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>>Details 06.10.2013event2013 APA Advanced Training Institute The Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research (CMPR) will be offering the 2013 APA Advanced Training Institute on Research Methods with Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups from June 10-14, 2013 at the Kellogg Conference Center. Professor Frederick Leong is the Director of this summer institute and this will be the 6th year in which the ATI will be offered by the CMPR which enrolls approximately 35 participants (assistant professors, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students) from around the country. Several MSU psychology faculty also serve as lecturers in this training program. More details regarding the 2013 ATI can be found at the CMPR website.
>>Details 05.22.2013newsMcAuley/Wade/Dilley/Chang collaboration featured at MSUToday http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/do-songbirds-hold-key-to-stuttering/
>>Details 05.21.2013newsZach Hambrick's research in Time magazine http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/10000-hours-may-not-make-a-master-after-all/
>>Details 05.21.2013newsKozlowski research project in the news (see link for details) http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/building-a-better-team-on-mars/
>>Details 05.09.2013newsNiCole Buchanan's research featured - see link http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/the-link-between-sexual-harassment-and-purging-in-men/
>>Details 05.07.2013newsZori Kalibatseva receives the 2013 CMPR Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award
>>Details 04.29.2013eventLecture by Dr. Gregory Francis on replication in psychology Title: The psychology of replication and replication in psychology Abstract: Many scientists believe that repeated successful replications of an experiment are the best way to demonstrate the validity of an empirical finding. Although this belief is often described as a foundation of an empirical science, it is wrong. When success is measured by rejecting a null hypothesis, the replication rate should follow the rules of probability. If the frequency of rejecting the null hypothesis is inconsistent with the power of reported experiments, then there is some type of publication bias. Regrettably, when there is publication bias, the set of experiments should be considered non-scientific. I will demonstrate how to test for too much successful replication and will provide examples of how publication bias contaminates important studies in experimental psychology. If time permits, I will discuss a different way of scientific practice that avoids publication bias by ignoring replication. Where: Psychology 230 When: Monday, April 29 at 5:30 pm
>>Details 04.26.2013event2013 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor from Stanford University will be giving the 2013 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology sponsored by the CMPR. The lecture entitled "Clash! 8 Cultural Conflicts that Make Us Who We Are" has been scheduled for Friday, April 26, 2013 in room 118 from 3:30-5:00 pm. There will be a reception afterwards in room 230 from 5:00-6:00 pm. As usual, we will also be presenting the 2013 CMPR Joseph L. White Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award at the beginning of the lecture. 
>>Details 04.25.2013newsCheryl Sisk named University Distinguished Professor
>>Details 04.19.2013newsMelissa Allman receives R00 from the NIH
>>Details 04.16.2013newsBecki Campbell writes invited CNN Op-Ed http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/opinion/campbell-rape-social-media/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
>>Details 04.15.2013newsDevin McAuley and colleagues receive grant from the Grammy Foundation Details of 2013 awards can be found at: http://www.grammy.org/grammy-foundation/grants/2010-recipients
>>Details 04.15.2013newsCathleen McGreal wins Outstanding ISS instructor award
>>Details 04.10.2013eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Brenda Volling The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, April 10th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm.  Dr. Brenda Volling from University of Michigan will be presenting.  The title of the talk is "Changes in Child and Family Functioning Across Developmental Transitions."
>>Details 03.29.2013newsCarmel Martin-Fairey receives King Chávez Parks Future Faculty Fellowship
>>Details 03.25.2013eventDr. Duncan Brumby (University College London) seminar, 5:30pm, Psychology rm 5 Dr. Duncan will present a talk entitled, "Multitasking, interruptions, and the inevitable problems that follow".
>>Details 03.20.2013eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Lanay Mudd The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, March 20th in Psychology 230 from 12-1 pm.  Dr. Lanay Mudd will be presenting.  The title of the talk is "Building Blocks for Health: Physical Activity during Pregnancy."
>>Details 03.14.2013newsDr. Harrell's work on college drinking is in the news http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/parents-religion-guard-against-college-drinking/
>>Details 02.25.2013newsTim Pleskac receives 2013 College of Social Science Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award
>>Details 02.24.2013newsAsian American Journal of Psychology (edited by Fred Leong) to receive impact factor
>>Details 02.14.2013newsJenna Neal's research featured by iCER - follow link for full story http://icer.msu.edu/?q=node/408
>>Details 02.08.2013newsLinda Jackson's work highlighted in MSU Today Full story at:  http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/social-network-use-reflects-east-west-disparity/
>>Details 01.23.2013eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Chamarrita Farkas The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, January 23rd in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm.  Dr. Chamarrita Farkas from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile will be presenting.  The title of the talk is "Babies' Gestural Expression of Emotion and its Relationship with Child and Adult Characteristics."
>>Details 12.12.2012eventJob Talk from Aidan Wright at noon in room 230 At the Nexus of Personality and its Pathology: Structural, Developmental, and Dynamic Investigations
>>Details 12.10.2012eventWhom You Love symposium S. Marc Breedlove Ph.D., Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience, Michigan State University: Whom You Love: the road we've traveled. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 12.03.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Alice Dreger Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University: Trying to 'Choose' Our Children's Sexual Orientation: Missteps, Misunderstandings, and the Marketplaces of Motherhood. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 11.29.2012eventDepartment Colloquium: Dr. Geldhof; When: 12pm ; Where: Room 230 Title: Integrating Developmental Theory and Method: The Sample Case of Self-Regulation Abstract: My primary research interest is the development of self-regulation and understanding how we can leverage aspects of self-regulation to promote positive development across the life span. I approach self-regulation from a relational developmental systems perspective, and I work to understand how individuals align domain-specific self-regulation skills with facets of their unique contexts. I am also a quantitative methodologist; I not only apply advanced multivariate methods to my own research, but I also treat quantitative methodology as a research domain. My quantitative research focuses on latent variable models, multilevel models, and issues related to scale creation and validation. In this talk I summarize my research on self-regulation and highlight ways I have integrated this research with my methodological interests. I then briefly discuss future directions for my research.
>>Details 11.28.2012eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. James Swain The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, November 28th in Psychology 230 from 12-1 pm.  Dr. James Swain will be presenting.  The title of the talk is "Parental Reacting and Reflecting in the Human Brain."
>>Details 11.12.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Ray Blanchard Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto: How and Why Do Older Brothers Influence Sexual Orientation in Men? 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 11.07.2012eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Alytia Levendosky The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, November 7th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm.  Dr. Alytia Levendosky will be presenting.  The title of the talk is "Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence on Infant Stress Reactivity and Behavioral Functioning."
>>Details 11.05.2012eventWhom You Love symposium J. Michael Bailey Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University: Is Sexual Orientation Chosen, Learned, Inborn, Genetic, or What? 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 10.31.2012eventDepartment of Psychology Colloquium Series Talk: Dr. Cheryl Sisk Dr. Cheryl Sisk will be the next speaker in the Department of Psychology Colloquium Series.  She will present a a talk entitled, Pubertal Hormones and the Adolescent Brain, in Room 230 from 3:30-5:00.
>>Details 10.29.2012newsFred Leong appointed as associate editor of the American Psychologist
>>Details 10.29.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Simon LeVay Ph.D., West Hollywood: My Brain Made Me Gay: Sexual Orientation, Science, and Society. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 10.25.2012newsBill Davidson receives the MSU Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award
>>Details 10.22.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Meredith Chivers Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Queen’s National Scholar, Queen's University: The Puzzle of Women's Sexual Orientation - Why Straight Sexuality Isn't so Straightforward in Women. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 10.15.2012eventDr Allman's research highlighted by Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Following a symposuim presentation at this year's Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Dr. Allman's research recieved media attention http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/conference-news/2012/society-for-neuroscience-2012/children-with-autism-get-lost-in-time-imaging-study-says
>>Details 10.08.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Charles Roselli Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University: Barnyard Insights into Sexuality. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 10.01.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Paul L. Vasey Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Lethbridge: No Dodos: What Cross-Cultural Research Tells us About Why Homosexual Males Do Not Become Extinct. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 09.25.2012newsDr. Hambrick elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
>>Details 09.25.2012newsDr. Nunez elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
>>Details 09.24.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Dennis McFadden Ph.D., Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin: Physiological Evidence about the Origins of Sexual Orientation. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 09.21.2012event2012 Messe Memorial Lecture Renowned social neuroscientist Prof. John T. Cacioppo of the University of Chicago will deliver the 2012 Messé Memorial Lecture on September 21, 2012, at 3:30pm in Room 118 Psychology Building. The title of the lecture is "Social Isolation". A reception will follow the lecture in Room 230 Psychology Building. See www.msu.edu/user/kerr/LAM.Lecture.htm for more details.
>>Details 09.17.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Sari van Anders Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan: Beyond Sexual Orientation: Testosterone and sexual diversity in humans. 4pm Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 09.14.2012eventBayesian Data Analysis Workshop  
Have you ever wondered what the fuss about this Bayesian data analysis stuff is and why it seems to be gaining momentum? 
Perhaps you have been tracking the exciting methodological discussions in psychology like the the Daryl Bem studies on psi and pre-cognition and recently the number of issues regarding replication and fabrication. If you have, then you will know the approach of Bayesian data analysis has been brought up regularly as a means to address some of these problems (e.g., interpreting the null, data peeking). 
Or perhaps you have been talking to people from from other fields (e.g., agriculture, biology, economics, epidemiology, genetics, poly sci) and have noticed an increase in the use of Bayesian data analyses where they report things like a posterior distributions, Bayes factors, etc.
Or maybe you have always found it odd to think about p values and NHST and have heard Bayesian methods offer an attractive alternative.
Regardless, the QMES concentration with help from the Psychology Department and the MSU Cognitive Science program have invited Dr. John Kruschke to come give a talk and a 1 day workshop on DOING BAYESIAN DATA ANALYSIS. Come join us so you too can learn how to do Bayesian data analysis. 
When: 
Friday September, 14 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm (Introductory Talk) in 118 Psychology
Saturday September 15 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (workshop) at 
The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development
3535 Forest Road
Lansing, MI 48910
For more information:
If you will be attending the workshop, please register at this site with your name and email:
 
>>Details 09.10.2012newsLecture series "Whom you Love" featured in Lansing State Journal http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120909/NEWS01/309090096
>>Details 09.10.2012eventWhom You Love symposium Eric Vilain, MD. Chief, Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA: Born This Way: Biological Tales of Sexual Orientation. 4pm, Wells Hall room 115B
>>Details 08.09.2012newsJoe Lonstein (Psychology) and Heather Eisthen (Zoology) receive new NSF grant It will support undergraduate research experiences in Integrative Study of Social Behavior.
>>Details 07.27.2012newsJoe Cesario receives NSF grant
>>Details 07.27.2012newsTaosheng Liu receives R01 from the NIH
>>Details 07.27.2012newsSusan Ravizza receives NSF Career Award
>>Details 07.13.2012newsKatherine Cloutier received the mtvU-Fulbright award for developing youth leadership through Dance for Life to combat the spread of AIDS in Barbados
>>Details 06.20.2012newsJason Moser's work highlighted in the Wall Street Journal Please see the full article at this link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577474451463041994.html?mod=ITP_personaljournal_0
>>Details 06.18.2012newsAlex von Eye newly accredited as professional statistician of the American Statistical Association
>>Details 06.11.2012newsZori Kalibatseva won the ICPR master's research paper competition The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research announced this award for Zori's paper that used the National Comorbidity  Survey to examine differences in symptoms of depression between Asian Americans and European Americans.
