ICPS Highlights in Pictures
May 2, 2019
Vive la Science! See some key moments from the 2019 International Convention of Psychological Science, which drew more 2,700 researchers from 70 countries to Paris.
Many studies of adolescents use an age cutoff of under 18 years, but APS Fellow BJ Casey has been designing studies to examine exactly when self-control reaches maturity in social and emotional contexts.
APS Fellow Frans B. M. de Waal shows examples of adult bonobos hugging and quieting juveniles in distress, which he describes as a display of empathy.
Monkeys in the wild show a cognitive development spectrum that stops short of humans', but studies show the potential to expand that spectrum, says neuroscientist Atsushi Iriki.
Sindhuja Sankaran, University of Warsaw, talked about research showing how people judge refugees’ morality based on their standing stance.
In a plenary address at the preconference Teaching Institute, APS Fellow Wolfgang Stroebe provided evidence that university administrators’ emphasis on student evaluations may bias instructors toward lowering course demands and grading more leniently. Stroebe is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at Utrecht University and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Henrik Ehrsson, head of the Brain, Body & Self Laboratory at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, in the Integrative Science Symposium “How Changing Our Bodies Changes Ourselves.”
APS William James Fellow Nora S. Newcombe, Editor of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and Lindsay Drayton of Cell Press fielded questions about barriers and best practices for getting integrative research published.
Lera Boroditsky, University of California, San Diego, presented research conducted around the world showing how language shapes the way we think about color, space, time, causality, and agency.
APS Fellow Arnaud Rey, French National Center for Scientific Research and Aix-Marseille University, talked about his research on sequence learning in nonhuman primates.
More than 2,700 people from 70 countries attended the convention.
Stephen Fleming, University College London, and Enny Das, Radboud University in The Netherlands, were among the speakers in an Integrative Science Symposium titled “Changing Minds and Behaviours Throughout Society: The Greatest Challenge of Our Times.”
Speakers in the Integrative Science Symposium “From the Heart to the Eye: Interoception and Awareness” included, from left, Martin P. Paulus, Laureate Institute for Brain Research; Catherine Tallon-Baudry, École normale supérieure; APS President-Elect Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University; symposium organizer Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou, University College London; and Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway University of London.
Mariam Chammat, Executive Advisor at the French Behavioral Insights Unit at Direction interministérielle de la transformation publique, and Faisal Naru, Head Strategic Management and Coordination in the Executive Director's Office of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development, joined scientists and policymakers from Germany, France, Norway, Singapore, and the United States to share their work applying behavioral science insights to public policy.
Experts from science, the humanities, and the professional wine world — along with a volunteer taste-tester from the audience — shared insights into the psychological processes that underlie how we taste and enjoy wine.
More than 90 volunteers, including graduate students participating in the international Junior Researcher Programme, helped attendees register, find sessions, and locate their poster board numbers.
Attendees presented their research findings in more than 1,600 posters across 13 poster sessions.
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