A Scientist's Guide to the APA Convention
San Francisco, CA
August 17 - 20, 2007
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.
Please note that program information is subject to change.
Map of the Moscone Center.
Friday, August 17, 2007
8:00 am - 8:50 am
Symposium: Improving Test Use
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 236
Division 5
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Paper Session: Innovation and Teamwork
Participants: Ute R. Huelsheger and Thomas Ellwart
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 222
Division 14
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Invited Address
Participants: Nicole M. Avena and William E. Fantegrossi
Friends Research Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award and Wyth Young Pharmacologist Award
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 212
Division 28
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Symposium: New Research on the Effects of Viewing Objectified and Sexualized Body Images in the Media
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2004
Division 35
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Paper Session: Couples and Spousal Relationships
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 232 and 234
Division 43
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8:00 am - 9:50 am
Symposium: Reaching Across the Academic and Socioemotional Divide—Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2002
Division 16
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Symposium: Dyadic Processes in Dealing With Chronic Illness Across the Life Span
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2020
Division 38
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Symposium: Conducting Culturally Competent Qualitative Research—Sharing Strategies and Lessons Learned
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 302
Division 45
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Symposium: Practical Challenges Integrating Evidence-Based Practices Into Addiction Treatment Programs
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2005
Division 50
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Symposium: What’s Hot in Evidence-Based Treatment of Externalizing Problems?
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 202/204/206
Division 53
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9:00 am - 9:50 am
Symposium: Causality and Structural Equation Modeling—Where Statistics and Philosophy Intersect
Moscone Center, West Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 274
Division 5
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Invited Address: New Fellow
Participant: Eric P. Wiertelak
Natural Medicines and Rodent Models of Nociception
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3000
Division 6
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Invited Address
Participant: Gregory M. Herek
Confronting Sexual Prejudice: Theory and Practice
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2010
Division 8
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Symposium: Creativity and the Movies
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 236
Division 10
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Invited Address: MED Associates Brady- Schuster Award
Participant: Robert L. Balster
Drugs made me do it: The Development and Application of Drug Discrimination Research
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 224
Division 28
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Paper Session: Forensic Mental Health
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 212
Division 41
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Discussion: Making the Most of Your Graduate Research Lab/Team Experience
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2007
Sponsor/Division: APAGS
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9:00 am - 10:50 am
Symposium: Workplace Flexibility—Strategies for the 21st Century
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 232 and 234
Division 14
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Symposium: Progress Toward Effective Computerized Instruction of Early Reading Skills
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 226
Division 25
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10:00 am - 10:50 am
Symposium: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in Psychology—Current Status, Future Directions
Moscone Center, West Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 276
Division 2
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Symposium: Meta-Analysis—Current and Future Directions
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 212
Division 5
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Invited Address
Participant: Roy F. Baumeister
Is There Anything Good About Men?
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2003
Division 8
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Invited Address
Participant: Grover Russ Whitehurst
Institute of Education Sciences at Five Years of Age
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2002
Division 15
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Symposium: Spirituality and Religious Sentiments Relations With Affective and Characterological Distress
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2020
Division 36
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Symposium: Adapting Evidence-Based Treatments With Diverse Populations—Models and Methods
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 202/204/206
Division 45
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Symposium: Recent Advances in Gender Role Strain Paradigm Research
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3000
Division 51
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10:00 am - 11:50 am
Symposium: Origins of Causal Reasoning
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2007
Division 6
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Paper Session: Young Researchers in Developmental Psychology—Selected Student Papers
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2005
Division 7
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Discussion: Ethics and Interrogations—Confronting the Challenge: What Does the Research on Interrogations Tell Us?
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3016
Division 9
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Symposium: Accommodations and Large Scale Assessment—How to Make Better
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 309
Division 16
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Symposium: Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Youth—Conceptual and Practice Issues
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3011
Division 16
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Symposium: Aging and Emotional Attention—Why Is There a Valenced Shift?
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2024
Division 20
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Symposium: Applying Psychological Research to Traffic Safety Problems
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2006
Division 21
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Symposium: Participatory Research Cultural Framework for Prevention Science With Alaska Natives
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2010
Division 27
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Symposium: Modulation of Stimulants by Estradiol and Progesterone—Rodents to Humans
Moscone Center, West Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 272
Division 28
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Symposium: Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression—An Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3007
Division 29
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Symposium: Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease—Current Findings and Perspectives
Moscone Center, West Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 274
Division 33
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Symposium: Considering the Couple in Cancer Survivorship Research
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 304
Division 38
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Symposium: Insomnia in Medical, Psychiatric, and Other Populations
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 303
Division 38
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Symposium: Contemporary Perspectives on Mechanisms of Behavior Change in Alcohol Treatment
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3002
Division 50
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Symposium: Child Trauma and Resilience—Emerging Models at the Intersection of Practice and Theory
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2014
Division 53
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Symposium: Current Research on Adolescent Cancer—Psychosocial Functioning, Resilience, and Adaptation
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3005
Division 54
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11:00 am - 11:50 am
Symposium: Methodological Approaches in Service Utilization Research With Ethnic Minorities
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2000
Division 45
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Symposium: Masculinity, Identity, and Ethnicity—Contributing Factors to Men’s Health Outcomes
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2004
Division 51
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Symposium: International Media Images of Women
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2009
Division 52
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Symposium: Revictimization: Revisited, Redefined, and Reconceptualized
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3009
Division 56
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Symposium: Traumatic Stress, Cardiovascular Disease, Metabolic Syndrome, and Neurodegenerative Disease
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2020
Division 56
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11:00 am - 12:50 pm
Conversation Hour: Developing a Strategy for Workplace Bullying and Psychological Aggression Research
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2018
Division 14
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Symposium: Behavioral Pharmacology of Stimulants—Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Factors
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 220
Division 25
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12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Invited Address
Participant: Jonathon D. Crystal
Animal Models of Cognition: Episodic-like Memory and Metacognition in Rats
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2007
Division 3
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Invited Address
Participant: Nancy Adler
Health Disparities: A Psychological Perspective
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2008
Division 38
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12:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Poster Session: Psychological Assessment of Children and Adolescents—Understanding Behavior and Adjustment
Moscone Center, Exhibit Lvl - South Bldg, Halls ABC
Division 5
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Symposium: Prevention of Child and Adolescent Disorders
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 303
Division 12
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Symposium: Empowerment Intervention for Abused, Suicidal, Low-Income African American Women
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl- South Bldg, Rm 310
Division 12
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Symposium: Neuroimaging Research: Implications for the Neuro-Feedback Treatment of Substance Abuse
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3001
Division 28
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Symposium: Can We Identify MVPs (Most Valued Psychotherapists)–Therapists Effects in Psychotherapy
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2006
Division 29
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Symposium: Tarasoff Revisited—History, Variations in Case Law, Application to HIV Cases, Cultural Issues, and Clinical Implications
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3014
Division 31
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Symposium: Analyses of an Interview Using Five Qualitative Research Approaches
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3011
Division 32
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Symposium: African American Adolescents, Substance Use, and Social and Emotional Development
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 228 and 230
Division 37
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Symposium: Harm Reduction Therapy for Substance Users—An Emerging Evidence-Based Approach
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2002
Division 50
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Symposium: International - Intercounty Adoption—What Are the Issues?
