A Scientist’s Guide to the APA Convention
New Orleans, LA
August 10 - 13, 2006
This is a selected list of science-related sessions and activities at the APA Convention. For more information about programming listed here, refer to your Convention program or check the Convention website at www.apa.org/convention.
The Science Directorate is grateful to Divisions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 38, 40, 44, 45, 47, 50, 52, 53, APF, and APAGS for identifying listings for this program.
Please note that program information is subject to change.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Thurs: 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
#1001 Symposium: First Day of Class--Empirical Data Rather than Gut Feeling
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 254
Division 2
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#1002 Invited Address
Participant: Maryellen MacDonald
Talk the Talk: What Language Production Research Says About Comprehension
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 253
Division 3
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#1010 Invited Address: Outstanding Dissertation Award and Wyeth Young Psychopharmacologist Award
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 339
Division 28
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#1016 Paper Session: Applicability of Western Intervention Models Cross Culturally
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 333
Division 52
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#1017 Conversation Hour: How to Negotiate Authorship With Your Supervisor
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Rooms 267 and 268
Division/Sponsor: APAGS, Psi Chi, Science Student Council
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Thurs: 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
#1024 Symposium: Toward Evidence-Based Practice--An Effectiveness Research Approach
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 241
Division 29
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Thurs: 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
#1051 Invited Address
Participant: George A. Bonanno
Resilience in the Face of Loss and Potential Trauma
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 278
Division 8
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#1054 Discussion: Currents Trends in Adoption--Theory, Research, and Practice
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, Grand Salon A
Division 17
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#1056 Symposium: Counseling Psychology Meets Computing Disciplines--An NSF-Funded Study
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 348
Division 17
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#1058 Invited Address
Participants: George H. Noell, Brad A. Dufrene, Natalie J. Slider
Treatment Plan Implementation Research in Schools: Variations in Outcomes Across Plans, Agents, Targets, and Follow-Up Provided
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 341
Division 25
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#1060 Invited Address: Brady-Schuster Award (MED Associates)
Participant: James H. Woods
Behavioral Pharmacology: It’s Present and Future Prospects
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 339
Division 28
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Thurs: 9:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
#1074 Invited Symposium: Symbol-Minded Primates--Cognitive Competencies and Future Directions
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Rooms 235 and 236
Division 6
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Thurs: 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
#1090 Invited Address
Participant: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Thinking Too Much About Trauma: The Detrimental Effects of Rumination
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 278
Division 8
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#1097 Symposium: Current Research in Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Severe Problem Behavior in Children with Developmental Disabilities
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 25
Division 25
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#1102 Invited Address
Participants: Sharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T. Ramey
Principles of Effective Early Intervention: The Role of Timing, Intensity, and Content
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 334
Division 33
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#1113 Invited Address: Early Career Award
Participant: Sara Jaffee
Nature x Nurture: Gene-Environment Interplay and Children’s Conduct Problems
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Rooms 238 and 239
Division 53
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Thurs: 10:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
#1116 Roundtable Discussion: Executive Leadership at the Top--Leading-Edge Issues
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 276
Division 14
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#1119 Symposium: Are People Driving Beyond Their Perceptual and Cognitive Limits?
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 349
Division 21
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#1120 Symposium: Behavioral Interventions for Methamphetamine Addiction--Emerging Findings with MSM
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 350
Division 28
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Thurs: 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
#1135 Invited Address
Participant: Sarah T. Boysen
Extreme Makeover in Chimpanzees: Enculturation Impacts Cognition
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 240
Division 3
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#1142 Symposium: Center for Deployment Psychology--Training Psychologists to Treat Combat Injured
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 340
Division 19
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#1158 Invited Address
Participant: Marilyn S. Albert
Predicting Who Will Develop Alzheimer’s Disease
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 245
Division 40
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Thurs: 11:00 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
#1157 Symposium: Relationship Between Stigma and Well-Being--New Factors in Coping and Change
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 336
Division 8
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#1162 Invited Symposium: Applications of Choice Principles
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 257
Division 25
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#1169 Symposium: Translating Pediatric Anxiety Treatments From the Clinic to Real-World Settings
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 244
Division 53
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Thurs: 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
#1173 Invited Address
Participant: Jonathan D. Crystal
Cognitive Time Travel in Rats
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 240
Division 3
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#1190 Workshop: Confronting, Enduring, Surviving, and Completing Your Dissertation
Morial Convention Center Room 345
Division/Sponsor: APAGS
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Thurs: 12:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
#1191 Symposium: Transforming APA--A Time for Revolution
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 354
Division 1
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#1195 Workshop: Games to Explain Human Factors--Come, Participate, Have Fun!
