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Dance Your PhD and Win $1,000
If you're a PhD student with mad dancing skills, Science and TEDxBrussels have the contest for you. Dance Your PhD is again offering $1,000 for the best video. These three examples may provide just the inspiration you need to create your own masterpiece: Anne Goldenberg Dances The Negotiation of Contributions in Public Wikis According to Goldenberg, her dance and public wikis both utilize textuality, dialogue, and a participatory process. If you find Goldenberg’s wiki dance intriguing, you may consider writing a wiki on your own area of expertise as part of APS’s Wikipedia Initiative.
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The Psychology of Caffeine
In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Elsa Carodenuto from Butler University present her poster session research on the “Effects of Caffeine on Relationships.” I'm Elsa Carodenuto from Butler University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Elsa Carodenuto, along with Michael Leider and APS Charter Member John N. Bohannon III, asked 72 participants to recall memories of failed relationships including first meetings, first kisses, and break ups. Half of the participants received a caffeinated drink beforehand.
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Q & A With Psychological Scientist Alan Kazdin (Part 2)
Below is part 2 of Kazdin's Q & A: 1. Do therapists you know believe that expanding their media outlets interfere with patients' progress or encourage it? I do not have knowledge of what therapists currently believe about the important question you ask. The nice feature is that our beliefs can serve as a basis for doing the research to find out what does and does not interfere with progress. We know already that patients can profit enormously from media-based (e.g., web, internet, smartphone) treatment. As a mode of delivering treatment there are many examples that this can be done effectively.
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OppNet Request for Applications: Mechanistic pathways linking psychosocial stress and behavior (R01)
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, just released a new RFA for three-year research projects: Mechanistic pathways linking psychosocial stress and behavior (R01) This OppNet Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research grant applications that propose to investigate basic psychological, social, and environmental mechanisms and processes that link psychosocial stressors and behavior.
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Q & A With Psychological Scientist Alan Kazdin (Part 1)
Yale University psychological scientist Alan Kazdin and his co-author Stacey Blase have called for a drastic change to the way in which the United States treats mental illness. Read about Kazdin’s research and watch a video from the 2010 APS Annual Convention here. Yesterday, we asked our twitter and facebook followers to ask Kazdin questions about his research. Well – we got a great response, from evidence-based psychotherapy to cellphone applications...you have definitely put him to work! Below is part 1 of Kazdin’s Q & A: 1. Is there really an established evidence base for what works in psychotherapy?
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Tasting Alcohol Helps Our Bodies Process It
It’s not just alcohol that makes us drunk — our thoughts about what we’re drinking can also influence our level of intoxication. That’s what Shepard Siegel of McMaster University concludes in a recent issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science. Siegel focuses on Four Loko, the fruity alcoholic beverage that was once caffeinated — until the addition of caffeine to alcoholic beverages was banned by the FDA. Four Loko has been linked to a spike in alcohol-related hospitalizations on college campuses, but Siegel argues that caffeine was not responsible for the beverage’s dangerous effects.
