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May/June, 2013
Observer Announcements
Research Study on Theses and Dissertations
If you are a graduate student working on your master thesis or doctorate dissertation, we would like to invite you to participate in a research study. The purpose of the study is to examine the feelings graduate students have and the amount of progress they make toward completing their master thesis or doctoral dissertation.
If you are working on your thesis or dissertation this semester, please consider joining our study.
The study will use an experiential sampling method. Participants will be asked to complete a series of weekly surveys. The study will occur over a 10-12 week period and should take no more than a total of 4 hours. You will be asked to complete an initial set of surveys about your personal characteristics (about an hour). You will then be asked to complete a weekly survey about your feelings, goal progress, and weekly goals (about 15 minutes a week).…
Tags: Academia, Cognitive Psychology, Emotions, General, Higher Education, Personality/Social |
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V. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
16-19 May 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Sleep, neural oscillations, and cognition
The Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) launches its fifth international conference in the historical town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog) is a small-medium size annual conference with up to 100 participants. Every year, a specific topic is covered by keynote speakers and invited speakers. The focus of the conference this year is sleep, neural oscillations, and cognition. The program of the conference includes:
Poster sessions: The core of the conference will consist of research reports in the form of peer reviewed posters.
Keynote talks: The keynote talks concentrate on the keynote’s own research, providing a general framework of the field. Keynote Speakers are:
György Buzsáki (New York University, USA) Peter Achermann (University of Zürich, Switzerland) Philippe Peigneux (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Victor Spoormaker (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)Invited…
Tags: Cognition, Experimental Psychology, International, Neuroscience |
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European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
The 16th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP 2013) will be held May 22nd – 25th, 2013 in Münster, Germany.
For more information visit: www.eawop2013.org
Tags: Experimental, General, Industrial/Organizational, International |
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25th APS Annual Convention
The 25th APS Annual Convention will take place at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C., USA, May 23-26, 2013.
The Call for Submissions is open through January 31.
For additional information please visit: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/convention
Tags: 25th APS Annual Convention, General, Students |
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10th International Conference on Bipolar Disorders
The 10th International Conference on Bipolar Disorders to be held 13-16 June, 2013, is accepting proposals for presentations at the conference. For the first time in the history of the conference, the meeting will not be held in Pittsburgh, but in Miami Beach, Florida, and now under the auspices of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD). Clinicians, researchers, patients, family members, and mental health advocates from around the world will again come together for this four-day conference to share their clinical expertise, research findings, and personal experiences with the goal of improving the quality of life for those living with bipolar disorder. The meeting will take place at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel.
The program will consist of plenary keynote presentations, concurrent sessions, and poster sessions. The concurrent sessions will include parallel symposia, rapid communication sessions, and brainstorming sessions. Please review the complete call for…
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Clinical, Experimental Psychology, Mental Health, Well-Being | The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) brings together scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines in the field of intercultural relations. This biennial conference of the Academy focuses on pushing the boundaries of intercultural research. June 23-27, 2013 Reno, Nevada, USA For more visit: www.intercultural-academy.net/iair-2013-home.html Tags: Communication, Cross Cultural Differences, Culture, Personality/Social, Students | SARMAC Conference X will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 26-29, 2013. For more information visit: sarmac-conference.org/index.php Tags: Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology, International, Memory | The journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, the official journal of the Psychonomic Society, is requesting submissions on the topic of the structure of visual working memory. Submissions are due by July 1, 2013 for publication in Winter 2013. We will consider regular Research Articles, Short Reports, and a limited number of Opinion/Review pieces. For Opinion / Review submissions, please send a presubmission inquiry to Jeremy Wolfe (wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu), Editor. This special issue is coordinated with a Symposium on the same topic to be held at the Vision Sciences Society meeting, Naples, Florida, May 10, 2013. Working memory is an essential component of perception, cognition, and action. The past eight years have seen a surge of activity aimed at understanding the structure of visual working memory. The symposium will consider two central theoretical issues: slots versus resources, and the role of context. SLOTS VERSUS RESOURCES: Working memory is… Tags: Attention, Biological/Neuroscience, Memory, Perception, Short-Term Memory, Vision, Visual Attention | Third World Congress on Positive Psychology June 27-30, 2013 Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Third World Congress on Positive Psychology is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in learning how the “thriving science” is changing the lives of individuals, communities, and institutions around the globe. Presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will feature leading-edge research, as well as applications of positive psychology in a variety of fields — from business to education to medicine. