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Call for Nominations for APA Awards for Year 2012
The Society for General Psychology, Division One of the American Psychological Association, is conducting its Year 2012 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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The Halloween Contest Results Are In!
We invited you to submit your best Halloween photos, costumes, costume ideas, decorations, and (of course) carved pumpkins! Submissions were featured on the APS Facebook page, and winners were announced on November 3, 2011. Submitters received APS swag, and the grand prize winner won a complimentary registration to the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago! View the full album of Halloween photos here.
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RAND Summer Institute
RAND is pleased to announce the 19th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI). RSI consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing our aging population. The Mind-Medical School for Social Scientists will be held on July 9–10, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 11–12, 2012. Both conferences will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters in Santa Monica, California. 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.
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APS Fellows Lead in Taste Research
Which part of your tongue tastes sweet flavor most intensely? You may be familiar with the “tongue map” that supposedly showed which regions of our tongues sense bitter, sour, sweet, and salty tastes most intensely. The existence of taste bud maps was disproved by APS Past President Linda Bartoshuk, a leading taste researcher from the University of Florida who also discovered why “supertasters” experience taste so intensely.
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2012 Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference
The 2012 SESP Conference will be held October 25-27 in Austin, Texas. For more information visit: http://www.sesp.org/confer.htm
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Society for Disability Studies 25th Annual Conference
SDS’ 25th Annual Conference will be held in Denver Colorado, USA, June 20-23, 2012. For more information visit: http://disstudies.org/
