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2012 SCP Winter Conference
The 2012 Society for Consumer Psychology Winter Conference takes place February 16-18 at the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information visit: http://www.chilleesys.com/scp/Public/index.aspx
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22nd Annual International SCTPLS Conference
The 22nd Annual SCTPLS Conference will be held July 26-28, 2012 at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. For more information visit: http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conferences.html
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5th International Nonlinear Science Conference
The 5th International Nonlinear Science Conference will be held March 15-17, 2012 at the University of Barcelona, Spain. For more information visit: http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conferences.html
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24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
The 24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience will be held from June 24 - July 7, 2012. This year's topics are "Does Brain Plasticity Account for Everything?" with Jon H. Kaas, and "The Indispensable Role of Episodic Memory in Adaptive Behavior" with Ian Dobbins and Mike Miller. Both weeks feature an international faculty of leaders in the field. Applications are invited from eligible beginning and established researchers. The Summer Institute values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified scientists. For applications and further information, visit our website at http://sicn.cmb.ucdavis.edu.
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Meaningful Meals
As you prepare a meal to share with family and friends, learn what not to feed your guests and why comfort food make us feel so much better when we’re down.
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Stress Eating and the Consequences
Elissa Epel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. She will be speaking at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the cross-cutting theme program "Biological Beings in a Social Context." Watch as she describes the relationship between events of stress and how we choose to eat and discusses strategies for becoming more resilient and acquiring useful skills to control behavior. Nature “versus” nurture? Not anymore! In today’s psychological science, they’re on the same team. Research reveals the interdependencies among biological systems and social contexts.
