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| Posted by: | Guy Vitaglione |
| Title/Position: | Associate Professor of Social Psychology |
| School/Organization: | West Virginia University - Institute of Technology |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | November 2nd, 2006 |
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The next annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association will be March 22 - 25, 2007, in Philadelphia, PA.
The invited address in social psychology will be by Dr. Sheldon Solomon, entitled "The Great Satan versus The Axis of Evil,"
wherein Dr. Solomon will discuss the relationship between Terror Management Theory and prejudice.
For conference details including online submissions, go to:
http://www.easternpsychological.org/
Below are Highlights of 2007 EPA
President’s Address: The Extended Psychological Present
Philip Hineline, Temple University
President’s Integrative Symposium: Behavioral Economics in Three Flavors
The Construction of Preference: Query Theory and Other Lessons from Psychology
Elke Weber, Columbia University
Similarities and Differences between Self –Control and Social-Cooperation
Howard Rachlin, SUNY at Stony Brook
Repugnant Transactions
Alvin Roth, Harvard University
APA Speaker:
G. William Hill, Kennesaw State University
President’s Invited Speaker: Science, Choice, & Free Will
Allen Neuringer, Reed College
Symposia:
Clinical versus Actuarial Prediction (joint symposium hosted by our Clinical and Cognitive areas)
Clinical Prediction and Professional Sports
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and Tipping Point
Robyn Dawes, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Bishop, Florida State University
Joel Weinberg, Adelphi University
Current Directions in Causal Learning, Cognition, and Associationism (joint symposium hosted by our Cognitive and Animal Learning areas)
The Interface Between Associations and Cognitions in Causal Learning
David Shanks, University College London
Can We Distinguish Between Cognition and Association and Do We Need To?
Jan de Houwer, Ghent University, Belgium
Beyond the Information Given: Causal Models in Learning and Reasoning
Michael Waldmann, University of Göttingen
Twisting the Lion’s Tail: Ambiguous Evidence, Exploratory Play, and Causal Learning.
Laura Schulz: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparative Developmental Models of Learning (joint symposium hosted by our Developmental and Animal Learning areas)
Discussant: Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Rutgers
The more or less startling effects of fear: Translating memories across developmental periods.
Pam Hunt & Robert C. Barnett, College of William and Mary
Using Eyeblink Conditioning to Study the Neural Basis of Memory Development in Humans and Animal Models.
Mark Stanton, University of Delaware
The Secret Life of Infants: What do they know and when do they know it?
Kim Cuevas, Rutgers
Invited Addresses:
Historian
Wade Pickren, American Psychological Association
Animal Learning
Wrinkles in Judgments of the Passage of Time: Production, Discrimination, and Relative Time.
Tom Zentall, University of Kentucky
Clinical
Cognitive Therapy in the Treatment and Prevention of Depression
Steven Hollon, Vanderbilt University
Multiple Identity Paradigms and the Complexity of "Diversity": Challenges to Psychotherapy in the 21st Century
Beverly Greene, St. John’s University
Developmental
Breaking the Language Barrier: How Children Learn Their First Words
Kathy Hirsch-Pasek, Temple University, & Roberta Michnick Golinkof, University of Delaware
Neuropsychology
How Do We Know When Cognitive Test Performance is Abnormal? Methods of Reasoning in Psychodiagnostic Assessment
David J. Schretlen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Social
The Great Satan versus The Axis of Evil
Sheldon Solomon, Skidmore College
Teaching and Psi Chi
Distinguished Psi Chi speaker
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore
CTUP Distinguished Lecturer
Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania
In addition to the highlights above, we plan to have a representative from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) available to discuss funding opportunities.
Guy D. Vitaglione, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Room 2300 Orndorff Hall
West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Montgomery, WV 25136
304.442.3315
guy.vitaglione@mail.wvu.edu
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