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Monitor on Psychology Volume 38, No. 5 May 2007 |
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APA'S ANNUAL CONVENTION Programming from APAs Board of Scientific Affairs will cover AIDS research, institutional
review boards, biocultural social psychology and more. Print version: page 52 What should psychologists think about institutional review board decisions? How should authors
deal with their papers rejection from a journal? What kinds of research are tomorrows
psychological scientists conducting? Programming from APAs Board of Scientific Affairs
will answer these questions and many more during APAs Annual Convention in San Francisco.
Among the highlights:
Master lectures from Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, on Teaching Positive Psychology;
Vickie Mays, PhD, on The Next 25 Years of HIV Epidemic: African American Women in the Deep
South on Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3–3:50 p.m.; Ed Wasserman, PhD, on Humans, Animals
and Computers: Minding Machines?; and James Outtz, PhD, on Science, Practice and
Social Change: Are They Compatible?
The Neal Miller Lecture by C. Sue Carter, PhD, who will present on Molecules and
Monogamy: Whats Love Got to Do With It? on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 11–11:50 a.m.
The APA Science Student Council-sponsored session Psychological Science Superstars:
Datablitz, a rapid-fire series of presentations by graduate students presenting posters
at APA Division poster sessions. The session is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18, at 11–11:50
a.m.
The symposium Feeling Rejected? Dealing with the Journal Article Review Process,
also sponsored by the Science Student Council.
An APA Committee to Advance Research invited address by Ivor Pritchard, PhD, whose talk
What Should Psychologists Think about Institutional Review Board Decisions? is
scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18, at 10–10:50 a.m.
A symposium sponsored by the Committee on Animal Research and Ethics on Stress
and Health: Revised and Revisited, From Mouse to Human.
A symposium sponsored by the Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment on Third
Party Observers in Psychological and Neuropsychological Forensic Psychological Assessment.
Addresses from the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award winners: Marilynn
Brewer, PhD, who will address The Importance of We. A Social Identity and Intergroup
Relations, and Paul Rozin, PhD, who will speak on Biocultural Social Psychology:
Trying to Find and Fill the Holes.
Addresses from the Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology
winners: Peter Bentler, PhD, whose talk is titled Can Causal Structure be Tested with Correlations?
and Karl Joreskog, PhD, who will discuss Factor Analysis and its Extension.
Note that all session dates and times are subject to change. All dates, times and locations for
programs will be listed online at www.apa.org/convention in June and in the convention program,
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