A Scientist’s Guide to the APA Convention
compiled by the Science Directorate
This is a selected list of science-related sessions and activities at the APA Convention, identified by APA division chairs. For more information about programming listed here, refer to your Convention program. Please note that program information is subject to change.
August 6 | August 7 | August 8 | August 9
August 6, 2009
8:00am – 8:50am
Discussion: Reconceptualizing Ethical Approaches to Research with Vulnerable Populations
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Constitution Hall 105
Division 35
Paper Session: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Religion
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202A
Division 36
9:00am – 9:50am
Symposium: Advances in Research Using the Stroop Task
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202D
Division 3
Discussion: Achieving Balance—Integrating the Demands of Professional Life and Personal Life
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205A
Division 14
Symposium: Women, Underrepresented Minorities, and STEM Fields—Testing Social Cognitive Hypotheses
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 17
Symposium: Development of Social Competence Among Children With Intellectual Disability
Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 707
Division 33
Symposium: Research, Reflections, and Regret on the Passage of California’s Proposition 8
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 44
Symposium: Effective Interventions for Promoting Exercise—Applied Exercise Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201B
Division 47
9:00am – 10:50am
Symposium: Best Practices in Clinical Applications of Autism Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Rooms 201E and F
Division 53
10:00am – 10:50am
Symposium: Cognition and Aging
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203D
Division 3
Symposium: Contemporary Challenges in Single Case Research---Evidence Based Practice Considerations
Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 706
Division 33
Poster Session
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Halls 104D and E
Division 49
10:00am – 11:50am
Symposium: Foraging and the Evolution of Cognition
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203B
Division 6
Symposium: Producing Social Change through Partnerships—Learning From the Visionaries
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714B
Division 9
Symposium: PTSD and the Return From War—Treatment, Recovery, and Reintegration
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 19
Symposium: Process and Outcome in CBT—The Importance of Cognitive Errors and Coping
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 29
Symposium: Research Implications: Intersections of Race, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 44
11:00am – 11:50am
Invited Address
Participant: Randy W. Kamphaus
Psychological Services Delivery for Schools: Methods and Models for Screening and Intervention Progress-Monitoring
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201C
Division 16
Symposium: Counseling Chinese—Empirical Studies and Cultural Adaptation
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206E
Division 17
Symposium: Psychological Experiences of Social Class—New Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 17
Invited Address
Participant: Rick Bevins
Conditioning Process and Drug States
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 25
Symposium: Cultural Influences on Social Interaction and Relationships
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 45
Invited Address
Participant: Barbara Byrne
Structural Equation Modeling: Snapshots in Time, Application and Opportunity
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 705
Sponsor: APAGS
11:00am – 12:50am
Symposium: Best Practices in Treating Youth With Bipolar Disorder
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104C
Division 53
12:00pm – 12:50pm
Invited Address: Frederick Howell Lewis Distinguished Lecture
Participant: John Cacioppo
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Sponsor: Psi Chi
12:00pm – 1:50pm
Symposium: Comparative and Developmental Metacognition
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206B
Division 3
Symposium: Conceptualizing, Diagnosing, and Treating Combat-Related Traumatic Stress
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 19
Symposium: Evidence-Based Practices—What Do We Mean By Evidence?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714B
Division 50
Symposium: Innovative Measurement and Treatment of Adherence in Pediatric Conditions
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 54
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Paper Session: Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Nancy J. Cooke
Team Cognition in Unmanned Aerial Systems
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715B
Division 21
Symposium: Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 712
Division 22
Paper Session: Good and Bad Judgments—Attributions, Language, and Other Biases
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201C
Division 23
Invited Address
Participant: Amy Odum
Delay Discounting: Nature or Nurture
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206E
Division 25
Fellows Addresses
Participant: Alexandra Rutherford
Whose Psychology, Whose History? Alter-Narratives in the History of Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre Meeting, Room 206C
Division 26
Invited Address: Margaret Gorman Early Career Award
Participant: Adam Cohen
There are Many Forms of Culture, Including Religion
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713B
Division 36
Symposium: What’s Cooking in Eating Disorders and Childhood Obesity? Community Evidence
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 37
Invited Address
Participant: Gordon Winocur
Hippocampus and Memory: Consolidation or Transformation?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201D
Division 40
Symposium: Culturally Informed Services for Disadvantaged Populations—From Evaluation to Intervention
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 711
Division 45
Workshop: Public Education via Teleseminars—Technology and Techniques
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205C
Division 46
1:00pm – 2:50pm
Symposium: Learning Research Principles—Instructional Strategies Development Guidance: What a Concept!
