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SUMMARY:“Variability in Psychological Reactivity: Vulnerability\, Differ
 ential Susceptibility\, or Vantage Sensitivity?” - Michael Pluess\, Lect
 urer in Developmental Psychology\, MRC Social\, Genetic &amp\; Development
 al Psychiatry Centre\, Institute of Psychiatry\, King’s College London
DTSTART:20130610T153000Z
DTEND:20130610T170000Z
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CONTACT:Felicia Huppert
DESCRIPTION:The notion that some people are more affected than others by t
 he same experience is widely embraced in most fields of psychology and usu
 ally framed in a Diathesis-Stress perspective: some people are more vulner
 able to adverse experiences as a function of inherent risk characteristics
  (e.g.\, personality\, genes). More recently\, it has been suggested in th
 e Differential Susceptibility framework (Belsky & Pluess\, 2009) that indi
 viduals may vary in their psychological reactivity more generally: some ar
 e more affected by both negative as well as positive influences. Based on 
 this now empirically well-supported proposition\, I will introduce the new
  concept of Vantage Sensitivity which refers to variation in response to e
 xclusively positive experiences (Pluess & Belsky\, 2012). Empirical eviden
 ce will be presented and evaluated using data from behavioural\, physiolog
 ical\, neuroimaging and genetic studies. Potential mechanisms and practica
 l implications will be discussed.
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King’s College. Cambridge
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