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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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Let the Games Begin! Will Olympians Choke Under Pressure?
Paying too much attention can hurt athletic performance — researchers are finding ways to prevent athletes from ‘choking’ when it matters.
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George A. Miller: Remembering a Pioneer
The human mind works a lot like a computer: It collects, saves, modifies, and retrieves information. George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, was a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model. His insights helped move psychological research beyond behaviorist methods that dominated the field through the 1950s. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his significant contributions to our understanding of the human mind. Miller, who passed away on July 22, 2012, was also a leader in the study of short-term memory and linguistics.
