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HFES 56th Annual Meeting
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society will be held at Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22-26, 2012 For more information visit: http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/meetings.html
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Evil: Is It Us or All Around Us?
Psychological scientist Philip Zimbardo reflected on his controversial Stanford Prison Experiment with Jon Stewart in a past episode of the Daily Show. In 1971, twelve students were randomly assigned to the roles of a prisoner or a guard in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Within 36 hours, the students displayed characteristics of abusive guards and pathological criminals. The experiment was supposed to run for 2 weeks, but it ended after only 6 days. In this clip, Zimbardo also discusses his book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil and explains how our environments can affect our actions.
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The Future of Higher Education
The Center for Public Scholarship presents the 26th conference from the Social Research journal at The New School: The Future of Higher Education Thursday and Friday, December 8-9, 2011 John Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC For more information visit: www.newschool.edu/cps/future-higher-ed
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Lying Becomes Difficult as We Age
In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Janice Murray from the University of Otago, New Zealand present her poster research, “Age, Lies, and Faces: Emotion Recognition Mediates Age-Related Differences.” Murray and her colleagues asked younger and older participants to identify facial emotion expressions and determine whether younger and older speakers’ opinion statements were true or false. The scientists discovered that older adults were less convincing liars and had more difficulty detecting others’ lies.
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Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder
Why is it that what one art critic considers a masterpiece looks like a child’s finger painting to someone else? Psychological scientists are looking for answers by analyzing art, society, and the human brain. In a paper published in March 2011 by the Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Annukka K. Lindell and Julia Mueller review scientific research addressing subjective visual art appreciation. While Lindell and Mueller acknowledge that science may never be able to predict anyone’s reaction to a piece of art with complete accuracy, they also report that studying the psychology of visual art has allowed scientists to understand which variables contribute to our preferences.
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Experimental Psychological Society 2012 Meetings
The Experimental Psychological Society will hold three scientific meetings in 2012: January 5-6, 2012: University College of London, UK April 12-13, 2012: University of Hull, UK July 11-13, 2010: University of Bristol, UK For more information visit: http://www.eps.ac.uk/index.php/meetings-of-the-society