>>Details 06.07.2012newsJason Moser's research featured in MSUNews http://news.msu.edu/story/gender-differences-in-anxiety-may-stem-from-how-hard-brain-works/
>>Details 05.01.2012newsStevie Yap wins Outstanding Student Multicultural Award Stevie C.Y. Yap is the winner of the 2012 Joseph L. White Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award from the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research. He received the award for his paper, “Mediators of the relationship between racial identity and life satisfaction in a community sample of African American women and men” published in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
>>Details 04.20.2012event2012 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multcultural Psychology James Jackson, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Social Research (ISR) from the University of Michigan will be giving the 2012 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multcultural Psychology sponsored by the CMPR. The lecture entitled "The Social Psychology of Population Differences in Health" has been scheduled for Friday, April 20, 2012 in room 118 from 3:30-5:00 pm. There will be a reception afterwards in room 230 from 5:00-6:00 pm. As usual, we will also be presenting the 2012 CMPR Joseph L. White Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award at the beginning of the lecture.
>>Details 03.23.2012event"The Detroit Rape Kit Backlog Project" Brown Bag Rebecca Campbell, Ph.D and Giannina Fehler-Cabral, Ph.D will be presenting a brown bag on Friday, March 23 from 3:30-5pm in 118 Psychology Building. Since the 1990s, thousands of untested sexual assault kits (SAKs) have been discovered in police and crime lab facilities throughout the United States. In August 2009, a tour of a Detroit Police Department property storage room turned up 11,000+ SAKs dating back to the 1980’s. Most of these kits were never submitted to the crime lab for DNA analysis. Most of these rapes were not investigated or prosecuted. To address to this problem, key stakeholders, including the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police Crime Lab, and Detroit-area victim service organizations, have agreed to work together in an action research project to study why this happened and how it can be ended. This presentation will describe the extent of the problem in Detroit and present preliminary findings as to the underlying reasons why so many SAKs were never processed by the police.


>>Details 02.04.2012newsBrooke Ingersoll's work featured on WILX http://www.wilx.com/searchresults?searchKeywords=autism&dateRange=60
>>Details 12.15.2011newsBob Caldwell named University Ombudsman - congrats!!
>>Details 12.14.2011newsBrooke Ingersoll's research highlighted by APS http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/earlier-autism-diagnosis-could-mean-earlier-interventions.html
>>Details 12.13.2011newsBecki Campbell's work highlighted in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/health/the-twice-victimized-of-sexual-assault.html?_r=1
>>Details 11.30.2011eventDepartment of Psychology Colloquium Series Talk: Dr. Lauren Harris Dr. Lauren Harris will be the next colloquium speaker.  He will present a talk entitled, “We speak with the left hemisphere”: The story of Paul Broca’s discovery that changed our understanding of the human brain, in Room 230 Psychology from 3:30-5:00.
>>Details 11.30.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Ruben Parra-Cardona The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, November 30th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Ruben Parra-Cardona from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies will be presenting. The title of the talk is "Testing Efficacy and Cultural Relevance in a Culturally Adapted Parenting Intervention for Latinos."
>>Details 11.16.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Harold Johnson The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, November 16th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Harold Johnson from the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education will be presenting. The title of the talk is "Risk Factors & Incidence of Child Abuse & Neglect as Experienced by Children with Disabilities: Research Barriers & Opportunities."
>>Details 10.26.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Sacha Klein The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, October 26th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Sacha Klein from the Department of Social Work will be presenting. The title of the talk is "The Community Context of Racial Disparities in the Public Child Welfare System: Exploring the Role of Concentrated Poverty."
>>Details 10.12.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Marjorie Beeghly The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, October 12th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Marjorie Beeghly from the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University will be presenting. The title of the talk is TBA.
>>Details 10.06.2011eventHDI Colloquium Series: Dr. Hiro Yoshikawa The Human Development Initiative Colloquium Series presents Dr. Hiro Yoshikawa, a Professor of Education at Harvard University. Dr. Yoshikawa will give a talk titled, 'Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and their Young Children's Development' on 10/6/11, 3:00-5:00 pm in Psychology room 230. He will also be hosting a multi-methods workshop for graduate students from 12 - 1:30 pm in Psychology room 230.
>>Details 09.28.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Cecilia Martinez-Torteya The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, September 28th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Cecilia Martinez-Torteya from the Department of Psychology, at University of  Michigan, will be presenting. The title of the talk is "Prenatal Intimate Partner Violence and Depression during Childhood: The Role of Physiological Stress Response Dysregulation."
>>Details 09.22.2011event2011 MSU Symposium on Multicultural Psychology The 2011 MSU Symposium on Multicultural Psychology will be held September 22- 23 at the Kellogg Conference Center in East Lansing, MI. The theme of the 2011 MSU Symposium will be "Occupational Health Disparities among Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Formulating Research Needs and Directions." We have an excellent line-up of keynote speakers, including Dr. John Howard, Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dr. Lois Tetrick, Director of the I/O Psychology Program at George Mason University and one of the founding members of the Society for Occupational Safety and Health, and Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, the new Chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, and a number of other internationally renowned speakers. The MSU Symposium will be an excellent opportunity for participants to network with established researchers, policy makers, and community activists to truly gain a deep understanding of and appreciation for issues related to occupational health disparities from a multicultural perspective. The 2011 MSU Symposium will be hosted by the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research, and co-sponsored by the Julian Samora Research Institute. Funding for the Symposium has been provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Questions regarding the 2011 MSU Symposium may be directed to the CMPR Director: Frederick Leong, Ph.D. (fleong@msu.edu)
>>Details 09.14.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Sue Grady The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, September 14th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Sue Grady from the Department of Geography will be presenting. The title of the talk is "How Racial Residential Segregation Impacts Health."
>>Details 08.18.2011news2011 Joseph L. White Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award Sarah J. Reed is the winner of the 2011 Joseph L. White Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award from the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research. She received the award for her master's thesis on "The Pregnancy Experiences and Motivations of Young, Black Women Who Have Sex with Women" which was completed under the direction of Professor Robin Miller.
>>Details 07.29.2011newsRobin Miller is the 2011 winner of the Robert Ingle Award from the American Evaluation Association
>>Details 07.12.2011newsGrad student Carmel Martin-Fairey selected as Neuroscience Scholar by the Society for Neuroscience
>>Details 07.11.2011eventDyadic Data Analysis Workshop Instructors:      Deborah A. Kashy, Ph.D. (Michigan State University) Robert A. Ackerman, M.A. (Michigan State University) Dates and Times:            July 11-14 (Monday-Thursday) 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM July 15 (Friday) 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM for one-on-one consultation meetings only   Cost:    $900.00   The workshop will focus on analyses for data in which both members of a dyad are measured on the same set of variables. Topics to be addressed include the measurement of nonindependence, the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, the analysis of distinguishable and indistinguishable dyads, and the analysis of over-time dyadic data (e.g., dyadic growth curve models).  Time permitting, we will also discuss the analysis of designs when an individual is engaged in multiple dyadic relationships or interactions (e.g., therapists with multiple clients). The software package used in the workshop will be SPSS. Although the workshop does not require any prior knowledge or experience with multilevel modeling, participants are expected to have a working knowledge of multiple regression and analysis of variance, as well as SPSS.   This four-day workshop (with an optional ½ day on Friday) will include a lecture component with hands-on application of the material covered in lecture, as well as one-on-one consultation meetings concerning participants’ actual research and data analytic questions.  There will be time for individual meetings with workshop instructors from 3:00pm to 5:00pm each afternoon, as well as on Friday morning 9:00-11:00. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring their own data so that they can apply these new methods to their own projects. (They should contact the instructors beforehand to ensure that data are appropriately formatted for analysis.) Information/Registration: LINK
>>Details 06.20.2011eventAPA Advanced Training Institute The Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research (CMPR) will be offering the 2011 APA Advanced Training Institute on Research Methods with Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups from June 20-24, 2011 at the Kellogg Conference Center. Professor Frederick Leong is the Director of this summer institute and this will be the 4th year in which the ATI will be offered by the CMPR which enrolls approximately 30 participants (assistant professors, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students) from around the country. Several MSU psychology faculty also serve as lecturers in this training program. More details regarding the 2011 ATI can be found at the CMPR website.
>>Details 06.06.2011newsEcho Rivera won 1st prize in a graduate student paper contest of the National Center for Victims of Crime The highly competitive award is for "excellence in victim-centered scholarship and significant insight into issues impacting victims".  Echo won for a paper she wrote from her thesis: "Safety concerns and mediation experiences among women divorcing abusive husbands." 
>>Details 04.20.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Marsha Rappley The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, April 20th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Marsha Rappley from the Department of Human Medicine will be presenting. The title of the talk is TBA.
>>Details 04.11.2011eventPsychology Department Colloquium Series 3:30-6, April 11, Psychology 230 Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald, Associate Provost for Outreach and Engagement and University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, will be the first presenter for the Psychology Department Colloquium Series. Dr. Fitzgerald will be presenting his paper 'Do mental Representations and early life course expectancies facilitate the organization of alcohol use disorders' from 3:30-5pm in Psychology 230, with a reception to follow from 5-6.
>>Details 04.06.2011newsPortia Dyrenforth’s dissertation research is highlighted the Washington Post Please see the following article in the Washington Post: LINK   The three other psychologists mentioned, but not named, are Debby Kashy, Brent Donnellan and Rich Lucas.
>>Details 04.06.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Masako Fujita The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, April 6th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Masako Fujita from the Department of Anthropology will be presenting a talk entitled, "Understanding Why Vitamin A in Breastmilk Declines When Children Need It the Most: Data From a Northern Kenyan Community".
>>Details 04.01.2011newsPress coverage of graduate student Stevie Yap's research on racial identity and happiness.

Racial identity tied to happiness, study finds

  EAST LANSING, Mich. — Black people who identify more strongly with their racial identity are generally happier, according to a study led by psychology researchers at Michigan State University. See the full story: LINK NPR coverage: LINK
>>Details 04.01.2011newsDrs. Settles, Harrell, Buchanan news article on sexual harassment

Study finds gender differences related to sexual harassment

  EAST LANSING, Mich. — Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance to harassing behavior they consider merely “bothersome,” suggests a provocative new study by Michigan State University researchers. see the full story: LINK
>>Details 04.01.2011event2011 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology Dr. Ed Diener, Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology from the University of Illinois will be giving the 2011 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multcultural Psychology sponsored by the CMPR. The lecture entitled "Culture and Happiness around the World" has been scheduled for Friday, April 1, 2011 in room 118 from 3:15-5:00 pm. There will be a reception afterwards in room 230 from 5:00-6:30 pm. As usual, we will also be presenting the 2011 CMPR Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award at the beginning of the lecture.
>>Details 03.30.2011eventPsychology Dept Colloquium by Neal Schmitt Neal Schmitt, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management will be presenting at our April Psychology Department Colloquium Series. The title of his presentation is "National Research Council: Data-Bases Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs". The presentation will take place in Psychology room 230 on March 30 from 3:30-5:00 pm with a reception following from 5:00-6:00 pm.
>>Details 03.23.2011eventClinical Psychology Colloquium Series, March 23, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Reception 4:30pm - 5:00 pm, Psychology Building Room 230 The Clinical Psychology Colloquium Series will feature a talk by Terri D. Conley, Jessica Matsick, & Bernadette Blanchfield (University of Michigan, Department of Psychology) entitled “Macho, Fluffy, Ignorant Straights”: Stereotypes about Heterosexuals as Held by LGQ People. The talk will be held on Wednesday, March 23 from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm (with a reception to follow from 4:30pm - 5:00 pm) in Psychology Building Room 230. Abstract: This study investigated the content of stereotypes that Lesbian, Gay, and Queer-identifying people hold about heterosexual men, heterosexual women and heterosexuals in general. Results indicate the most commonly held stereotypes are gendered (emphasizing the masculinity and femininity aspects of heterosexuals) and reactive (responding to hostility of heterosexuals towards sexual minorities). The fit of these stereotypes into existing models of stereotype content and implication for LGB-heterosexual interactions will be discussed.
