Div. 12 recognizes one member's special achievements
Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, a member of section VIII (Association of Medical School Psychologists--AMSP) of Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), is completing a Robert Wood Johnson Congressional Health Policy Fellowship program, sponsored by the National Institute of Medicine. Johnson is the fourth psychologist--all whom have been members of AMSP--selected for this program.
Div. 23 awards dissertation proposals
and announces fellows
Div. 23 (Society for Consumer Psychology) announces its Sheth Dissertation Proposal Competition winner: "Goal-dependent automaticity in impulsive decisions--a dynamic framework," by New York University's Suresh Ramanathan, with advisor Geeta Menon, PhD.
Runners-up include:
* "The effects of temporal perspective on incongruous brand extension evaluation," by Northwestern University's Susan Jung, with advisor Alice M. Tybout, PhD.
* "The persuasive effect of message framing varies depending on regulatory focus: affective response as a mediating process," by Pennsylvania State University's Sunghwan Yi, with advisor Hans Baumgartner, PhD.
The division also named three fellows: Dipankar Chakravarti, PhD, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Alice M. Isen, PhD, of Cornell University, and Robert Cialdini, PhD, of Arizona State University.
Div. 39 issues Sept. 11 essay competition awards
Section V (Psychologist Psychoanalyst Clinicians) of Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis) awarded David Lichtenstein, PhD, of Apres-Coup in New York, with $1,000 for his essay "The appearance of the other." Called an original, thoughtful and scholarly contribution by Section V, the essay explores identification and differentiation in the organization of daily life, as well as discusses relatedness and its effects on trauma.
A second essay was awarded an honorable mention and $200 by the section committee. "The interpretation of an architect's dream: relational trauma and its prevention," a clinical study of reactions to Sept. 11, was written by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, PhD, of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York. The essay discusses the connection between a person's immediate trauma and former concerns and patterns of relatedness between patient and therapist under the circumstances of Sept. 11.
These essays and excerpts from others are available in the summer issue of the division's Psychoanalyst/
Psychologist as well as on the Section V Web site at www.divpsa.org/div39/section5/index.html.
Read and respond to Div. 48's document on terrorism
Following the events of Sept. 11, a subcommittee formed within the leadership of Div. 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence) to collaborate, discuss and draft a response to the acts of terrorism in the United States and around the world.
The group took into account international perspectives on the problem of terrorism, the importance of situating the psychological contribution to the problem in a wider, multidisciplinary perspective, and the contribution of peace psychology with regard to the development of comprehensive approaches to terrorism prevention.
The response addresses how terrorism should be defined, what motivates terrorist acts and terrorism, and how the international community and psychologists in particular should respond to terrorism.
The subcommittee seeks feedback in an attempt to establish constructive dialogue about this important and complex dilemma. Read the document at moon.pepperdine.edu/~mstimac/Peace-Psychology.htm and respond by following instructions located there.
--K. HEWLETT
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