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 15
Symposium: Innovative Perspectives on Child Custody Evaluation, Research, and Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 41
Symposium: Resiliency and Resistance among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203D
Division 44
Symposium: New Directions in Trauma Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 709
Division 56
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Symposium: Stress, Sex, and Fear—Traumatic Memory and Emotional Dysregulation
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Cheryl Grady
How Has Functional Neuroimaging Influenced Our Ideas About Cognitive Aging?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 20
Paper Session: Good and Bad Consumption—The Meaning of Things, Conflicting Emotions, and Materialism
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201B
Division 23
Invited Address: William C. Bier Award
Participant: Fraser Watts
Interacting Cognitive Subsystems as a Way of Theorizing about Religious Cognition
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715A
Division 36
Invited Address
Participant: Donald Stuss
Theory-Driven Rehabilitation for Frontal Lobe Functions
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Summit Room 204
Division 40
Poster Session
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Halls 104D and E
Sponsor: Psi Chi
2:00pm - 3:50pm
Symposium: Evaluating and Optimizing Measurement Comparison Across Longitudinal Studies
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 5
Workshop: Coaching for a Sustainable Organization in a Sustainable World
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205C
Division 13
Symposium: Military Psychology Research at Defense R&D Canada—Toronto
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203B
Division 19
Symposium: Lusty Ladies or Victorian Victims?—Perspectives on Women, Madness, and Sexuality
Metro Toronto Convention Centre Meeting Room 205A
Division 26
Symposium: Best Practices in the Treatment of Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Division 53
Symposium: Contemporary Issues in Pediatric Pain
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 54
Invited Address
Participant: Lesa Hoffman
An Introduction to Growth Curve Modeling via Multilevel Models
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, APAGS Suite
Sponsor: APAGS
3:00pm – 3:50pm
Invited Address
Participant: Sangeeta Panicker
Nonhuman Animal Research Regulation: More Than Meets the Eye
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 103A
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Susan Goldin-Meadow
How Our Hands Help Us Talk
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 7
Invited Address: Henry A. Murray Award
Participant: Robert A. Emmons
Gods, Goals, and Gratitude: Further Explorations Into Religion and Personality
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 7070
Division 8
Symposium: Mediators and Moderators of Treatment Outcome
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 12
Invited Address
Participant: Paul Verhaeghen
A Walk Down Memory Lane: Age Differences in Focus Switching and Retrieval Dynamics in Working Memory
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 711
Division 20
Symposium: Using a Training Center Database to Promote Science and Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 29
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August 7, 2009
8:00am – 8:50am
Symposium: Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions—Empirical Evidence for Understanding Cultural Ruptures in Psychotherapy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Division 17
Symposium: Homicide Loss in African American Survivors
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Division 56
8:00am – 9:50am
Fellows Addresses
Participants: Jason L. Hicks, Darcia F. Narvaez, Charles A. Nelson
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202D
Division 3
Invited Address: CARE Imprinting Award
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 6
Workshop: Using Action Learning for Career Development and Peer Mentoring
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 13
Symposium: Effect of Culture and Language on Intelligence Tests
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206B
Division 16
Symposium: Christian Privilege and Religious Discrimination—Empirical Manifestations and Conceptual Considerations
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104D
Division 36
Symposium: Process of Change in Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy of Emotional Injuries
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703A
Division 43
Symposium: Role of Sex and Stress in Smoking Maintenance and Relapse
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802A
Division 50
9:00am – 9:50am
Discussion: Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry —Beyond the Divide
Participants: Gwyneth M. Boodoo, Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 5
Paper Session: Troubling the Barriers—Academic and Emotional Processes in Minority Students
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202C
Division 15
Symposium: Attitudes Toward Mental Illness on Assertive Community Treatment Teams
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 18
Invited Address
Participant: Marc Branch
Repeated Cocaine Exposure: Tolerance, Sensitization, Both, Neither?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 25
Symposium: International Comparative Practices in Clinical Forensic Psychology—Official Symposium of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 709
