IN THIS ISSUE
Convention programming
Enjoy the diverse Division 6 and Division 3 programming at the 120th Annual APA Convention in Orlando, Fla., August 2 - August 5, 2012, but please join us Wednesday for a multi-division social event from 5 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.
Division 6: Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
Thursday, August 6, 2012
| 7 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Skill-Building Session: Increasing Diversity in Psychological Science Through Mentoring **
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| 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Presidential Address: Mauricio R. Papini
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| 10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Symposium: Comparative Analysis of Learning: Bitterman's Legacy **
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| 12 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. | Invited Address: Tetsuro Matsuzawa
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| 1 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. | Symposium: Applications of Associative Learning
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Friday, August 3, 2012
| 8 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Conversation Hour: Institutional programs information for students, post-docs
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| 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Address: Edward M. Eisenstein
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| 10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Symposium: New Methods in the Study of Aggression: From Genetics to Immersive Virtual Environments **
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| 12 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. | Central programming
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| 4 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. | Symposium: Incentive, Expectancy, Emotion and the Brain
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| 6 p.m. - 7:50 p.m. | Social Hour: Honoring award winners, with mentoring program posters **
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
| 7 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Skill-Building Session: Government Relations 101 for Psychological Scien-tists * (Limited availability to students, post-docs, RSVP required) |
| 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Hebb Award: Charles R. Gallistel
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| 10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Symposium: Spatial Learning and Performance
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| 12 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. | Prime Time Poster Session: Posters, conversation, and giveaway drawings **
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| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. | Skill-Building Session: Diversity in Psychological Science: Building Skills for a More Inclusive Scientific Community * (Limited availability, early career only. RSVP to dessnk@oxy.edu required)
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| 2 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. | Central programming
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| 6 p.m. - 7:50 p.m. | Division 6 Executive Committee Meeting
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
| 10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. | Paper Session: Animal Learning and Cognition
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| 11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Division 6 Business Meeting
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** Jointly sponsored by Division 3
Division 3: Experimental Psychology
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
| 5 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. | Social Hour: Happy Science Hour Courtesy of Divisions 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 28, and 56
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
| 7 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Skill-Building Session: Increasing Diversity in Psychological Science Through Mentoring *
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| 11 a.m. - 12:50 a.m. | Symposium: Football Player as Phineas Gage Emulator: ERP Assessment of Executive Control After Head Blows (Co-sponsored by Division 40)
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| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. | Presidential Address: Karen L. Hollis
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Friday, August 3, 2012
| 8 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Paper Session: Current Research in Memory and Attention
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| 9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. | Symposium: Comparative Approaches to Episodic Memory *
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| 11 a.m. - 1:50 a.m. | Symposium: Outwitting the Wisdom of the Body: Interrelationships between Obesity and Cognitive Functioning Co-sponsored by BSA/CARE; APA Presidential track on Obesity
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| 12 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. | Central programming
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| 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Symposium: Comparative Approaches to Episodic Memory and Remember-ing the Future *
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| 6 p.m. - 7:50 p.m. | Social Hour: Honoring award winners, with mentoring program posters *
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
| 7 p.m. - 8:50 p.m. | Skill-Building Session: Government Relations 101 for Psychological Scien-tists* (Limited availability, early career only. RSVP required)
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| 8 p.m. - 8:50 p.m. | Paper Session: "Hot Spots" in Experimental Psychology
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| 10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Symposium: Perceptions of Consciousness: Perspectives from Philoso-phy, Neuroscience and Psychology Co-sponsored by Division 24
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| 11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Invited Address: Neil E. Rowland
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| 12 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. | Prime Time Poster Session: Posters, conversation, and giveaway drawings *
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| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. | Skill-Building Session: Diversity in Psychological Science: Building Skills for a More Inclusive Scientific Community *
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| 2 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. | Central programming
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
| 7 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. | Division 3 Executive Committee Meeting
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| 8 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Symposium: False-Positive Findings Are Frequent, Findable, and Fixable
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| 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Division 3 Business Meeting
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* Jointly sponsored by Division 6
Central Programming Speakers of Interest
Thursday, August 2, 2012
| 12 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Rooms W205B and C | Michael Meaney, McGill University
(also Master Lecture) |
| 12 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Rooms W205B and C | Wendy Berry Mendes, UC San Francisco |
| 12 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Rooms W205B and C | Howard Nusbaum, University of Chicago |
| 2 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Rooms W205B and C | Kimberley Phillips, Trinity University |
Friday, August 3, 2012
| 8 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Rooms W205B and C | Randy Larsen, University of Missouri |
| 8 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Rooms W205B and C | Jeff Alberts, Indiana University |
| 1 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Room W205A | Teresa Amabile, Harvard University |
| 12 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Room W109B | Janet Mann, Georgetown University |
| 12 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Room W304A | David Buss, University of Texas – Austin |
| 12 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Rooms W207B and C | Barbara Rolls, Pennsylvania State University |
| 1 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Rooms W207B and C | Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Rooms W206B and C | Albert "Skip" Rizzo, UC San Diego |
| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Room W205A | Frans de Waal, Emory University
(also Empathy Symposium) |
| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Room W109B | Daniel Schacter, Harvard University
(also G. Stanley Hall Lecture, 8/3 2 p.m.) |
| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Rooms W207B and C | Wendy Suzuki, NYU |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Room W108A | Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Room W107 | Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Room W205A | Laurence Steinberg, Temple University |
Saturday, August 4, 2012
| 10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Rooms W205B and C | Mark Scerbo, Old Dominion University |
| 11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Rooms W205B and C | Sari van Anders, University of Michigan |
| 2 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Room W110B | Psychological Science Idol: 6th Annual Grad Student Datablitz |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Room W110A | Howard Gardner, Harvard University |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Rooms W205B and C | Sean Mackey, Stanford University |
| 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Room W108B | Valerie Reyna, Cornell University |
| 4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Rooms W206B and C | Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington |
| 4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Room W106 | Huda Akil, University of Michigan |
| 4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Room W108B | Emilie Rissman, University of Virginia |
| 4 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Rooms W207B and C | Elke Weber, Columbia University |
| 5 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. Rooms 205B and C | George Koob, UC San Diego |
