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Volume 9, Number 2 September, 2005 Submissions Welcome! The Editors encourage submission of any announcements, and/or letters to the editors, regarding psychological science. Comments on the content and presentation of the newsletter are also appreciated. Submit to: Editors, The Experimental Psychology Bulletin Kristi S. Multhaup Davidson College (704) 894-2008 Mark E. Faust Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte (704) 687-3564 Humor Needed… Why waste your time subjecting your family and friends to your humor when you can elicit guffaws from your colleagues? Send us your science related humor: krmulthaup@davidson.edu Division 3 E-mail Listserve Access Subscribe to the Division 3 E-mail network to keep informed about Division 3 and issues regarding psychological science. This is a monitored network to keep the number of e-mails down. Subscribe: Send an e-mail to listserv@lists.apa.org. Leave the Subject line blank and type “subscribe div3” in the body of the message. Send a Message (once subscribed): div3@lists.apa.org Questions: Send e-mail to Neal Johnson, Ohio State University, johnson.64@osu.edu Division Representatives 2005-2006 President Thomas R. Zentall University of Kentucky (859) 257-4076 President-Elect Howard Egeth Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-7910 Past President Alice Healy University of Colorado (303) 492-5032 Secretary-Treasurer Angelo Santi Wilfrid Laurier University (519) 884-0710 Historian Charles L. Brewer Furman University (803) 294-3216 Members-At-Large of the Executive Committee Mark A. McDaniel (8/05-08) Washington University, St. Louis (314) 935-8030 Valerie F. Renya (8/05-08) Cornell University (607) 254-1247 Nelson Cowan (8/04-07) University of Missouri (573) 882-7710 Ralph R. Miller (8/04-07) Binghamton Univ., SUNY (607) 777-2291 Mark H. Ashcraft (8/05-06) UNLV (702) 895-3305 Mark.Ashcraft@ccmail.nevada.edu Veronica J. Dark (8/03-06) Iowa State University (515) 294-1688 Representative to APA Council Lewis P. Lipsitt (8/04-07) Brown University (401) 863-2332 Emanuel E. Donchin (8/03-06) University of South Florida (813) 974-0466 Board of Directors J. Bruce Overmier University of Minnesota (612) 625-1835 Committee Chairs William D. Timberlake (Awards) Indiana University (812) 855-4042 Mark H. Ashcraft (Fellows) UNLV (702) 895-3305 Mark.Ashcraft@ccmail.nevada.edu Randall W. Engle (Membership) Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 894-8036 randall.engle@psych.gatech.edu Marvin Lamb (Program) Cal. State Hayward (510) 885-3484
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Support Science, Vote for Overmier and Brehm for APA President
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Why vote for APA president: The president of APA is the most influential individual in APA. This is the one person who can have the most influence on the things that you want APA to do for you and for members of your group/s. Often members who are not involved in APA governance think that they do not know the candidates and it does not matter if they vote. The next paragraph is for you. How to vote for APA president: In this case it is really how to choose your candidates. To vote for APA president, one must first chose the candidates that one wants to support. The decision is made as to which candidates on the ballot will support ones own goals and then one ranks them in order. In APA one does not just vote for one candidate and think that is it. It is important to rank the candidates because of the Hare system that is used by APA. When the votes are received, the number of #1 ranked votes for each candidate is noted. The person with the fewest votes is dropped. At that point, the #2 ranked candidate for those voters is given their votes. Thus, if your #1 candidate is dropped, your vote still counts. This process continues until one candidate gets a majority of the votes cast. It is usually on at least the third or fourth count that the president is decided. Who to rank first for APA president: Which candidates should you choose? I find the best method, if you do not know the candidates, is to read what they have done. What they say they will do is less useful, because the president must be everything to all members; so, all say they support academia, practice, and science. But what have they done? If they have spent most of their career in academia, then they will likely support the things that academics want. The same can be said for practice activities, and for research activities. Thus, I pay much more attention to what candidates have done than to what they say. For Division 3 members, candidates who have a strong record for supporting science and academia and, thus, are likely to continue to support science and academia are Sharon Brehm (www.brehm4apa.com) and Bruce Overmier (http://www.psych.umn.edu/faculty/Overmier.htm). Both have been very active in APA governance and have promoted science goals. In addition, Bruce is a fellow of the division, has been our Council representative, and has held other offices on the executive committee. Therefore, you are encouraged to rank Sharon and Bruce as #1 and #2 candidates, in the order of your choice. The important thing to do is VOTE!
MaryLou Cheal
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