Michael Spezio – Psychology

Professor Spezio was awarded a $190,000 grant from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project which focused on understanding moral action and leadership among members of humanitarian and democratizing justice exemplar groups in Turkey.

Professor Spezio published the following:

  • Coauthored the paper, “Semantic Incongruency Interferes with Endogenous Attention in Cross-Modal Integration of Semantically Congruent Objects,” published in the open access scientific journal Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience;
  • Coauthored a chapter in the new Oxford University Press volume on Humility, entitled, “Self-Other Concept in Humble Love As Exemplified by Long-Term Members of L’Arche”;
  • Wrote an empirically grounded critique of Iain McGilchrist’s work on the human brain, entitled, “McGilchrist and Hemisphere Lateralization: A Neuroscientific and Meta-analytic Assessment,” published in Religion, Brain, and Behavior (Taylor & Francis).

Professor Spezio presented the following:

  • Gave an invited talk entitled “Data Science Ethics and Justice” as part of The Claremont Colleges Workshop on Data Science, Aug. 2019;
  • Served as senior author on presentations at the Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making meeting in Montreal, Canada, July 2019, and at the meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Rome, Italy, June 2019.

Prof. Spezio continued as a scientific editor for the open access scientific journal PLOS One in the area of Decision Science, and as a coeditor of the interdisciplinary journal Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (Mohr Siebeck).

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