KU Stats Camp 2013 (early bird deadline April 30th)

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Mani Garcia

Stats Camp 2013 registration is now in full swing. Last year we had over 300 participants attend 11 different courses. This coming June we have 15 different courses being offered. Please visit our web pages at http://crmda.ku.edu/statscamp for information on the courses, a brief syllabus for each, and registration information. Also, please share the attached .pdf with any colleagues or any list serves that you are on (or you can point to this url for a download of the .pdf file:

http://www.crmda.ku.edu/StatsCamps/business/StatsCampAnnounceInclusive_2013.pdf). Your continued support helps keep Stats Camp vibrant and growing. As always, thanks for your support and your ongoing participation. 

The early bird deadline is April 30th. If you need to reserve a spot at the early bird rate, please contact Todd Little (yhat@ku.edu).

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Psychology Summer Institute

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Mani Garcia

from:  http://www.apa.org/pi/mfp/psychology/institute/index.aspx

July 14-20, 2013

Washington, D.C.

PSI provides educational, professional development and mentoring experiences to advanced doctoral students of psychology and psychologists who are in the early stage of their careers. Participants are guided toward developing a grant proposal, postdoctoral fellowship, dissertation, treatment program, publication or program evaluation project. All projects must focus on issues affecting ethnic minority communities.

Participants will receive one-on-one mentoring on their projects by a consultant. Expert faculty will present seminars on selected topics such as grant writing, publishing and specific areas of research or service delivery. There will also be opportunities to network with representatives from federal agencies and foundations.

If you have any questions about PSI or the items on this webpage, please email the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), or call MFP at (202) 336-6127.

Flier: Psychology Summer Institute

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Summer Internship: Minority Fellowship Program, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Mani Garcia

Internship Positions Available

From $13.00/hour

The American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program is looking for bright, organized, hardworking, and motivated individuals to work in our office full-time (37.5 hours a week) from May through August.

Our interns will provide support and gain experience in areas such as:

  • Design and Support for our Summer Institute
  • Survey development
  • Data analysis
  • Data entry and clean-up
  • Administrative support

Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access is a plus!

To apply for an internship, e-mail, fax, or mail your resume and cover letter to:

Kyra D. Kissam, PhD

Professional Development Specialist

APA Minority Fellowship Program

750 First Street, NE

Washington, DC 20002

Email: kkissam@apa.org

To learn more about the APA Minority Fellowship

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Sixth Annual Psychology Day at the United Nations

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Mani Garcia

Website: www.unpsychologyday.org

 

www.apa.org/international/united-nations/archive-psych-day.aspx

 

2013 THEME:

Psychology and Violence in the Global Context: Antecedents, Consequences, and Prevention

 

Thursday, 25 April 2013

12:00pm – 5:00pm

UN Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY

(On 44th Street off 1st Avenue)

 

SESSIONS*

 

•    Antecedents, Consequences & Prevention of Violence
through the Lifespan: CHILDREN and YOUTH


•    Antecedents, Consequences & Prevention of Violence
through the Lifespan: ADULTS and AGEING

 

*Program and list of speakers to be made available at www.unpsychologyday.org

 

RECEPTION
(Immediately following)

ALCALA Restaurant
246 East 44th St., New York, NY 10017

(Between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue)

 

Registration is required as space is limited. For up-to-date information regarding registration, visit www.unpsychologyday.org or contact the Planning Committee Co-chairs: Dr. John Scott (JScott@aptmetrics.com) or Dr. Walter Reichman (Walterreichman@gmail.com)

 

 

 

Co-SponsoringOrganizations**

(in alphabetical order)

 

American Psychological Association (APA)

APTMetrics

Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention (ATOP)

Division of International Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA Division 52)

Institute for Multicultural Counseling and Education Services (IMCES)

International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)

International Council of Psychologists (ICP)

International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)

OrgVitality

Psi Chi (The International Honor Society in Psychology)

Psychology Coalition at the United Nations

Society for General Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA Division 1)

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (APA Division 14)

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

World Council of Psychotherapy (WCP)

 

**Organizations that may be interested in co-sponsoring this event may contact the Planning Committee Co-chairs: Dr. John Scott (JScott@aptmetrics.com) or Dr. Walter Reichman (Walterreichman@gmail.com).