Division 41
10:00am – 10:50am
Invited Address
Participant: John M. Hintze
Classification and Decision-Making Accuracy and RTI: New Promises, Same Pitfalls?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 16
Invited Address: 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Participant: Susan E. Carey
The Origin of Concepts
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Sponsor: APA
10:00am – 11:50am
Invited Address
Participant: Andrew F. Hayes
Mediation Moderation
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, APAGS Suite
Sponsor: APAGS
11:00am – 11:50am
Invited Address
Participant: Leonard B. Bickman
How to Improve Outcomes with Feedback from Clients
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713B
Division 43 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: Master Lectures
Participant: Chris Dunkel-Schetter
Stress before Birth: Immediate and Long-Term Effects
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Neal Miller Lecture
Participant: Michael Meaney
The Epigenome: Where Nature Meets Nurture
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 705
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Jennifer A. Richeson
Negotiating Interracial Interactions: Costs, Consequences, and Possibilities
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Sponsor: APA
12:00pm – 12:50pm
Invited Address
Participant: Stephanie Carlson
Executive Function: Normative Development and Individual Differences
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 7 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Participant: Steven F. Maier
Vulnerability and Resilience: Stressor Controllability and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Master Lectures
Participant: Eduardo Salas
The Evolution and Maturation of the Science of Team Performance: Decades of Progress and Emerging Perspectives
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 705
Sponsor: APA
Symposium: Presidential Program
The Future of Psychological Science as a STEM Discipline
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 803B
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Neural Circuits Involved in Fear and Stress with Implications for PTSD
Participant: Michael Davis
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 713A
Division 40
(Convention Within the Convention)
12:00pm – 1:50pm
Symposium: The Psychology of Environmentally Responsible Consumption Part 1
Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 715B
Division 23, 34 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Daniel Le Grange
Clinical Health Psychology Grand Rounds: Evidence for Treating Eating Disorders
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716A
Division 38 (Convention Within the Convention)
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Invited Address
Participant: Adele Diamond
Strategies and Programs that Help to Improve Executive Functions in Young Children
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 7 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: William Bevan Lecture on Psychology and Public Policy
Participant: Gary Wells
Psychological Science and Legal Policy: Lessons from the Eyewitness Research Area
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 809
Division 41
Paper Session: Marital Transitions and Changes in African American Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802B
Division 43
Invited Address: Master Lectures
Participant: Howard Eichenbaum
The Neurobiology of Recollection
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary—2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Participant: Nancy Adler
Eliminating Health Disparities: What’s Psychology Got To Do With It?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717B
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Raymond DiGiuseppe
Anger Disorders: From Science to Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 801A
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Michelle Fine
Oil for the Lamp of Democracy: Participatory Action Research with Youth during Politically Contentious Times
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Martin E. P. Seligman
Positive Education
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Rooms 718A and B
Sponsor: APA
Workshop: Introduction to a Priori Power Analysis for the Grant Writing Process
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, APAGS Suite
Sponsor: APAGS
Invited Address:
Participants: John B. Jemmott and Loretta S. Jemmott
Designing Family Based Interventions: An Effort to Empower Mothers to Reduce Their Son’s Sexual Risks
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 714A
Sponsor: APA
(Convention Within the Convention)
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Invited Address: D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Participant: Joseph E. LeDoux
Emotion, Memory, and the Brain
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201D
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Mark Rapport
Working Memory Deficits in ADHD: The Functional Relationship Between Central Executive Processes and Hyperactivity
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 7 (Convention Within the Convention)
Presidential Address
Participant: Richard E. Petty
Certainty Versus Doubt: What Causes It, and Why Does It Matter?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206B
Division 8
Invited Address
Participant: Louis Burgio
Lost in Translation: Implementing Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Interventions in the Real World
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201B
