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Thursday, September 19, 2019 💭 Brummer Colloquium: Dr. Emily Sandoz

From 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at MSU Wrather Auditorium

The Brummer Colloquium will have Dr. Emily Sandoz present "Just Two Kinds of Stuff: How a Contextual Perspective on Ourselves, Others, and Our World Changes Everything." The colloquium will be on Thursday, September 19th from 7:00 - 8:00 pm at MSU Wrather Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

We spend tons of time trying to understand what folks do, why they do it, and how to make them do it differently. This interest has supported not only a whole discipline focused on prediction and influence of behavior, but also a proliferation of commercial products designed to teach humans a new way to understand and influence each other. And so we have words (lots and lots of words) for just about every aspect of human experience and behavior. This presentation aims to introduce an alternative to complicated storytelling. Dr. Sandoz provides an overview of a contextualist perspective on behavior, which creates a foundation for understanding and changing our lives and the world we live in.

Dr. Sandoz is the Emma Louise LeBlanc Burguieres/BORSF Endowed Professor of Social Sciences in the Psychology Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the Director of the Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. Dr. Sandoz has co-authored three books on acceptance and commitment therapy for struggles with eating and body image. She also practices as a clinical psychologist