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East Hill Notes #202 - Martha Van Rensselaer
Date: June 2009
Length: 30:00
Cornell Design League 25th Anniversary
Date: February 2009
Length: 01:36
How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?
Date: September 2008
Length: 30:00
Human Development Professor Charles Brainerd discusses research on how emotional content distorts memory and how this impacts the legal system.
New Human Ecology Building: Exterior Fly-Thru
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New Human Ecology Building
Date: September 2008
Length: 00:03:00
Animated 3D architectural rendering of the exterior of the Human Ecology Building now under construction.
New Human Ecology Building: Interior Fly-Thru
Collection:
New Human Ecology Building
Date: September 2008
Length: 00:03:00
Animated 3D architectural rendering of the interior of the Human Ecology Building now under construction.
Video Presentations
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Autism and the Family: Connection, Conflict, and Complexity
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 17:03
Bill Hudenko discusses dynamics in families affected by autism.
Autism at the Crossroads between Genetics, Neurodevelopment and the Immune System: Recent Findings and Future Perspectives
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 56:40
Antonio Persico discusses his research on the interacting genetic and environmental factors that can predispose the brain to autism.
Autism in Central New York: Panel Discussion
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 1:05:54
Panel speakers Matthew Belmonte, Antonio Persico, Evdokia Anagnostou, Karen Fried, and Bill Hudenko respond to audience questions at the conference on Autism in Central New York: Research and Practice.
Autism Services in Upstate New York: How Are We Doing?
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 20:40
Karen Fried discusses the state of practice in NYS and points to some helpful information sources.
Autism: When Genetics Meets the Immune System
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 25:41
Antonio Persico highlights his research on the interacting genetic and environmental factors that can predispose the brain to autism.
What Is It about Autism that Runs in Families?
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 25:09
Matthew Belmonte highlights his research showing that short-range, local connections between brain cells may be abnormally strong in whole families affected by autism.
What We Know and Don't Know about Medications and Autism
Collection:
2009 Autism Conference
Topic:
child development
Date: October 2009
Length: 23:29
Evdokia Anagnostou relates practical findings from her research on autistic brain function and how it is affected by drugs.
Family Stories and Adolescent Identity and Well-Being
Topic:
Youth Development
Date: September 2009
Length: 1:07:26
Robyn Fivush examines narrative approaches to understanding self and well-being in adolescence and examines the role of personal and intergenerational stories in helping adolescents to create a sense of self.
Street Style: An Ethnographic study of Fashion Subcultures in Ithaca NY - Research and the Costume Collection
Date: July 2009
Over a three year period, an ethnographic survey of youth subcultures was conducted in Ithaca NY by Prof. Van Dyk Lewis and a team of student researchers.
East Hill Notes #202 - Martha Van Rensselaer
Date: June 2009
Length: 30:00
Small Changes and Mindless Eating Solutions
Date: June 2009
Length: 1:18:51
Brian Wansink shares insights from his research on eating behavior, demonstrates the powerful role that environmental factors play in what we eat, and discusses strategies for making dietary changes.
Aging, Emotions, and Health-Related Decisions
Collection:
2009 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Aging
Date: May 2009
Length: 00:59:02
Corinna Loeckenhoff discusses her recent research on age differences in emotional processing and how these changes influence people?s decisions in the health domain.
Aging, Volunteerism and Environmental Sustainability: A New Human Development Extension Program
Collection:
2009 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Aging
Date: May 2009
Length: 01:02:14
Linda P. Wagenet describes a new environmental volunteerism program for older adults that addresses the critical intersection of mounting environmental problems and a growing population of older adults.
Early Childhood Poverty and Later Attainment
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family;
Education
Date: May 2009
Length: 01:10:45
At this 3rd Annual Bronfenbrenner Lecture, Greg Duncan reviews the findings and policy implications from his research with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) on the links between economic deprivation during childhood and adult earnings.
The Environment of Childhood Poverty
Collection:
2009 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family
Date: May 2009
Length: 01:06:20
Gary Evans provides an overview of the social and physical characteristics of settings that low income children grow up in and discusses what we know about why poverty is bad for children?s development.
The Surprising Rationality of Young Children's Learning
Collection:
2009 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family
Date: May 2009
Length: 00:46:07
Tamar Kushnir discusses her research on how children learn and how social context and social information influences children?s learning.
Update on Effective Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Programs
Collection:
2009 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family
Date: May 2009
Length: 01:19:12
John Eckenrode provides an overview of child maltreatment, intervention and prevention research, intervention models and specifically the Nurse Family Partnership Program.