Division 20
Invited Address
Participant: Julian Hochberg
Preemptive Perceptual Consequences: Their Scientific, Technological, and Artistic Significance
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203A
Division 21
Invited Address
Participant: Gregory Madden
Behavioral Economics of Gambling
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 25
Invited Address: Wallace A. Russell Memorial Lecture
Participant: Bernard Lightman
Darwin and the Popularization of Evolution
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Rooms 201E and F
Division 26
Invited Address
Participant: Alexander I. Troster
Deep Brain Stimulation: Emerging Neurologic and Psychiatric Applications
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Division 40
Symposium: Movies for the Variety of Human Experiences
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 810
Division 46
Invited Address:
Participant: Scott Maxwell
Advances in Longitudinal Mediation Analysis
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 715A
Sponsor: BSA (Convention Within the Convention)
Discussion: Gaining Admission to Graduate School
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203B
Sponsor: Psi Chi
Discussion: Cognitive Therapy: A Conversation With Aaron T. Beck and Frank Farley
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 718 A & B (Convention Within the Convention)
2:00pm – 3:50pm
Symposium: Advances in Experimental Research on Aging
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 3
Symposium: Revising the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building - Level 100, Reception Hall 104C
Sponsor: Div. 5
Symposium: Model for Diversity in the Science and Practice of Clinical Psychology—Historical Perspectives and Vision for the Future
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717B
Division 12
Symposium: The Psychology of Environmentally Responsible Consumption—Part II
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715B
Division 23 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Helen L. Coons
Clinical Health Psychology Grand Rounds: Evidence for Treating an Infertile Patient
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716A
Division 38 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201C
Division 52
Symposium: Best Practices: Assessment and Treatment of Child Anxiety and OCD
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713B
Division 53
Workshop: Evidence-Based Treatment of Insomnia in Typically Developing Children and Children with Special Needs
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 54
Invited Address: Ruth Hubbard Cousins Distinguished Lecture
Participant: Phil Zimbardo
My Love Affair with Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 701A
Sponsor: Psi Beta
3:00pm – 3:50pm
Symposium: Statistical Mediation and Moderation Analysis: How and for Whom Do Interventions Work?
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 715A
Division 5, 16 (Convention Within the Convention)
Presidential Address
Participant: Nancy K. Dess
Adventures With a Taste Phenotype: From Experiment to Politics
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203B
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Terence M. Keane
Taxonometric and/or Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 6 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Rosemary Tannock
Working Memory and ADHD: Neuroscience, Clinical, and Educational Perspectives
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 7 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: Richard Snow Early Career Award
Participant: Allison M. Ryan
Motivation and Achievement During Early Adolescence: Insights From Integrating the Social and Academic Domains
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 15
Invited Address:
Participant: Mary Jane
Rotheram-Borus
Families Globally Share Healthy Pathways
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 714A
APA Board of Directors (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: Interim Report of the APA Task Force on Psychology and Global Climate Change
Participant: Janet Swim
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Rooms 201E and F
Sponsor: APA Task Force on the Interface between Psychology and Global Climate Change, Division 34
Discussion: Lessons Learned: Students and Faculty Speak of the Undergraduate-Faculty Collaborative Experience
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 704
Sponsor: Psi Chi
3:00pm – 4:50pm
Symposium: Narrative Approaches to Social Issues in Psychological Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202C
Division 9
Symposium: Outcomes Measurement in Psychotherapy, Mental Health, and Beyond—Developments, Achievements, and Challenges
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 12
Symposium: Biological and Cultural Factors in Applied Experimental Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201B
Division 21
Symposium: New Directions in Research with Bisexual Populations
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 809
Division 44
4:00pm – 4:50pm
Presidential Address
Participant: Nelson Cowan
Central Working Memory and Its Development Explored: Keeping Important Things in an All-Purpose Basket
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 3
Presidential Address
Participant: Gwyneth Boodoo
Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Ballroom A
Division 5
Invited Address
Participant: James W. Grau
Psychosocial Stress, Inflammation, and Multiple Sclerosis
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Wendy Wood
Habit Is as Habit Does
