Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live Without Them

A conversation on social interactions moderated by Susan Fiske, from the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and Editor of the Annual Review of Psychology.

To help make sense of living through this pandemic, this group of social scientists will provide context for the deep personal, social and cultural impacts we are experiencing.

The discussion will be moderated by Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Editor of the Annual Review of Psychology.

Her three guests will be:
- Sharon Abramowitz, who studies how community-based innovation, local and traditional leadership, and adaptation to local contexts drive epidemic prevention and response;
- Damon Centola, who investigates the importance of social networks in controlling both the spread of disease and behaviors;
- George M. Slavich, who has championed research on how social interactions and behavior affect immunity to keep us healthy.

Dr. Fiske investigates cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, culturally, interpersonally, and neuro-scientifically. Her books include Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us (2011); Social Cognition (with Shelley Taylor, 2020, 5/e). She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, founded Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and won Princeton University’s Graduate Mentoring Award.

Sharon Abramowitz is a consultant at UNICEF. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in Ebola, infectious disease, epidemic preparedness and response, community engagement, and data sharing. She is working with UNICEF’s Communication for Development to integrate social science and scale the new Inter-agency Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for community engagement, including support for the COVID-19 response. She is also an expert on humanitarian intervention, mental health, gender violence, health sector transitions, and post-conflict reconstruction in West Africa. She is the author of Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, co-editor of the book Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice, and numerous publications on the West African Ebola outbreak published in the Lancet, Global Public Health, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and the Journal of Infectious Disease.

Damon Centola is a Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Network Dynamics Group. His research on social networks and cultural change has garnered nearly a dozen outstanding publication awards, and has been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME, US News & World Report, and Washington Post. He is a senior fellow of the Penn Center for Behavioral Economics, series editor for Princeton University Press, and author of How Behavior Spreads. His book: https://ndg.asc.upenn.edu/book/how-behavior-spreads-the-science-of-complex-contagions

George M. Slavich is the Founding Director at the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research. He is a leading expert in the conceptualization, assessment, and management of life stress, and in psychological and biological mechanisms linking stress with poor health. He developed the first online system for assessing lifetime stress exposure; formulated the first fully integrated, multi-level theory of depression; and is helping pioneer a new field of research, called human social genomics.

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