Master lectures

Lyn Abramson (University of Wisconsin) and Lauren Alloy (Temple University) (joint presentation) - Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression

Peter Bentler (UCLA) - Structural Equation Modeling: Accomplishments, Challenges, and EQS 6

John Kruschke (Indiana University) - Attention in Learning: Rash, Rational, Real

Anne Peplau (UCLA) - Scientific Research on Gender and Sexuality

Stephen Porges (University of Illinois-Chicago) - The Polyvagal Theory: A New Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Addresses

John Cacioppo (University of Chicago) - The Anatomy of Loneliness (also a plenary speaker)

David Meyer (University of Michigan) - New Prospects for Computational Unified Theories of Cognition and Action

William Newsome (Stanford University) - Seeing Motion: From Neural Circuits to Perceptual Decisions

Robert Rosenthal (University of California, Riverside) - Covert Communication in Classrooms, Clinics, Courtrooms, and Cubicles

Plenary Speakers/Presidential Track Speakers

John Cacioppo (University of Chicago) - The Anatomy of Loneliness (also a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award address)

Paula Tallal (Rutgers) - Language Learning Disabilities: Integrating Research, Remediation, and Technology

Teresa Amabile (Harvard) - Stalking Creativity From the Laboratory to the Workplace

Martha McClintock (University of Chicago) - Scents and Sensibility: pheromones, social dynamics and the control of fertility and disease (also a G. Stanley Hall lecturer)

Debate on Empirically Supported Treatment, with David Barlow (Boston University), Diane Chambliss, Larry Beutler (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Bruce Wampold (University of Wisconsin).

Mentoring, an interview of Eliot Aronson (University of California, Santa Cruz) by John Darley (Princeton)

Elizabeth Gould (Princeton) - Neurogenesis in the Adult Mammalian Brain (also the Neal Miller Lecturer)

Jamie Pennebaker (University of Texas) - Expressively Easing Trauma

Steve Pinker (MIT) - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Robert Putnam (Harvard) - Civic Engagement and Social Capital, America After 9/11

Ken Dodge (Duke) - Using Developmental Science To Prevent Chronic Violence in Children and Adolescents: The Fast Track Study

Claude Steele (Stanford) - Social Identity Threat in a Diverse Society

Christina Maslach (UC-Berkeley) - Job Burnout: New Directions in Research and Intervention

Tom Pettigrew (UC-Santa Cruz) - Intergroup Contact Theory: A Meta-analytically Informed Reformulation

Tiffany Field (University of Miami) - Power of Touch

Cluster Groups

In addition to these APA-wide programs, the cross-division cluster group programming will feature more in-depth, thematic presentations on such topics as Consciousness and Unconsciousness; Stability, Change and Early Experience; and Psychotechnology. Among the speakers are John Bargh, Walter Mischel, Roy Baumeister, Wendi Gardner, Robert Siegler, Dare Baldwin, Sally Boysen, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Carol Dweck, Martha Farah, Gilbert Gottlieb, and Jim Flynn, David Woods, Doug Griffith, Allen Parchem, Alan Nicewander, and Bill Macey.

Division speakers (just a few of the MANY programs sponsored by the APA divisions)

Symposium: Contributions of Ernest Hilgard, with Gordon Bower (Stanford), Phil Zimbardo (Stanford), Helen Crawford (Virginia Tech), and David Leary (University of Richmond).

Michael Gazzaniga (Dartmouth University) - Automatic Brains - Interpretive Minds

Jenny Saffran (University of Wisconsin) - Infant Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition

Peter Salovey (Yale University) - Framing Messages to Motivate Health Protective Behavior

Susan Goldin-Meadow (Carnegie-Mellon University) - Hearing Gestures: How Our Hands Help Us Think

Mark Appelbaum (University of California, San Diego) - Imagine That: Quantitative Psychology in the Age of Neuro-imaging

Symposium: Comparative Psychology Across the Globe - The United States, Japan, and Scotland, with Gary Greenberg (Wichita State University), Duane M. Rumbaugh (Georgia State University), Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto University), L. Bryan Jones (Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland)

Paul Bloom (Yale University) - How Children Learn the Meanings of Words

Janellen Huttenlocher (University of Chicago) - Measurement and Estimation in Young Children

Symposium: Resilience and Stressful Life Events, with George Bonanno (Columbia University), Camille B. Wortman (SUNY-Stony Brook), Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (University of Michigan), Andreas M. D. Maercker (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Lisa Aspinwall (University of Utah), and Stephen Lepore (City University of New York)

Seymour Epstein (University of Massachusetts) - Revelations About Hitler's Antisemitism From an Associative Analysis of Mein Kampf

Richard Nisbett (University of Michigan) - Culture and Point of View

Ariel Merari (Tel Aviv University) - Explaining Suicidal Terrorism: Theories Versus Empirical Evidence

Symposium: Emerging Directions in Work and Family Research, with Wendy Casper, Evelina Ascalon, Angie L. Lockwood, Jennifer E. Swanberg, Debra Major, Terri McKinstrey, Jullian Barling

Gisela Labouvie-Vief (Wayne State University) - Dynamic Integration: Affect, Cognition, and the Self in Adulthood

Symposium: Stress and Error in the Workplace, with Eduardo Salas (University of Central Florida), Shatha Samman (University of Central Florida), Sean Reilley (University of Cincinnati), Yoel Donchin (Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel)

M. Christopher Newland (Auburn University) - Silent Damage: Behavioral Challenges and Aging Unmask Early Toxicant Exposure

Roland Griffiths (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) - Experimental Analysis of Drug Dependence: From Caffeine to Cocaine

Symposium: Diabetes and Behavior for the 21st Century, with Richard Surwitt (Duke University Medical Center) and Suzanne Bennett Johnson (University of Florida Health Science Center)