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Rooms 201E and F
Division 8
Invited Address: E.L. Thorndike Award for Career Achievement in Educational Psychology
Participant: Bernard Weiner
Development of an Attribution Based Theory of Motivation: A History of Ideas
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 15
Symposium: Preventing Oppression—New Directions in Theory, Research, Practice, and Training
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 810
Division 17
Symposium: Persistent Issues Pertaining to Offender Risk Assessment: Illustration from the Level of Service Inventory
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802A
Division 18
Invited Address
Participant: John Roll
Bringing the Science of Behavior Analysis to the Treatment of Methamphetamine Addiction
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205C
Division 25
Symposium: Physical Punishment of Children—Evidence and Controversies
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 37
Invited Address
Participant: Lawrence Kutner
Sharing Psychology When It's Needed Most: Working With and Without the Press
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 46 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Insights into Revising Substance Use Disorder Diagnostic Criteria in DSM-V
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104D
Division 50
Invited Address:
Participant: Jose Szapocznik
The Science and Practice of the Prevention and Treatment of Risk Taking Behaviors in Hispanic Families
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 714A
APA Board of Directors (Convention Within the Convention)
APA Task Force on Psychology and Global Climate Change—Perspectives of Task Force Members
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 103B
Sponsors: APA Task Force on the Interface between Psychology and Global Climate Change, Division 34
4:00pm – 5:50pm
APA/APF Awards Ceremony
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Concert Hall
Sponsor: APA
5:00pm – 5:50pm
Paper Session: Investigating Faith, Found and Lost
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202D
Division 36
Alzheimer’s and Cerebrovascular Disease: A Conspiracy Against the Golden Years
Participant: Sandra E. Black
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Division 40
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August 8, 2009
8:00am – 8:50am
Paper Session: Youth Sports and Sport Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202C
Division 47
8:00am – 9:50am
Symposium: Best of JEP—New Investigator Award
Participants: Timothy Flemming, David Landy, Michael Proulx, Justin Wood, Tiffany Jastrzembski
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201D
Division 3
Invited Symposium: Role of Mixed Methods in Psychological Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717B
Division 5
Symposium: Realities of Executive Coaching: What We Know and Don’t
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 13
Symposium: Translating the Science of Literacy to Psychology Practice in Schools
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201B
Division 16
Symposium: Psychology in Societies in Transition—History, Challenges, and Possibilities
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 52
9:00am – 9:50am
Invited Address
Participant: Mary W. Meagher
Timing without a Brain
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203D
Division 6
Invited Address
Participant: Todd D. Little
Factorial Invariance: Why It’s Important and How to Test for It
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715A
Division 8 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: David Klonsky
Empirically Supported Treatments: Past and Present
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 12 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Glenn Smith
Update on Dementia Evaluation Guidelines
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 20 (Convention Within the Convention)
Paper Session: Persuasion—Countering Prejudice, Implicit Attitudes, and the Olympics
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 103B
Division 23
Symposium: Innovations on Sexual Orientation and Health
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 705
Division 44
Symposium: Future of Internet and Media Psychology
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 803A
Division 46
Workshop: Developing Evidenced-Based Group Interventions With At-Risk Students—Group-Centered Prevention Programs
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 49
Invited Address: Famous Psychologists: Academic Leadership in Challenging Times
Participant: Peter Saloveg
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 718 A & B
APA Board of Directors (Convention Within the Convention)
9:00am – 10:50am
Symposium: Developing Efficacy Scales for Specialized Tasks and Contexts of Teaching
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 15
Symposium: Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 715B
Division 21 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Daniel Bruns
Clinical Psychology Grand Rounds: Evidence for Treating a Work Disability Patient
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716A
Division 38 (Convention Within the Convention)
9:00am – 4:50pm
International Brain Bee
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Convention Floor, Salon B
Sponsors: BSA, BEA
10:00am – 10:50am
Invited Address: Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award
Participant: Simona Ghetti
Development of True and False Recollection: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 7