>>Details 03.16.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Brent Donnellan The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, March 16th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Brent Donnellan from the Department of Psychology will be presenting a talk entitled, "The Development of Core Dispositions across the Life Span".
>>Details 03.14.2011newsCris Sullivan named Chair of the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board
>>Details 02.25.2011eventSocial/Personality Brown Bag: Ezequiel Morsella Social/Personality Brown Bag speaker this Friday, 2/25, is Ezequiel Morsella (Dept. of Psychology, SFSU, Department of Neurology, UCSF). The title of his talk is "Conscious and Unconscious Action: Conscious States are Necessary to Integrate Only Certain Brain Processes" You can learn more about his work here: LINK  His talk is Friday, 2/25, at 1:30 in Psychology Room 230. Contact cesario@msu.edu to set up a meeting with Dr. Morsella.
>>Details 02.23.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Kalli Decker The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, February 23rd in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Kalli Decker, MA from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies will be presenting a talk entitled, "Influences of Social Bias and Parenting Values on Parents' Communication Choices for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing".
>>Details 02.17.2011eventDr. Stephen Porges - "The autonomic nervous system as a neural platform for social behavior: Insights into development and psychopathology" The Human Development Initiative Colloquium Series presents Dr. Stephen Porges, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Brain-Body Center. Dr. Porges will give a talk on 'The autonomic nervous system as a neural platform for social behavior: Insights into development and psychopathology' on 2/17/10, 3:30-5:30 pm in Psychology room 230.
>>Details 02.09.2011eventHDI Brown Bag: Dr. Ann Stacks, Wayne State University The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, February 9th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Ann Stacks from the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University will be presenting a talk entitled, "Preschool Teacher's Reflective Functioning and the Promotion of Children's Emotion Regulation in the Classroom".
>>Details 02.03.2011eventHDI Faculty Research Poster Session The Human Development Initiative has planned a Faculty Research Poster Session for HDI faculty to learn more about one another's research. It will be held on February 3rd from 4-6 pm in the Kellogg Center, Red Cedar Room. This event will include time for faculty to mingle and discuss intersections of ideas and possible collaborations. Food and drink will be served.
>>Details 01.26.2011eventHDI Brown Bag - Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, January 26th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald from the Department of Psychology will be presenting a talk entitled, "Wiba Anung: Community Based Participatory Research with Tribal Head Start Programs".
>>Details 01.12.2011eventHDI Brown Bag - Dr. Ryan Bowles The Human Development Initiative hosts a brown bag research talk on Wednesday, January 12th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Ryan Bowles from the Department of Psychology will be presenting a talk entitled, "The role of a child's name in the development of letter name knowledge".
>>Details 12.06.2010newsProf. Becki Campbell Invited to Participate in a White House Discussion She will attend a "Roundtable of Experts on Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Related Youth Violence" on December 10, following an invitation from Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women.
>>Details 12.06.2010eventCognitive Science Distnguished Speaker Series (5:30pm, 116 Natural Science) Professor Robert Zatorre McGill University Anatomical and functional organization or the human auditory cortex: Pitch, speech, and plasticity In this lecture we will consider functional and structural neuroimaging findings dealing with the organization of the human auditory cortex for the processing of complex acoustic signals. We focus on the processing of pitch patterns, how this processing changes as a function of experience, and the interactions between auditory and parietal cortical systems involved in higher-order aspects of pitch processing. We will start by examining the evidence for specialization of auditory cortex for the analysis of pitch, reviewing converging evidence that a region in the right lateral Heschlâ??s gyrus plays a particularly important role in the representation of pitch. We will then consider how musical training interacts with the organization of this pitch-processing system. Our evidence suggests not only that training has consequences on anatomy and function, but also that pre-existing differences in the properties of this system may affect behavioral performance on relevant pitch tasks. We then go on to consider processing beyond auditory cortex, examining the function of a dorsal pathway which has traditionally been thought of as visuospatial in nature. We show that the intraparietal cortex plays an important role in transformations of tonal pitch patterns both in the frequency and in the time domain. Taken together, the findings yield insights into the functional characterization of perceptual pathways and inform us about structure-function relationships in higher-order cognitive processes.
>>Details 10.27.2010eventEtiological Risk Mechanisms for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Addressing Nature/Nurture Complexities Through the Complementary Use of Behavioral and Molecular Genetics As part of the Clinical Psychology Colloquium Series, Molly Nikolas will give a practice job talk entitled "Etiological Risk Mechanisms for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Addressing Nature/Nurture Complexities Through the Complementary Use of Behavioral and Molecular Genetics". Her talk will be from 2:30-4:30 pm in Room 230.
>>Details 10.20.2010eventDr. Kenneth Levy: Empirically supported psychoanalytic treatments for borderline personality disorder The Clinical Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Kenneth Levy, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, where he directs the Laboratory for the Study of Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy. Dr. Levy will give a talk on 'Empirically supported psychoanalytic treatments for borderline personality disorder' on 10/20/10, 2.30-4.30pm in Room 230.
>>Details 10.01.2010event2010 Messé Memorial Lecture Renowned evolutionary psychologist, Prof. David M. Buss of the University of Texas, Austin, will deliver the 2010 Messé Memorial Lecture on Oct. 1, 2010, at 3:30pm in Room 118 Psychology Building. The title of the lecture is "Sexual Conflict in Human Mating Strategies". A reception will follow the lecture in Room 230 Psychology Building. See www.msu.edu/user/kerr/LAM.Lecture.htm for more details.
>>Details 09.15.2010eventBuchanan Lab Talks: Colloquium Series CIG The first event of the Colloquium Series for the Clinical Psychology Program will be held on Wednesday, 9/15, from 2:30-4:30pm in room 230. Dr. Buchanan and her lab will be presenting on current research: Race, Gender, and Victimization: Black Women's Experiences of Racial and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace NiCole T. Buchanan, PhD Associations between Sexual Orientation, Psychopathology and Experiencing Violence: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Brooke Bluestein, MA
>>Details 09.14.2010eventHuman Development Initiative Brownbag - Dr. Matt Diemer The Human Development Initiative will be holding the first Fall 2010 Brownbag on Tuesday, September 14th in Psychology room 230 from 12-1 pm. Dr. Matt Diemer from the department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education will be presenting a talk entitled "Critical Consciousness Development and Political Participation among Marginalized Youth".
>>Details 09.02.2010newsMSU press release issued for Professor Spee Kosloff's new research on political smears MSU press release issued for Professor Spee Kosloff's new research on political smears. see link: http://news.msu.edu/story/8231/
>>Details 09.02.2010newsFrederick Leong received the Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award from the APA Minority Fellowship Program at their 2010 annual convention in San Diego. Dr. Leong was an MFP Fellow at the University of Maryland from 1982-1985.
>>Details 08.16.2010newsMSU press release issued for Jennifer Neal Study Please see the link: http://news.msu.edu/story/8168/&topic_id=10
>>Details 08.09.2010newsClinical Graduate Student Jesse Bledsoe received a $3000 dissertation grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield
>>Details 07.22.2010newsDr. Alex Burt NICHD proposal funded Alex Burt and Kelly Klump have received $2,957,439 from the National Institute of Child and Health Development for their R01 entitled "Integrating contextual, proximal, and individual risks for child conduct problems".
>>Details 06.06.2010newsKaron Award Dr. Bert Karon was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis at the annual meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association on April 23 in Chicago.
>>Details 05.24.2010newsNeal Dissertation Award Jennifer Neal has received the 2010 Best Dissertation Award on a topic relevant to Community Psychology from the Society for Community Research and Action.
>>Details 04.30.2010eventIAFN Ann Burgess Nursing Research Award Dr. Becki Campbell has been informed that she will receive the 2010 IAFN Ann Burgess Nursing Award from the International Association of Forensic Nurses at its annual meeting in Pittsburgh in October.
>>Details 04.19.2010eventEco-Community Brown Bag with Dr. Carl Taylor The Eco-Community program would like to invite all Psychology faculty and students to our Brown Bag in April. Speaker: Dr. Carl Taylor from MSU's Dept of Sociology Date: 04/19/10 Time: 3:30PM-4:30PM Room 230 Psychology Building Title: "The thirdcity an outlaw society" Description: This talk addresses the populations in urban America that live, work and play in the underground, underworld. Communities that America does not acknowledge in an equal or humane way.
>>Details 04.17.2010eventPsychology Multicultural Student Conference: Touching and Transforming Lives Michigan State University, Union Building – 2nd Floor, Saturday, April 17, 2010 WHY ATTEND: According to the 2000 Census, the data shows us that individuals of a different race constitute approximately 25% of the United States population. We can project that this trend of increased “minorities” will continue and the minority may soon become the majority. The implication of this shift in population is significant for those who teach, conduct research and who will work in the community. This projected change in demographics will require 1) an increased representation of diverse people of color in the field/profession and 2) more research on multicultural issues. With these changes, we hope to begin to impact the field and actively engage students in pursuing this unchartered area of Psychology. These changes will help achieve a minimum level of multicultural understanding that will help meet the mental health needs of this diverse, multicultural society. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Diversity is an integral part of getting a degree, especially for those desiring to work with people and in the community. This conference aims to introduce and highlight research, practices and issues in the area of multicultural psychology to undergraduates as well as graduate students in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. Students will see the breadth and depth of multicultural issues in the areas they wish to pursue. The proposed presenters have demonstrated their knowledge and skills through their active engagement in multiculturalism in their research, publications, committee work and public service.
>>Details 04.09.2010eventHuman Development Initiative Inaugural Speaker - Dr. Arnold Sameroff Dr. Arnold Sameroff from the University of Michigan will be presenting a talk entitled "Understanding Human Development: A Modern Synthesis". Friday, April 9th in Psychology room 118, 3:30-5:00 pm. Reception with refreshments immediately following in Psychology room 230.
>>Details 04.07.2010eventHuman Development Initiative Brownbag Informal group discussion of some reprints provided by Dr. Arnold Sameroff, the inaugural Human Development Initiative speaker. Giltner Hall room 101, 4:30 pm.
>>Details 04.01.2010newsCourse Technology Award Dr. Cathleen McGreal has been informed that her ISS 318 course won first place in the MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards blended course competition and honorable mention for her fully online version of ISS 318.
>>Details 03.30.2010newsAlex Burt SRP Early Career Award Dr. Alex Burt has received word from the Society for Research in Psychopathology that she is the winner of their inaugural Early Career Award. She will receive the award at the SRP banquet at this year's annual meeting.
>>Details 03.19.2010newsCMPR Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award Maria Valenti has won the 2010 CMPR Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award. She will receive the award at the Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology on March 19, 2010.
>>Details 03.19.2010eventAnnual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology The 2010 Annual Distinguished Lecture in Multicultural Psychology, sponsored by the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research (CMPR) will be given by Professor Richard Nisbett from the University of Michigan, on Friday, March 19 from 3:30-5:00 pm (room 118). The title of his presentation is: “Intelligence and how to get it: Why schools and cultures count”. A reception will follow in Room 230 from 5:00-6:30 pm. We will be presenting the CMPR Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award at the beginning of the event.
