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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The first speaker in our 2013-2014 colloquium series, Dr. E. Tory Higgins (Columbia University), will be joining us on Friday, October 25</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>(flyer attached). <span style="color:black">The abstract for his talk follows.</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We look forward to seeing you on the 25th!</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19.5pt;color:black">Department of Psychology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:19.5pt;color:black">Colloquium Series</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:black">Presents</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;color:black">Dr. E. Tory Higgins</span></b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:20.5pt;color:black">Value From Engagement</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Friday, October 25, 2013</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Time: 2:00-3:30 PM</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Place: PAS 2083</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Reception to Follow in PAS Lounge</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Recognizing that value involves experiencing pleasure or pain is critical to understanding the psychology of value. But hedonic experience is not enough. I will present recent research
that supports the proposal that <i>strength of engagement</i> also contributes to experienced value—an experience of the intensity of the force of attraction to or repulsion from a value target. Although the subjective pleasure/pain properties of a value target
influence strength of engagement, there are factors separate from the hedonic properties of the value target that also influence engagement strength and thus contribute to the value experience of attraction or repulsion. I will discuss research showing the
effects on the current value of something from additional sources of engagement strength, including: (1) opposing something that interferes with goal pursuit (dealing with an aversive background noise while solving anagrams by opposing versus coping with it);
and (2) preparing in the present for an upcoming event that is experienced as real because of its high expressed likelihood (controlling for the valence and the actual probability of the future event), which makes
<i>both</i> a current positive object more positive and a current negative object more negative.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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