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Environmental Sustainability at Work
Environmental Sustainability at Work: Registration Now Open! The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) proudly presents Environmental Sustainability at Work: Advancing Research, Enhancing Practice, to take place October 19–20, 2012 at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana. Registration is now open at www.siop.org/lec. The 8th Annual Leading Edge Consortium is devoted to advancing research and enhancing the practice of environmental sustainability in work settings through employees.
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Hormonal Contraception Alters Stress Hormone Response
The cameras were rolling at the APS 24th Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Watch as Shawn Nielsen, University of California, Irvine, describes her research. Most people remember emotionally arousing material better than neutral material partly due to the body’s natural stress response. But stress responses in women can vary during their menstrual cycle. Because ovarian sex hormone levels are commonly manipulated via hormonal contraception, Shawn Nielsen and Larry Cahill, at the Cahill Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine, hypothesized that contraceptive use would influence stress/sex hormone interactions and emotional memory.
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Meeting Unveils NIH Neurological, Behavioral Toolbox for Clinical Research
Registration is now open for “Unveiling the NIH Toolbox,” a free scientific conference September 10 - 11 presenting the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function — a set of brief but comprehensive neurological and behavioral health measurements designed for use particularly in large-scale research studies such as epidemiological studies or clinical trials. Developed by a team of more than 250 scientists from nearly 100 academic institutions, the NIH Toolbox provides a battery of online and royalty-free measures of motor, cognitive, sensory and emotional function for study participants aged 3 to 85 years.
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24th APS Annual Convention in Pictures
With a record number of attendees, this year’s APS Convention in Chicago was a hit! Relive your convention memories and check out some of the pictures from our 24th Annual Convention on our Facebook page. Have your own convention pictures? We'd love to see them! Share them on Facebook or email them to [email protected]
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London Olympics: British seek to capitalize on knowing territory
Los Angeles Times: More athletes equate to more medal chances. And they'll know the territory. English sailors have years of experience with the winds off Weymouth. The soccer players are familiar with the pitches at various Olympic venues around the country. Even the BMX racers have devoted considerable hours to training at the relatively new track in Olympic Park. With subjectively scored events such as gymnastics, boxing and diving, there can be an additional advantage. Studying the last six Summer Olympics, Shibli found host nations excelled in sports that involved judges.
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A Liberal Learns To Compete
The New York Times: Your book “The Righteous Mind” addresses the psychological reasons that politics are so divided right now. I wonder what your take would be on conservatives’ fury over John Roberts’s health care decision. My colleague Pete Ditto studied people’s attitudes about mavericks and demonstrated that everybody likes to think that they value mavericks; but actually we like mavericks only if they’re on the other side. If they’re on our side, we call them traitors. We keep hearing that the partisan divide is at an all-time high, but isn’t this ignoring the sweep of history? Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton.
