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NZPsS Annual Conference 2012
The New Zealand Psychological Society & New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists Joint Conference will be held April 20 – 23, 2012 at Wellington Convention Centre. For more information visit: http://www.psychology.org.nz/cms_display.php?sn=71&st=1
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XXth ISRA World Meeting 2012
The XXth International Society for Research on Aggression will be held July 17 – 21, 2012 in Luxembourg. For more information visit: http://isra.uni.lu/index.php/ISRA-2012
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International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting
The next Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology will be held July 6 – 9, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For more information visit: http://ispp.org/meetings/
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XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies
The XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies will be held June 7 - 9, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information visit: www.isisweb.org/view/0/conference2012.html
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Fragmented Sleep, Fragmented Mind: A New Theory of Sleep Disruption and Dissociation
This summary has been removed. The original research article on which it is based, “Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Challenging Conventional Wisdom,” remains published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, available to journal subscribers and members of APS.
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The Dubious Science of Online Dating
The New York Times: How scientific are the “matching algorithms” of online-dating Web sites? For a fee, many dating sites will collect data about you, crunch the numbers and match you with someone who, as eHarmony puts it, has been “prescreened for deep compatibility with you across 29 dimensions.” Sites like Chemistry, PerfectMatch and GenePartner make similar scientific-sounding claims. But can a mathematical formula really identify pairs of singles who are especially likely to have a successful romantic relationship? We believe the answer is no. It’s hard to be certain, since the sites have not disclosed their algorithms.