>>Details 03.15.2010eventDr. Jill Kroll, National Center for Education Statistics: Free data and resources for research. Speaker: Dr. Jill Kroll; Date: 03/15/10; Time: 3:30PM-4:30PM; Title: "National Center for Education Statistics: Free data and resources for research."; Description: "This talk will provide an overview of the research resources available (free!) from the National Center for Education Statistics. The NCES collects data using a wide range of methods on populations of interest to researchers in many fields. Since the NCES has limited resources to analyze the vast amount of data it collects, it seeks researchers interested in carrying out analyses on the existing data or using its surveys and questionnaires to conduct further study. The talk will provide information on how to access the various resources, including data and instruments, as well as free training available to researchers interested in using NCES data." PDF
>>Details 03.05.2010eventColloquium: Examining the Impact of Death-Related Concerns on Political Preferences, Dissociative Responses, and Physiological Processes This week the Psychology Department will host a series of talks for the visiting Assistant Professor position in Social/Personality Psychology. The third candidate, Dr. Spee Kosloff from the University of Arizona, is speaking Friday March 5th at 2:30pm in Room 230 Psychology Building.
>>Details 03.03.2010eventColloquium: The Jury and Abjury of My Peers: The Self in Face and Dignity This week the Psychology Department will host a series of talks for the visiting Assistant Professor position in Social/Personality Psychology. The second candidate, Dr. Young-Hoon Kim from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign , is speaking tomorrow. The details of the talk are below: Dr. Young-Hoon Kim Talk Title: The Jury and Abjury of My Peers: The Self in Face and Dignity Cultures Date: 3/3/10 Time: 1:30pm-3:00pm Location: Room 230 Psychology Building We look forward to seeing you there, Edward A. Witt, M.A.
>>Details 01.12.2010newsDr. Pleskac Career proposal funded by NSF Dr. Tim Pleskac has been informed that his Career proposal titled “Bringing a dynamic, stochastic, and computational understanding to subjective probabilities” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
>>Details 01.12.2010newsDr. Campbell featured in National Institute of Justice newsletter Dr. Rebecca Campbell’s research on the impact of work of sexual assault nurse examiners on criminal prosecutions and victim recovery was featured on the front page of the National Institute of Justice newsletter. See www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/
>>Details 01.12.2010newsDr. Carr elected Fellow The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected Dr. Tom Carr as a Fellow for his work on complex mental processes, attention, and skilled performance.
>>Details 11.18.2009newsDr. Abeles Award: Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest The Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association has informed Dr. Norman Abeles that he will be awarded the 2010 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. The award will be presented at this year’s annual convention in August, 2010 in San Diego, California.
>>Details 11.09.2009newsLevendosky, Bogat, Lonstein, & von Eye NICHID Award Alytia Levendosky, Anne Bogat, Joe Lonstein, and Alex von Eye received a $100,000 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant to study the effects of pre- and postnatal intimate partner violence on infant behavior and physiology.
>>Details 11.09.2009newsCecilia Martinez-Torteya Awards Cecilia Martinez-Torteya has won two awards: the "International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Student Research Award" and the "American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award"
>>Details 10.13.2009eventAnger-A Proven Health Hazard: Empirical Evidence and a Therapy Approach Dr. Richard Suinn || Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University || Title of Colloquium: Anger- A Proven Health Hazard: Empirical Evidence and a Therapy Approach || Tuesday, October 13, 2009 || 3:30-5:00 pm, Psychology Room 230
>>Details 09.24.2009newsFred Leong is the Founding and Incoming Editor of the Asian Journal of Psychology Fred Leong is the Founding and Incoming Editor of the Asian Journal of Psychology to be published by the American Psychological Association for the Asian American Psychological Association.
>>Details 09.23.2009eventPSYCHFEST 2009 Information night for students interested in learning more about psychology careers, resources, and graduate programs || 4th floor of Spartan Stadium Tower || 3-6PM
>>Details 09.18.2009event2009 Lawrence A. Messé Memorial Lecture: What’s the Matter with Memory? Elizabeth F. Loftus, University of California, Irvine || Elizabeth Loftus is a leading figure in the study of memory, both in the lab and field settings. She is probably best known for her groundbreaking work on eyewitness testimony, the misinformation effect, and repressed memories. || (Friday, September 18, 2009 118 Psychology Building 3:30 p.m.)
>>Details 08.03.2009eventPromises can compensate for distance: Effects of explicit self-commitment in virtual teams
>>Details 06.30.2009newsDistinguished Contributions to Diversity Dr. Fred Leong has been notified that he will be presented with the Stanley Sue Distinguished Contributions to Diversity Award from Division 12 of the American Psychological Association. The award will be made at the annual conference in Toronto in August, 2009.
>>Details 05.07.2009eventDopamine Genes and Children's Disruptive Behavior Disorders
>>Details 04.30.2009newsCampbell Teaching Award Dr. Rebecca Campbell will be the recipient of the 2009 College of Social Science Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award. She will be presented with the award at the 2009 CSS Commencement Ceremony.
>>Details 04.30.2009newsOutstanding Student Multicultural Research Award Krystle Woods has won the 2009 Outstanding Student Multicultural Research Award from the Center for Multicultural Psychology Research
>>Details 04.27.2009eventNatural Selection Favoring the Evolution of Intelligence
>>Details 04.20.2009eventImaging the Future
>>Details 04.17.2009eventIdeas for the Human Development Initiative
>>Details 04.17.2009eventSocial Comparison and Competition
>>Details 04.06.2009eventWhat is the Use of Language?
>>Details 03.23.2009eventThe Dynamic Parental Brain: Lessons from ancient brains, vice-presidential candidates, and rodent models
>>Details 03.16.2009eventBottom Up: Investigating the Evolution of Intelligent Behavior Using Digital Organisms
>>Details 02.28.2009newsBogat, Levendosky, von Eye, and Lonstein Award Professors Bogat, Levendosky, von Eye, and Lonstein were awarded a two year grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan entitled “Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on the Mother-Child Dyad: Neurobiological, Health, and Mental Health Functioning.”
>>Details 02.28.2009newsBurt Award Dr. S. Alexandra Burt was presented with the Fuller and Scott Early Career Award from the Behavior Genetics Association at their annual meeting in Minneapolis in June.
>>Details 02.25.2009eventHow to simultaneously model choice, response time, and confidence (I think).
>>Details 02.23.2009eventNatural Selection Favoring the Evolution of Intelligence
>>Details 02.10.2009eventClosing the Loop on Developmental Dynamics
>>Details 01.29.2009eventMemory, Representational Models, and Psychopathology in Maltreated Children
>>Details 01.26.2009eventEmotional Intelligence Technology and Autism
>>Details 01.01.2009newsNavarette NSF Award Dr. Carlos D. Navarrete was awarded a 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development Program. The award is effective 1-May, 2009 and is entitled "CAREER: Intergroup Bias as a Gendered Phenomenon."
>>Details 01.01.2009newsRich Lucas as Editor Dr. Rich Lucas has been named as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Research in Personality effective January 1, 2009.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsDavidson,Onifade, adn Campbell Award Bill Davidson, Eyitayo Onifade and Christina Campbell received $29,000 from Ingham County for the project “Risk Assessment in a Juvenile Court.”
>>Details 12.31.2008newsHambrick Award Zach Hambrick, Julie Libarkin (MSU) and Heather Petcovic (Western Michigan Univ.) received a 3-year NSF grant to study the basis of learning and expertise in the geological sciences.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsKlump-Burt Award Kelly Klump and Alex Burt received $2,795,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health for their R01 study: “A Twin Study of Ovarian Hormones and Disordered Eating.”
>>Details 12.31.2008newsRyan Award Ann Marie Ryan, Jessica Fandre, Elizabeth Poposki, Ruchi Sinha, and Alyssa Friede were awarded a grant of $62,686 from the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for a study on work-life interference.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsSettles Award Isis Settles received a $14,000 grant from the Creating Inclusive Excellence program through the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives titled “Risk and Protective Factors for Psychological and Academic Outcomes of African American Undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.”
>>Details 12.31.2008newsCampbell Award Rebecca Campbell received a $227,000 contract from the Michigan Department of Community Health to conduct a state-wide evaluation of the implementation of the new federal Violence Against Women Act legislative mandate that all sexual assault survivors are entitled to receive a medical forensic exam at no cost.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsDavidson and Hankins Award Bill Davidson and Sean Hankins received $168,000 from Ingham County to fund the Adolescent Diversion Project.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsMiller Award Robin Miller was awarded a $162,000 contract from the Michigan Department of Community Health's HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section to conduct a statewide study of the HIV prevention needs of adolescent and young adult African American men who have sex with men.
>>Details 12.31.2008newsSullivan-Rosen Award Holly Rosen and Cris Sullivan received a $224,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice entitled “Grant to Combat Violent Crimes Against Women on Campuses.”
>>Details 12.31.2008newsLeong Award and Conference Frederick Leong received a $16,000 grant from the Creating Inclusive Excellence program through the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives to fund a conference to be sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Psychology Research entitled “Even the Rat was White: Towards an Inclusive Psychology via the MSU Symposium on Multicultural Psychology."
>>Details 12.31.2008newsDistinguished Contributions for Theory and Research in Community Psychology We have received news that Dr. William Davidson has received APA Division 27's 2007 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research in Commuity Psychology
>>Details 12.31.2008newsBurt-Klump NIH Award Alex Burt and Kelly Klump were awarded $1,573,000 from the National Institute for Mental Health for their R01 study: “Gene-environment Interactions in Childhood Conduct Problems.”
>>Details 12.30.2008newsLeong Award Fred Leong will receive the Distinguished Career Contributions Award from Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) of the American Psychological Association. The award will be presented at the APA Annual Convention in 2009 in Toronto.
>>Details 12.01.2008newsSisk is Chair of NIH Study Section Cheryl Sisk has been appointed Chair of the Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Study Section at NIH. She will serve in this role from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011.
>>Details 12.01.2008eventQuantum Information Processing Theory Applied to Cognitive Science
>>Details 11.19.2008eventPositive emotion and bipolar disorder: A puzzle in clinical science
>>Details 11.18.2008newsPleskac Young Investigator Award Tim Pleskac recieved the Hillel Einhorn Young Investigator Award from the Society of Judgment and Decision Making for his paper titled "Decision Making and Learning While Taking Sequential Risks." The paper was publihsed in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
>>Details 11.07.2008eventIn Search of the 'Elusive' Minimal Group Favoritism Effect
>>Details 10.29.2008eventHighlights of a non-traditional career in psychology
>>Details 10.29.2008eventUnraveling the Mystery of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Multidimensional Approach
>>Details 10.29.2008eventInterrogation & other APA policies and initiatives
>>Details 10.24.2008eventCognitive Effects of IT Use: Is Internet Use and Videogame Playing Helping or Hurting Children's Academic Performance
>>Details 10.22.2008eventWhat Carries a Mediation Process? Configural Analysis of Mediation
>>Details 10.17.2008eventModeling the Effect of Time Pressure on the Calibration of Subjective Probability Estimates
>>Details 10.13.2008eventWhy Do Listeners Enjoy Music That Makes Them Weep?
