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Distinguished
Scientist Lecturers Selected for 2005 Regional Meetings Psychologists J. Richard Hackman, Bartley G. Hoebel, and Laurence Steinberg have been selected to participate in the 2005 APA Distinguished Scientist Lecture Program. Through the program, sponsored by APA’s Science Directorate, each psychologist will give a featured address at a regional psychological association annual meeting.
Bartley Hoebel will speak on “Sugar Addiction: Behavior and Neuroscience” at the Western Psychological Association meeting in Portland, OR, April 14-17. Hoebel is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. The central purpose of his laboratory research is to reveal principles of nervous system function in the control of motivated behavior patterns such as feeding and drinking. Projects focus on the brain’s reward and aversion mechanisms, which translate physiological signals into behavior. Hoebel has received awards from APA’s Division on Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse and from the American Institutes of Research Creative Talents Awards Program.
The Board of Scientific Affairs, with the support of the regional association presidents, developed the Distinguished Scientist Lecture Program 15 years ago as part of its ongoing mission to promote scientific psychology. The Distinguished Scientist Lecturers, together with APA’s G. Stanley Hall Lecturers, sponsored by APA’s Education Directorate, allow APA to support invited talks at each regional meeting. For more information on psychology’s regional meetings, visit http://www.apa.org/organizations/regionals.html. |
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