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Convention Highlights — Friday
Selected sessions from Friday's program SPOTLIGHT: Cross-Cutting Theme Program 9:00 AM – 12:45 PM: Disaster, Response, and Recovery Sheraton Ballroom IV Theme Program Speakers: George A. Bonanno, Silvia H. Koller, Lisa M. Shin, Dirk Helbing, Edna B. Foa 9:30 AM - 10:25 AM: Naked Truth Part I: Getting into Graduate School Chicago Ballroom VIII APS Student Caucus Speakers: Kris Gunawan, Emily Cohen-Shikora, Liz Goldstein, James Hodge, David Miller, Jessica Tessler SPOTLIGHT: Award Addresses 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: The Surprising Power of Retrieval Practice in Improving Retention: From the Lab to the Classroom Sheraton Ballroom III APS Award Address Speaker: Henry L.
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Convention Highlights – Thursday
Selected Sessions from Thursday's Program: 9:00 AM - 12:50 PM: APS-SMEP Methodological Workshop Series Chicago Ballroom IX, Chicago Ballroom X, Sheraton Ballroom I 10:15 AM- 11:15 AM: APS-STP Teaching Institute Colorado, Huron, Ontario Methodological Workshop SPOTLIGHT: Clinical Science Forum 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Meet the Editor of Clinical Psychological Science: Alan E. Kazdin Speakers: Alan E. Kazdin Ballroom Promenade 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM: Organizational Efforts to Disseminate and Implement Empirically Supported Interventions in Health Care Systems Chicago Ballroom VIII Speakers: Lea R. Dougherty, Kellie Crowe, Shirley M. Glynn, Ellen Healy, Bradley E. Karlin, Bradley E.
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The Mobile App Is Back!
The APS Convention App is ready for download! Attendees can stay tuned with up-to-the-minute information at the convention: For information on sessions you may want to attend, click on the events or poster sessions tab. To add a session to your itinerary, click the desired event and then click the star in the upper right hand corner of your screen. This will add the event to the My Schedule tab. (To remove an event, simply click the star icon again to delete) Want information on a speaker or author?
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Planet in a Jar: Studying Behavior on a Worldwide Scale
No jar exists that is large enough to contain Planet Earth. Most social and behavioral scientists who study the planet as a whole concede that they can’t set up controlled experiments like scientists who study animals or humans in the laboratory. But one sociologist believes that scientists can build that jar — inside a supercomputer. Dirk Helbing, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, has a goal to build what he calls a Living Earth Platform — a simulator that replicates everything that is happening on Earth. With this simulator, researchers could tackle questions about how human societies function on a planetwide scale.
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Sharpen Your Skills in Chicago
You’ve been meaning to brush up on OpenMX but just haven’t gotten around to it; that free tutorial on the R programming environment hasn’t budged from the bottom of your to-do list since the beginning of last semester. Sound familiar? At the 24th APS Annual Convention, you can stop procrastinating and start practicing data analysis. Several workshops at the May 24-27 Convention in Chicago will help you become comfortable with the latest software and methods. Register today!
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Bandura and Bobo
In 1961, children in APS Fellow Albert Bandura’s laboratory witnessed an adult beating up an inflatable clown. The doll, called Bobo, was the opposite of menacing with its wide, ecstatic grin and goofy clown outfit. But when it was their own turn to play with Bobo, children who witnessed an adult pummeling the doll were likely to show aggression too. Similar to their adult models, the children kicked the doll, hit it with a mallet, and threw it in the air. They even came up with new ways to hurt Bobo, such as throwing darts or aiming a toy gun at him. Children who were exposed to a non-aggressive adult or no model at all had far less aggression toward Bobo.