>>Details 09.26.2008eventShifting set about task switching: Neural and behavioral evidence for distinct forms of cognitive flexibility
>>Details 09.22.2008eventPredictors of Retirement Distress among Male Former Intecollegiate Athletes
>>Details 09.19.2008eventThe Importance of Being "We." Human Nature, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations
>>Details 09.15.2008eventMistaken Eyewitness Identification & False Confidence: The Creation of Distorted Retrospective Judgments
>>Details 09.12.2008eventDiscussion for Wells Lecture
>>Details 09.05.2008eventEmotion and the Allocation of Visual Attention
>>Details 09.01.2008newsAPA Early Career Award Dr. Becki Campbell has been awarded the 2008 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions in the Public Interest (Early Career). Congratulations
>>Details 08.29.2008eventHow do we know when we're movers and shakers? Perception of causal agency during performance of actions
>>Details 07.14.2008eventRisk Assessment: Toward Valid and Accurate Delinquency Predictions with African Americans and Girls
>>Details 06.30.2008newsBest Social Cognition Paper Award Dr. Joe Cesario has received the 'Best Social Cognition Paper' Award for 2006 from the International Social Cognition Network.
>>Details 06.30.2008newsExcellence in Diversity Award NiCole Buchanan has won the Excellence in Diversity Award from the MSU Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. This award recognizes her contributions to diversity in research, teaching, service and clinical work.
>>Details 06.30.2008newsHambrick & Oswald Grant Dr. Fred Oswald and Dr. Zach Hambrick have received $455,000 for their two-year grant, “Individual Differences in Multitasking Performance,” in collaboration with Dr. Andy Jones and his colleagues at Navy Personnel Research, Studies, & Technology.
>>Details 06.19.2008eventConstructing justice: How the interactions between victims and detectives affect the quality of rape investigations
>>Details 06.01.2008newsCitation for Distinguished Engaged Scholarship Pennie Foster-Fishman has been informed that she has been selected for a prestigious Citation for Distinguished Engaged Scholarship from the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. She was selected from among an outstanding pool of 72 nominations from across the country.
>>Details 05.15.2008newsLeong Award Dr Fred Leong will receive the International Section Lifetime Career Achievement Award of the Society of Counseling Psychology at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in August, 2008.
>>Details 04.25.2008eventProcesses of Risk, Resilience, and Recovery During the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
>>Details 04.21.2008eventCultural Contexts of Men's Sexual Aggression
>>Details 04.21.2008eventNatural number and natural geometry
>>Details 04.17.2008eventDevelopment of a Laboratory-based Model of Positive and Negative Reinforcement Processes Underlying Adolescent Risk-taking Behavior
>>Details 03.31.2008newsAbeles Citation Norm Abeles (emeritus) received an APA Presidential Citation for “outstanding service to Psychology and the American Psychological Association…by promoting and advancing public awareness of psychology as a science, applying psychological principles to important social issues and assisting in the development of the profession of psychology.”
>>Details 03.31.2008newsCampbell APA Award Rebecca Campbell received the American Psychological Association 2008 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career).
>>Details 03.31.2008newsBuchanan Awards NiCole Buchanan received the 2008 Carolyn Payton Early Career Award for research making "a significant contribution to the understanding of the role of gender in the lives of Black women." NiCole Buchanan also received the 2008 International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment Researcher Award.
>>Details 03.28.2008eventPuberty,Context, and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Development
>>Details 03.21.2008eventThe Power of Expectancy: Cognitive-Affective Interactions in the Human Brain
>>Details 03.21.2008eventEvaluation of a Strategy Development Program: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior
>>Details 03.14.2008eventShould Jurors Be Allowed to Discuss Trial Evidence before Deliberation?: New Research Evidence
>>Details 02.27.2008eventBig Five Factor Model of Personality Disorder
>>Details 02.25.2008eventThe brain and language: Contributions for neural systems that support learning
>>Details 02.22.2008eventToo Close for Comfort: Cognitive Consequences of Emotional Avoidance
>>Details 02.15.2008eventPublic Beliefs about Economic and Behavioral Differences between Blacks and Whites: How accurate are they and what are their consequences?
>>Details 02.11.2008eventThe neurobiology of consciousness
>>Details 02.07.2008eventHow children learn to navigate the world of knowledge
>>Details 02.04.2008eventThe brain might read that way.
>>Details 01.25.2008eventWhat Can a Motivational Understanding of Automatic Behavior Tell Us About Social Cognition?
>>Details 01.24.2008eventSymbols as Transformations: The Expansion of Mathematical Concepts
>>Details 01.21.2008eventThe Timing of Syntactic Decisions
>>Details 01.18.2008eventOlder adults may process distraction more, but do they remember it better?
>>Details 01.17.2008eventStriatal Influences on Learning and Decision Making.
>>Details 01.14.2008eventThe effects of experience on early brain and language development.
>>Details 01.14.2008eventCognitive neuroscience of aging: fMRI studies of episodic memory
>>Details 01.10.2008eventThe role of sleep in the consolidation of generalized skill learning and episodic memory formation.
>>Details 12.31.2007newsDistinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology Dr. Frederick Leong has received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology for distinguished and enduring lifetime contributions to the international cooperation and advancement of knowledge in psychology.
>>Details 12.31.2007newsFitzgerald Award Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald recently accepted the 2006 Dolley Madison Award for Outstanding Lifelong Contribution to the Development and Well-being of Very Young Children and Their Families at the annual meeting of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
>>Details 12.31.2007newsTeacher-Scholar Award Teacher-Scholar Award. Dr. Kelly Klump has been notified that she is one of the recipients of the 2007 MSU Teacher-Scholar Awards given to young faculty members who have shown exceptional early research productivity and teaching excellence.
>>Details 12.07.2007eventDiscussion for Cognitive Science Speaker (M. Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon)
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>>Details 11.28.2007eventSelf-regulation and addiction: Neuroimaging studies of drug cue reactivity
>>Details 11.16.2007eventMoving Toward Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Multiple Etiological Pathways
>>Details 11.14.2007eventModels and Mechanisms of Personality Pathology
>>Details 11.12.2007eventBroadening the Assessment and Theoretical Conceptualization of Social Anxiety.
>>Details 11.09.2007eventADHD: Mechanisms and More
>>Details 11.09.2007eventtba
>>Details 11.02.2007eventStrategy Use on the Raven's
>>Details 11.02.2007eventWhat really happens on a daily basis: An investigation of the lives of romantic couples.
>>Details 10.26.2007eventThe color of motivation.
>>Details 10.26.2007eventOddballs or phonemes: Cognitive neuroscientific studies of the phonological store
>>Details 10.24.2007eventResilience to loss and potential trauma
>>Details 10.22.2007eventElectrical stimulation of the human cochlea, brainstem and midbrain: Implications for auditory perception and neuroscience
>>Details 10.20.2007eventHormonal Association with Childhood ADHD and Associated Trait and Neuropsychological Mechanisms
>>Details 10.19.2007eventEmotion Management: Strategic Display and Response to Emotions in Negotiations
>>Details 10.19.2007eventDiscussion for Cognitive Science Speaker (B. Shannon)
>>Details 10.12.2007eventControlling distraction on the Internet: Do Internet advertisements influence reading performance?
>>Details 10.05.2007eventMagnetic Resonance Imaging of the Normal Aging Process
>>Details 10.05.2007eventMotivations for Growth and Security in Initiating, Maintaining, and Restoring Relationships
>>Details 09.28.2007eventHow Conservatives and Liberals Narrate Their Lives.
>>Details 09.28.2007eventThe Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By
>>Details 09.28.2007eventAlcoholism and religiosity: Effects on adolescent externalizing behavior
>>Details 09.26.2007eventThe Human Brain and Spirituality
>>Details 09.21.2007eventSeeing the big picture: The role of construals in self-control
>>Details 09.21.2007eventSymbolic Control of Attention: A Glimpse at the Dynamics of Comprehension, Orienting, and Selection
>>Details 09.14.2007eventA Dynamic & Stochastic Theory of Choice, Response Time, & Confidence
>>Details 09.14.2007eventAffect, Image, and the Evaluation of a Political Candidate
>>Details 09.13.2007eventEffects of Put-down Humor on Cohesion in Groups
>>Details 09.07.2007eventThe Psychology of Explanation and the Sense of Understanding.
>>Details 09.06.2007eventComplex Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among a Community Sample of Battered Women
>>Details 07.25.2007eventExecutive Function Deficits in Psychopathology
>>Details 07.25.2007eventThe Developmental Timecourse for Brain and Behavioral Sensitivity to Gonadal Hormons: A focus on Adolescence
>>Details 06.30.2007newsEarly Career Award: Settles Isis Settles has won the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award from Section 1 of Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association for her work on African American women.
>>Details 06.30.2007news2006 Scientific Achievement Award We have received news that Dr. Rebecca Campbell has been selected as winner of the 2006 Scientific Acheivement Award from the International Association of Forensic Nurses
>>Details 06.20.2007eventUsing self-environment perceptions to predict dynamic goal commitment
>>Details 06.13.2007eventAn Examination of the Factors Influencing Mozambican Women's Attainment of Post-War Well-Being
>>Details 05.16.2007eventState-Space Models of Intraindividual Change
>>Details 05.03.2007eventDoes Age Matter More in Korea?: A Cross-Cultural Study on the Kohler Motivation Gain Effect
>>Details 04.26.2007eventMaternal Cortisol as a Mediator of Prenatal Stress and Infant Regulation Development
>>Details 04.20.2007event“Why Achievement Motivation Predicts Success in Business and Failure in Politics”
>>Details 04.12.2007event“Structural Adaptability in Dynamic Team Contexts”
>>Details 03.30.2007eventPut-down humor and cohesion in groups
>>Details 03.29.2007eventThe right time at the right place: cellular organization of the brain circadian clock Lily Yan (MD, PhD) is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University where she works in the lab of Dr. Rae Silver. Her work is on mammalian circadian biology. Lili will be visiting March 28-30 and presenting her work in a seminar on Thursday, March 29 at 4:15 p.m. in 101 Giltner.Please let me know if you would like to meet with Lili during her visit
>>Details 03.26.2007eventUsing Cognitive Models to Better Understand and Identify Real World Risk Takers Risk-taking behavior can occur both in a psychologist's laboratory and in real-world situations. Recent research with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART; Lejuez et al., 2002) - a complex laboratory-based gambling task - has found that populations who were risk seeking during the BART report being risk seeking in life (e.g., abusing drugs, smoking, driving without a seatbelt). The problem, however, is that multiple cognitive processes contribute to risk-seeking behavior. Thus, a process-pure understanding of how and why the risk-taking relationship exists is difficult if not impossible to arrive at. During this talk, I will describe a cognitive model that is one solution to this problem (see Wallsten, Pleskac, & Lejuez, 2005). It distills BART performance into three cognitive components: Bayesian learning, reward evaluation, and response selection. I will then demonstrate the strengths of the model with theoretically-driven modifications to the BART that better isolate the cognitive processes responsible for its association to real-world risky behaviors. These results will demonstrate two positive outcomes of applying cognitive models to clinically diagnostic tasks. (1) Modeling complex laboratory tasks with high predictive validity challenges cognitive theorists to incorporate multiple processes and their interrelation into one common model. (2) The cognitive model brings a better understanding to the latent cognitive factors underlying risky behavior in the real world and can improve current methods for identifying risk takers.
