How much power does the mind have over the body? Professor Catherine Sanderson will discuss the ways in which our thoughts, beliefs and attitudes both directly and indirectly influence our physiology and physical health.

About the speaker:

Catherine Sanderson (PhD Princeton University) is the James E. Ostendarp Professor of Psychology at Amherst College. Professor Sanderson has published over 25 journal articles and book chapters in addition to three college textbooks and a popular press book on parenting. In 2012, she was named one of the country's top 300 professors by The Princeton Review.