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2012 Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Convention
The 2012 Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Convention will take place in Reno, NV at the Peppermill Resort Hotel, April 12-14, 2012. For more information visit: http://www.rockymountainpsych.org/
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Eat, Drink and Be Scary!
The modern interest in Halloween has really nothing to do with the paranormal, according to psychological scientists.
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Brenda Milner Awarded Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
APS Fellow and Charter Member Brenda Milner, the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute will be honored with the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Thursday, November 3, 2011 for her work in the field of cognitive neuroscience. The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife to recognize outstanding female scientists and researchers. The honor comes with a $100,000 award. Milner is best known for her work with a famous patient named Henry Gustav Molaison (a.k.a., HM), who had parts of his left and right medial temporal lobes removed.
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13th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting
The 13th annual SPSP Meeting will be held January 26-28, 2012, in San Diego, California. For more information visit: http://www.spsp.org/confer.htm
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“The Steroids of Scientific Competition”
A week or so ago, I wrote up some new research showing how easy it is for psychological scientists to falsify experimental results. The point of the report, published on-line in the journal Psychological Science, was not that researchers are deliberately, or mischievously, reporting bogus findings. The point was instead that commonly accepted practices for reporting and analyzing data can lead inadvertently to invalid conclusions. According to the authors of the paper, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Berkeley, the commonly accepted “false positive” rate of 5 percent could in reality run as high as 60 percent if all these practices come into play.
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Neuroscience 2011
The Society for Neuroscience will hold its annual convention, Neuroscience 2011, November 12-16 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. For more information visit: http://www.sfn.org/am2011/