>>Details 03.23.2007event"Spatial Distance and Social Judgments"
>>Details 03.21.2007eventImproving Worker Safety and Health through Training Interventions: Examining the Moderating Influence of Situational Factors
>>Details 03.21.2007event"Gene-environment Interactions in Depression: Serotonin Transporter Polymorphisms"
>>Details 03.21.2007eventMeasuring change and intervention effect evaluation in longitudinal studies using latent varaible modeling
>>Details 03.16.2007eventWhen gender is devalued: Identity and workplace climate for women in science
>>Details 02.28.2007eventInfant-Parent Psychotherapy as a Preventive Intervention to Promote Attachment Security in High-Risk Infants and Toddlers
>>Details 02.26.2007eventVulnerability to Chronic Depression: Emotional Styles, Pathways, and Genetic Bases
>>Details 02.23.2007eventWithin Gender Differences: Comparing Treatment and Criminal Justice Involved Women in a Nationally Representative Sample
>>Details 02.22.2007event"Engagement During Exposure: Change Processes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder"
>>Details 02.22.2007eventCognitive and neuroimaging studies of visual attention We cannot process all the information that we receive at any given moment. Attention is the cognitive mechanism that allows us to selectively process the relevant information and guide our behavior. Both endogenous factors (e.g., goals) and exogenous factors (e.g., stimulus salience) can influence the deployment of attention. First, I will present an fMRI study on the control of endogenous attention. The results show that different parietal-frontal cortical areas exhibit distinct temporal profiles of activity that correspond to shifting and maintaining of attention, components that have been hypothesized based on behavioral experiments. Then, I will present an fMRI study showing that exogenous attention greatly influences early visual processing. These studies illustrate that the different functional roles served by attention can be mapped to distinct neural events in the brain. They provide the basis for further studies of the interaction between exogenous and endogenous factors in controlling attention and cognitive processing.
>>Details 02.21.2007eventHow Surprising is this Cluster?
>>Details 02.16.2007eventThe Kohler Motivation Gain Effect: An Experimental Study of Cultural Differences
>>Details 02.09.2007eventThe Experiences of Target and Non-Target Confronters of Prejudice
>>Details 02.02.2007eventRacial crossover in drug abuse
>>Details 01.25.2007eventAre "Attention Switching", "Set Shifting", and "Task Switching"
>>Details 01.22.2007eventTemporal dynamics of cognitive control: Insights from functional neuroimaging and computational modeling
>>Details 01.19.2007eventIt's Time to Party!: Drinking Behavior as a Function of Personality during the College Experience
>>Details 01.18.2007event Test-Enhanced Learning One powerful way of improving memory for material is by testing that material. Tests enhance learning more than additional studying even when tests are given without feedback. This surprising fact is called the "testing effect" and, although it has been studied by cognitive psychologists sporadically over the years, today there are renewed efforts toward understanding why testing is effective and toward applying the testing effect in educational settings. I will talk about my recent research showing that, across a variety of materials and learning tasks, testing enhances learning while repeated studying is less effective. I will also present evidence that students have little metacognitive awareness of the testing effect: They predict they have learned material better after repeatedly studying than after testing on it. Repeated retrieval of information is critical for promoting learning and long-term retention, but students may not use retrieval practice to optimize their learning.
>>Details 01.15.2007eventPerceiving and remembering everyday events
>>Details 01.11.2007eventHigher order factors that influence the allocation of attention: Meaning, emotion, and memory
>>Details 01.08.2007eventA Memory Processes Approach to Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation, Judgment, and Information Search Most tasks are not well structured, but require the decision maker to impose structure on the problem so a search for the solution can take place (Simon, 1973). Take the task of a clinical diagnostician as an example. The clinician's task is similar to that of a detective in that he or she is compelled to search for clues (i.e., data) that can be used to generate and test possible explanations of the presenting symptoms (Elstein & Schwarz, 2002; Weber, Böckenholt, Hilton, & Wallace, 1993). The clinician presumably generates likely diagnoses (i.e., disease hypotheses) and actively seeks information to evaluate the generated diagnoses. The clinician's search for information in the environment likely is not random, but is instead guided by those diagnostic hypotheses he or she is presently entertaining. The information or data newly revealed through the search process is used to both evaluate the diagnoses currently under consideration as well as generate new diagnoses. The generation of new diagnoses may, in turn, lead to fresh information search threads where new hypotheses might be brought to mind. At some point, either the search space is exhausted, the clinician continually fails to generate additional plausible hypotheses, or one particular hypothesis gains enough evidential support that the clinician can render a diagnosis with confidence (Elstein & Schwarz, 2002). In this talk, I will briefly introduce a new memory-based account of how decision makers generate, evaluate, and test hypotheses. The goal of the model is to provide a general model of human judgment that describes how hypotheses are generated on the basis of "data" extracted from the environment, how the hypotheses generated from memory are used to make probability judgments, and how the generated hypotheses frame subsequent information search in hypothesis testing situations. After introducing this model, I will outline a series of ongoing studies aimed at investigating components of the model, including how people decide to terminate memory search, and the importance of working memory processes for probability judgments.
>>Details 12.31.2006newsDistinguished Engaged Scholar Award Cris Sullivan has been awarded the Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award. This award recognizes community-based research that is focused on critical issues in contemporary society. The winner shares the award with their community partner.
>>Details 12.31.2006newsOnline Course Award Cathleen McGreal has won Honorable Mention for BOTH her fully online course in Psy 244 AND her blended Psy 344 course. These are awards given by our Instructional Technology group at MSU.
>>Details 12.14.2006eventPhylogenetic pathways for human information processing: Getting in touch with your inner iguana.
>>Details 12.11.2006eventThe Social Function of Imitation in Infancy: Implications for Autism
>>Details 12.07.2006eventVisual Working Memory Represents a Fixed Number of Items Regardless of Complexity
>>Details 12.06.2006eventInteractive Influences of Rumination, Negative Cognition, and Stress in Depression
>>Details 12.04.2006eventGeneralized vs. Gender-Specific Intimate Partner Violence: Childhood Exposure and Adult Perpetration
>>Details 12.01.2006eventHot sauce and hot tempers: Exploring the dynamic relationship between self-esteem and aggression
>>Details 11.30.2006eventDoes the Mother-Child Relationship Moderate the Effects of Domestic Violence on Preschool Behavior Problems and Social Competency?
>>Details 11.29.2006event‘Exploring the Structure of Externalizing Liability: How Should We Conceptualize and Model Psychopathology?’
>>Details 11.28.2006eventOne-Shot Illusory Correlations and Stereotype Formation
>>Details 11.27.2006eventTempting Fate: The effect of Negativity and Accessibility on Belief and Behavior Refreshments to follow in Room 230.
>>Details 11.27.2006eventSeparation-Individuation and Disordered Eating in Adolescence
>>Details 11.17.2006eventTwin studies of eating disorders: Genetic, environmental, and developmental influences
>>Details 11.15.2006eventPhilisophy, theory, and practice in psychological measurement
>>Details 11.10.2006eventMarriage, widowhood and divorce: The effect of marital status changes on well-being
>>Details 11.09.2006eventThe path of least persistence and other perceptual consequences of object-based representational updating
>>Details 11.07.2006eventThe Interactive Nature of Gender and Coalitional Computation
>>Details 11.06.2006eventThe Roles of Threat, Culture and Coalitional Computation Reception to follow in room 230.
>>Details 11.03.2006eventHow would you feel if I asked you to pick up my dry cleaning?
>>Details 11.02.2006eventFrom vulnerability to resilience: Turning failure into a learning Reception to follow in Room 230.
>>Details 10.31.2006eventGiving It and Not Taking It: A Functional Approach to Helping
>>Details 10.30.2006eventA Functional Approach to Intergroup Social Cognition Reception to follow in Room 230.
>>Details 10.18.2006eventResearching the Long-Term Psychosocial Impacts of the World War II Japanese American Incarceration
>>Details 10.13.2006eventIntratask change in working memory span
>>Details 10.12.2006eventWorking Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents Dr. Leslie Hammer, an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, will share information from her national study and forthcoming book on work-family stress among dual-earner couples caring for children and aging parents. In addition, she will discuss the new NIH Work, Family, Health and Well-Being initiative in which she and Dr. Ellen Kossek participate. Finally, she will discuss the recent development of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, of which she was founding President.
>>Details 10.09.2006eventCurrent Directions Selection Decision Making, Managing Interpersonal Relations, and Organizational Research All from the Psychology and Managment Departments are invited and encouraged to come to the talks and receptions.
>>Details 10.06.2006eventDo Low Status Group Members’ Implicit Theories Moderate Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Reactions during Intergroup Interactions?
>>Details 10.02.2006eventSelf Concept: A Universal Virtue Ethic All from the Psychology and Managment Departments are invited and encouraged to come to the talks and receptions.
>>Details 09.29.2006eventAttachment Processes in Individuals, Couples, and Groups The second annual Lecture in the memory of Lawrence A. Messé will be given by Prof. Phil Shaver. Dr. Shaver has pioneered the application of developmental theories of attachment to adult social relationships. A reception for Dr. Shaver will be held in Room 230 immediately after his lecture.
>>Details 09.29.2006eventBuilding A Theory of Strategic Deception
>>Details 09.29.2006eventTraditional social/personality training­ Nontraditional careers. Two of our social/personality program’s alumni, Barabara Watts and Keith Niedermeier, will participate in an informal discussion of some of the problems and opportunities that arise for someone educated in a traditional social/personality training program, like MSU’s, but who then pursues a nontraditional career. In Barb’s case, that was a career in marketing research and private consulting. In Keith’s case, it was an academic career in a school of business. [This Brown Bag will be part of the Messé Memorial Lecture activities. See www.msu.edu/user/kerr/LAM.Lecture for details on the 2006 Lecture, to be delivered by Phillip Shaver, 3:30pm, 9/29.]
>>Details 09.27.2006event"Prenatal Risk Factors, Teratogens, and Child Outcomes"
>>Details 09.22.2006eventPathways to ADHD: Social and biological routes?
>>Details 09.21.2006eventTime Matters in Organizations Edging Toward a Temporal Understanding All from the Psychology and Managment Departments are invited and encouraged to come to the talks and receptions.
>>Details 09.15.2006eventDoes Reward Undermine Intrinsic Motivation?
>>Details 09.08.2006eventSelective Attention and ADHD: New Methods and New Findings
>>Details 09.08.2006eventIndividual differences in the relationship between newly formed implicit and explicit attitudes
>>Details 08.14.2006eventCoping with Social Ostracism: How differences in coping strategies and aspects of the situation influence outcomes for targets of ostracism
>>Details 08.09.2006eventOn The Measurement of Intraindividual Personality Variability
>>Details 08.08.2006eventThe Integration of Information About Objects Across Eye Movement
>>Details 07.06.2006eventEffect of Organizational Control Systems on Organizationally Directed Deviance
>>Details 06.30.2006newsNavy Award Zach Hambrick and Fred Oswald received a two-year grant from the Navy Personnel Research, Studies and Technology group for their proposal "Multitasking work environment in the Navy Culture and Values Project".
>>Details 06.20.2006eventDoes Stereotype Threat Differentially Affect Cognitive Ability Test Performance of Minorities and Women? A Meta-Analytic Review of Experimental Evidence
>>Details 06.01.2006news2005 Child Advocate Award Dr. Hiram Fitzgerald, MSU assistant provost for University Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Psychology, has received the 2005 Child Advocate Award from the Michigan Fatherhood Coalition.
>>Details 06.01.2006newsI/O Program No. 1 U. S. News & World Report's ranking of graduate programs in Psychology ranked the Industrial/Organizational Psychology graduate program as No. 1 among I/O graduate programs in its survey published in April, 2005.
>>Details 05.18.2006eventEmpirically Testing a Model of Latino Academic Success
>>Details 05.04.2006eventHow Do Family Functioning and Age of Onset of Weight Problems Relate to Overweight Adolescents' Internalization Symptoms?