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 200
Division 52
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1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Invited Address
Participant: Steven E. Clark
Theory Development on the Road from Mistaken Identification to Wrongful Conviction
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2005
Division 3
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Invited Address:New Fellow
Participant: Sangeeta Panicker
No Apologies
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 238
Division 6
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Invited Address
Participants: Charles A. Nelson
Effects of Early Psychosocial Adversity on Brain and Behavioral Development: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 304
Division 7
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Invited Address: Henry Murray Award
Participant: Bertram J. Cohler
Writing Lives, Writing Times: Life-Story and Social Context
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2009
Division 8
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Invited Address
Participants: Mark Landau and Jeff Greenberg
Death, Meaning, and the Creation and Appreciation of Art
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3012
Division 10
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Poster Session: Current Research in Basic and Applied Behavior Analysis
Moscone Center, Exhibit Lvl - South Bldg, Halls ABC
Division 25
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Symposium: Manifestations of Trauma and Trauma Interventions for Justice Involved Men
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 220
Division 41
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1:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Workshop: Industrial/Organizational Psychology for High School Teachers
Participants: Elise L. Amel, Douglas C. Maynard, and Carrie A. Bulger
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3010
Division 14
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Symposium: Health Literacy Barriers to Elders Self-Care: How Can Technology Help?
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 302
Division 20
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Symposium: Coping With the Deluge—Implementation of a School-Based Mental Health Program: Post-Katrina
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3003
Division 53
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Symposium: Prostitution, Trafficking, Sexual Compulsivity, and Trauma
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2001
Division 56
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2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Conversation Hour: A Conversation With Aaron T. Beck and Frank Farley
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl- South Bldg, Rm 306 and 308
Division 1
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Invited Address
Participant: Elizabeth J. Marsh
Illusions of Knowledge
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3000
Division 3
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Invited Address: G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology and Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology
Participant: L. Alan Sroufe
Place of Development in Developmental Psychopathology
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 301
Division 7
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Symposium: Ethnic Matching in Psychotherapy—Research Foundations and Future Directions
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2011
Division 45
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2:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Symposium: Current Developments in Comparative Psychology—The Health of the Discipline
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3008
Division 6
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Symposium: Psychological Reactions to Terror
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3011
Division 8
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Symposium: Challenges for Cognitively Based Assessments for Learning
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3004
Division 15
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Symposium: B.F. Skinner, Fred S. Keller, & Don Hake Awards
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3007
Division 25
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Symposium: The Arts and Artistic Expression as Empowering Practice
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2009
Division 27
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Symposium: Psilocybin and Experimental Mysticism
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3006
Division 28
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Symposium: Family Psychology Around the World
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2008
Division 43
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Symposium: Presidential Program–Sexual Orientation and Military Service: Current Evidence and APA Policy
Moscone Center, Esplanade Lvl - South Bldg, Rm 307
Division 44
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Symposium: Adolescent Substance Use Decision Making—Innovative Approaches
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2005
Division 50
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3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Invited Address
Participant: Bradley Efron
Doing Thousands of Hypothesis Tests at the Same Time
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3000
Division 5
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Paper Session: Research on the Psychology of Creativity
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 222
Division 10
Invited Address
Participant: Ravenna Helson
Aging Well in Adverse Situations
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3003
Division 20
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Invited Address: Franklin Taylor Award
Participant: Paul Slovic
Decision Making in a Dangerous World: Lessons Learned From Studying Gambles
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2001
Division 21
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Paper Session: Consumer Promotions and Reward Programs
Moscone Center, East Mezzanine - South Bldg, Rm 224
Division 23
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Symposium: Traumatic Effects of Battered Woman Syndrome
Moscone Center, 2nd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 2004
Division 56
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3:00 pm - 4:50 pm
Symposium: Memory Dynamics and the Optimization of Instruction
Moscone Center, 3rd Fl - West Bldg, Rm 3018
Division 3
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5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion: OPENING SESSION
Participant: Daniel Kahneman
APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology
Moscone Center, Exhibit Lvl - South Bldg, Gateway Ballroom
Sponsor/Division: APA
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