Distinguished Visitors Talk by Chelsea Helion, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Temple University

Talk on Friday, November 1 at 1:00pm in Sharpless Auditorium (tea at 12:45pm) 

“How dynamic interaction informs social evaluation”

Individuals’ representations of the social world are informed by dynamic interaction. This is true for both passive observation (e.g., learning what someone is like through observing how they treat others) and active engagement (e.g., learning what someone is like through conversation). In my talk, I will review two directions we are taking in our research program to better understand how individuals build and update their representations of others using dynamic stimuli and real-world interaction. In the first part of my talk, I will examine how social relationships influence real-time information processing and social evaluations of others. In the second part, I will examine how passively observing interpersonal conversation informs relational learning, with a special focus on the linguistic markers associated with different types of social relationships.