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Threat Imminence, Controllability, and Agency
Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland University College (Chair)
Justin Moscarello, Texas A&M University
Catherine Hartley, New York University
Dean Mobbs, California Institute of Technology
Joseph Dunsmor, The University of Texas at Austin
Emotions and the Predictive Brain
Aprajita Mohanty, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York (Co-Chair & Speaker)
Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland University College (Co-Chair)
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University
Philip Corlett, Yale University
Moshe Bar, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Reproducibility in Clinical Science
Richard E. Lucas, Michigan State University (Chair)
Ann Kring, University of California, Berkeley
Bethany A. Teachman, University of Virginia
Aidan G.C. Wright, University of Pittsburgh
Eiko Fried, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exploring the Controversy Over Complicated Grief
Mary-Frances O’Connor, The University of Arizona (Chair & Speaker)
George A. Bonanno, Columbia University
Robert A. Neimeyer, The University of Memphis
Learning About Learning and Memory: Showcasing Research From Institutions That Emphasize Undergraduate Scholarship
Paula T. Hertel, Trinity University
Deborah Burke, Pomona College
Daniel Reisberg, Reed College
Jimmeka Guillory Wright, Spelman College
Kelly A. Bennion, California Polytechnic State University
Psychological Scientists as Academic Leaders
Melina Uncapher, University of California, San Francisco (Chair & Moderator)
James R. Pomerantz, Rice University
Laura A. Carlson, University of Notre Dame
Randall W. Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cross Cultural Psychology
William Hirst, The New School for Social Research (Chair)
Ying-yi Hong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Krishna Savani, Nanyang Business School, Singapore
Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University
Cognition in the Internet Age
Elizabeth J. Marsh, Duke University (Co-Chair)
Suparna Rajaram, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York (Co-Chair)
Daniel M. Russell, Google
Benjamin C. Storm, University of California, Santa Cruz
Anthony D. Wagner, Stanford University
Teamwork on the Way to Mars: Organizational Psychology Applied to Deep Space
Dorothy R. Carter, University of Georgia (Chair & Speaker)
Steve W.J. Kozlowski, Michigan State University
C. Shawn Burke, University of Central Florida
Suzanne T. Bell, DePaul University
Daniel Newton, Arizona State University
The Games People Play: Neural Mechanisms and Behavioral Decisions
Carsten K.W. de Dreu, Leiden University, The Netherlands (Chair)
Nir Halevy, Stanford University
Daniel P. Balliet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Molly J. Crockett, Yale University
Grit Hein, University of Würzburg, Germany
30 Years of Affective Science in the Bay Area: A Look at How Far We’ve Come, and Where We Should Go Next
Jessica L. Tracy, The University of British Columbia, Canada (Chair)
Robert W. Levenson, University of California, Berkeley
James J. Gross, Stanford University
Barbara L. Fredrickson, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ann M. Kring, University of California, Berkeley
Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley
Wendy Berry Mendes, University of California, San Francisco
Treating People as Means and Ends: New Perspectives on Person Perception, Social Connection, and Objectification
Lotte F. van Dillen, Leiden University,The Netherlands (Co-Chair)
Lasana T. Harris, University College London, United Kingdom (Co-Chair)
Edward Orehek, University of Pittsburgh
Jeroen Vaes, University of Trento, Italy
Thalia Wheatley, Dartmouth College
AMPPS Forum: Overcoming the Challenges of Making Data Available
Daniel J. Simons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Chair)
Samantha Joel, University of Utah
Rick O. Gilmore, Pennsylvania State University
Bobby-Lee Houtkoop, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Margaret C. Levenstein, University of Michigan
From Academia to the Tech Industry: Making the Leap
Carrie Ott-Holland, Google
Eric Russell, Facebook
Sarah Semmel, Twitter
Mengyang Cao, Facebook
Jennifer Shusky, Facebook
Technology and the Changing Nature of Work
Tara S. Behrend, The George Washington University (Co-Chair)
Richard N. Landers, Old Dominion University (Co-Chair)
Alexis Fink, Intel
Lionel Robert, University of Michigan
Bayesian Methods for the Pragmatic Psychologist
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Chair & Speaker)
Alexander Etz, University of California, Irvine
Johnny B. van Doorn, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Julia M. Haaf, University of Missouri
Emerging Perspectives on Successful Cognitive Aging
Kristine Beate Walhovd, The University of Oslo, Norway
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, University of California, San Francisco
Martin Sliwinski, Pennsylvania State University
Patricia Boyle, Rush University
Behavior Change Across the Life-Span
Lis Nielsen, NIH/National Institute on Aging (Co-Chair)
Jennifer Sumner, Columbia University (Co-Chair)
Alia Crum, Stanford University
Kirk I. Erickson, University of Pittsburgh
Angelina R. Sutin, Florida State University College of Medicine
Mary Dozier, University of Delaware
Biological Embedding of Early Adversity
Elissa S. Epel, University of California, San Francisco (Chair)
Nim Tottenham, Columbia University
Stacy Drury, Tulane University
Jenny Tung, Duke University
Eamon McCrory, University College London, United Kingdom
Andrea Danese, King’s College London, United Kingdom
What do Teachers and Students Learn About Cognitive Psychology?
Yana Weinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Chair)
Sophie Forster, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Tim Vander Zee, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Andrew Butler, Washington University in St. Louis