APS William James Distinguished Lectures in Psychological Science
The APS William James Distinguished Lectures program brings renowned psychological scientists to regional meetings. For further information, contact aps@psychologicalscience.org.
Distinguished Lecturers 2000-2010
2010
- Claude M. Steele - Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes
Affect Us - Eastern Psychological Association - Varda Shoham - The Bumpy Road Toward a Scientifically Principled Clinical
Psychology - Rocky Mountain Psychological Association - Fredda Blanchard-Fields - Thinking With Your Head and Your Heart:
Developmental Dynamics in Everyday Problem Solving - Southeastern
Psychological Association
2009
- Roy F. Baumeister - The Science of Free Will: Self-Control, Intelligent Choice, and Expensive Action Control - Southeastern Psychological Association
- Dominic Massaro - The Science and Technology of a Virtual Tutor: How Baldi Came to Be -
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association - Judy DeLoache - Of Beast and Babies: Infants' Interest in Animals - Western Psychological Association
- Gerd Gigerenzer - Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences - Midwestern Psychological Association
2008
- Diane Halpern - Women at the Top: How Powerful Leaders Combine Work and Family - Southeastern Psychological Association
- Adele Diamond - Helping Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior: Novel Methods for Improving Cognitive Control (Executive Functions) in Young Children and their Relevance for Disorders - Eastern Psychological Association
- Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts - Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
- Linda Siegel - Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Difficulties - Midwestern Psychological Association
2007
- Morton Ann Gernsbacher - The Science of Autism: Beyond the Myths and Misconceptions - Southeastern Psychological Association
- Carolyn Rovee-Collier - The Hidden Life of Infants - Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
- Ed Diener - National Accounts of Well-Being - Midwestern Psychological Association
- Scott Brown - Problem Solving and Decision Making in an Interdisciplinary Learning Environment: The Global Project - New England Psychological Association
2006
- Linda Bartoshuk - Obese or Skinny - We are What We Eat: Taste Genetics, Pathology and Diet - Southeastern Psychological Association
- Robert Bjork - Interpreting, Misinterpreting, and Educating One's Subjective Experience - Western Psychological Association
- Lisa Feldman Barrett - What is an Emotion? - New England Psychological Association
2005
- Chuck Brainerd - Law's Memory and Memory's Laws - Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
- Kelly Brownell - Is There Any Hope of Changing the American Diet? - New England Psychological Association
- Ed Donnerstein - Mass Media and Violence: Research, Context, and Policy Implications - Minn Ugrad Psychology Conference
- Jerome Kagan - The Shadows of Infant Temperament - Eastern Psychological Association
2004
- Russell Church - The Beauty of a Good Mathematical Model of Behavior - New England Psychological Association
- Diana Deutsch - Two Relationships Between Music and Speech - Southeastern Psychological Association
- Susan Goldin-Meadow - Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think - Eastern Psychological Association
2003
- Richard Nisbett - Culture and Point of View - Eastern Psychological Association
2002
- John Gabrieli - Imaging Memory Systems of the Human Brain - Rocky Mountain Psychological Association
- Steven Kosslyn - Visual Mental Images in the Brain: How Low Do They Go? - New England Psychological Association
2001
- Robert Cialdini - Persuasion and the 'Poison Parasite' - Midwestern Psychological Association
- Sam Glucksberg - Understanding Figurative Language - Eastern Psychological Association
- John Jonides - Behavior and Neuroimaging Studies of Executive Control - Western Psychological Association
2000
- Steve Ceci - Cognitive and Social Influences on the Reliability of Children's Statements - Western Psychological Association