Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

Symposium

Costs and Benefits of Trauma Research: Implications for Institutional Review Boards

Friday, May 25, 2012, 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Huron

Chair: Elizabeth A. Yeater
University of New Mexico

Institutional review boards (IRBs) lack data to help guide decisions they make about the costs and benefits of research participation. This symposium will present evidence that participation in this research is not harmful to most participants and, contrary to the assumptions of IRBs, has benefits for participants, science, and society.

Trauma and Sex Surveys Meet Minimal Risk Standards
Elizabeth A. Yeater
University of New Mexico

Co-Author: Geoffrey Miller, University of New Mexico

Co-Author: Jenny K. Rinehart, University of New Mexico

Co-Author: Erica Nason, University of New Mexico

The Costs of Not Asking About Abuse: Empirical Evidence
Kathryn Becker-Blease
Oregon State University

Co-Author: Jennifer J. Freyd, University of Oregon

Co-Author: Nancy F. Russo, Arizona State University

Co-Author: Janet Rich-Edwards, Harvard School of Public Health

Responses to Violence Research: Distress, Retention, and Cost-Benefits
Claire Hebenstreit
University of Denver

Co-Author: Anne DePrince, University of Denver

Teresa A. Treat (Discussant)
University of Iowa

Subject Area: Clinical