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Science Directorate 2004 APA Convention Programs
The Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) will sponsor a number of exciting programs at the APA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 28 - August 1, 2004. For more information, visit: www.apa.org/science/convention04. In addition, a listing of selected science-oriented programming at the Convention will be available onsite at the Science Directorate booth in the APA Resource area.
CE Course on Responsible Conduct of Research - "Human Research Protections in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences"
The Science Directorate is offering an important day-long workshop on Human Research Protections in Psychology at the Annual APA Convention, Sunday, August 1st. (Please note that the course was originally scheduled for August 2, 2004.)
The goal of the workshop is to increase psychologists' awareness of the importance and value of human research protections in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
This day-long course addresses human research protection issues in the design, implementation, and review of research in the psychology and the behavioral sciences. The course provides investigators with a richer understanding of key ethical concepts and the tools for assessing best ethical practices in the context of psychological research. It also offers guidance on the preparation of protocols and effective communication with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The course is compromised of three major units: understanding key concepts and ethical guidance in human subjects research, putting human research protections into practice in behavioral research, and comprehending the IRB process and the role of review. Participants will examine federal regulations and their underlying principles; ethical standards provided by behavioral science societies (e.g., APA's code of ethics); and core concepts in human subjects protection with particular attention to research in the behavioral sciences. Participants will have an opportunity for in-depth discussion on key topics during discussion periods and lunch break-out sessions. A workbook of materials and readings is provided. The course is taught by a team of five with expertise in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the historical events that led to the development of guidelines and regulations in human subjects protection
- Understand the ethical principles underlying research with human subjects
- Understand key concepts in human research protections (e.g., informed consent)
- Apply the regulations in research involving human subjects
- Apply the concepts using various methodologies in behavioral science research
- Understand the review process and the role and responsibility of an IRB member
- Understand the role of regulations, professional codes of ethics, individual investigators, and IRBs in protecting human subjects
- Address unique and challenging new areas by reference to underlying ethical principles
Further information, and advance registration for workshop can be found at http://www.apa.org/science/hrp_course.
Committee on Scientific Awards Names 2004 Recipients
The Committee on Scientific Awards selected the following individuals to receive the 2004 APA scientific awards in recognition of their outstanding theoretical or empirical contributions to basic or applied research in psychology.
The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award was granted to the following individuals:
- Sheldon Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University, was recognized for his groundbreaking scientific contributions toward understanding the effects of stress and social support systems on human health and behavior.
- E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia (emeritus), was recognized for her outstanding contributions to understanding the family context of children’s and adolescents’ development and adaptation.
- Richard M. Shiffrin, Indiana University, was recognized for his development of formal models of memory and forgetting; for his empirical investigations into the nature of memory and attention; for his unified accounts of attention and memory search, of recall and recognition, and of the adaptive processes that underlie explicit memory and implicit learning.
The Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology was given to:
- Edward Taub, University of Alabama at Birmingham, for his research contributions in the areas of behavioral neuroscience and behavioral medicine.
The recipients of the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology were:
- Edith Chen and Gregory E. Miller, University of British Columbia, were honored with a shared award in the area of health psychology. Chen was recognized for her research on mechanisms linking socioeconomic status, stressful events, and children’s health. Dr. Miller was honored for his research on the influence of social and psychological factors on immune response and immune related disease.
- Elena L. Grigorenko, Yale University and Thomas G. O’Connor, University of Rochester Medical Center, were honored with a shared award in the area of developmental psychology. Grigorenko was recognized for her creative work investigating cognitive abilities and disabilities in children of different ages and in different cultures of the world. O’Connor was honored for his research that targets fundamental questions about development and psychopathology.
- Jenny R. Saffran, University of Wisconsin at Madison, was honored with an award in the area of cognition/human learning, for her insightful blend of cognitive and developmental psychology. Her research demonstrates the importance of environmental input for early language learning.
- Eric Stice, University of Texas at Austin, was honored with an award in the area of psychopathology, for his contributions to our understanding of adolescent psychopathology, including eating disorders, obesity, depression, and substance abuse.
- Klaus Zuberbuhler, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), was honored with an award in the area of animal learning and behavior, comparative, for his research on the vocal communication of monkeys in the West African tropical rainforest, using playback experiments that are both creative and carefully controlled.
The 2004 winners will be honored at the APA Annual Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 28-August 1, 2004.
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