Social psychologist Dr. Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago faculty will present the address “Hello? Connecting Better in an Overly Lonely World” on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in the Maas Center auditorium.

The public is invited.  Admission is free.

is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he also directs the Roman Family Center for Decision Research. His scholarship is in the area of social cognition, and his work often underscores why people so routinely misunderstand each other, as well as how people can be more connected to others (and why it’s important). He teaches an ethics and wellbeing course to MBA students called Designing a Good Life.

His research has appeared in more than two dozen empirical journals; has been featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wired and National Public Radio, among many others; and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Templeton Foundation. He is the author of Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want.

Epley has been awarded the 2008 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2011 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association, the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science, and the 2018 Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He was named a “professor to watch” by the Financial Times, one of the “World’s Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors” by Poets and Quants, and one of the 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics in 2015 by Ethisphere.

The address is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences.

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The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., between 10th and 13th streets.