Invited Address
Participant: David A. Kenny
Introduction to the Actor—Partner Interdependence Model for the Study of Dyads
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715A
Division 8 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Arts-Based Research for Advocacy and Community Action—Photovoice and Collaboration
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104A
Division 9
Invited Address
Participant:John C. Norcross
Psychotherpay Relationships that Work: Evidence-based Responsiveness
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 12 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Expressive Writing After Returning From Combat—Two New Studies
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802B
Division 19
Invited Address
Participant: Bruce Crosson
Can Brain Structures Be Targeted for Rehabilitation by Cognitive Strategies? Lessons from Aphasia Therapy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 810
Division 40
Paper Session: Social Psychology Issues in Sport and Exercise
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 704
Division 47
10:00am – 11:50am
Invited Address: Awards Session
Participant: Keith A. Markus
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Division 5
Symposium: Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cohesion and Decision Making
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104D
Division 6
Symposium: CEO Succession: “The Inside Game”
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 803B
Division 13
Conversation Hour: Decision Neuroscience Symposium
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 103B
Division 23
Symposium: The Golden Door—Histories of Italian Psychology and Italian American Life
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 809
Division 26
Invited Address: Convention Within the Convention/Evidence Based Practice
Participant: Guillermo Bernal
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 45 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Debbie Joffe-Ellis
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 46
Symposium: Learning by Doing—An Experiential Group With an Evidence-Based Practice Component
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205C
Division 49
Symposium: Best Practices: Child/Adolescent Depression, Treatment Resistant Depression, and Suicidal Behavior
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Rooms 201E and F
Division 53
Symposium: Treatment of Pediatric Obesity in Diverse Settings: Toward More Ecologically-Relevant Interventions
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 705
Division 54
11:00am – 11:50am
Invited Address: G. Stanley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology Award
Participant: Nancy Eisenberg
Emotion Regulation: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 7
Invited Address
Participant: Jennifer Crocker
Egosystem or Ecosystem? How Self-Image and Compassionate Goals Shape Social Relationships, Mental Health, and Goal Striving
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201D
Division 8
Invited Address
Participant: Patrick H. DeLeon
Outlook for Rehabilitation and Health Psychology in 2009 and Beyond
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205A
Division 22
Invited Address
Participant: James Todd
Facilitated Communication’s Useful Idiots: Professional Credulity and Exploitation of People with Autism
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 25
Invited Address: Aging in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: Research Issues and Results
Participant: Warren B. Zigman
Metro Toronto Convention Center, Room 715B
Division 33 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address
Participant: Robb Travers
Making Research Relevant: Reflections From LGBT Community—Academic Partnerships in Ontario
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 44
Symposium: Funding Your Research—Information on Finding, Writing, and Managing Grants
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Summit Room 204
Sponsor: APAGS
11:00am – 12:50pm
Symposium: Focus on York University Assessing Sensory Performance—Techniques and Applications
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802B
Division 21
Symposium: Behavioral Health Contributions to Child Maltreatment Prevention in Primary Care
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 37
Invited Address
Participant: Karina W. Davidson
Clinical Health Psychology Grand Rounds: Evidence for Treating a Depressed Cardiac Patient
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716A
Division 38 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Psychopathy and Risky Decisions: Legal and Clinical Implications
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104A
Division 41
Symposium: Brain Buffers and Brain Blows
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 55 (Convention Within the Convention)
12:00pm – 12:50pm
Invited Address: Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology
Participant: Michael Lewis
Role of Environment in the Development of Emotions
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206A
Division 7
Invited Address
Participant: Timothy Z. Keith
Cause and Correlation in Applied Psychological Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203A
Division 16
12:00pm – 1:50pm
Symposium: Disability and Culture: Ethnic Specific Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian American Perspectives
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 22 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Research With Disadvantaged Women—Qualitative Methods as a Generative Choice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Summit Room 204
