a $100 or more):

  • Supporters will receive recognition in our program as well as during this event.
 

Psi Chi Sponsor (donation of $500 or more): 

  • Sponsors will receive recognition in our program and an announcement at our event.
  • Advertising booth space with will be provided outside Keller Audditorium.

 

Psi Chi Benefactor (donation of $1,500):

  • Benefactors will be provided with two honored guest seats in the front row at the event.
  • Benefactors are also invited to dinner at the Hilton on April 7th at 5:00 with our guest speaker, Michael Shermer.
  • Benefactors will also receive recognition in our programs, an announcement at the event, and an advertising booth space outside of Keller Auditorium.

 

About Psi Chi National Honors Society

 

Psi Chi is the National Honors Society in Psychology, it was founded in 1929, for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Psi Chi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). The Pacific University Chapter of Psi Chi is a registered undergraduate student organization, partnered with the Pacific Psychology Club. The individual goals of Pacific Psi Chi is to advance not only student research, service, and fellowship but also scholarship. The annual Mind and Evolution Lecture serves as a large-scale scholarship event, wherein the students prepare and fundraise throughout the year to bring a prestigious speaker to Portland and to their induction ceremony the night of the speaking event.

 

Dr. Michael Shermer

 

Michael ShermerDr. Michael recived his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in history of science from Claremont Graduate University (1991). 

A few of Dr. Michael Shermer projects have been Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.

A few shows Dr. Michael Shermer has been on include The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Lezza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows as a skeptic of weird.

Dr. Michael Shermer has been writing his latest book is The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics. 
 

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