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9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference
9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference Trends in Training The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University Center Chattanooga, TN October 25-26, 2013 www.utc.edu/ioprog/RCIO2013.htm
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What’s Location Got to Do With It?
When we see airplanes and toothbrushes and other visible things, we see them in relation to other objects — on top of a runway or inside of a mug on the bathroom counter. Many psychologists believe that location plays a special role in feature binding, the process through which the brain turns visual information about distinct features (e.g., location, color, and shape) into a cohesive image that represents an object. But a 2011 study published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology by Snehlata Jaswal of the Indian Institute of Technology in Ropar, India, and Robert H.
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APS Journal Seeks Labs to Participate in First Registered Replication Report Project
Updated June 5, 2013: Perspectives on Psychological Science has received a wonderful response to the call for proposals to participate in its first Registered Replication Report Project. The deadline for proposals to participate in the project based on Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) is Tuesday, June 11, 2013. We expect to announce additional projects this summer. Just two months after APS launched a new initiative aimed at promoting and publishing replication studies, the first protocol has been finalized and editors are accepting proposals from researchers who would like to contribute an independent replication to the project.
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Intergroup Biases Emerge Early and Remain Stable With Age
Just like adults, children from across different cultures show implicit intergroup biases, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. The research suggests that children may show these biases as a result of their early experiences with status hierarchies. Psychological scientist Yarrow Dunham of Princeton University and colleagues conducted several experiments in which White-American children, ages 3 to 14, and adults were asked to look at a series of racially ambiguous faces and guess their race (e.g. Asian, White, or Black).
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New Perspectives on the Psychology of Understanding
With the support of a 3.56 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and with additional support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Fordham University, and the University of California-Berkeley, the Varieties of Understanding project will bring the combined efforts of some of the world's leading psychologists, philosophers, and theologians to bear on crucial questions about understanding. July 1, 2013: Official Start Date November 1, 2013: Letters of Intent due March 1, 2014: Invited full proposals due For more information visit www.varietiesofunderstanding.com/about.html
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Chris Argyris
Harvard University James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Chris Argyris is one of the world’s most respected management thinkers. A behavioral scientist, he has devoted his career to understanding how organizations operate and how managers learn. Argyris’s early research focused on the impact of formal organizational structures, control systems, and management on individuals — and how those individuals respond and adapt to them. He was an early adopter of the ground-breaking T-group experiments in the 1960s. T-group training involves increasing trainees' skills in working with other people, and Argyris found that T-groups successfully melted the rigid, authoritarian behavior of many managers.
