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Travel Awards to Attend Sackler Colloquium
We invite applications for travel awards to young scientists to attend this year's Sackler Colloquium, “The Brain Produces Mind by Modeling," to be held May 1-3 at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences in Irvine, CA on May 1-3, 2019. The organizers are Rich Shiffrin, Sophie Deneve, Josh Tenenbaum, Danielle Bassett, and NIko Kriegeskorte. Please see the website http://www.cvent.com/d/76qkwt for detailed information, an agenda, and registration instructions. We will be offering up to 40 travel awards. These are intended for young students, undergraduates, graduate students, or postdoctoral researchers prior to their first faculty position.
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Showing Yourself Compassion Can Have Mental and Physical Benefits
Showing love for your nearest and dearest is a hallmark of Valentine’s Day, but research suggests that you may want to save some of that love and compassion for yourself.
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Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 19, Number 3)Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Nearly everyone at one time or another has engaged in overeating, excessive spending, procrastinating, or falling into other self-defeating behaviors. These behaviors reflect a failure of self-control — pursuing an option that is the most tempting right now instead of the option with longer-lasting value. Self-control failures have negative consequences for educational achievement, retirement savings, health, and well-being, and they’re the focus of increasing attention by psychological scientists, policymakers, and philosophers.
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What Keeps Some Presidents Carved into Our Memories While Others Are Forgotten
Memory research explains why a few US presidents remain so profound in the national consciousness while most others are destined to fade from our collective memory.
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2019 APS Spence Recipients Announced
Eight psychological scientists have been selected as the recipients of the 2019 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award. The recipients are Luke Chang, Dartmouth College; Mina Cikara, Harvard University; Molly Crockett, Yale University; Katherine Ehrlich, University of Georgia; Willem Frankenhuis, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Jon Freeman, New York University; Michael Treadway, Emory University; and Scott Vrieze, University of Minnesota.
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2019 Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference
The 2019 Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference (BECC) will be held November 17 - 20 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sacramento, CA. BECC abstract submissions for poster presenters and panelists are open now until March 25. Full details are below, or at the BECC website: http://beccconference.org
