Previous CRIG Speakers
The Close Relationship Interest Group (CRIG) has hosted many events and speakers within the field of close/interpersonal relationships over the past decade.
Dr. David Slusky -- November 16th, 2017
- KU Department of Economics -- "Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?"
Past Events
- Dr. Bruce Liese
- KU Department of Psychology on Attachment Style and Health-Related Behaviors
- Dr. Changhwan Kim
- KU Department of Sociology -- "Transactive Goal Dynamics"
- Dr. Tamara Mikinski
- KU Department of Educational Psychology -- "If Love was a Plane, Nobody'd Get On: Gottman Method Couples Therapy"
- Dr. Jennifer Hamer
- University of Kansas -- "Around here, women never get done workin'"
- Dr. Jimmie Manning
- Northern Illinois University -- "Moving Together in Rhythm: The Future of Sexuality and Communication."
- Dr. Gurit Birnbaum
- School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel -- "Attachment and sexual mating: The joint operation of separate motivational systems."
- Dr. Omri Gillath
- KU Psychology Department -- "Some Relationships Worth More and Some Less: First Love and Disposability."
- Dr. Maggie Childs
- KU Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures -- “Evaluating a Marriage: Japanese and Western Scholars’ Contrasting Interpretations of The Kagero Diary, a 10th century account by the second of several wives of Fujiwara no Kaneie, the most powerful man of his day.”
- Dr. Bruce Liese
- "Measuring Empathy in Therapeutic Encounters."
- Dr. Charlene Muehlenhard
- KU Dept of Women's Studies and Psychology
- Dr. Cynthia Akagi
- "Love and Sex, Understanding Relationships, to help teens and young adults, gay and straight, select healthy vs. unhealthy relationships and protect themselves from unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections"
- Dr. Akiko Takeyama
- "Price of 'Love' in Tokyo Host Clubs"
- Dr. Donna K. Ginther
- "Does Marriage Lead to Specialization in Sweden? An Evaluation of Trends in Adult Earnings Before and After Marriage"
- Dr. Nancy Baym
- KU Communications Dept -- "Tunes That Bind?: Understanding friendship in a music based social networking site."
- Dr. Alesia Hanzal
- KU Communications Dept -- "The Role of Enduring Vulnerabilities on Marital Quality."
- Dr. Jeffery Hall
- KU Communications Dept -- "That's Gay!: Masculinity, Gender Identity Salience, and Homophobic Communication Norms."
- Dr. Michael Dennis
- Emporia State -- "Compliance and Intimacy: Young Adults' Attempts to Motivate Health-Promoting Behaviors by Romantic Partners."