The Annual Convention Program Committee plans sessions within specific subject areas and collaborates on cross-cutting theme sessions and special events. APS 2024 features five hours of invited programming within each of the subject areas, in addition to submitted symposia, flash talks, and posters.
The following reflects programming content and speakers as of March 27, 2024.
Biological/Neuroscience
Broken Brains and Breaking Barriers: Lessons from the Hippocampal Formation and Life
Julio Ramirez, Davidson College
Brain and Behavioral Mechanisms of Psychedelic Interventions During Mental Health Care
Andrea Gomez, University of California, Berkeley
Nathan B. Sackett, University of Washington
Memory Challenges in Old Age: Brain Mechanisms and Future Innovations
Anne Gillespie, University of Washington
Arne Ekstrom, University of Arizona
Clinical Science
Scalable Intervention Models and Addressing Health Disparities in the United States
Patricia Areán, National Institute of Health
The Nosology of Tomorrow and the Future of Mental Health Research
Nicholas Eaton, Stony Brook University (Chair)
Laura Bringmann, University of Groningen
Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, University of Michigan
Ashley Watts, Vanderbilt University
Sex and Society
Lanice Avery, University of Virginia
Joshua Grubbs, University of New Mexico
Cognitive Neuroscience of Psychosis and Psychotic-Spectrum Disorders
Alexandra Moussa-Tooks, Indiana University
Cognitive
Timescales of Mental and Neural Context
Christopher Honey, Johns Hopkins University
Architecture of Temporal Information Processing in the Human Brain
Christopher Honey, Johns Hopkins University (Chair)
Ariel Goldstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shailee Jain, University of California, San Francisco
Jamal Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony in Real-World Settings
Ido Davidesco, University of Connecticut
How Games Can Make Behavioral Science Better
Samuel Mehr, The University of Auckland
Insights From Use of Games in Psychological Experiments
Josh Hartshorne, Boston University (Chair)
Natalia Velez, Princeton University
Joshua Peterson, Boston University
Developmental
Cognitive Development and Motivation-Cognition Interactions During Childhood and Adolescent Development
Leah Somerville, Harvard University
Early Career Researchers
Leah Somerville, Harvard University (Chair)
M. Catalina Camacho, Washington University in St. Louis
Alexandra Cohen, Emory University
Juliet Y. Davidow, Northeastern University
Anita Randolph, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Parenting and Attachment
Pasco Fearon, Cambridge University
Neighborhood Context and Child Health in Early Childhood: Examining the Moderating Role of Supportive Parenting
Kristin Bernard, Stony Brook University
Shaping Parental Perceptions: The Role of Prenatal Experiences in Developing Represtations of the Child
Kathryn L. Humphreys, Vanderbilt University
Early Environments and Child Development
Pasco Fearon, Cambridge University (Chair)
Hannah A. Pierskiak, Vanderbilt University
Nicole Racine, University of Ottawa
Daneele Thorpe, Stony Brook University
General
Future Frontiers: Idiographic Science and Personalization
Emorie Beck, University of California, Davis
Julian Burger, Yale University
Katie Gates, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aidan G.C. Wright, University of Michigan
Honoring Robert Levenson
Stephen Hinshaw, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)
James Gross, Stanford University
Claudia Haase, Northwestern University
Howie Rosen, University of California, San Francisco
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
The Role of Editorial Leadership in Methodological Reform: A Conversation with Journal Editors Past and Present
Daniel Moriarity, University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia Bauer, Emory University
David Sbarra, University of Arizona
Jennifer Tackett, Northwestern University
Simine Vazire, University of Melbourne
Aidan G.C. Wright, University of Michigan
Bias in Artificial Intelligence Research in Mental Health
Adela C. Timmons, The University of Texas at Austin
Industrial/Organizational
Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence and Technology for Improving Psychological Science and the Future of Work
Louis Hickman, Virginia Tech (Chair)
Tara Behrend, Michigan State University
Nathaniel Fast, University of Southern California
Richard Landers, University of Minnesota
MQ Liu, Amazon
Connecting Work and Life: Broadening Our Focus to Family, Leisure, Recovery, and Sleep
Claire Smith, University of Southern Florida (Chair)
Lacie Barber, San Diego State University
Charles Calderwood, Virginia Tech
Kim French, Colorado State University
Christopher Wiese, Georgia Institute of Technology
Your Attention Please! Practical Advice for Combatting Careless Responding in Survey Measures and Ability Tests
Nathan Bowling, University of Central Florida
Methodology
Sample Size Planning: New Tools and Innovations
Chris Aberson, California State Polytechnic University Humboldt (Chair)
David Baranger, Washington University in St. Louis
Erin M. Buchanan, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Aaron Caldwell, United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Alternatives to Factor Models
Hudson Golino, The University of Virginia
Danielle Siegel, University of California, Davis
Intensive Longitudinal Data
Katherine Gates, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New and Upcoming in Version 5 of the PROCESS Macro for SPSS, SAS, and R
Andrew F. Hayes, University of Calgary
Methods for Meta-Science and Beyond
Julia Bottesini, Independent Researcher
Noah Haber, Center for Open Science
Tom E. Hardwicke, University of Melbourne
Personality/Emotion
Cultural Variation in the Smiles We Trust: The Role of Ideal Affect
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
Leveraging Cultural Assets to Support Community-based Partnerships and School-based Interventions for Black Students
Isaac Woods, North Carolina State University
What’s the Story? Advancements in Narrative Methods for a Deep and Intentional Psychological Science
Jordan Booker, University of Missouri (Chair)
AnnaMaria Boullion, University of California, Riverside
Azriel Grysman, Dickinson College
Sean Marshall, University of Otago
Kit Turner, Utah State University
The Person and the Situation: How to Leverage Mindsets and Big Data to Combat Inequity
Jason Okonofua, University of California, Berkeley
Emotional Wellbeing for All: Navigating Climate Change as Future Ancestors
Mapuana C.K. Antonio, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Kyle X. Hill, University of Minnesota
Jyoti Mishra, University of California, San Diego
Joanne Qina’au, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Social
The Fabric of Well-Being: Culture, Social Hierarchy, and Social Learning
Jozefien De Leersnyder, KU Leuven
Yuri Miyamoto, Hitotsubaski University
Jeremy Rappleye, The University of Hong Kong
Organised Crime and the Psychology of Criminal Governance
Giovanni Travaglino, University of London
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Facial Expression Communication
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Robert Böhm, University of Vienna
Cristina Salvador, Duke University
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