Anti-social Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, Future Dangerousness Part I Personality Assessment
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: April 2009
Length: 1:03:00
Anti-social Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, Future Dangerousness Part II Future Dangerousness
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: April 2009
Length: 54:00
Connecting the Psychology and Neurobiology of Parent-Infant Bonding
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family
Date: April 2009
James Swain discusses his research on the neurological underpinnings of parent-infant bonding and how they relate to the psychology of attachment.
Developmental Effects of Teratogens (Fetal Alcohol Exposure)
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: April 2009
Length: 50:00
Lead-Associated Neurobehavioral Impairments in Children
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: April 2009
Length: 1:33:00
Mental Illness: Clinical Use of the DSM IV Instrument
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: April 2009
Length: 1:28:00
Racial Residue: How Race Alters Perception of People, Places, and Things
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: April 2009
Jennifer Eberhardt presents her research on how race influences our perception of objects and physical spaces, how objects and physical spaces influence how we think about race and how race changes how we see people.
Mistaken Eyewitness Identification and False Confidence: The Creation of Distorted Retrospective Judgment
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: March 2009
Gary L. Wells discusses the phenomenon of mistaken eyewitness identification and the psychology of how these errors happen.
Risky Decision Making in Adolescence
Date: March 2009
Valerie Reyna describes the developmental differences in the way adolescents make decisions and reviews her research regarding why adolescents perceive risks and benefits and yet take more risks.
Transitions of Care for Frail Elders: Results from a CITRA Research-to-Practice Consensus Workshop
Topic:
Aging;
Translational Research
Date: March 2009
Rhoda Meador discusses the planning and implementation of the consensus workshop methodology for fostering dialog between researchers and practitioners in the critical area of care transitions.
Cooking Up Fun
Date: February 2009
Length: 19:03
Video that teaches children cooking skills
Cornell Design League 25th Anniversary
Date: February 2009
Length: 01:36
Experimental Research in Standards-Based Education
Topic:
Education
Date: February 2009
Length: 54:10
Charles Brainerd discusses what research is necessary to develop educational standards designed to maximize student learning in specific content areas.
Mitigation Past, Present, and Future: Josephe Amrine - Comments & Discussion
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: February 2009
Length: 36:00
Mitigtion Past, Present, and Future: Joseph Amrine Tells His Story
Collection:
HD 4140
Date: February 2009
Length: 1:21:00
Can Home Visiting Increase the Quality of Home-based Child Care?
Topic:
Child Development;
Parent/Family
Date: January 2009
Length: 52:04
Moncrieff Cochran and Lisa McCabe discuss the child care continuum, opportunities to improve care, and present findings from the first two years of a program evaluation of the Caring for Quality project.
Brain Development in Healthy and Vulnerable Populations
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: November 2008
Length: 1:00:00
Ruben Gur discusses his research on how behavioral dimensions are related to regional brain function using neuroimaging data and behavioral data related to regional brain function in healthy people and specific clinical populations with brain disease.
The Anatomy of Loneliness
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: October 2008
Length: 1:00:00
John Cacioppo provides a fascinating overview of his research on how social isolation or perceived social isolation (loneliness) effects social cognition and emotions, personality processes, the brain, biology, and health.
Understanding and Communicating Risk and Benefit: Presentation to the ACR 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting, 10/28/08
Topic:
Medical Decision Making
Date: October 2008
Length: 29:33
Research from congitive science and psychology on how people use risk and benefit information to make informed decisions
How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?
Date: September 2008
Length: 30:00
Human Development Professor Charles Brainerd discusses research on how emotional content distorts memory and how this impacts the legal system.
New Human Ecology Building: Exterior Fly-Thru
Collection:
New Human Ecology Building
Date: September 2008
Length: 00:03:00
Animated 3D architectural rendering of the exterior of the Human Ecology Building now under construction.
New Human Ecology Building: Interior Fly-Thru
Collection:
New Human Ecology Building
Date: September 2008
Length: 00:03:00
Animated 3D architectural rendering of the interior of the Human Ecology Building now under construction.
The Death Penalty in Delaware
Date: September 2008
Length: 30:00
John Blume discusses what has been learned from empirical studies of Delaware?s death penalty and how these insights might apply to other regions.
The Development of Developmental Science: An Exercise in Dialectics
Collection:
Ricciuti Lecture
Topic:
Child Development
Date: September 2008
Length: 30:00
Arnold Sameroff provides an engaging overview of the history of Developmental Science and the nature-nurture debate. Drawing on examples from his research, he outlines a unifying view focusing on the transactional relations between child characteristics, parent childrearing, and the broader environment.
DEA Undergraduate Research - 2008
Collection:
Undergraduate Research
Date: June 2008
Length: 5:00
Professor Alan Hedge and students discuss the benefits of research in the classroom and career applications for the field of ergonomics.
