November 2008

President's Section:
Believe it or not
by Kelli Vaughn-Blount, APSSC President

Harry Harlow's monkey love experiments were actually conducted in a Baxter Box that the researchers referred to as the "Love Machine." Click here to check it out for yourself.

Edgar Allen Poe fancied himself as a bit of a mesmerist (hypnotist to you and me). Paging Dr. Poe.

A female psychologist, Helen Thompson Woolly described psychologies studies of sexual differences as "aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot" in 1910.

It was in 1908 that Hugo Münsterberg, not Elizabeth Loftus, truly began psychology's foray into eyewitness testimony.

Albert Bandura's famous Bobo the clown study was actually co-authored with two female psychologists.

Funding opportunity deadlines for November and December!
by Lisa E. Hasel, APSSC Past-President

Do you qualify for any of these awards? If you do, now is the time to act because the deadlines are fast approaching!

November 13th

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Doctoral Fellowship and Doctoral Scholarship

November 14th

• Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2009
  
  
• Ford Foundation’s Predoctoral Fellowships for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching

November 15th

• APA’s Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Fellowships
  
  
• APAGS Grant’s National Multicultural Conference and Summit
  
  
• NIH’s Aging research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)

November 27th

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Master’s Scholarship

November 28th

• Ford Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowships for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching
  
  
• Ford Foundation’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching

December 1st

• Psi Chi’s National Convention Research Awards
  
  
• APAGS' Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) Grant Program

December 10th

• New Zealand Government’s Bright Future Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships

December 15th

• American Educational Research Association and American Institutes for Research’s Fellows Program
  
  
• American Educational Research Association’s Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research
  
  
• American Educational Research Association and Education Testing Service’s Fellowship Program in Measurement

December 30th

• European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)’s Postdoctoral 'Seed Corn' Research Grants
  
  
• European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)’s Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Travel Grants

For more information about these opportunities and more, check out the APSSC’s Online Funding Database!

Campus Rep Spotlight:
Israel Beren
by Amy Crook, Membership & Volunteers Officer

Each month, we'll be spotlighting a Campus Rep who has successfully spread the word about APS. This month we are featuring Israel Beren.

School: City University London

Program: 1st year of a 3 year PhD Applied Psychosocial Science/Interprofessional Practice programme
My favourite part of being a campus rep is interacting with and updating the faculty on APS events to pass to students in their classes. It has also been nice to feel more a part of the department, to be known as more than a student.

Helpful Hint for November:
To Serve and Protect Your Department
by Jeremy Ashton Houska,
Communications & Marketing Officer
Does your department host yearly events and have any traditions? If not, have you ever thought about how to make your department a better place? Click here to read the complete article on building a sense of community in psychology departments.

Have you scoured the wealth of resources in the Observer? You can search by keyword and type of article using the Observer Archive Search