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Dalmas A. Taylor Memorial Summer Minority Policy Fellowship

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Mani Garcia

The purpose of this award is to honor the memory of Dalmas A. Taylor, who passed away during his term as President of SPSSI. Dr. Taylor had been involved for many years with SPSSI. In addition, he was instrumental in establishing the Minority Fellowship at the American Psychological Association and in increasing the APA’s attention to inclusion of people of color. This fellowship is administered in conjunction with APA’s Minority Fellowship Office, and provides an opportunity for a graduate student of color to work on public policy issues in Washington, DC. Read comments from some of our recent fellows here.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must be currently enrolled and in good standing in an accredited graduate program in psychology or a related field. In addition they must be members of an ethnic minority group (including, but not limited to, African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander) and/or have demonstrated a commitment to a career with a focus on ethnic minority issues. Applicants should not have completed their graduate program by the time they begin the fellowship.

AWARDS AND CRITERIA

The summer fellowship typically runs 8-12 weeks. Most Fellows work four days at APA and one day at SPSSI’s Central Office each week. Start and end dates vary from year to year, depending on the Fellow’s scheduling needs. The summer stipend is $3,000. In addition, SPSSI will provide up to $1,500 for travel and living expenses* to relocate to Washington, DC.

The application should include:

1. A cover page stating your name, institution, address, telephone number, fax number (if applicable), and email address.

2. A 3-page statement with detailed information that includes:
(a) reason for your interest in this fellowship
(b) your previous and current research experiences
(c) indication of your interest in ethnic minority psychological issues
(d) statement of how this fellowship would contribute to your career goals

3. Two letters of recommendation. Please upload these letters with your materials or have them emailed directly to awards@spssi.org.

4. Current curriculum vitae

PREVIOUS WINNERS

HOW TO APPLY

APPLY ONLINE NOW! Online submissions are the preferred method. You are limited to five files to upload at any given time, and submissions must be limited to this number. At the time you submit your completed application, please also send an email to Central Office at awards@spssi.org. As the subject of the email write “Taylor application”. In the body of the email include the information from your cover page. Recommendation letters should be included with your uploaded materials if possible. If preferred, please email recommendation letters to awards@spssi.org for inclusion.

DEADLINE

This is an annual fellowship. Submission materials must be received by April 25th.

Announcements for this fellowship will be made by May 25th.

* The fellow will be responsible for making her/his own housing arrangements.

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Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Latina/o Psychology

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Mani Garcia

Do you speak Spanish?  Are you interested in clinical psychology?  Are you interested in working Latinas/os?  If you answered yes to these questions, please consider the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Latina/o Psychology at Montclair State University.  To learn more about this program, please visit the link below and or feel free to contact Milton Fuentes at fuentesm@mail.montclair.edu to discuss the application process.

http://www.montclair.edu/graduate/programs-of-study/clinical-psychology/latina-o-psychology-concentration/

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Post-doc at University of Toronto

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Mani Garcia

The Social Perception and Cognition Lab at the University of Toronto (http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/rule) is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position to begin Summer or Fall 2013. Candidates with training or interest in any of social cognition, social perception, face perception, nonverbal behavior, or social neuroscience are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will have strengths in computer programming and statistics. Experience with neuroimaging or eyetracking also a plus.

For further information or to submit application materials, contact Nick Rule at rule@psych.utoronto.ca. To apply, please submit a CV, a statement of research interests, and contact information for 2-3 referees by April 1, 2013.

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4th Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mani Garcia

http://culturalneuroscience.isr.umich.edu/home.htm

 

July 15-26, 2013

 

Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Co-Directors: 

Shinobu Kitayama (kitayama@umich.edu)

Carolyn Yoon (yoonc@umich.edu)

 

Application Deadline:  March 15, 2013

 

We invite you to apply to attend the fourth annual Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. SICN is a two-week program that provides graduate students as well as faculty with an overview of core topics and recent research developments related to cultural neuroscience in order to prepare them to start their own empirical investigations. Attendees will have an opportunity to develop their own research ideas in cultural neuroscience through interactions with peers and faculty members.

