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Title: Undoing the Unwanted
Speaker: Dr. HU Xiaoqing (The University of Hong Kong)
Time: Thursday, 25th October, 2018
Address: Rm. 201, School of Psychology
Personal profile:
Dr. HU Xiaoqing is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, and a Principal Investigator in the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. in Brain, Behavior and Cognition (2014) from Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, and he was a Post-doc Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin (2014-2016). His research focuses on the self-regulation of impulses, memories and social biases. He has published over 20 peer-review research papers in Science, Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, etc. And he is a reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation, FWO, and for over 20 journals including Psychological Bulletin, JEP General, Cognition, NeuroImage, Sleep Medicine Reviews, etc.
Abstract:
Our minds are often haunted by unwanted memories and biases. One shared feature of these unwanted intrusions is that they tend to steer behaviors away from our desired goals in an automatic fashion, despite our best intentions and efforts to control their influences. In this talk, I will present findings regarding the neurocognitive mechanisms that support theregulation of these unwanted influences on behavior, with a particular emphasis on the control of automatic processes underlying these influences. Expanding on this central theme, I will present research on the regulation of unwanted memories and the regulation of implicit social biases. Implications and future directions will be discussed.