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Changing Our Environment Can Change Our Diets
October 26, 2012 - Understanding nutrition doesn’t guarantee that we will develop healthy eating habits, says Brian Wansink of Cornell University. In this video from the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health, Wansink explains that our environment has a profound influence on how we eat. The lighting in the place where we’re eating, the amounts the people around us are eating, and the size of the serving spoons used to put food on our plates are all factors that influence our diets.
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APA Call for Nominations for Awards for Year 2013
Deadline: February 15, 2013 The Society for General Psychology, Division One of the American Psychological Association is conducting its Year 2013 awards competition, including the William James Book Award for a recent book that serves to integrate material across psychological subfields or to provide coherence to the diverse subject matter of psychology, the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for a Lifetime Career Contribution to General Psychology, the George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology, and the Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology, which is an American Psychological Foundation Award managed by the Society for General Psychology.
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Police Prejudice Is Not What You Think
Police photo provided by Shutterstock. Many police departments have a problem with prejudice — it’s a common assumption supported by empirical research. But when a team of psychological scientists led by Juliette Gatto of Blaise Pascal University, France, took a close look at prejudice in new police recruits, officers with a year of training, and a control group from the general population, they discovered unexpected nuances. The results were published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.
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Chateaubriand Fellowship Program
The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. Every year, it allows doctorate students enrolled in American universities to conduct research in France for up to 10 months. The STEM fellowship program and the HSS fellowship program have different modes of selection but they are both highly prestigious and merit-based. Chateaubriand recipients receive a stipend, a round trip ticket to France, and health insurance. Grants Available: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Deadline: February 1st, 2013 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Deadline: December, 31, 2012
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
SARMAC Conference X will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 26-29, 2013. For more information visit: sarmac-conference.org/index.php
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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
