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2016 Psychonomic Society Early Career Award Call for Nominations
Nominations are now being solicited for 2016. Please submit your nomination to [email protected]. Nominations close on March 15, 2016, and nominees selected for this year’s awards will be notified by May 15, 2016. The Governing Board established the following procedures for selecting the awardees: Eligibility Criteria The nominee must be a member or fellow of the Psychonomic Society. The nominee must have completed their highest degree (typically PhD) no more than 10 years before the nomination date. Nomination Procedures Nominations are made by current members, fellows, or emeritus members of the Psychonomic Society. Self-nominations are not permitted.
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Making Connections Within Text: A Review of Anaphor Resolution
In order to be a successful reader, one needs to not only be able to identify individual words, but also to create an ongoing representation of the events described throughout a text. One way this continuity is accomplished is though anaphor resolution. An anaphor is the word that refers to something that was previously introduced within the text. Take the following example: It had been a long day. The builders were exhausted. Eventually a truck arrived to help. They needed the vehicle because the load was so heavy. At last they could start work on the building. The word “vehicle” is the anaphor used to refer to the previously mentioned “truck” in the text.
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First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies
Registration is now open for the First Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Judgment and Decision Making Studies (SEJyD), taking place on July 12–13, 2016. The program features plenary lectures by Martin Skov, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, and Todd Hare, one workshop, one panel discussion, six spoken paper sessions, and two poster sessions. The breadth of topics in the conference intends to reflect the breadth of contemporary judgment and decision-making studies. These have addressed issues in the domains of aesthetics, morals, sport, consumer behavior, and the neural foundations of judgment and decision-making.
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Replication Effort Finds No Evidence That Grammatical Aspect Affects Perceived Intent
A multi-lab replication project found no evidence that the verb form used to describe a crime influences the way people judge criminal intent, in contrast to previously published findings. The Registered Replication Report (RRR), published in the January 2016 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, synthesizes the results from 12 independent replication attempts. In 2011, William Hart and Dolores Albarracín published a striking study in Psychological Science examining how the verb aspect in which a passage is written affects how that passage is interpreted.
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2016 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology
The 2016 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP 2016), organized by East Asia Research and supported by the Association of Psychotherapists and Counselors (Singapore), Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Singapore University of Technology and Design, will be held Singapore from June 14–15, 2016. Researchers and practitioners from all fields of psychology research and practice will present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of applied psychology.
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UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center Offers 5-Day Summer Courses
UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center will be holding two 5-day short courses at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. June: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research The mathematical sciences including engineering, statistics, computer science, physics, econometrics, psychometrics, epidemiology, and mathematics qua mathematics are increasingly being applied to advance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and alleviation of obesity. These applications do not merely involve routine well-established approaches easily implemented in widely available commercial software.
