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Roy Baumeister
Department of Psychology
Florida State University

Roy Baumeister is the Francis Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He investigates self-control by examining a wide range of behaviors.  These behaviors include sexual restraint, aggression, intellectual reasoning, emotional coping, and thought suppression, among others. He coined the term Ego depletion to describe his finding that humans' ability to self-regulate is limited.  Attempts to self-regulate a behavior result in even less ability (or energy) to self-regulate the next behavior. Dr. Baumeister also studies rejection, social exclusion, and the behavioral effects of beliefs in free will. In his recently published book, The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life, Baumeister addresses the questions of what makes us human, as well as why we think, feel and act as we do.

Seminars

Bren Hall
Floor 4L
Room 4016
Mondays 3pm

Tentative Schedule

October 5 Human Nature and Culture: What is the Human Psyche Designed for?

October 12 Self-Regulation, Limited Resources, and Ego Depletion

October 21 Erotic Plasticity: Nature, Culture, and Female Sexuality

October 26 Is There Anything Good about Men?

November 2 Free Will and the Expensive Control of Action

November 9 How Rejection Affects People

November 16 Emotion, Behavior, and the Illusion of Learning

November 30 Pathways to Self-Destruction: Why People Do Stupid Things

December 7 Sexual Economics: A General Theory of (Hetero) Sexual Interactions, or Why the Man Buys Dinner

December 14 What is Consciousness For?