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Understanding the Origin of Psychopathic Tendencies Through Chimpanzees
Researchers are using an innovative, noninvasive research model with chimpanzees to study the dispositional processes associated with mental illness.
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Call for Nominations: Psychonomic Society Early Career Award
The Psychonomic Society Early Career Award was established as an annual award to honor the distinguished research accomplishments of our early career members and fellows. Each year, up to four awardees will be named. One nominee, whose research is closest to the areas of perception and attention, will receive the Steven Yantis Early Career Award. They will be recognized at the annual meeting and will receive both a glass and a cash award ($2,500). In addition, the awardees’ airfare to the meeting will be paid. The 2015 Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois on November 19-22. Nominations are now being solicited for 2015. Please click here to submit your nomination.
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Cross-cutting Keynotes Highlight ICPS
Nearly 2,200 scientists and students from around the world converged in the city of Amsterdam recently for the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), the culmination of efforts by the Association for Psychological Science, partnering European psychological science societies, and an international network of organizations and individual scientists to stimulate scientific advances that cut across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The 12-14 March 2015 event featured presentations from a variety of world’s leading researchers in the field of psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, sociology, education, communications and more.
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A New Take on Employee Burnout
Some studies have begun to hint that personal psychological resources — such as self-esteem — may mediate the relationship between job demands and job resources and burnout.
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38th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
January 3–6, 2016 TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida Co-sponsored by: Association for Psychological Science University of South Florida Department of Psychology Registration is limited to 375 participants; early registration is highly recommended. Poster session proposals should be received by October 1, 2015 to guarantee space in the program, although later submissions will be considered if poster space remains available.
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Commitment and Forgiveness in Relationships Focus of APS Registered Replication Report Project
APS is pleased to announce the launch of a new Registered Replication Report (RRR) aimed at replicating a 2002 experiment investigating commitment and forgiveness in close relationships. Drawing on the framework of interdependence theory, psychological scientists Eli Finkel, Caryl E. Rusbult, Madoka Kumashiro, and Peggy A. Hannon hypothesized that commitment, as a fundamental property of relationships, would promote “positive mental events, pro-relationship motives, and forgiveness.” The researchers designed an experiment to test this hypothesis, recruiting 89 undergraduate student participants who were in dating relationships at the time of the study.
