APF Will Host Lectures and Symposium in Boston

VOLUME 30, NUMBER 7 July/August 1999

CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

APF will host lectures and symposium in Boston

Ten psychologists will speak at APA's Annual Convention on topics from motivation and intelligence to undergraduate research.

By Ted Baroody

The American Psycho-logical Foundation (APF) is sponsoring seven invited addresses and a symposium at APA's Annual Convention in Boston, Aug. 20-24.

The F. J. McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind will take place on Saturday, Aug. 21, at noon, in meeting room 209 of the Hynes Convention Center. John F. Kihlstrom, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver an address titled "The rediscovery of the unconscious." Kihlstrom, who has previously served on the faculties of Harvard University, the University of Arizona and Yale University, is a member of Berkeley's Institute for Personality and Social Research and the Institute for Cognitive Studies, and a past recipient of APA's Distinguished Scientist Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology. Kihlstrom's 1987 Science article, "The Cognitive Unconscious," is often credited with persuading the field of psychology to examine the study of the unconscious as legitimate science.

The William Bevan Lecture on Psychology and Public Policy will be delivered by renowned psychologist Howard E. Gardner, PhD, on Saturday, Aug. 21, at 1 p.m., in meeting room 310 of the Hynes Center. His address is titled "Who owns intelligence?" Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at Harvard University, adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero. The author of 18 books and several hundred articles, Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that only a single human intelligence exists that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. During the past 15 years, Gardner and his colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessment instruments, education for understanding, and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized measurement, curricula and instruction.

The first address of the newly established Lynn Stuart Weiss Lecture Series, will be given by Erika R. Apfelbaum, PhD, on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 9 a.m., in meeting room 204 of the Hynes Center. Apfelbaum, director of the Research Group on the Gender and Social Division of Labor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, is a prolific research scientist and author in the areas of power and counterpower; feminism; the uprooting, identities, and legacy of peoples; and the history of 20th century ideologies and social movements. Her address, "And what now after such tribulations? The importance of legacy and the obligation of remembrance," will focus on memory issues surrounding the Holocaust.

The Lynn Stuart Weiss Lecture series was established in 1998 by Drs. Raymond A. and Rosalee G. Weiss to honor their daughter, who died of cancer in 1971. Lecturers are selected on a rotating basis by four APA divisions: 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), 41 (American Psychology-Law Society), 48 (Peace) and 52 (International). Div. 9 co-sponsored this year's lecture with APF.

The fifth annual Rosalee G. Weiss Lecture, "David and Goliath: when psychotherapy research meets health care delivery systems" will be delivered by Larry E. Beutler, PhD, at 1 p.m., on Sunday, Aug. 22, in room 209 of the Hynes Center. Beutler, one of the best-known leaders in the field of clinical psychology, is a professor and past director of the counseling/ clinical/school psychology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Beutler has written some 300 journal articles and chapters and has edited or co-authored 11 books on psychotherapy and psychopathology.

He is currently editing the Oxford University Press series of comprehensive treatment guidebooks for affective disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug abuse and schizophrenia. The Rosalee G. Weiss Lecture series, established in 1994 by Raymond A. Weiss, PhD, in honor of his wife, features outstanding leaders in the field of psychology or leaders in the arts and sciences whose work has had significant impact on psychology.

The 1999 Arthur Benton Lecture on Neuropsychology will feature Otfried Spreen, PhD, professor emeritus in the psychology department at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The lecturer is chosen annually by the awards committee of Div. 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) from among those who have acquired national and international reputation for excellence in teaching and scholarly contribution to the field of neuropsychology. Spreen's lecture, "Some reflections on child neuropsychology," will take place in meeting room 102 of the Hynes Center, on Sunday Aug. 22, from 2-2:50 p.m.

This year's recipient of the APF Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award, Barbara F. Nodine, PhD, will offer the Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Lecture, in meeting room 310 of the Hynes Center, on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 3 p.m. Nodine's lecture is titled "The value of undergraduate research."

Much of Nodine's work has focused on applying cognitive psychology to students' classroom learning, in particular, writing as a teaching and learning tool. For instance, her research on learning disabled children's composing abilities used writing instead of the traditional memory task to investigate children's story schemas. Nodine has lectured at workshops for faculties on more than 100 U.S. campuses on the topic of incorporating new teaching techniques. She was a founder and an active participant in the national writing-across-the-curriculum movement and has authored or edited three books and numerous articles on how psychologists can better use writing to help students learn.

The 1999 Esther Katz Rosen Lecture will feature Larry Scripp, EdD, director of the Research Center for Learning Through Music at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston. His lecture, "Music as a fundamental model of learning," will take place on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 4 p.m., in meeting room 309 of the Hynes Center.

Scripp is an accomplished composer, conductor, educator and researcher. He has developed theory and performance programs for young musicians and has conducted extensive research in art and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero. He has published extensively on children's musical development, computers and education, as well as on the acquisition of musical literacy skills. The APF Rosen Fund supports research and lectures on gifted children and adolescents.

The annual Spielberger EMPathy Symposium features a trio of psychologists who will each speak for 25 minutes and then exchange information and ideas about their clinical and research findings on emotion, motivation, and personality in a 30-minute discussion session.

APA divisions 3 (Experimen-tal), 8 (Society of Personality and Social Psychology) and 12 (Clinical) administer the selection of participants. In this fourth annual symposium, the participants will be Constance L. Hammen, PhD, professor and director of clinical training at the University of California, Los Angeles; Michael A. Ross, PhD, professor and former chair of psychology at the University of Waterloo; and Abraham Tesser, PhD, research professor in the department of psychology at the University of Georgia.

Hammen, whose research has focused on depression in adults, children, and adolescents, as well as on psychological aspects of bipolar disorder, will present "The interpersonal context of depression."

Ross, whose work has investigated the psychological factors that change people's views of themselves through time, as well as autobiographical memory and prediction, will deliver an address titled "From chump to champ: people's appraisals of their former and present selves."

Tesser's work has centered on the areas of self-esteem, attitudes, thought, interpersonal communication and attraction. His talk will be titled "Protecting the self." The symposium is scheduled from 2-3:50 p.m., on Saturday, Aug. 21, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, in the Gardner Room.Y

Ted Baroody is a program associate for APF.

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