The SAGE Center lecture by Steven Strogatz, originally scheduled for February 24, has been rescheduled for June 2, 2022.

As the 2021-22 academic year approaches, the SAGE Center encourages everyone who attends our lectures and other events to stay abreast of campus updates regarding COVID-19 protocols.

SAGE JUNIOR FELLOWS PRESENT

Why Study the Individual? A Workshop to Discuss Applying an Idiographic Lens to the Study of the Brain
Hosted by the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind
Santa Barbara Inn
March 24-25, 2020

Invited Participants:

• Dr. Alison M. Bell (U of Illinois)
  Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
   
• Dr. Adriene Beltz (U of Michigan)
  

Don’t forget to join us for the Kavli Brain Showcase, a half-day symposium (12-6pm) highlighting the wide range of brain-related research from departments across UCSB.

The event will include:

• Research highlights from new faculty and postdocs
• A special SAGE lecture from speakers Dr. Charles Spence and Chef Jozef Youssef
• Lunch, coffee, and a catered reception

Come get to know others in the UCSB brain community. Expand your network & your mind!

The SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, when permitted by our speakers, provides livestreaming of our public lectures via Zoom (https://ucsb.zoom.us/). For more information, contact John Hajda at hajda@sagecenter.ucsb.edu.

On November 30, 2016, SAGE Center speaker Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, joined UCSB Professors David Sherman (Psychological & Brain Sciences) and Anna Brusutti (Film & Media Studies) for a post-screening discussion of the Disney Pixar film Inside Out, for which Professor Keltner was a consultant.

The SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind is happy to announce the philanthropic support of SAGE Publications, Inc. for the SAGE Visiting Scholar Program through the 2020-21 academic year. Via the SAGE Visiting Scholar Program, the SAGE Center fulfills its mission of fostering the study of brain, mind and behavior by bringing the top researchers and practitioners--from a broad array of disciplines and from around the world--to UC Santa Barbara. These scholars give public lectures—for which total annual attendance exceeds 1500—and interact with faculty, postdoctoral scholars, students and community members. The interdisciplinary work at the SAGE Center offers far-reaching explanations of human phenomena, such as social interactions, stress, conflict resolution, decision making, consumer economics, criminality, and much more.

SAGE Publications has also pledged an additional contribution to the extant SAGE Center endowment. This pledge will, in time, create a sustainable funding source for the SAGE Center. Per Michael Gazzaniga, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Director of the SAGE Center, "UCSB and the greater research community are indebted to SAGE Publications for its continued support of the SAGE Center. For many scientists, engineers, humanists and artists, the study of the brain and mind is a 'frontier' for discovery and creativity, for settling many questions about what it means to be human. We couldn't be more thrilled with the enduring support of SAGE Publications, which has been a friend to us and UCSB for years."

The UCSB Center for the Science of Human Resilience (C-Shore) is proud to announce Professor Ed Diener as its inaugural speaker.

Dr. Diener will speak on "The Exciting New Science of Well-being" on October 14, 2015 at 4 pm in the SAGE Center Conference Room (Psychology Building 1312).

Read Phillip Ehret's article on the SAGE Center Forum on Social Psychological Interventions, featuring Tim Wilson (University of Virginia), Nicole Stephens (Northwestern University) and David Yeager (University of Texas, Austin) and moderated by David Sherman (UCSB). The event was held at UCSB on November 3, 2014.

One of the most exciting areas in psychological science centers on work in real-world settings where psychological interventions have been shown to lead to long-term beneficial outcomes.

SAGE Center Distinguished Fellow Timothy Wilson, the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, featured this work on psychological interventions in his book: Redirect: Changing People's Behavior by Changing Their Stories.

Paul Thompson's May 27 SAGE Center lecture has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.

Dr. Svante Pääbo, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and February 2014 SAGE Center Distinguished Fellow, was featured in the New York Times article "Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome" on December 19, 2013.

The SAGE Center is now accepting applications for the Junior Research Fellowships Post-Doctoral Program. For primary consideration, apply by March 1, 2013, although we will accept applications until the positions are filled.