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the latest research, insights, and ideas and interact with like-minded people who focus on studying what is best in life and how to create more of it. The internationally diverse audience will consist of researchers, clinicians, educators, students, business owners, coaches, consultants — anyone committed to the science and practice of positive psychology. For more information, visit the Congress website: www.ippanetwork.org/world_congress_landing_page or contact IPPAMTG@talley.com. Tags: General, International, Positive Psychology, Well-Being | OppNet’s 2nd FY2013 RFA: Basic Sociobehavioral Research on Mechanisms of Stigma Application due: August 2, 2013, by 5:00 p.m. local time of applicant organization Letter of intent due: July 2, 2013 Although not required or binding, an intent letter allows NIH review staff to estimate the number and themes associated with planning this RFA’s peer review process. The purpose of this NIH Opportunity Network (OppNet) request for applications is to support projects that elucidate mechanisms underlying stigma that are relevant across health conditions or stigmatized statuses. This request encourages revision applications to incorporate basic research on behavioral and social mechanisms underlying stigma into active R01 research projects. For this initiative, projects may focus on stigma processes and mechanisms from the perspective of stigmatized individuals or groups and/or of individuals or groups holding stigmatizing beliefs. Projects may examine stigma in the context of specific health… Tags: Behavioral Science, General, National Institutes of Health (NIH), OppNet, Stigma | The upcoming conference Motivation in Social Contexts: Theory and Practice, to be held June 29 –July 2, 2013, in Krakow, Poland. The conference will be jointly sponsored by Jagiellonian University, the University of Gadansk and the Society for the Study of Motivation (SSM). It will immediately follow a small group meeting concerned with motivational, affective, and cognitive factors involved in knowledge formation (June 27-28). The small group meeting is organized by Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland) and Arne Roets (University Ghent) and sponsored by the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Motivation conference speakers will include Nicola Baumann (Universität Trier), Jaana Juvonen (UCLA), Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland), Julius Kuhl (Universität Osnabrück), Richard Sorrentino (University of Western Ontario), Rex Wright (University of North Texas–UNT), and Bernard Weiner (UCLA). A special symposium concerned contemporary issues in social motivation will be chaired by Michael Richter (University of Geneva) and Rex… Tags: Cognitive Psychology, General, Knowledge, Motivation, Personality/Social | RAND is pleased to announce the 20th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI). RSI consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing our aging population. The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists will be held on July 8–9, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 10–11, 2013. Both conferences will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters in Santa Monica, California. The application and supplemental materials are due by March 22, 2013. The conferences are sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. Qualified applicants must hold a PhD or have completed two years of a PhD program and be actively working on a dissertation. Only applicants working in the field of aging—or actively considering this research field—will be considered. For more information visit http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi.html or contact Diana Malouf (malouf@rand.org). Tags: Aging, Economics, General, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Personality/Social | The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) will be held11-14 July 2013 in Ottawa, Canada at Carleton Universitat. Papers due: 5 April 2013 The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) is the premier conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. The chairs are Robert L. West and Terrence C. Stewart. The proceedings from previous conferences are now available at: http://iccm-conference.org/previous-conferences Tags: Behavioral Science, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, General, International, Mental Models, Students | The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) invites paper submissions for the 2013 conference. Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain, EU Conference Date: July 22-25, 2013 Deadline for Symposia Submissions: February 15, 2013 Deadline for Individual Papers: February 28, 2013 Conference Website: www.ub.edu/issid2013 Conference Twitter: @ISSID2013 Conference Facebook: International-Society-for-the-Study-of-Individual-Differences-2013 Conference Information The ISSID 2013 conference will be held in Barcelona, from Monday, July 22, to Thursday, July 25, 2013. Dr. David Gallardo-Pujol, chair of the ISSID 2013 conference, has announced that submissions are now open. ‘‘Early Bird” registration discounts are available until April 15, 2013. For submissions the following deadlines apply: Symposia: February 15, 2013 Individual papers and posters: February 28, 2013 For information regarding submissions, registration and conference location and hotel accommodations, please visit the conference website at www.ub.edu/issid2013. ISSID makes several awards related to the conference including the Early Career Development, Blazej Szymura… Tags: Attitude, Cognitive Psychology, Intelligence, Personality, Social Psychology | July 25-27, 2013
Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites
Vancouver, Canada Website: www.kwantlen.ca/ictp.html Contact: Steve Charlton at sjccharlton@shaw.ca The conference will cover a wide range of issues related to the teaching of psychology. It is designed for teachers of psychology at universities, colleges and high schools who are interested in enhancing their teaching skills, exchanging perspectives and exploring new ideas. The conference will include topics such as classroom demonstrations, new teaching methods, recent advances in specialized areas of psychology, and issues of assessment. Tags: Education, Higher Education, Teaching | Date : July 24-28, 2013
Location : Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada Learn about (a) important cutting-edge research in neuroscience and mental health, and (b) promising new evidence-based approaches, that can improve patient care, in clear terms you can understand and see the immediate relevance of. Topics include: Sex Differences in the Effects of Prenatal Stress on the Brain; Babies Brains DO Recover, but Habit Often Hides That; Trauma, Stress, & Healing; How Women’s Brains Differ From Men’s; The Neural Basis of Empathy. For information & registration: http://braindevelopmentandlearning.com Tags: Biological/Neuroscience, Brain, Infant Development, Mental Health, Sex Differences, Stress | 4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology Sponsored by ISHE and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI August 6-9, 2013 Details: The International Society for Human Ethology will hold its 4th Biennial Summer Institute on Human Ethology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, USA, on 6-9 August, 2013. ISHE Summer Institutes are specifically designed to be more student friendly than many other scientific conferences, and