Archive for June, 2022

Nobel Conference Speaker Manuela Barreto

Dr. Manuela Barreto, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Exeter. Her lecture will be “It takes a village to make someone lonely.” In 2018, 55,000 people completed an online survey, the “Loneliness Experiment.” It was the largest study of loneliness to date. Among its findings: young people (16 to 24) reported feeling lonely […]

Nobel Conference speaker Brendesha Tynes

Dr. Brendesha Tynes is Dean’s Professor of Equity and Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Southern California. Her lecture at the conference is “Adolescents’ daily race-related experiences and mental health outcomes.” Access to digital media permeates our society, perhaps particularly among young people. In one recent survey of middle and high schoolers, […]