>>Details 05.03.2006eventThe Effect of Therapist Interventions on the Therapeutic Alliance, Interpersonal Self-Perception, and Outcome
>>Details 05.02.2006eventMen’s and Women’s Orientation to Work during the Later Stages of Family Life Men’s and Women’s Orientation to Work during the Later Stages of Family Life Researchers have paid a great deal of attention to the relationship between work and family during the early stages of family life. For example, we know that when a couple has children, the woman typically adjusts her work schedule and behaviors to accommodate the increased responsibilities in the home, whereas the man’s relationship to work remains relatively constant. In contrast, researchers have paid scant attention to the relationship between work and family during the later stages of family life. We know relatively little about whether women and men adjust their commitments to work as their children move into adulthood and out of the home. I will report findings from the Ecology of Careers Study, a longitudinal study of dual-earner couples, that explore the changes in men’s and women’s attitudes toward work and work behaviors as they near, enter, and become entrenched in the “empty nest” stage of life.
>>Details 04.18.2006eventGraduate Student Appreciation Week
>>Details 04.14.2006eventTarget Trustworthiness as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Positive Mood & Trust
>>Details 04.10.2006event"By the light of the slivery moon: Entrainment and plasticity of circadian oscillators". All are invited and there will be an informal reception following the talk.
>>Details 03.31.2006eventIndividual performance in teams: The role of communication
>>Details 03.31.2006eventThe Health Benefits of Helping Others
>>Details 03.31.2006newsImpact of IT research on children Linda Jackson, Hiram Fitzgerald, and Alex Von Eye of Psychology and Yong Zhao, Department of Technology in Education, received word that NSF has funded their three year proposal to study the nature and extent of children's information technology use and how it is affecting them. The three-year award is for $750,000.
>>Details 03.29.2006event"Pathways to substance abuse from early childhood to early adulthood: 20 years of evidence"
>>Details 03.29.2006eventThe Effect of Cultural Affiliation and Literacy on the Neuropsychological Test Performance of African Americans
>>Details 03.24.2006eventHormones, implicit learning, and dominance: A biobehavioral model of implicit power motivation
>>Details 03.24.2006eventDiversity Crisis: A Tale of How Firms Manage Discrimination Lawsuits
>>Details 03.17.2006eventA Multi-Level, Longitudinal Perspective on the Evolution of Reduced-Load Work
>>Details 03.17.2006eventPeople don't know how happy they are, were, or will be: Challenges in measuring health-related quality of life.
>>Details 03.14.2006event"Where Was I?": A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Conversational Interruptions
>>Details 03.13.2006event"Feeling Objects, Feeling Faces"
>>Details 03.03.2006eventBecoming Ready and Able to Change: Lessons Learned from a Comprehensive Community Initiative
>>Details 03.03.2006eventDiscussion in preparation for distinguished speaker Susan Lederman
>>Details 02.28.2006eventMeasurement and change in the study of cognitive aging
>>Details 02.27.2006eventThe neural mechanisms for minimizing distraction For over a century, scientists have hotly debated the psychological and neural mechanisms that enable us to minimize distraction. In this talk, I will present new findings from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies that resolve several longstanding controversies about these mechanisms. These studies indicate that a distributed network of brain regions minimizes distraction by increasing attention to stimuli that are important for achieving behavioral goals. In this network, rostral regions within the cognitive division of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) detect irrelevant stimuli that conflict with behavioral goals. Dorsal regions of the ACC and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex then increase attentional resources toward goal-relevant stimuli. As one might expect, this increase in attention toward goal-relevant stimuli results in enhanced activity within the sensory cortices that process those stimuli. Moreover, the magnitude of this enhanced activity correlates inversely with behavioral measures of distraction: the greater the enhancement, the less distraction. Our findings further indicate that the above network generalizes to minimizing cross-modal distraction between stimuli in different sensory modalities. This novel result has profound implications for our understanding of how attention modulates multisensory interactions, which can give rise to heightened neuronal responses, unique perceptual illusions (i.e., the ventriloquism illusion), and increased levels of distraction. In future studies, I plan to further investigate the neural bases of attentional control (e.g., why do we sometimes experience momentary lapses in attention?) and to develop an appreciation of how attentional control mechanisms operate on social stimuli (e.g., how do we monitor other people's behavior?).
>>Details 02.24.2006eventBreaking Down Boxes: The effects of cognition, emotion, and personality on how people decide what to do with stuff. Decisions about resources are complex, exist across species, and are crucial for survival and reproductive success. Despite this, there has been relatively little research on how animals or people make such decisions. Recent theories posit that individuals use internal feelings as a barometer of conditions in the outside world to guide decisions. This is adaptive, efficient, and explains why individuals with high anxiety or stress often make aberrant decisions. My human research has focused on decisions about household objects and is beginning to reveal a complex story whereby decisions about resources are driven by expected things like usefulness, value, internal state, and executive control as well as intangible things like the need to represent your ideal self, to display your identity and quality, and to create a continuous life-history narrative. I will present data that suggests there are different types of decision makers, as well as different reasons why people make aberrant decisions about objects. I conclude that decisions about resources are multi-determined and, as such, generate a normal distribution, stable individual differences, and multiple etiologies for pathological behaviors like hoarding.
>>Details 02.24.2006eventUnderstanding and Reducing the Influence That Rater Stereotypes
>>Details 02.22.2006eventElectrodermal response modulation as an endophenotype for substance use disorders
>>Details 02.21.2006eventInterventional Approaches to Offset Neurocognitive Aging With advancing age comes a reduction in the structural integrity of the brain, losses in brain volume, and changes in cortical recruitment patterns. Much of my current research is focused on how these changes impact cognitive performance, and how these losses might be reduced through interventional approaches. One particularly promising approach to reduce CNS decline in older adults is cardiovascular fitness training, which can engender increased CNS integrity, robustness, and plasticity by upregulating key factors such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor and insulin-like growth factor-1, among others. I will discuss some of my previous and ongoing work in this area that utilizes NMR techniques such as fMRI, Voxel-Based Morphometry, Diffusion-Tensor Imaging, and H1 Spectroscopy to examine changes in CNS function and integrity with age, as well as understand how cardiovascular fitness and cognitive training interventions might help to offset these declines.
>>Details 02.17.2006eventHumor in Groups
>>Details 02.17.2006eventOrganizational Socialization Processes
>>Details 02.16.2006event“The Mental Health of Asian Americans:
>>Details 02.15.2006eventMotivated Cognition: Functional MRI Investigations of Incentives and Working Memory Human higher cognition can be characterized by the degree to which working memory is involved in any given task. Working memory refers to the online maintenance of information over a period of time in order to accomplish goal-directed actions. Motivation toward a goal is a critical determinant of the strength and effectiveness of working memory operations. I will speak about the role of working memory in tasks that involve encoding, maintaining, and selecting items. I will describe two experiments that test the effects of task-motivation on both behavior and the neural systems involved in motivated working memory, as measured by functional MRI. My results indicate that response time measures are typically faster when motivating incentives are present relative to when they are absent and that task-relevant brain regions show amplified modulation when motivation is high. Ultimately I aim to better characterize the integration of incentive-driven motivation in human cognition in both behavior and in the neural systems that organize behavior.
>>Details 02.13.2006eventFrom Vibration in the Ear to Abstraction in the Head: A Brain's eye-view of Language
>>Details 02.10.2006eventDiscussion in preparation for distinguished speaker David Poeppel
>>Details 02.10.2006eventPersonality and Work Behavior: Beyond the Five-Factor Model
>>Details 02.08.2006eventMechanisms of Selective Attention in Human Cortex Attention is the cognitive process by which behaviorally relevant information is selected in accordance with the current goal of the organism. After several decades of behavioral research, the neural substrate of attentional selection remains elusive. I will present evidence suggesting that attention is a flexible mechanism that selects information from the environment based on different properties - spatial locations and objects that occupy them - that are modality-independent. I will discuss how these types of attentional mechanisms are instantiated in the human cortex by presenting several fMRI experiments demonstrating that (a) independent of what the basis of selection is, attended information benefits perceptually and (b) that posterior parietal cortex is the possible neural substrate of attentional control. In addition, I will present series of experiments, conducted with patients who have sustained damage to parietal cortex, that examine whether this region of the cortex is necessary or sufficient for attentional selection. This research uncovers the neural substrate of attentional control, and addresses the importance of employing multiple methodologies, thus further constraining theories of attentional selection.
>>Details 02.07.2006eventInterpersonal Consequences of Social Exclusion
>>Details 02.06.2006eventParental Dysphoria and Children's Adjustment: Marital Conflict Styles, Children's Emotional Security, and Parenting as Mediators of Risk
>>Details 02.03.2006eventOn the nature of intraindividual personality variability
>>Details 02.03.2006eventHow to Prepare a Grant Proposal
>>Details 02.03.2006eventThe Rule of Thumb: Dynamic Object Identification & Scene Representation
>>Details 02.01.2006newsvon Eye wins award Professor Alex von Eye was awarded the "Ignacio de Loyola Medal" of the Universidad Iberoamericana de Mexico in recognition of his work as consultant for the university. Earlier this year, he was named 'consejo tecnico' of this same university.
>>Details 01.26.2006event"The Cultural Patterning of Childrearing Beliefs and Practices: Feeding Among Middle-Class Anglo and Puerto Rican Mother-Infant Pairs."
>>Details 01.20.2006eventDifferential Relationships for Task and Citizenship Performance: A Meta Analysis
>>Details 01.20.2006eventPersonality Change and Mortality Risk
>>Details 01.17.2006eventCognitive Neuroscience of Attention Human attention strongly constrains perception, memory, and brain activity. My talk will focus on three aspects of attention: (1) its interaction with learning, (2) its relation to response selection, and (3) visual working memory. Data from both behavioral and neuroimaging approaches will be presented. These studies illustrate how behavioral and brain research can nutally inform each other.
>>Details 01.13.2006eventSouls of Black Folk: A Research Program on African American Racial Identity
>>Details 12.31.2005newsAlumni Teaching Award Dr. Deborah Kashy has been named the winner of the 2005-06 Social Science Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. She was nominated by the students in her undergraduate classes, the undergraduate advisors, and faculty colleagues.
>>Details 12.31.2005newsFerreira and Henderson present to Board of Trustees Fernanda Ferreira and John Henderson presented a summary of their research activity in Cognitive Psychology to the MSU Board of Trustees on April 8, 2005. They were invited to do their presentation by VPRGS Ian Gray to highlight exemplary faculty research activity to the Board.
>>Details 12.31.2005newsFulbright Award Zermarie Deacon, one of our Ecological/Community doctoral students, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct her dissertation research in Mozambique during the 2005-06 academic year.
>>Details 12.31.2005newsDistinguished Faculty Award Dr. Cheryl Sisk, Director of the Neuroscience Program, will receive the Distinguished Faculty Award from MSU at the Awards Ceremony on February 11.
>>Details 12.12.2005eventSocialization and Regulation of Emotion in Asian Children with Different Types of Psychopathology
>>Details 12.09.2005eventCANCELLED
>>Details 12.08.2005eventThe Effects of Overt and Covert Motivators on Intrinsic Interest and Attributions
>>Details 12.07.2005eventPersonality Clusters and Family Relationships in Women with Eating Pathology
>>Details 12.07.2005eventIs the YLS a Valid Predictor of Juvenile Recidivism?
>>Details 12.05.2005event"Using fMRI to Identify Neural Correlates of Component Processes of Cognition"
>>Details 12.02.2005eventDistinguished speaker discussion - Marcia Johnson
>>Details 12.02.2005eventThemes we live by: On finding cultural differences and similarities.