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 337
Division 21
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#1197 Symposium: Innovative Strategies to Identify and Treat Drug Use During Pregnancy
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 340
Division 28
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#1200 Symposium: Resources for Training in Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Practice
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 265
Division 38
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#1207 Symposium: Motivational Counseling for Addictive Behaviors--Concepts, Approaches, and Idiothetic Assessment
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 272
Division 50
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Thurs: 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
#1210 Presidential Address
Participant: Thomas R. Zentall
Imitation in Animals: How Do They Do It?
Morial Convention Center Meeting Room 285
Division 3
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#1213 Symposium: New Directions in Bullying Research
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 333
Division 17
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#1218 Invited Address
Participant: Stephen R. Schroeder
Training- Induced Recovery from Self-Injurious Behavior
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 279
Division 33
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#1222 Invited Address
Participant: George W. Hynd
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 345
Division 40
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#1225 Symposium: Advances in Empirical Research on Same-Sex Romantic Relationships
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 282
Division 44
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Thurs: 1:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
#1234 Symposium: Beyond Grandiosity: New Perspectives on Narcissistic Personality and Narcissistic Pathology
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 271
Division 8
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#1240 Invited Symposium: Use of Residential Labs to Study Complex Environment-Behavior Relations
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 274
Division 25
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#1243 Symposium: Implementation and Outcomes in Child—Adolescent Community Mental Health Research
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 244
Division 53
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Thurs: 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
#1252 Invited Address
Participant: Sally S. Dickerson
Threats to the Social Self: Effects on Emotion, Physiology, and Health
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 241
Division 8
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#1253 Discussion: Critical Discussion of APA’s Evidence-Based Practices in Psychology Report
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 273
Division 12
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#1256 Presidential Address
Participant: Ronald G. Shapiro
Reflections on a Life in the Real World
Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, Fountain Room
Division 21
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#1267 Paper Session: Cross Cultural Studies of College Students
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 283
Division 52
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Thurs: 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
#1269 Invited Symposium: Cognition From a Comparative Perspective
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 350
Division 6
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#1272 Discussion: Recent Advances in Negative Symptom Research--Translation Into Psychosocial Interventions
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 260
Division 12
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#1274 Invited Symposium: Keepers of the Sky--Selection Validity in Air-Traffic Services
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 354
Division 14
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#1286 Symposium: Ethnically Corrected Norms--Folly or Culturally Sensitive Science and Practice?
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 252
Division 40
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#1291 Symposium: COMBINE Study of Behavioral and Pharmacological Treatments for Alcoholism
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 345
Division 50
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Thurs: 3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
#1295 Invited Address: 2005 William James Book Award for General Psychology
Participant: Barbara Rogoff
Cultural Traditions in Support of Learning
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 256
Division 1
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#1298 Presidential Address
Participant: Brenda Major
How Worldviews Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Prejudice
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 275
Division 8
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#1315 Invited Address
Participant: Robert Kerns
Clinical Trials in Chronic Pain Research
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 244
Division 38
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#1323 Symposium: International Perspectives on Family and Governmental Violence
Morial Convention Center, Meeting Room 338
Division 52
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Thurs: 4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
#1346 Poster Session I: Showcasing Students' Research, Practice and Professional Interests
Morial Convention Center, Exhibit Halls E & F
Division/Sponsor: APAGS
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