Division 35
Symposium: Doing CBPR—The People Awakening Projects
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 704
Division 45
Invited Address:
Participant: Linda Bartoshuk
Do You Taste What I Taste? Some Lessons About Measurement That Impact Health
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 701A
Division 46 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Psychological Factors Associated With Sport Concussion Outcomes
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 706
Division 47
Symposium: Sex, Love, and Psychology—A Town Hall Meeting
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104C
Division 46
Symposium: Best Practices for Treating ADHD: From Toddlers to Teens
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104D
Division 53
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Invited Address: Presentations by the 2008 Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers Award Winners
Participants: Scott Meit, James H. Bray
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Division 12
Invited Address
Participant: Wayne D. Gray
Implications of William James’ Sensible Present for Cognitive Engineering
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205A
Division 21
Conversation Hour: Emotions—Its Antecedents and Consequences: Implications to Business
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203A
Division 23
Invited Address: Mary Whiton Calkins Address
Participant: Lorraine Code
Self, Subjectivity, and the Instituted Social Imaginary: Thinking With Beauvoir, Calkins, and Le Doeuff
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802A
Division 26
Symposium: Protective Factors for Substance Use in African American Children
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206B
Division 45
Invited Address
Participant: Jessica Daniel
Mentoring and Being Mentored: Cultural, Generational, and Gender Implications
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 54
Invited Address:
Participant: Mahzarin R. Banaji
Famous Psychologists: Knowing Our Minds
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 701A
APA Board of Directors (Convention Within the Convention)
1:00pm – 2:50pm
Invited Address
Participant: Robert D. Kerns
Clinical Health Psychology Grand Rounds: Evidence for Treating a Headache Pain Patient
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716A
Division 38 (Convention Within the Convention)
Workshop: Multi-Systemic and Multi-dimensional Assessment and Tracking of Change
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 803A
Division 43
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Symposium: Mistakes in Psychotherapy—Yielding Power, Constraining Dialogue, and Nurturing Envy
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, British Columbia Room
Division 29
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Dante Cicchetti
Developmental Psychopathology in Action
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714B
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Ahmad Hariri
Using Imaging, Pharmacology and Genetics to Better Understand the Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Behavior
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713B
Sponsor: APA
Symposium: Psychologists and Federal Policy —Experiences and Career Opportunities of APA’s Congressional and Executive Branch Science Fellows
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Sponsor: APA Board of Directors
Invited Address
Participant: Keith Widaman
Longitudinal Modeling
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, APAGS Suite
Sponsor: APAGS
Discussion: Psychological Science Graduate Superstars—Datablitz
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104C
Sponsor: BSA, Science Student Council
2:00pm – 3:50pm
Symposium: The Interplay Between Interpersonal Relationships and Health
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting 716B
Division 8 (Convention Within the Convention)
Symposium: Research Ethics 101
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802B
Sponsors: APA Ethics Committee, BSA, CARE
3:00pm – 3:50pm
Invited Address: 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Participant: Alice Eagly
The His and Hers of Prosocial Behavior
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 802A
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Andrew N. Meltzoff
Early Development of Social Cognition: A New Look
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717B
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address: Plenary
Participants: Ed Diener and Robert E. Biswas
Happiness in Turbulent Times
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 801A
Sponsor: APA
Symposium: Current Issues Affecting the Disclosure of Test Data and Materials
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 711
Sponsor: BSA
Symposium: Um…Hi…A Professional Social Networking Guide for Graduate Students
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Sponsors: Membership Board, Science Student Council
3:00pm – 4:50pm
Symposium: Using Evidence-Based Principles to Optimize Clinical Process and Outcome With Personality Disorders
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 714A
Division 29 (Convention Within the Convention)
4:00pm – 4:50pm
Presidential Address
Participant: Warren B. Zigman
Dementia in Down Syndrome: What We Have Learned in Over 20 Years of Research
Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel Caledon Room
Division 33
Presidential Address
Participant: Saul M. Kassin