SICN lectures on culture, brain, or both will be delivered by world-renowned scholars. Each scholar will discuss his or her work and place it in a broader scholarly context. Lectures will be followed by small group discussions.

 

The topics to be covered include:

  • Cultural psychology
  • Culture, self, and brain
  • Culture and cognition
  • Culture, aging, and brain
  • Neuroscience  methods
  • Epigenetic processes
  • Theory of mind and culture
  • Neuroeconomics and culture
  • Social neuroscience and culture
  • Evolution and culture

 

Faculty lecturers include:

Hazel Markus, Stanford

Richard Nisbett, University of Michigan

Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan

 

Steve Cole, UCLA

Denise Park, University of Texas at Dallas

Brian Knutson, Stanford

Joan Chiao, Northwestern

Jason Moser, Michigan State

Chandra Sripada, University of Michigan

Israel Liberzon, University of Michigan

Emily Falk, University of Michigan

Randy Nesse, University of Michigan

Kai Vogeley, University of Cologne, Germany

 

 

Complete applications are due by midnight on March 15.  You will be notified of the status of your application by March 31, and will have until April 30 for early registration, and June 15 for regular registration.

 

Participation fees are $1,300 for graduate students or post-docs, and $2,000 for faculty.  Discounted rates for early registration (by March 31) are $1,100 for graduate students or post-docs, and $1,800 for faculty.

 

Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. We do not offer any scholarships or financial assistance.

 

For application forms and information, go to http://culturalneuroscience.isr.umich.edu/home.htm

or contact:

 

Natalie Dushane
Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain
University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street, 5241 ISR
Ann Arbor, MI  48106-1248
(734) 764-4112

Email: nadushan@isr.umich.edu

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“Methods in studying social cognition” Call for Registration/Poster submission – deadline extended March 1st

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mani Garcia

April 3-5, 2013; Schloss Mickeln, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

The aim of this meeting is to bring together empirical scientists and philosophers to explore novel experimental methods of studying social cognition. In particular, the workshop hopes to gather researchers dedicated to developing empirical methods that go beyond the traditional Theory of Mind paradigms based on Theory Theory and/or Simulation Theory. Instead of these paradigms, which have largely focused on reflective and observational processes in social cognition, we want to focus on those paradigms that involve social interactions and allow for the study of the cognitive and affective processes underlying the interaction dynamics.

Please note: The capacity of the workshop is limited to 35 participants. Priority will therefore be given to those who are actively involved in relevant research and who will present a poster. Details on poster submission can be found below

 

Confirmed Speakers:

-       Alan Fiske (Department of Anthropology, UCLA)

-       Berna Guroglu (Brain & Development Lab, Leiden University)

-       Ivana Konvalinka (Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus)

-       Josef Parnas (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)

-       Erik Rietveld (Department of Philosophy, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam).

-       Jan Slaby (Department of Philosophy, Free University Berlin)

-       Bert Timmermans (Social Cognition Section, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

 

Registration/Poster submission:

If you would like to present a poster at the workshop please submit a short abstract of no more then 500 words to Wouter van den Bos (wvdbos@stanford.edu) by March 1st. If you would like to attend the workshop without presenting a poster please send an e-mail to the above address, indicating how your research is relevant to the topic of the workshop. Successful applicants will be sent an invitation to attend by February 28th. We regret that we cannot subsidize travel or accommodation for poster presenters. However, there will be no conference fee and you will be invited to the dinner on Thursday.

This meeting is organised by Vivian Bohl, Marion Godman, Mog Stapleton, Christoph Teufel, Wouter van den Bos, and Marijn van Wingerden. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of a network grant from the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities. For more information see: http://social-interaction.eu/

This meeting is funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung -European Platform for the Life Sciences
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Mist

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mani Garcia

Water dances to some unseen rhythm—an unspoken law, like the wind.  Some of the closest things are distant—in the seat of being /gut / intuition / insight— wearing a host of ill-conceived words.  We are 70% water, so watching this fountain in the park I watch my most intimate kin—the kin inhabiting the secret places within, many secret even to Self.  Here jets out what animates lifeless machines—machines gathered in a circle, watching themselves fly / fall / dissolve / jet.  Drop.  Mist.

~ Mani

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