Tools of Psychological Science
The APS 21st Annual Convention will feature several addresses and workshops that address the "Tools of Psychological Science." These events will offer cutting-edge information and practical advice on models, methods, and measurement in psychological science, as well as resources for conducting psychological science. These events, cross-listed here, are included in other sections of the program highlights, and will be scheduled throughout the convention..
Symposium on Modern Psychological Measurement: New Developments in Item Response Theory
Chair: Li Cai, University of California, Los Angeles
Symposium on The State of the Science on Factorial Invariance
Chair: Todd Little, University of Kansas
Symposium on Advances in Meta-analysis for Multivariable Linear Models
Chair: Adam Hafdahl, Washington University in St. Louis
Symposium on Persons-in-Context (identifying and understanding the psychological processes that distinctively characterize individuals)
Chair: Ying-Yi Hong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The APS David Myers Distinguished Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychology
How Do We Measure Pleasure?
Linda Bartoshuk, University of Florida
Invited Talk: New Methodology for the Random Assignment of Apparent Gender and Expressivity in a Videoconference Conversation Paradigm
Steven Boker, University of Virginia
Invited Talk: Emotion Regulation Abilities and Career Success
Stéphane Côté, University of Toronto
Workshops
Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis (Don Hedeker, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Reporting and Interpreting Effect Sizes (Bruce Thompson, Texas A&M University)
Understanding, Planning, and Executing The Complete Power Analysis (Jason Cole, Consulting Measurement Group, Inc.)
Perspectives on Scientific Writing (Randall Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Research at Small Colleges (Tyler Lorig, Washington and Lee University and Richard Lewis, Pomona College)
Show Me the Money: Grant-Getting for Graduate Students and New Faculty (Courtney Ferrell, National Institute of Mental Health and Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley)