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4th Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science Conference
Date : July 24-28, 2013 Location : Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada Learn about (a) important cutting-edge research in neuroscience and mental health, and (b) promising new evidence-based approaches, that can improve patient care, in clear terms you can understand and see the immediate relevance of. Topics include: Sex Differences in the Effects of Prenatal Stress on the Brain; Babies Brains DO Recover, but Habit Often Hides That; Trauma, Stress, & Healing; How Women’s Brains Differ From Men’s; The Neural Basis of Empathy. For information & registration: http://braindevelopmentandlearning.com
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Let’s Make a Deal: The Psychological Science Underlying Compromise and Negotiation
Tense negotiations in Congress over the “fiscal cliff” have focused public attention on the art of compromise -- or lack thereof. From deciding who washes the dishes to figuring out how to avoid the fiscal cliff, life experience shows us that achieving compromise is rarely easy. But why is give and take so difficult even when the consequences of failure are dire? We may like to believe that we are fair and levelheaded negotiators, but science tells us that successful give and take is often more difficult than we anticipate.
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New Research on Visual Perception and Attention From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research on visual perception and attention from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. When What You Hear Influences When You See: Listening to an Auditory Rhythm Influences the Temporal Allocation of Visual Attention Jared E. Miller, Laura A. Carlson, and J. Devin McAuley Can the things we hear affect the ways we allocate visual attention? In the first of three experiments, participants watched a screen while listening to an auditory rhythm. A white dot appeared in a corner of the screen in synch, slightly out of synch, or very out of synch with the final auditory tone.
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4th Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology
July 25-27, 2013 Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites Vancouver, Canada Website: www.kwantlen.ca/ictp.html Contact: Steve Charlton at [email protected] The conference will cover a wide range of issues related to the teaching of psychology. It is designed for teachers of psychology at universities, colleges and high schools who are interested in enhancing their teaching skills, exchanging perspectives and exploring new ideas. The conference will include topics such as classroom demonstrations, new teaching methods, recent advances in specialized areas of psychology, and issues of assessment.
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Monkey See, Monkey Do: Visual Feedback Is Necessary for Imitating Facial Expressions
Research using new technology shows that our ability to imitate facial expressions depends on learning that occurs through visual feedback. Studies of the chameleon effect confirm what salespeople, tricksters, and Lotharios have long known: Imitating another person’s postures and expressions is an important social lubricant. But how do we learn to imitate with any accuracy when we can’t see our own facial expressions and we can’t feel the facial expressions of others?
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“Building Bridges” APS Convention Travel Award
APS is pleased to announce the NIDCR "Building Bridges" APS Convention Travel Award given by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (part of the National Institutes of Health). This award is intended to connect two research communities that have not traditionally interacted: researchers in psychological science and researchers in oral health. NIDCR invites APS poster submitters to apply for this travel award to attend the 25th APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC, May 23-26, 2013.