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FY2012 OppNet Funding Opportunity: Sleep and social environment: Basic biopsychosocial processes (R21)
Application due date: September 30, 2011 OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Opportunity Network, has released its first FY2012 funding opportunity: Sleep and social environment: Basic biopsychosocial processes (R21) It solicits Research Project Grant (R21) applications that propose to investigate the reciprocal interactions of the processes of sleep and circadian regulation and function with behavioral and social environment processes. Sleep is a complex biological phenomenon essential to normal behavioral and social functioning, and optimal health.
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6 centimeters could win a game, or better yet a World Cup?!
Throughout this world cup, we have seen plenty of penalty kicks. After 90 minutes of play and an additional 30 minutes of overtime, the fate of each team comes down to their ability to score a goal from only 12 yards away. The penalty kick generates a variety of strong emotions in soccer (Carroll, Ebrahim, Tilling, Macleod, & Smith, 2002), and places the goalkeeper at such a disadvantage that only approximately 18% of penalty kicks are saved (Kropp & Trapp, 1999).
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National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium
The National Academy of Sciences is hosting the Sackler Colloquium “Biological Embedding of Early Social Adversity: From Fruit Flies to Kindergartners” December 8-10, 2011 in Irvine, CA. The meeting, co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and organized by W. Thomas Boyce, Gene E. Robinson and Marla B. Sokolowski, will summon a world class, cross disciplinary assembly of basic, biomedical and social scientists to explore, using new developmental neurogenomic approaches, why disease, disorder and developmental misfortune are so unevenly distributed. The Arthur M.
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Society for Research on Adolescence: 14th Biennial Meeting
The 14th SRA Biennial Meeting will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada on March 8-10, 2012. The Call for Submissions is available at: http://www.s-r-a.org/2012-biennial-meeting Submission deadline is August 19, 2011 Check out the line-up of exciting, diverse, and international invited programs: http://www.s-r-a.org/biennial-meeting Please visit the SRA website (www.s-r-a.org) for more information. Please do not hesitate to contact Thelma Tucker, SRA Program Operations Manager ([email protected]).
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Thinking about Death, East and West
It's unsettling to think about our own death, which is why we have ways to protect our sense of self when we're reminded of our mortality. For example, research has found that we become more critical of those who aren't like us when we have death in mind. However, a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science found that there are cultural differences in these protective responses, specifically between Asian and European Americans. In a first study, European-Americans and Asian-Americans either had to write about their own death or about dental pain (the control group).
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(Inherently) Scared of Red
What do you think of when you see the color red? Danger, blood, passion, and…dominance, new research suggests. A study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science found that that there is evolutionary basis to the human tendency to avoid the color red or act submissively in its presence. In this study, experimenters looked at male rhesus macaques, a species of monkeys that is sensitive to the colors red, green, and blue, in their natural environment. The female and male experimenters would approach the monkeys at the same time, in the same manner, place a slice of apple in front of them, and then take two simultaneous steps back.
