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SUMMARY:Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs  - Profe
 ssor Nikolaus Steinbeis\, UCL
DTSTART:20250318T160000Z
DTEND:20250318T170000Z
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CONTACT:Louise Gray
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nMy research focusses on understanding processes 
 that regulate our thoughts and actions and their mechanistic role in drivi
 ng healthy psychological development. I will present recent and ongoing ex
 perimental work on two such processes\, namely cognitive control and contr
 ol beliefs. \n\nIn the first part I will present data from a recently comp
 leted randomized control trial aiming to improve cognitive control in 235 
 6-11 year old children showing no effects across a host of behavioural and
  neural outcomes. In the second half I will present more recent work on th
 e relationship between control beliefs and stress. I will show data on (i)
  the buffering effects of heightened sense of control against later stress
  and (ii) that control beliefs shape adaptive responding to stress. \n\nI 
 will discuss these findings in line with recent frameworks characterising 
 control as a highly rational and dynamic process and outline implications 
 for interventions.  \n\n\n*Biography:*\n\nI did my thesis at the Max-Planc
 k Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences on the neuroscience of 
 music and was awarded my PhD in 2008. I then moved to the University of Zu
 rich for a postdoc in developmental social neuroscience at the Institute f
 or Empirical Economics. I then returned to the Max-Planck Institute as Sen
 ior Researcher and Group Leader. \n\nAfter fellowships at the Weill Cornel
 l Medical School and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute I join
 ed the Department of Developmental Psychology at the University of Leiden 
 as an Assistant Professor in 2015. In 2017 I moved to UCL's Division of Ps
 ychology and Language Sciences as an Associate Professor and became Full P
 rofessor of Developmental Neuroscience there in 2021. \n\nI have received 
 various accolades and fellowships (i.e. Jacobs Research Fellowship\, Humbo
 ldt Fellowship\, German-Israeli Foundation Fellowship) and my work has bee
 n funded by the Jacobs Foundation\, the German Research Foundation\, the E
 uropean Research Council\, and the Economic and Social Research Council. \
 n\n\n*Teams link* \n\n"Teams Meeting ID: 359 964 811 470\, Passcode: F6gXF
 U":https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWIxYzNhNTItZDEw
 OC00MjM3LWJlZjctYzRmOGZhYWQ1OTky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224
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 -8ec7-73c713eb7707%22%7d\n\n(Or in person: Ground Floor Seminar Room\, Old
  Cavendish Labs\, Rayleigh Wing\, New Museums Site - opposite Student Serv
 ices). 
LOCATION:Hybrid: in-person in Cambridge &amp\; online via Teams
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