FSAD Undergraduate Research - 2008
Collection:
Undergraduate Research
Date: June 2008
Length: 5:00
Katie Donley and Associate Professor Margaret Frey explore the possibilities of fiber science.
HD Undergraduate Research - 2008
Collection:
Undergraduate Research
Date: June 2008
Length: 5:00
Bethany Ojalehto and Associate Professor Qi Wang describe research into the effects of refugee status on child development.
PAM Undergraduate Research - 2008
Collection:
Undergraduate Research
Date: June 2008
Length: 5:00
Matt Eisenberg and Professor Rosemary Avery talk about pharmaceutical research and student life in Policy Analysis and Management.
Child Language Acquisition and Growth
Collection:
2008 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Child Development
Date: May 2008
Length: 30:00
Barbara Lust discusses her research on language development, exploring such questions as when and how do children acquire language and what are the effects of acquiring more than one language at once.
CITRA: Evaluating Five Years of Community-Partnered Research
Collection:
2008 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Translational Research
Date: May 2008
Length: 30:00
Elaine Wethington summarizes the lessons learned from CITRAs innovative efforts to fund and evaluate community-based research that benefits older adults.
Parent-child Play Groups as a Family Support Strategy
Collection:
2008 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Early Childhood;
Parent/Family
Date: May 2008
Length: 30:00
Moncrieff Cochran describes findings from his research to evaluate the effects of participation in play groups on parenting and child behavior.
Positive Emotions as a Basic Building Block of Resilience in Later Life
Collection:
2008 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Aging
Date: May 2008
Length: 30:00
Anthony Ong describes his research on the powerful effects of positive emotion to build psychological resources, moderate reactivity to stress, and hasten recovery from negative events.
Research-based Outreach: Albert Banduras Model
Collection:
2008 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Translational Research
Date: May 2008
Length: 30:00
Stephen Hamilton discusses a comprehensive approach to outreach which goes beyond research-based program content, calling for integrating research into the program life cycle from problem identification and incidence through implementation and evaluation.
Explanations for Everything: The Value of Cognitive Analyses of Judgments and Decisions
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: February 2008
Reid Hastie illustrates how we develop mental representations or stories to explain our experience and how these mental representations can be used to explain, predict and control decisions.
2007 FSAD Design Show
Date: November 2007
Length: 5:00
Fiber Science & Apparel Design students share their work and strut their stuff.
Barbara Lust Book Talk on Child Language - Video
Date: November 2007
Length: 45:00
Child Language: Dr. Barbara Lust discusses recent discoveries about child language acquisition in this book talk at Mann Library
Intelligence: Four Paradoxes Resolved
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: November 2007
Length: 1:14:40
James Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, explores what intelligence really is.
Urban Semester: Alon Mass, Neurobiology major
Collection:
Urban Semester
Date: November 2007
Length: 1:40
Students in the Urban Semester Program in New York City describe the program in their own words.
Urban Semester: Andrea Hsu, Applied Economics and Management major
Collection:
Urban Semester
Date: November 2007
Length: 2:10
Students in the Urban Semester Program in New York City describe the program in their own words.
Urban Semester: Brooke Mayer, Design and Environmental Analysis major
Collection:
Urban Semester
Date: November 2007
Length: 2:40
Students in the Urban Semester Program in New York City describe the program in their own words.
Urban Semester: Dustin Cooperman, Human Biology, Health and Society major
Collection:
Urban Semester
Date: November 2007
Length: 2:40
Students in the Urban Semester Program in New York City describe the program in their own words.
Ethnic and Class Disparities in School Readiness: Closing the Gap
Collection:
Ricciuti Lecture
Topic:
Education;
Parent/Family;
Child Development
Date: October 2007
Length: 30:00
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn discusses the effects of income, health conditions, parenting, and preschool on racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness and summarizes evidence supporting intervention strategies most likely to reduce the gaps.
Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations
Collection:
Law, Psychology and Human Development
Date: September 2007
Length: 44:35
Dr. Phoebe Ellsworth, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Michigan, discusses confirmation bias as a source of false convictions in this colloquium sponsored by the Department of Human Development and others.
Five Factors that Can Damage Childrens Memory
Date: September 2007
Stephen Ceci discusses memory and how childrens memory can be corrupted in this engaging guest lecture for Introductory Psychology that includes two audience participation experiments.
What Every Parent Should Know to Survive the College Years
Topic:
Education;
Parent/Family
Date: August 2007
Length: 59:31
Christine Schelhas-Miller discusses the changing relationship between parents and their children in college. Based on extensive focus groups, surveys, and counseling sessions with families.
