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SUMMARY:FAN - Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood
DESCRIPTION:When we talk about the transformative experience of becoming a parent\, we almost always talk about mothers. Research on birth and parenting has focused overwhelmingly on how women’s bodies and brains change\, while popular culture still casts dads as well-meaning bumblers muddling through a diaper change. The old assumption persists: mothers are natural parents\, and fathers are something less. \nIn “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives\,” clinical psychologist and professor of psychology Darby Saxbe\, Ph.D.\, inspired in part by her own hands-on\, solo father\, draws on fifteen years of studying fathers to overturn that assumption. Sharing new findings from her own laboratory at the University of Southern California\, from neuroimaging scans and hormone samples to observations of fathers with their children\, along with interviews with dozens of first-time dads and scientists around the world\, Saxbe shows that “dad brain” is real: becoming a father changes men’s brains and bodies\, too. Along the way she explores how fatherhood varies across cultures\, why the panic over low testosterone misreads the science\, how paternity leave policy can draw fathers in\, and what hands-on caregiving means for our ideas about masculinity. \nSaxbe argues that taking fatherhood seriously as a science is not a distraction from mothers’ needs but a path to equal partnership\, with benefits for children\, families\, workplaces\, and society. Saxbe will be in conversation with Richard V. Reeves\, Ph.D. (FAN ’26)\, the founder and president of the American Institute for Boys and Men and author of Of Boys and Men.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/fan-dad-brain-the-new-science-of-fatherhood/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Family Action Network
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SUMMARY:FAN - Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress
DESCRIPTION:What drives human progress\, and why does it surge in some eras and stall in others\, even under similar conditions? In “Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress\,” psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman\, Ph.D.\, the founder of positive psychology\, offers a bold answer: the missing variable is not economic\, political\, or geographic\, but psychological. Across 2\,500 years of history\, Seligman identifies agency\, the belief that we can shape our own future\, as the hidden engine behind innovation\, resilience\, and societal flourishing. \nDrawing on six decades of research\, Seligman breaks agency into three components: efficacy\, the confidence to act now; optimism\, the expectation that effort will pay off; and imagination\, the ability to envision new possibilities. From ancient Athens and the Enlightenment to the Civil Rights Movement and today’s AI revolution\, he traces how the rise and fall of these forces has quietly shaped the course of civilizations and why strengthening them matters so much now. \nAs concern grows about mental health\, the attention crisis\, and the future of work\, Seligman makes the case for shifting from a model focused on pathology to one centered on human potential. He also explores how emerging technologies\, including AI\, might measure and amplify agency at scale\, for personal growth\, clinical practice\, and collective progress. \nSeligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he directs the Positive Psychology Center. Seligman will be in conversation with James O. Pawelski\, Ph.D.\, professor of practice and director of education in the Positive Psychology Center.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/agency-the-psychological-history-of-human-progress/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Family Action Network
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