>>Details 12.01.2005eventEmotion Socialization in Families with an Anxious Child: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
>>Details 11.30.2005eventClassifying Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease Patients
>>Details 11.30.2005eventNeuroimaging research in ADHD
>>Details 11.21.2005eventApplying Cognitive and Engineering Psychology Methods to Human Deception Detection Field experimentation informs laboratory designs, and vice versa, and applied cognitive and engineering psychology methods are essential to capture important facets of human behavior in both experimental contexts. Methods currently used to study attention and visual fixations/saccades can be used to study dynamic attending during expert and novice deception detection, and in other expert-novice communication designs. cognitive methods, including signal detection theory and Pathfinder knowledge structuring, can measure decision making, memorial function, and knowledge organization in expert- novice deception detection paradigms and in other interactive communication contexts. A highly-configurable interactive team communication and cognition lab is proposed, which can be used for many purposes, chiefly for team learning and transfer, and for studies in deception and counter-deception. Context can be varied (collocated and distributed) for learning and transfer studies. Deception and counter-deception studies would make use of intelligence reports, feedback, and prompts in a simulation of a peacekeeping task developed by Aptima?© to access decision making, language usage and communication patterns, leadership, trust development and team performance, transactive memory, cultural cognition, and a variety of other applied cognitive applications.
>>Details 11.18.2005eventExploring the fundamental nature of interpersonal motivations and their implications for social cognition
>>Details 11.18.2005eventApplied Research in a Non-Profit R&D Setting
>>Details 11.18.2005event"Syntactic Long-Distance Effects on Prosody".
>>Details 11.17.2005eventWhen Fiends Become Friends:The Need to Belong and Perceptions of Personal and Group Discrimination
>>Details 11.16.2005eventRecent Developments in the Science and Practice of Autism
>>Details 11.16.2005eventAdult Intellectual Development: The Role and Determinants of Domain Knowledge Knowledge is an integral part of adult intellect and important for success in vocational and avocational endeavors. A program of research that examines ability and non-ability trait determinants of domain knowledge and learning is presented. Knowledge domains examined include current-events, health knowledge, and academic knowledge. Age was significantly and positively related to knowledge in most domains for both academic and nonacademic knowledge. Gender differences in knowledge, the positive relation between age and knowledge, and self-report measures of experience in the domain highlight the value of life experience for knowledge acquisition. Implications for the design of training interventions for older workers are discussed.
>>Details 11.15.2005eventLeave a message after the tone: When communicating may hurt the relationship
>>Details 11.14.2005eventWhy Simpler Syntax?
>>Details 11.14.2005eventCulture and Attention: Bodily Feedback and Perceptual Affordances
>>Details 11.11.2005event Investigating the Determinants of Resource Allocation in Multiple-Goal Contexts.
>>Details 11.11.2005eventDistinguishing among Personality and Social Processes in Perceived Social Support
>>Details 11.09.2005event"Fragile Foundations: The Developmental Consequences of Child Maltreatment"
>>Details 11.07.2005eventFactors Influencing African American Students' Decision to Apply to Graduate or Professional School
>>Details 11.04.2005eventRanks and Rivals: Implications for Maximizing Joint Gains
>>Details 11.04.2005eventUnseen Injustice: Incivility as Modern Discrimination
>>Details 11.04.2005eventDistinguished speaker discussion - Peter Culicover
>>Details 11.02.2005eventAdaptive memory mechanisms: Theory and application Memory mechanisms are critical for cognitive competence. Working memory allows us to effectively manipulate current conscious memory contents, while long-term memory allows us to integrate information across periods of time. First, I will discuss a study of task switching that differentiates between working memory and inhibition accounts. Extensions to this study may be able to inform treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. For example, I propose future research investigating the underlying cause of an interference deficit that is only seen in children with ADHD. This research will likely shed light on the theoretical underpinnings of ADHD, perhaps suggesting that this disorder is a deficit of processing speed and/or working memory and is not a deficit of inhibition. Second, I will discuss both a meta-analysis I conducted of the distributed practice literature and my own empirical studies in this area. Both sets of results suggest that teachers should provide long intervals between learning episodes for classroom material for optimal learning to take place. As an example of theory informing practical application, a mathematical model of encoding variability theory allows us to provide more specific recommendations to teachers than are otherwise obtainable from the empirical data. Existing empirical data rule out classes of distributed practice theory that rely on working memory mechanisms.
>>Details 10.31.2005newsAbeles appointed to White House Conference Norman Abeles has been appointed a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging by Senator Carl Levin. The WHCoA occurs once a decade to make aging policy recommendations to the President and the Congress. The 2005 Conference occurs as the first wave of the baby boom generation prepares for retirement, creating an important opportunity to reassess aging in America.
>>Details 10.30.2005newsAbeles wins award The Society of Clinical Psychology's section on assessment presented an award to Norman Abeles for "enduring Contribution to Education in assessment psychology". The award was presented at the American Psychological Association convention in Washington, D.C. in August 2005.
>>Details 10.28.2005eventI've Got the Whole World in My Hand: Using Palm Pilots to Conduct Experience Sampling Method (ESM) Studies
>>Details 10.28.2005eventBabes in arms: What side are you on?
>>Details 10.28.2005eventPortrait of an angry decision maker
>>Details 10.27.2005eventMad, Mean, and Mistaken: The Effects of Anger on Strategic Interactions and Monetary Outcomes
>>Details 10.26.2005eventThe Differential Effects of Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Feedback on Motivation Over Time
>>Details 10.26.2005eventAdaptive Information Seeking and Suboptimal Performance Explicit information-seeking actions are often needed to explore possible actions in a problem-solving environment. Deciding when to stop seeking information requires trading off costs of information-seeking against the value of information. I will present a Bayesian Satisficing Model that combines a Bayesian learning mechanism with a local decision rule to decide when to stop seeking information. The model made Unique predictions on information-seeking behavior that were tested against human data in three experiments using a simple map-navigation task. The model matched the human data well. The local decision rule, however, often limits exploration of the environment and leads to suboptimal performance. The model was applied to explain suboptimal performance of users of different computer applications and how people searched for information on the WWW. It is proposed that suboptimal performance is an emergent property of the dynamic interactions between cognition and the environment.
>>Details 10.21.2005eventAutomatic social behavior as motivated
>>Details 10.21.2005eventTeaching of Psychology: Active Learning in Classrooms
>>Details 10.21.2005eventFirst year project talks (round 2)
>>Details 10.20.2005eventRegulatory Fit and Persuasion: The Transfer and Use of Feeling Right
>>Details 10.19.2005eventADHD and DSM-V---Issues, lessons learned, and clinical implications
>>Details 10.17.2005eventThe Intersecting Identities of Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning Male Youth of Color: Implications for Sexual Health Promotion
>>Details 10.14.2005eventFirst Year Project Talks (part 1)
>>Details 10.14.2005eventNeurobiology of Song Learning and Perception in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata), with a Focus on the Role of the Hippocampus
>>Details 10.14.2005eventThe Application of I/O Principles, Practices, and Methods in a Multi-National Organization
>>Details 10.07.2005eventWorking with Emotional Intelligence
>>Details 10.07.2005eventTask interruption: The moments before and after.
>>Details 10.06.2005eventNeuromechanics of Prey Capture in Frogs A fundamental problem of neuroscience is to understand how the brain controls movement. In order to understand motor control, we need to know what sensory information is needed, given the biomechanics of the controlled structures, to produce coordinated movement. For the past 20 years, my laboratory has investigeated the biomechanics, neural control and evolution of ballistic tongue projection in frogs using dynamic models that range in scope from multi-joint models with many degrees of freedom to models of individual muscles. Our studies demonstrate 1) that complex movements can, in principle, be controlled by using relatively simple algorithms, 2) that muscles themselves store significant strain and strain energy prior to movement, and 3) that the use of proprioceptive information in open-loop control of movement depends on the biomechanical context.
>>Details 09.30.2005eventThe Puzzle of Coaction Dan Wegner will deliver the inaugural Lawrence A. Messé Memorial Lecture. See www.msu.edu/user/kerr/LAM.Lecture for additional details. There will also be a reception in 230 Psych Building immediately after the lecture.
>>Details 09.23.2005eventConceptual Space: Brain evolution as the link between spatial and linguistic cogntive domains.
>>Details 09.23.2005eventIntroduction to Social Network and the Implementation of Innovations in Schools
>>Details 09.09.2005eventIndividual Differences in the Ability to Accurately Judge Others
>>Details 09.01.2005newsAbeles invited to speak Norman Abeles has been invited to present the keynote lecture on Aging at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology in Athens Greece in July 2006.
>>Details 09.01.2005newsEarly Career Award Dr. Kelly Klump is the 2005 recipient of the Division 12 (APA), David Shakow Early Career Award.
>>Details 08.24.2005eventThe Role of Interpersonal Power in the HIV Protective Behavior of Low-Income African American Women
>>Details 07.21.2005eventSelf-regulation over time: Resource depletion: Learned industriousness
>>Details 07.06.2005event  The 5th Conference of the International Test Commission on Psychological and Educational Test Adaptation Across Languages and Cultures will take place from July 6-8 in Brussels (Belgium). The main goal is to bring together experts on the topic of test translation and adaptation theory and practices with researchers, educators, psychologists, policy experts, and testing specialists for the purpose of sharing insights, guidelines, and research findings. Proposals can be submitted untill December 31, 2005. Consult the conference website for more information:
>>Details 06.30.2005newsIRGP Awards Professors NiCole Buchanan, Alex Burt, Brent Donnellan, and Cheryl Kaiser received IRGP awards to support their research in 2005. Professor Rebecca Campbell received an "incubator" award to help with her research.
>>Details 06.30.2005newsSisk Election Dr. Cheryl Sisk has been elected President-elect of the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs. ANDP is an organization of member departments and programs from academic institutions in North America. Cheryl will assume this office in November 2004 and will become President Nov. 2005.
>>Details 06.21.2005eventThe Effect of Perceptual Information on the Activation of Scene Gist: The Influence of Color and Structure
>>Details 06.01.2005newsStudy Section Invitation NIMH Study Invitation. Dr. Joel Nigg has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section,Center for Scientific Review. He will serve until June 2008.
>>Details 05.15.2005newsAbeles elected. Professor Norman Abeles was re-elected to the Executive Committee of Academic Council for a two-year term, August 16, 2005 through August 15, 2007.
>>Details 05.08.2005newsUndergraduate Research Award Winners Fourteen Psychology undergraduates presented their Senior Honors Thesis research at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum as posters or talks. Together they won 6 of the 7 awards available in their areas. Arthur Sandt, Nancy Carlisle, and Leslie Crimin won first place awards in their categories, and Kendal Holtrop, Daniel Moore, and Andrew Poole won merit awards.
>>Details 04.29.2005eventThe dynamics of happiness and personality
>>Details 04.29.2005eventTiming and Executive Control Task Performance in Adults with ADHD--But Who's Counting?
>>Details 04.22.2005eventStanding up for a change: Confronting others as prejudice reduction
>>Details 04.22.2005eventWhy Do Some People Know So Much? Correlates of Individual Differences in Current Events Knowledge
>>Details 04.15.2005event"Salience, Reference Resolution and the Givenness Hierarchy"
>>Details 04.15.2005eventHow do genetic predispositions predispose us? Gene-environment interplay in antisocial behavior
>>Details 04.15.2005eventIs Gaze Selection Diagnostically Tuned for Spatial Frequency During Face Recognition?
>>Details 04.08.2005eventTo be adored and to be known: Bias and accuracy in early marriage
>>Details 04.08.2005eventInfluences of internet advertisements on reading in older and younger adults.
>>Details 04.04.2005eventRe-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing and Mind
>>Details 04.01.2005eventJury Nullification: Chaos in the Courtroom?
>>Details 04.01.2005eventDiscussion for Andy Clark's Distinguished Speaker lecture