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Meet the Legends
Get your piece of history. These champions of psychological science are signing their books at the APS Annual Convention this May. Michael S. Gazzaniga Gazzaniga will sign copies of Who's in Charge? and other books immediately following his Keynote Address on Thursday, May 23. (Listen to his interview on The Diane Rehm Show) Scott Lilienfeld Lilienfeld will sign copies of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology and Brainwashed immediately following his APS Award Address on Friday, May 24. Roy Baumeister Baumeister will sign copies of Willpower and other books immediately following his APS Award Address on Friday, May 24.
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Metaphors for Musical Pitch Vary, but the Basic Principles Are the Same
Most Americans think of musical pitches as being “high” or “low.” But this height metaphor isn’t universal -- some cultures use “thin” and “thick” or “light” and “heavy” to describe musical pitches. New research published in Psychological Science suggests that the metaphors we use aren’t just linguistic flourishes -- visual cues have different effects on our perception of musical pitch depending on the metaphors we use.
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John Darley
Princeton University William James Fellow Award APS Past President John Darley’s contributions to psychological science cover a vast range — from social comparison and attribution processes, expectancy confirmation, deviance and conformity, and stereotyping and prejudice to energy conservation, health psychology, morality and the law, the function of punishment, and the way organizations inadvertently promote evil. Darley is best known for his innovative theory and research, in collaboration with Bibb Latané, on bystander intervention in emergencies.
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Patricia K. Kuhl
University of Washington William James Fellow Award Patricia K. Kuhl is internationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development, and studies that show how young children learn. She is co-director, with her husband Andrew N. Meltzoff, of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. Kuhl’s lab is using event-related potentials, functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and magnetoencephalography to investigate how infant and adult brains process speech. She has also conducted research on language development in autism, and is particularly interested in the role that the social brain plays in language learning.
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Nancy Adler
University of California, San Francisco James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Nancy Adler has been a pioneer in health psychology, having co-edited the first textbook on that topic and run one of the first graduate programs in health psychology at the University of California, San Francisco. he has also led, for more than 20 years, a postdoctoral program in health psychology funded by the National Institutes of Health. Adler has investigated why individuals engage in health-damaging behaviors and how their understanding of risk affects their choices.
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Irving I. Gottesman
University of Minnesota James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Irving I. Gottesman is known internationally for his work in the field of behavioral and psychiatric genetics. His research has focused on the many ways that genetic factors interact with and augment environmental influences that lead to endophenotypes for psychopathology. In 1966, at the University of Minnesota, Gottesman created the United States’ first academic program on human behavioral genetics. His pioneering focus drew burgeoning attention to — and funding for — cross-disciplinary approaches to psychological science.