- When
- Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
- Event interval
- Single day event
- Campus location
- Kincaid Hall (KIN)
- Campus room
- 102/108
- Accessibility contact
- chairpsy@uw.edu
- Event types
- Lectures/Seminars
- Event sponsors
- Department of Psychology
- Description
Moralized, Politicized, Polarized E-Motions: A systems view of societal issue sentiment
Professor Colin Wayne Leach, Ph.D., Barnard College, Columbia University in the City of New York
From a systems perspective, human psychology is complex and dynamical — it evolves over time within people, groups, and society (between groups) and is embedded within social, political, technological, cultural, and other systems(Leach & Bou Zeineddine, 2021). But, much of psychology treats social and psychological phenomena as either present or absent in one moment in time, with no past and no future (Bou Zeineddine & Leach, 2021). Our static, linear, atomistic methods, theories, and meta-theories are likely why we did not anticipate that the 21st century is marked by unprecedented social and psychological change (Leach, Ferguson, & Teixeira, 2024). Using studies of sentiment toward protest movements (e.g., Black Lives Matter) and other contentious societal issues, I aim to demonstrate the value of a systems view of the moralized, politicized, and polarized e-motions vying for our attention and for our adoption.
Faculty hosts: Clara Wilkins & Cynthia Levine
These lectures are made possible by a generous endowment by Professor Allen L. Edwards- Map
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