Current Issue
October, 2013
Observer Announcements
Grant
Templeton Science of Prospection Awards: Request for Applications
Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center has established the Templeton Science of Prospection Awards to advance research on the scientific understanding of prospection, or the mental representation of possible futures, an understudied yet ubiquitous faculty of the human mind.
Up to fifteen (15), 22-month grants averaging $150,000 will be awarded to researchers worldwide who are no more than twelve years beyond their doctorate or post-doctoral education.
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to, explorations of the measurement, mechanism, application, or improvement of prospection. An “open” category is available for those proposals that may not fit in the above categories.
To Apply: Interested applicants should submit a Letter of Intent and a Curriculum Vita by January 1, 2014, at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The official Request for Proposals and application details for this opportunity can be found…
Tags: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, General, Grants, Positive Psychology |
Meeting
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will take place February 13–15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.spsp.org/?Convention.
Tags: Experimental Psychology, Personality, Social Psychology |
Meeting
Society for Affective Science Inagural Conference
A new society has been formed — The Society for Affective Science. Its mission is to foster basic and applied research in the variety of fields that study affect, broadly defined.
The SAS inaugural conference will be April 24-26, 2014 in Washington DC. This will be a theoretically/methodologically diverse, student-friendly conference that will provide a forum for cross-cutting work in emotion, stress, and many of the other topics that fall under the broad umbrella of affective science.
For more information, and to get early-bird registration rates, see the society website: society-for-affective-science.org.
For questions, contact info@society-for-affective-science.org.
Tags: Emotions, Experimental Psychology, Stress |
Meeting
9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference
9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference Trends in Training The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University Center Chattanooga, TN October 25-26, 2013 www.utc.edu/ioprog/RCIO2013.htm
Tags: Experimental Psychology, Human Factors, Industrial/Organizational Psychology |
Grant
New Perspectives on the Psychology of Understanding
With the support of a 3.56 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and with additional support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Fordham University, and the University of California-Berkeley, the Varieties of Understanding project will bring the combined efforts of some of the world’s leading psychologists, philosophers, and theologians to bear on crucial questions about understanding.
July 1, 2013: Official Start Date November 1, 2013: Letters of Intent due March 1, 2014: Invited full proposals due
For more information visit www.varietiesofunderstanding.com/about.html
Grant
OppNet Announces its First FY2014 RFA
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, announces its first FY2014 RFA:
Short-term mentored career enhancement awards in the basic behavioral and social sciences: Cross-training at the intersection of animal models and human investigation (K18: RFA-DA-14-002)
For more information visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-14-002.html
Application due date: December 11, 2013, by 5:00 p.m. local time of applicant organization
Purpose:
This OppNet RFA invites applications for short-term mentored career enhancement awards in basic behavioral and social sciences research (b-BSSR) to support development of research capability in b-BSSR with specific emphasis on cross-training and establishing collaborations between researchers with expertise in animal models of basic behavioral and social processes and those studying similar or related processes in human subjects. Basic research using any non-human species or with human subjects in laboratory- or field-based settings is appropriate for…
Tags: Animal Research, Behavioral Science, Funding, National Institutes of Health (NIH), OppNet, Personality/Social, Students |
Meeting
36th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
THE 36th ANNUAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY, co-sponsored by the Association for Psychological Science, the University of South Florida Department of Psychology, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, will be held January 3-6, 2014, at the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel, in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Registration is limited to 375 participants; early registration is highly recommended. Poster session proposals should be received by October 1, 2013 to guarantee space in the program, although later submissions will be considered if poster space remains available. The conference program includes four morning workshops on the first day, three poster sessions, three participant idea exchanges, social hours, book and software displays, and 30 featured speakers, well-known for their excellence in teaching psychology. The conference registration fee is $535 which will also include buffet breakfasts and lunches, refreshments at coffee breaks and poster sessions, and an evening reception. For more…
Tags: General, Higher Education, Teaching |
Meeting
Society for the Study of Human Development 8th Biennial Meeting
Registration is now open for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development to be held Nov. 3–5, 2013 at the Fort Lauderdale Beach and Spa Resort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Discounted early registration is available until October 15, 2013.
This year’s conference theme is: Rethinking Developmental Science across the Life-Span/Life-Course: Theory, Methods, and Applications
For program information (including keynote and invited plenary symposia speakers) and to register for the conference and lodging go to: www.sshdonline.org
Tags: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Lifespan |
Grant
New Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) Competition
The Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) has a two new support opportunities for Interdisciplinary research projects under solicitation number NSF 12-614.
Proposals for:
1. IBSS Large Interdisciplinary Research Projects. Large interdisciplinary research projects may be supported by awards as large as $1,000,000.
2. IBSS Interdisciplinary Team Exploratory Projects. Exploratory research by emerging multidisciplinary teams may be supported by awards as large as $250,000.
View complete information about the Program Solicitation NSF 12-614 online.
Additional Information:
In addition to the standing NSF merit review criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts, proposals submitted for the IBSS competition will be evaluated using special review criteria with respect to three different dimensions of their interdisciplinarity: the interdisciplinarity of the research team, the interdisciplinarity of the research approaches to be used, and the interdisciplinarity of the expected intellectual significance…
Tags: Behavioral Science, Grants, Interdisciplinary, National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Grant
NIA Grants for Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics of Aging
Purpose: The National Institute on Aging (NIA) issues these Program Announcements with special review to stimulate interdisciplinary aging-relevant research in the social, affective and economic neurosciences. The NIA invites applications examining social, emotional and economic behaviors of relevance to aging, using approaches that examine mechanisms and processes at both (a) the social, behavioral or psychological (emotional, cognitive, motivational) level, and (b) the neurobiological or genetic level. Proposals are encouraged that have an overriding emphasis on economic, social or emotional processes and associated genetic or neurobiological processes. Applications should demonstrate either relevance for aging or for age differences or age-related changes in these processes. Aging-relevant applications can address issues of importance to the well-being and health of either mid-life or older adults, and can include data spanning the entire life course.
Applications may focus on social behavior, emotional function, OR economic behavior, OR their interaction.
Application Due Date: February 5, 2012,…
Tags: Aging, Biological/Neuroscience, Brain, Developmental Psychology, Genetics, Personality/Social |
Meeting
5th International Congress on Licensure, Certification, and Credentialing of Psychologists
The 5th International Congress on Licensure, Certification, and Credentialing of Psychologists Sunday, July 7, 2013 – Tuesday, July 9, 2013
For more information contact Amy Hilson at ahilson@asppb.org
Tags: Education, General, Higher Education |
