Association for Psychological Science 22nd Annual Convention: Boston, MA

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." (William James)
Complete your APS Convention registration before March 31 and enjoy the early price discounts.

Keynote Address

Visual Search Gets Real:
From the Lab to the Airport to the Radiology Suite

Jeremy M. Wolfe
Harvard Medical School and
Brigham and Women's Hospital


Presidential Symposium

Spicing Up Psychological Science

Linda Bartoshuk (chair) University of Florida
Marianne Gillette McCormick & Company, Inc.
Harold McGee The French Culinary Institute/curiouscook.com
Paul Rozin University of Pennsylvania


Bring the Family Address

The Sweet Taste of Childhood:
From Basic Biology to Culture

Julie Mennella
Monell Chemical
Senses Center

 

APS David Myers Distinguished Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychology
Ludy T. Benjamin

Just How Intelligent was William James? Baseball Wasn't Even Included in His Varieties of Religious Experience

Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
Texas A&M University


Special Event
Ludy T. Benjamin

Inside the Psychologist's Studio

Linda Bartoshuk
University of Florida

Interview by Carol Tavris

APS Award Addresses

 Leslie G. Ungerleider

Functional Architecture of Face Processing in the Primate Brain

Leslie G. Ungerleider, National Institute of Mental Health



 Gary P. Latham

Improving the Lives of Employees Through Goal Setting

Gary P. Latham, University of Toronto, Canada



 Alan E. Kazdin

Rebooting Psychotherapy Research and Practice: Using Science and Technology to Improve Clinical Care and Reduce the Burden of Mental Illness

Alan E. Kazdin
Yale University



Psi Chi Distinguished Speaker

Steven Pinker

Language as a Window into Human Nature

Steven Pinker
Harvard University


2010 Program Committee
Tyler S. Lorig, Washington and Lee University (Chair); Nalini Ambady, Tufts University; Abigail Baird, Vassar College; Sian Beilock, University of Chicago; Daniel Klein, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Richard Lewis, Pomona College; Kris Preacher, University of Kansas; Deidra Schleicher, Purdue University; Timothy Strauman, Duke University; Tracy Zinn, James Madison University