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Volume 11, Number 2 October, 2007 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 Mark Faust, UNC at Charlotte, mefaust@uncc.edu Division Representatives 2007-2008 President Ed Wasserman University of Iowa (319) 335-2445 President-Elect Nelson Cowan University of Missouri (573) 882-7710 Past President Howard Egeth Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-5324 Secretary-Treasurer Angelo Santi Wilfrid Laurier University (519) 884-0710 Members-At-Large of the Executive Committee Mark Bouton (8/07-10) University of Vermont (802) 656-4164 Nora S. Newcombe (8/07-10) Temple University (215) 204-6944 Gil Einstein (8/06-09) Furman University (864) 294-3214 Karen Hollis (8/06-09) Mount Holyoke College (413) 538-2296 Mark A. McDaniel (8/05-08) Washington University, St. Louis (314) 935-8030 Valerie F. Reyna (8/05-08) Cornell University (607) 254-1247 Graduate Student Representative Daniel Brooks University of Iowa (319) 353-2031 Representative to APA Council Emanuel Donchin (1/08-10) University of South Florida (813) 974-0466 Thomas R. Zentall (1/07-09) University of Kentucky (859) 257-4076 Committee Chairs Mahzarin Banaji (Awards) Harvard University (617) 384-9203 Mike Young (Fellows, 08-09) Southern Illinois University (618) 453-3567 Cathleen Moore (Fellows, 07-08) University of Iowa (319) 335-2427 Jeremy Wolfe (Program) Harvard University (617) 768-8818 Historian Charles L. Brewer Furman University (803) 294-3216 Early Career Psychologist Network Representative Jessie Peissig California State U. at Fullerton (714) 278-8278
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Council Report to the Executive Committee of Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of APA
Thomas Zentall and Lewis P. Lipsitt Council Representatives
1. Most important to Division 3, a task force has been assembled to recommend ways of making the annual meeting more attractive for science oriented psychologists to attend and present their research. The Task Force will meet in September and will make recommendations for next year’s meeting in Boston. The task force was established by the Council of Representative and it is being sponsored by the Science Directorate. Nancy Dess, President Elect of Div 6 and Sharon Armstrong, Past-Program Chair of Div 3 both serve of this Committee.
2. The most important general issue addressed by Council was the resolution for a moratorium on the involvement of psychologists in the interrogation of prisoners detained as enemy combatants at detention facilities like that at Guantanamo, Cuba. Although all who spoke argued against the use of torture and other unethical behavior in those interrogations Council discussed whether that goal would be better served by removing psychologists from the process or remaining present to try to influence interrogations. On Sunday, after both the Division 3 Executive Committee and business meetings, Council adopted a compromise identifying a list of interrogation activities that APA considered to be unethical. The resolution stopped short of requiring psychologists to cease and desist any involvement in military interrogation procedures, after the issue was hotly debated. Much media coverage has ensued since the San Francisco meetings, where eight symposia were held on the interrogation issue, with those “for” psychologist involvement and those unequivocally “against” participating. Amy Goodman provided one of the more striking coverages on CNN, and part of that program was devoted to interviewing the author of a widely publicized Salon magazine article. Goodman’s Democracy Now show can be viewed at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1628230 and rebuttals may be found in various APA-generated documents, including a long refutation by the chair of an APA committee which was attacked in the Goodman show. 3. Council approved of the use of $7.6 million to redesign the APA website to make it more user friendly and accessible to the wide range of clients who use it, including the general public, students, members, and research scientists. The expenditure was roundly defended by Jack McKay, the retiring CFO, for whom a great tribute was organized to celebrate the exceptional financial condition of the APA, largely due to McKay’s administration of the fiscal welfare of the organization. |