APS Annual Convention Science Policy and Funding Programs

The workplace, the workers, and the work today has changed and been reframed dramatically during the COVID-19 global pandemic. This interdisciplinary program of speakers covers big data analyses, research methodologies, individual differences, and group inequities related to changes in jobs, well-being, and social status. These diverse speakers proudly join the APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19. APS attendees, at all career stages and interest levels, are encouraged to participate in this inaugural APS preconference meeting.

Registration is open to APS 2022 Convention attendees only and requires an additional registration fee.

View the full preconference agenda by clicking here!

This preconference program is part of the APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19. Please click here to read more and learn how to register.

The workplace, the workers, and the work today has changed and been reframed dramatically during the COVID-19 global pandemic. This interdisciplinary program of speakers covers big data analyses, research methodologies, individual differences, and group inequities related to changes in jobs, well-being, and social status. These diverse speakers proudly join the APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19. APS attendees, at all career stages and interest levels, are encouraged to participate in this inaugural APS preconference meeting.

Registration is open to APS 2022 Convention attendees only and requires an additional registration fee.

View the full preconference agenda by clicking here!

This preconference program is part of the APS Global Collaboration on COVID-19. Please click here to read more and learn how to register.

The international workplace serves as a barometer to the crises, costs, and recoveries from a lengthy COVID-19 global pandemic. The new normal is unrecognizable to most individuals. This symposium features novel, interdisciplinary, research findings on the prevalent factors influencing attitudes, behaviors, and policies for today’s changing and challenged labor market.

Presenters:

• Katharina Block, University of Amsterdam; and Toni Schmader, University of British Columbia
• Gabe H. Miller, Mississippi State University
• Ashley Whillans, Harvard Business School
• Discussant: Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, The University of Oklahoma

The international workplace serves as a barometer to the crises, costs, and recoveries from a lengthy COVID-19 global pandemic. The new normal is unrecognizable to most individuals. This symposium features novel, interdisciplinary, research findings on the prevalent factors influencing attitudes, behaviors, and policies for today’s changing and challenged labor market.

Presenters:

• Katharina Block, University of Amsterdam; and Toni Schmader, University of British Columbia
• Gabe H. Miller, Mississippi State University
• Ashley Whillans, Harvard Business School
• Discussant: Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, The University of Oklahoma

Speaker: Dolores Albarracín, University of Pennsylvania

This talk will focus on the psychological processes by which public health (and other) messages change behavior. Part of the talk will cover experimental, meta-analytic, survey, and computational approaches that reveal when to use direct behavioral encouragement, normative, or informational approaches. The remainder will highlight when countering misinformation fails and when misinformation bypassing succeeds. These results will be contrasted with US public health communications during the COVID-19 pandemic and with other theoretical conceptualizations.

Speaker: Dolores Albarracín, University of Pennsylvania

This talk will focus on the psychological processes by which public health (and other) messages change behavior. Part of the talk will cover experimental, meta-analytic, survey, and computational approaches that reveal when to use direct behavioral encouragement, normative, or informational approaches. The remainder will highlight when countering misinformation fails and when misinformation bypassing succeeds. These results will be contrasted with US public health communications during the COVID-19 pandemic and with other theoretical conceptualizations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partners used psychological science in emergency efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake. This panel provides an overview of efforts to leverage risk perception, vaccine confidence, social processes, access, and the information environment. Participants will also participate in a simulation to translate psychological science in pandemic response

Co-chairs:

• Neetu Abad, CDC
• Elisabeth Wilhelm, CDC

Speakers:

• Noel Brewer, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Gretchen Chapman, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chris Voegeli, CDC
• Jacqueline Tiema-Massie, Chicago Department of Public Health
• Discussant: William Klein, National Cancer Institute

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partners used psychological science in emergency efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake. This panel provides an overview of efforts to leverage risk perception, vaccine confidence, social processes, access, and the information environment. Participants will also participate in a simulation to translate psychological science in pandemic response

Co-chairs:

• Neetu Abad, CDC
• Elisabeth Wilhelm, CDC

Speakers:

• Noel Brewer, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Gretchen Chapman, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chris Voegeli, CDC
• Jacqueline Tiema-Massie, Chicago Department of Public Health
• Discussant: William Klein, National Cancer Institute

A recently released report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a strategy for advancing psychological science through use of ontologies. Members of the authoring committee will discuss their findings and engage in a dialog with audience members about implications for psychology and other behavioral sciences.

Chair: Carla Sharp, University of Houston

Presenters:

• Robert M. Kaplan, Stanford University
• Alexandra Beatty, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Carla Sharp, University of Houston
• Timothy J. Strauman, Duke University

A recently released report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a strategy for advancing psychological science through use of ontologies. Members of the authoring committee will discuss their findings and engage in a dialog with audience members about implications for psychology and other behavioral sciences.

Chair: Carla Sharp, University of Houston

Presenters:

• Robert M. Kaplan, Stanford University
• Alexandra Beatty, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Carla Sharp, University of Houston
• Timothy J. Strauman, Duke University