In life's first two decades, children who know little about the world grow into young adults who harness rich knowledge of environmental structure to guide their behavior and accomplish their goals. In my talk, I will argue that the development of goal-directed behavior depends on learning to learn.
Join the Hart Leadership Program for the second annual Public Purpose Symposium as we celebrate and explore community-engaged research and leadership in conversation with Hart Leadership Program students.
Join the Hart Leadership Program for the second annual Public Purpose Symposium as we celebrate and explore community-engaged research and leadership in conversation with Hart Leadership Program students.
Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff are welcome to sign up to attend one of three lunchtime roundtable discussions facilitated by past Hart Fellows, Sarine Krovitz, Carina Lei, and Sadie Sheridan.
The Hart Leadership Program challenges students to practice the art of leadership in public life. Applications are now open for several experiential learning programs that aim to shape Duke undergraduates for reflective, ethical leadership. Our core programs involve training both inside and outside the classroom through experiential education, pedagogical preparation, reflective practice, a strong community of peers, and an aspiration to public purpose.
The Hart Leadership Program challenges students to practice the art of leadership in public life. Applications are now open for several experiential learning programs that aim to shape Duke undergraduates for reflective, ethical leadership. Our core programs involve training both inside and outside the classroom through experiential education, pedagogical preparation, reflective practice, a strong community of peers, and an aspiration to public purpose.
The Hart Leadership Program challenges students to practice the art of leadership in public life. Applications are now open for several experiential learning programs that aim to shape Duke undergraduates for reflective, ethical leadership. Our core programs involve training both inside and outside the classroom through experiential education, pedagogical preparation, reflective practice, a strong community of peers, and an aspiration to public purpose.
September 18, 2026 (10:00 am-12:00 pm)
Erin Hartman
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Erin Hartman's research bridges statistics and the social sciences, developing methods that help researchers answer complex causal questions while strengthening collaboration across disciplines. Her work focuses on causal inference, survey design and analysis, external validity of experiments, falsification testing, and survey weighting.
Decomposing Changes Across Surveys
In the real world, objects are discrete physical entities - your coffee mug either is or is not in your hand. As a result, both in everyday life and in perception and memory research, there is a tendency to use a physical metaphor to understand our mental representations: people tend to think of an object they are trying to perceive or remember as either in mind or not in their mind, and to say that we hold items in memory, as we hold real objects in our hand.
A central feature of Caribbean poetics has been a pictorial mode of representing the natural landscape and the complex multicultural societies that have taken root in the archipelago. Verbal and visual arts converge in the creation of entangled ways of sensing and portraying the vulnerable yet resilient terrain of human interaction.
A central feature of Caribbean poetics has been a pictorial mode of representing the natural landscape and the complex multicultural societies that have taken root in the archipelago. Verbal and visual arts converge in the creation of entangled ways of sensing and portraying the vulnerable yet resilient terrain of human interaction.