On the Doctrine of Harmless Error: Myths and Misconceptions
Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Ontario Room
Division 41
Presidential Address
Participant: Danny Wedding
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 46
Invited Address: Master Lectures
Participant: Dean Keith Simonton
Creative Scientists, Artists, and Psychologists: Modeling Disposition, Development, and Achievement
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 707
Sponsor: APA
Discussion: Grants and Fellowships for Graduate Students: Funding and Advocacy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 706
Sponsors: BSA, Science Student Council
4:00pm – 5:50pm
Invited Address: Plenary
Participant: Laura L. Carstensen
A Long Bright Future: Aging in the 21st Century
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717A
Sponsor: APA
Invited Address:
Participant: Valerie T. Smith
Crossing the Racial Divide: Having the Difficult Discussion about Bias and Inequality
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 701A
APA Policy and Planning Board (Convention Within the Convention)
6:00pm – 6:50pm
Presidential Address
Participant: Eric Anderman
Using Achievement Motivation Theory and Research to Improve Health Education for Adolescent Populations
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Territories Room
Division 15
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8:00am – 9:50am
Symposium: Animal Learning
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203B
Division 3
Invited Symposium: Opening Up Quantitative Psychology—Encouraging Diversity in Focus, Participation, and Application
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205D
Division 5
Workshop: Strategy Behind Developing a Successful Diversity Strategy
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 13
Symposium: Human Factors in Sports
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201C
Division 21
Symposium: College Drinking and Drug Use—Implications for Prevention and Intervention
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 50
Symposium: Understanding Optimal Parental Involvement for Children with Chronic Illness
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 715B
Division 54
9:00am – 9:50am
Discussion: Refining the Definition of Research-Supported Treatments—A Look to the Future
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 803A
Division 12
Symposium: Methodological Advances for Rehabilitation Psychology Research and Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713A
Division 22 (Convention Within the Convention)
Invited Address: American College of Sports Medicine Exchange Lecture
Participant: Steven N. Blair
Physical Inactivity: The Biggest Public Health Problem of the 21st Century
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206E
Division 47
Symposium: Psychology Across Cultures—Critical Implications for Education, Ethics, and Theory
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206D
Division 52
Invited Address:
Participant: Janet S. Hyde
Men Are From Earth, Women Are From Earth: The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 714A
Division 43 (Convention Within the Convention)
9:00am – 10:50am
Symposium: New Institute of Medicine Report on Prevention—Conclusions and Recommendations
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Reception Hall 104B
Division 37
Symposium: Empirically Supported Treatments for Childhood Trauma—Commonalities and Contrasts
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 716B
Division 56
10:00am – 10:50am
Invited Address
Participant: Silvia Sorensen
Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Vision Loss
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206F
Division 20
Invited Address
Participant: Keith D. Cicerone
Translating Research Evidence Into Clinical Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 713B
Division 22 (Convention Within the Convention)
10:00am – 11:50am
Workshop: Meeting the Reintegration Challenges of Service Members and Their Families
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 203D
Division 19
Symposium: Doing History Critically
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Room 205A
Division 26
Workshop: NIH Grant Workshop for Junior Investigators
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 717B
Division 40
11:00am – 11:50am
Symposium: Toward a Psychophysics of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 13
Symposium: Training and Retaining Correctional Psychologists: Development and International Perspectives
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 201D
Division 18
12:00pm – 12:50pm
Symposium: Culturally Relevant Community-Based Participatory Research—Evidence From the AAKOMA Project
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 703
Division 12
Symposium: New Developments in Acculturation Research
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 206C
Division 52
12:00pm – 1:50pm
Symposium: Review of Methods for Formative Assessment of Child Social Behavior
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202C
Division 16
Symposium: Identifying and Developing Mental Skills Through Emotional Intelligence
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205C
Division 47
Symposium: Using Behavioral and Cognitive Assessments to Inform Addiction Treatment
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 205B
Division 50 and 28
1:00pm – 1:50pm
Symposium: Black Women Psychologists—Academia, Research, and Practice
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Meeting Room 202B
Division 35
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