include generous financial support for student participants (such as free registration and lodging stipends for students who are first author presenters of accepted proposals). Although submissions on all relevant topics are welcome, there will be special sessions on the application of evolutionary theory to practical issues and real-world challenges, including health. The 2013 academic program will include several invited speakers, workshops targeted at graduate students and other researchers, oral presentations, and a poster session. The cultural program will include a… Tags: Animal Research, Experimental, General | 28 August 2013 14:30 to 18:30 | Room 0.83 | ELTE University Congress Center | Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A | H-1117 Budapest, Hungary The program is offered free of charge, but due to space limitations, we ask that you register here. Psychological science has come of age. But the rights of a mature discipline carry with it responsibilities: to maximize confidence in our findings through good data practice and replication while simultaneously ensuring that funding sources and publication outlets support best practice. Leading experts will explore the causes and extent of bias and error problems in science as well as potential solutions to these and other complex problems affecting replicability, in a halfday pre-conference symposium co-sponsored by ESCoP and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). For more information visit: www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/convention/escop-precon Tags: Data, General, International, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Replication, Statistical Analysis | Nearly 1 in 4 American adults lives with a mental health disorder, yet less than 2 in 100 participate in mental health research (CISRP, 2012). Researchers in the field struggle to engage enough participants in their work, making it difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the treatment of mood disorders. WeSearchTogether.org is a national online clearinghouse and registry that offers researchers a free opportunity to connect with people living with mood disorders who are thinking about participating in research. WeSearchTogether was launched this summer by the University of Michigan Depression Center and the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). Supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), WeSearchTogether.org provides a unique forum for communication between participants and researchers while highlighting the latest clinical trials and research advancements within the mental health field. The site offers detailed information on research participation, provides testimonials from study participants and researchers,… Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Clinical, Communication, Depression, Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness, mood disorders, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Students | An integrative science symposium, co-sponsored by European Association for Developmental Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science, symposium “Understanding Environmental and Genetic Influences on Neurocognitive Development,” will be held 3 September, 2013 from 16:30 – 18:00 in Lausanne, Switzerland at the 16th European Conference on Developmental Psychology For more information visit: http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/ecdp2013/files/2013/03/EADP-APS_2013.pdf
Tags: Biological/Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Environment, General, Genetics, International | The Society for the Study of Human Development 8th Biennial Meeting Fort Lauderdale, Florida November 3-5, 2013 The Society for the Study of Human Development invites proposal submissions for its 8th Biennial Meeting. SSHD is an International, US-based, multidisciplinary — including developmental psychology, biology, education, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and history — professional society dedicated to the study of issues of Developmental Science across the life-span/life-course. The central mission of SSHD is to provide an organization that moves beyond age-segmented scholarly organizations to take an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to theories of, research on, and applications of Developmental Science across the life-span/life-course. Since the founding of SSHD in 1998, numerous books, chapters, and articles have been… Tags: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Lifespan | 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) | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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8th Biennial Conference of the International Academy for Intercultural Research
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
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Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics on “Structure of Visual Working Memory”
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Third World Congress on Positive Psychology
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OppNet Request for Applications: Basic Sociobehavioral Research on Stigma
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Motivation in Social Contexts: Theory and Practice
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RAND Summer Institute (RSI)
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International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM)
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Call for Papers: International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
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4th Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology
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4th Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science Conference
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4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology
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ESCOP Preconference Event: Building a Better Psychological Science Good Data Practices and Replicability
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WeSearchTogether Connects Researchers to Study Participants Instantly
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Understanding Neurocognitive Development
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Society for the Study of Human Development 8th Biennial Meeting
CALL FOR SYMPOSIA & POSTER PAPER PROPOSALS
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New Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) Competition
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OppNet Announces its First FY2014 RFA
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36th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
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NIA Grants for Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics of Aging
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5th International Congress on Licensure, Certification, and Credentialing of Psychologists
