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Finding Our Minds: An APS Award Address by David Meyer
In his seminal 1890 masterwork, Principles of Psychology, William James wrote: “The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. … An
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APS Award Addresses
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Student Events at the APS 20th Annual Convention
The winners of the Student Research and RiSE-UP Awards during the convention’s Opening Ceremony. The APS 20th Annual Convention featured a full slate of student-oriented events organized by the APS Student Caucus (APSSC) Board, in
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Understanding Race Differences in Health Disparities
The knowledge of racial inequities in America is hardly breaking news. Our country’s long history of segregation and discrimination continues to reverberate in many areas of our society. Nowhere are the effects of discrimination more
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A Career in Social Psychology: An Address by Morton Deutsch
Morton Deutsch hopes that future social psychologists will be more concerned than his generation with what he called “the socially relevant properties of individuals and the psychologically relevant attributes of social structures.” “To oversimplify it,”
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Models of Memory: Award Address by Richard M. Shiffrin
In his William James Fellow Award address at the APS 19th Annual Convention, APS Fellow and Charter Member Richard M. Shiffrin spoke about the development of models of memory throughout his career and the research