College hosts Drew Westen on March 22

The College will host Drew Westen, PhD. on Thursday, March 22. The event begins with a reception at 5 p.m. in the AHA! Lab in Weimer Hall followed by a public presentation at 6:30 p.m. in MacKay Auditorium, Pugh Hall (map).

Westen is a clinical, personality, and political psychologist and neuroscientist, and Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University. He studies the role that emotions play in politics and how what we hear affects how we think. Drew has been a strategic advisor to the Obama Administration and has appeared as a commentator on All Things Considered. He has also been a contributor to the New York Times opinion editorial pages and the Huffington Post.

He is the author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, and is the founder of Westen Strategies, LLC, a strategic messaging consulting firm.

Space at the reception is limited so interested parties should RSVP to achristiano@jou.ufl.edu.

Posted: March 20, 2012
Category: College News