Environment and Health: Linking the natural and built environment with human well-being
Date: July 2007
Length: 1:00:00
4H Fashion Design Project
Date: June 2007
Length: 6:00
Denise Green '07 teaches kids to design and make their own fashion, fostering creativity and independence along the way.
Get Fresh
Date: June 2007
Length: 52:34
An informational video which features eight fruits and vegetables that can be found at your local farmers market. The video features several different cooking methods for each fruit or vegetables.
Law, Psychology, and Human Development
Collection:
2007 Human Development Research Update
Date: June 2007
Length: 1:31:52
Charles Brainerd highlights the pervasive use of memory reports as legal evidence, common assumptions juries make, and related research findings.
The Positive Side of Aging: Changes in Emotion-Cognition Interactions across the Life Span
Collection:
2007 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Aging
Date: June 2007
Length: 1:03:18
Joseph Mikels discusses age-related changes in cognitive function and emotional regulation, emotion-cognition interactions, and improving the decision quality of older adults.
From Theory to Practice and Back: Finding New Ways to Integrate Research and Practice
Collection:
2007 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Translational Research
Date: May 2007
Jennifer Brown, Ph.D candidate in Human Development, discusses logic modeling, linking research to program theory and evaluation, and the Netway - a new tool for monitoring and tracking program activities.
Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy
Collection:
2007 Human Development Research Update
Date: May 2007
Length: 1:10:09
Valerie Reyna discusses teen risk taking, developmental differences in judgment and decision making, and the implications of her research for programs and policies to prevent or change risky behaviors.
Turning High-Risk Kids on to Science
Topic:
Education
Date: May 2007
Length: 1:16:10
Wendy Williams highlights the low participation of minority, female, and low-income youth in science careers and describes her Thinking Like a Scientist curriculum to encourage greater representation.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) - A Quarter Century of Making a Difference
Date: December 2006
Length: 25:00
Video
Brian Barber lecture - Adolescence and War
Date: November 2006
Length: 1:00:00
The Science of False Memory
Date: November 2006
Length: 1:05:00
Charles Brainerd discusses the psychology of false memories and evidence that calls into question traditional theory regarding memory in this book talk at the Mann Library.
Eat Smart New York!
Date: September 2006
Length: 14:15
Eat Smart New York Marketing Video
College Commencement - 2006
Date: July 2006
Length: 22:00
Video
To Intervene or Not to Intervene
Collection:
2006 Human Development Research Update
Topic:
Education
Date: May 2006
Length: 1:23:51
Stephen Ceci explores whether we should universalize interventions to help disadvantaged children, which could potentially elevate top students even higher and widen the achievement gap.
Healthy Homes - Assessing your indoor environment (English)
Date: December 2005
Length: 24:00
Learn how to identify and reduce health hazards in your home
Healthy Homes - Assessing your indoor environment (Spanish)
Date: December 2005
Length: 24:00
Learn how to identify and reduce health hazards in your home
Risk-Taking Teens
Date: December 2005
Length: 3:05
Interview with Dr. Reyna, WHAM Channel 13, December 19, 2006.
Audio Presentations
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Barbara Lust Book Talk on Child Language - Audio
Date: November 2007
Length: 45:00
Child Language: Dr. Barbara Lust discusses recent discoveries about child language acquisition in this book talk at Mann Library
CURxED Prescription Drug Plan Interview with Robert Harris #2
Collection:
CURxED Prescription Drug Plan
Date: October 2007
Length: 10:30
CURxED Prescription Drug Plan Interview with Robert Harris #1
Collection:
CURxED Prescription Drug Plan
Date: September 2007
Length: 7:00
Student Voices - 2007
Date: April 2007
Length: 10:25
Human Ecology students describe a number of volunteer opportunities and career development organizations they are involved with.
The Science of False Memory
Date: November 2006
Length: 1:05:00
Charles Brainerd discusses the psychology of false memories and evidence that calls into question traditional theory regarding memory in this book talk at the Mann Library.
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Investment Fraud Protection
Date: April 2008
Length: 1:35:00
Cornell Law School students present information on Investment Fraud Protection; produced in collaboration with the Cornell Securities Law Clinic and its director, Professor William Jacobsen. Conducted as part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension training for family economics and resource management educators.
Investment Fraud Protection PowerPoint Presentation
Date: April 2008
Length: N/A
Energy Town Meeting - Renewable Energy for your Home
Collection:
Energy Town Meeting
Date: March 2006
Energy Town Meeting - Home Performance and EnergyStar
Collection:
Energy Town Meeting
Date: December 2004
Energy Town Meeting - EnergyStar, Home Performance
Date: October 2004
Energy Town Meeting - EnergySmart, DOT Org Efficiency
Collection:
Energy Town Meeting
Date: September 2004