Date & Place	Focus	Presenter(s)	Readings
11/19 7:30-8:30pm WJH 12th floor	Inaugural Meeting	All	None
12/17 7:00-8:00pm WJH 12th floor	(1) Review Scheines & Esarey (2) Where does machine learning meet causal inference? (3) Discussion & application to clinical psych projects	Karthik Dinakar	Readings: (1) Causal Inference from Observational Data, Justin Esarey (PDF) (2) Causal Discovery, Richard Scheines & others (PDF) Resources: (1) Causal Inference, Hernàn & Robins (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (2) Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction, Imbens & Rubin (Book) (3) Truth in Data, David Blei, Columbia University (Link)
1/21 7:00-8:00pm WJH 12th Floor	Lensing: Human-in-the-loop Generative Modeling to Represent Perspectives	Karthik Dinakar	Readings: 1. Build, Compute, Critique, Repeat: Data Analysis with Latent Variable Models, David Blei, 2014 (PDF) 2. Posterior Predictive Assessment of Model Fitness Via Realized Discrepancy Functions, Andrew Gelman, 1996 (PDF) 3. Indian Psychology: Perception, Jadunath Sinha, 1934 (PDF)
2/25 7:00-8:00pm WJH 12th floor	Emotion Differentiation, Language and Mental Health	Erik Nook	Readings: (1) Unpacking Emotion Differentiation: Transforming Unpleasant Experience by Perceiving Distinctions in Negativity - Kashdan et.al (PDF) (2) Psychological Aspects of Natural Language use: Our Words, Our Selves, Annual Reviews, James Pennebaker (PDF) Optional: (3) Social Language Network Analysis, Scholand et.al, (PDF) (4) Counting Little Words in Big Data: The Psychology of Communities, Culture, and History, Chung et.al, (PDF) (5) Patterns of Natural Language Use: Disclosure, Personality and Social Integration, Pennebaker et.al (PDF) (6) Expressive Writing: Connections to Physical and Mental Health, Pennabaker et.al, (PDF)
4/21 7:00-8:00pm WJH 12th floor	Causal Inference in Single-Case Experiment Design	Matthew Nock	Readings: Single-Case Experimental Designs for the Evaluation of Treatments for Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behaviors, Rizvi & Nock (PDF) Optional: Single Case Experimental Designs: Strategies for Studying Behavior Change (3rd Edition) (Book)
5/21 7:00-8:00pm WJH 12th floor	Reward and Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders	Cora Mukerji	Readings: 1. Adapted to explore: Reinforcement learning in Autistic Spectrum Conditions, Eldad Yechiam et.al., (PDF) 2. Feedback-Driven Trial-by-Trial Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Marjorie Solomon et.al., (PDF) 3. The social motivation theory of autism, Coralie Chevallier et.al., (PDF)