EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m. Nov. 3, 2011

EVENT: “Understanding Conflict and Its Resolution: Lessons from the Lab and the Real World” is the title of the 2011 Katz-Newcomb Lecture by psychologist Lee Ross, co-founder of the Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation.

He will discuss how research and theories can help in understanding and reducing intergroup conflict and how his experiences with real-world conflict resolution and intergroup dialogue have helped to inform his research.

Ross is the author of many highly cited papers and two influential books with University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett: “Human Inference” and “The Person and The Situation.” His research on attributional biases and shortcomings in human inference has had a major impact in social psychology and the fields of judgment and decision-making.

The Katz-Newcomb Lecture Series is one of the most prestigious in social psychology. It was endowed on the occasion of the retirements of U-M social psychologists Daniel Katz and Theodore Newcomb to honor their contributions in establishing Michigan as a leader in social psychology.

PLACE: Founders Room, U-M Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor, www.bus.umich.edu/VisitUs/MapsDirections.htm

SPONSORS: Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research and Department of Psychology in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts