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Eastern Psychological Association 2012 Meeting
The Eastern Psychological Association 2012 Meeting will be held March 1-4 at the Westin Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information visit: http://www.easternpsychological.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
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First Annual International Multidisciplinary Collaborative Conference on Violence Research & Evidence-Based Practice: Sexual Homicide
Dates: November 7 and 8, 2011 Location: Holiday Inn Arena & Conference Center Binghamton, NY For more information visit: http://www2.binghamton.edu/continuing-education/non-credit-programs/sexual-homicide/
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<em>Psychological Science</em> Authors Honored With Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
Watching Nobel laureates dancing the sirtaki and witnessing a flight of 1,200 paper airplanes were two of the unconventional events used to honor the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes. Among the winners were
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The Case of the Invisible Experimenter(s)
When our story left off last month, we had considered three cases of classic field studies: (1) the Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter (1956) “When Prophecy Fails” study of cognitive dissonance, where Festinger et al. joined
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What Should They Be Called?
“They” refers to the animals – human and infrahuman – in our experiments. It used to be simple: they were subjects, or in certain types of perceptual experiments, observers. In the older literature much was
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What the Stanford prison experiment taught us — and didn’t teach us — about evil
Boston Globe: Via Longreads, Stanford Magazine has a fascinating piece on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. For those who never took a psychology class, in August of 1971 a psychologist named Phil Zimbardo and his
