News Release
May 25, 2004
For Immediate Release
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Butler Psychology Professors and Students Present at National Convention
Flashbulb memories of 9/11 and the impact of an organization's gender composition on prospective employees are two of the topics to be presented by Butler professors and students at the 16th Annual American Psychological Society Convention.
The convention, which takes place in Chicago from May 27-30, will host nearly 2,000 of the most respected leaders in the psychological science field, including a number of Butler affiliates.
Drs. Neil Bohannon, Robert Dale, Joel Martin, Kathryn Morris, and Margaret Padgett make up the faculty members who will present, along with students William Aue, Stephanie Barga, Sarah Green, Marchion Hinton, Alison Kozlowski, Lacy Lesmeister, Alison O'Malley Zach Matthews, Bradley Perkins and Ann Rush.
"The APS convention is unique in that psychologists from virtually all the academic sub-fields go there to present their research," said Associate Professor Kathryn Morris. "As a result, it's possible to attend presentations on perception, memory, personality, and infant development all in the same day."
The American Psychological Society was founded in 1988 by psychologists interested specifically in advancing psychology as a science at the national level. The mission of the Society is to "promote, protect and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare."
Founded in 1855, Butler University serves more than 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students in five academic colleges: Business Administration, Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Jordan College of Fine Arts. Butler University is consistently cited in such national college guides as US News & World Report, Kaplan/Newsweek and Barron's Best Buy in College Education.