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Volume 34, No. 5 May 2003

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Among the highlights of the convention sessions sponsored by APA's divisions are:

* Phillip A. Vernon, PhD, University of Western Ontario, "The Western Ontario twin project: contributions of behavioral genetic research to issues in differential psychology (Div. 1, Society for General Psychology).

* Daniel Schacter, PhD, Harvard University, "Seven sins of memory" (Div. 1).

* Donald T. Stuss, PhD, The Rotman Research Institute, "The fractionation on the anterior attentional system" (Div. 3, Experimental).

* Larry Jacoby, PhD, Washington University, "Age differences in cognitive control: depth of retrieval" (Div. 3).

* Sarah T. Boysen, PhD, The Ohio State University, "The executive impact of enculturation on young chimpanzees" (Div. 3).

* Auke Tellegen, PhD, University of Minnesota, "Against recipe-driven test construction: developing restructured clinical scales for the MMPI-2" (Div. 5, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics).

* Norman E. Spear, PhD, Binghamton University, "Very early learning about alcohol" (Div. 6, Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative).

* Shepard Siegel, PhD, McMaster University, "Pavlovian conditioning and drug tolerance" (Div. 6).

* Laurence Steinberg, PhD, Temple University, "Can developmental psychology influence social policy?" (Div. 7, Developmental).

* "Crisis in preschool education: rise of technologies/demise of play," with Lisa Osbeck, PhD, Dorothy G. Singer, PhD, Sharna Olfman, PhD, and Daniel R. Burston, PhD (Div. 7).

* David G. Winter, PhD, University of Michigan, "Things I've learned about personality from studying political leaders at a distance" (Div. 8, Society for Personality and Social Psychology).

* "The predicted self," with Ian R. Newby-Clark, PhD, Anne Wilson, PhD, Justin Kruger, PhD, David A. Armor, PhD, and Steven J. Sherman, PhD (Div. 8).

* "Contemporary issues in ADHD," with Stephen V. Faraone, PhD, C. Keith Conners, PhD, Timothy E. Wilens, MD, and Joseph Biederman, MD (Div. 12, Society of Clinical Psychology).

* "Empirically supported principles of therapeutic change: beyond manuals," with Louis Castonguay, PhD, Shelia Woody, PhD, Barbra McCrady, PhD, Jacques Barber, PhD, and Bruce E. Wampold, PhD (Div. 12).

* Marcia Linn, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, "Learning technologies: pitfalls and promises" (Div. 15, Educational).

* "Personality growth: measurement, trajectories and facilitation," with Ursula M. Staudinger, PhD, Gisela Labouvie-Vief, PhD, Jessica Doerner, Brent W. Roberts, PhD, Charlotte Mickler and Karen Hooker, PhD (Div. 20, Adult Development and Aging).

* David Schroeder, PhD, FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, "Air traffic control: a bit of history and the characteristics of those that keep the sky safe" (Div. 21, Applied Experimental and Engineering).

* Michael Perone, PhD, West Virginia University, "Errors and deviations: describing variability in the experimental analysis of behavior" (Div. 25, Behavior Analysis).

* Linda Sobell, PhD, Nova Southeastern University, "Process of self-change: two decades of research thinking outside of the box" (Div. 28, Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse).

* "A template for clinical trials in evidence-based behavioral research," with Stephen M. Weiss, PhD, Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD, Mabel Algeciras, Michelle Jean-Gilles, PhD, and Deborah L. Jones, PhD (Div. 38, Health).

* "Methamphetamine research: the methamphetamine treatment project and longitudinal follow-up," with Richard Rawson, PhD, James Herrell, PhD, and Maureen P. Hillhouse, PhD (Div. 50, Addictions).


All dates, times and places for programs will be listed online at www.apa.org/convention in June and in the Convention Program, available in mid-July.
 

 


 
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