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BECC 2019 Deadline Extension for APS Members
The BECC (Behavior, Energy & Climate Change) conference call for abstracts has been extended until April 5 for APS members submitting individual or poster presentations. The conference, which will run November 17 to 20 in Sacramento, CA, is unique in that it brings together psychological scientists with leaders in business, government, and non-profits to encourage climate action. Conference speakers get the early bird registration discount and student fellowships are available for the conference through the Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC) at Stanford University.
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Attention and Behavior Clinic Summer Internships
The Attention and Behavior Clinic (ABC) research group at Penn State Medical Center in Hershey, PA, is seeking counselors, lead counselors, and part-time teachers for its 2019 Summer Treatment Program. Paid internships are available for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, education and related fields for the summer of 2019. Interns will deliver behavioral and social skills interventions to children with ADHD and/or disruptive behavior disorders in the context of a summer treatment program (STP) offered by Penn State Medical Center in Hershey, PA.
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MacArthur Genius Recipient Jennifer Eberhardt Discusses Her New Book ‘Biased’
MacArthur Genius recipient Jennifer Eberhardt has a new book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do. Jennifer Eberhardt is a scientist, a social psychologist who studies how we interact with one another. For more than two decades, she has been unpacking implicit racial bias, how our perceptions of race play into our everyday interactions, even when we're not aware of it. She's trained police departments and guided tech startups on recognizing their own implicit bias and how it affects their work. Now she's written about her research in a new book called "Biased: Uncovering The Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, And Do."
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Nora Newcombe, Linda B. Smith Receive SEP Annual Awards
The Society of Experimental Psychologists has awarded its most prestigious honors to APS William James Fellows Nora Newcombe and Linda B. Smith in recognition of their pioneering achievements in experimental psychology.
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Book Recommendation: “Biased” By MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Jennifer Eberhardt
I was thrilled to snag an advance copy of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (releases from Viking on March 26, 2019) by social psychologist Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt. This long-awaited book from the 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant winner -- whose research career has spanned Harvard, Yale and Stanford – proves to be an artful and compelling read. Eberhardt is best known as the world’s expert on the psychology of the “black-crime” association and for her wide range of approaches to studying how hidden biases infiltrate all parts of our lives (while our work is related, we know each other only by reputation and professional email exchange).
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Three research-based lessons to improve your mentoring
Some scientists are truly extraordinary mentors. Take, for example, professor Charlotta Turner, a chemist at Lund University in Sweden, who in 2014 received a text from her Ph.D. student telling her that he might not finish his thesis in time. When she learned that her student, Firas Jumaah, was in fact hiding with his family in an Iraqi factory as armed members of the Islamic State group roamed the streets outside, she leapt into action and worked with the university’s security chair to arrange a daring rescue operation. But for every heroic mentor, there are just as many horror stories about bad ones.
